We Do: Part Deux
A 7th Heaven Continuation Fic by Norwegianchick101
Chapter Five: Family Encounters
As Lucy looked at her sister, she finally understood exactly what Matt was talking about. Ruthie and Peter must have been part of a very small group of people who found each other at such a young age. She had never known someone could be in love at such a young age. It was then that she remembered what Ben said earlier in the reception, about Kevin saying he was in love. She smiled and realized that she was going through the exact same thing. Ruthie had told her a while back that she was in love with Peter, but Lucy had thought it to be some sort of crush. Like what she had had with Jimmy. Or Andrew, or Jeremy, or Rod, or Brad, or, well, you get the picture, I don't think I'm going to go to the trouble to name them all. No, what Ruthie and Peter had was true love. Love to last a lifetime. Lucy and Kevin had given their song to Peter and Ruthie, in hopes that it would bring them the good fortune they had had with it. No one knew this, but Kevin and Lucy had gone out dancing after Mary and Ben had left the restaurant that night, and that was the last song that was played before they left. Lucy had headed her brother's words, and realized that she and Kevin were indeed lucky. Almost as lucky as Ruthie and Peter. Whatever the teenage years brought for them, they would have each other. Lucy and Kevin didn't have that. They went through adolescence by themselves. They had family and friends, but they didn't have someone to love them like Peter and Ruthie did.
"Lucy?" Eric asked, walking up to his daughter, breaking her train of thought.
Lucy looked up at her dad and smiled. "Dad, have I ever thanked you for everything you've done for me? For us?"
Eric shook his head and sat down in Ruthie's now vacant spot. "No, but I always knew so."
Lucy wrapped her arms around her father, and started to cry. "I love you Dad."
"I love you too Luce, and remember, no matter what, you'll always be Daddy's little girl."
Lucy blushed as she pulled away from her father and back to Kevin.
Eric saw the bell that Lucy had been ringing all night, the one that Lucy and Kevin had engraved specifically for Peter and Ruthie.
Lucy blushed as Eric picked it up and started to ring it, causing every single person in the room to laugh, including, himself, Kevin and Lucy; and without any further hesitation, Lucy leaned into her husband of so many hours and kissed him, yet again.
When the two pulled apart, Lucy noticed Eric looking at the inscription on the bell. Eric groaned and set it down.
"Oh goody. Father of the Bride twice in one decade. What ever happened until waiting til she was 30?" Eric asked no one in particular, apparently, Ben had heard him, and a slight blush was creeping upon his face.
"Um...actually Reverend. I was wondering if I could ask you something." Ben said.
A snort escaped Kevin, and a giggle Lucy, as they got up and left the table, so as not to make Ben more nervous than he already was. Ben had told Kevin he was going to propose to Mary sometime within the next year, and, as all good husbands do, he let Lucy in on it.
"So, when do you think he'll ask her?" Lucy asked.
"I'm not sure, but I do know that Ben better not just drop it on him flat-on. We don't want your dad to have another heart attack."
Lucy and Kevin laughed as Annie came up to them.
"Why would Eric have another heart attack?" she asked Kevin, apparently worried.
Lucy and Kevin just laughed all the more.
"Ben is, well, let's just say he's in for a bit of a surprise." Lucy said, doubling over with laughter.
"He's not really going to have a heart attack, he was just complaining about having to be the Father of the Bride twice in one decade, and Ben might just be dropping a bomb on his parade right now." Kevin replied.
"You mean-?" Annie asked.
"Yep." Kevin said. "Dress, Rehearsal Dinner, Wedding Bells, Mistletoe, the whole works. Oh, and we can't forget the honeymoon." he whispered the last part to Lucy, causing her to laugh.
"Oh no!" Lucy said as Annie walked over to Eric and Ben. "Think what kind of damage she'll do to her career at work! I can see the headline now! Newlywed Flight Attendant Sacked for Improper Conduct on Aircraft."
Kevin burst out laughing as Mary came over to them.
"Now who might you two be talking about?" she asked.
"You!" Lucy said laughing. "We were thinking about the kind of damage you'd do to your career if you ever decided to get married. You would most likely get fired for making out on the plane."
Mary sighed. "Only you Luce."
"What?" Kevin asked.
"Oh, nothing really. Hey, you wanna hear my Petite Perkiness Story now?" Mary asked.
"No!" Lucy squealed.
"Actually, that would be quite interesting to hear; in fact, I was going to ask you about it later."
Lucy groaned as she sat down on Kevin's lap in one a chair at one of the smaller tables.
"Okay, well, Lucy's in her freshman year of high school, right? So she's fourteen, I'm fifteen. Hey, I just realized something, Lucy has never had her own room in her entire life! I mean, when she was a baby she slept in Mom and Dad's room, and she's shared a room with me for as long as I can remember, and then when Robbie moved in she shared the attic with Ruthie, and now she's gonna be sharing a room with you. Poor Luce. Well, anyways, I was reading Lucy's diary, because she left it out, again, and I got to a very amusing entry. And I quote. 'I am a petite girl whose sexual nature is hidden underneath her perkiness.' I swear, I never let her get over that one. She didn't want me reading her diary, so she went downstairs, and came back up with a roll of electrical tape. She taped a long strip of tape down the room, and said we weren't aloud to cross the line. Every time I saw her, I would yell perkiness. But the idiot taped the door off, so it was on MY side of the room. But eventually, I let it slip to Mom, and she ended up giving us the talk. And told Lucy about how she was conceived on Valentine's Day. I asked her about me, and she said I'm not old enough to hear it yet. And I supposedly won't be old enough until I'm married."
Lucy and Kevin burst out laughing.
"No, but honestly," Lucy told Kevin. "Dad totally freaked when he found out. I said it made me feel special."
"Oh, you are special Luce." Mary said.
"Oh really?"
"Really!"
"Bring it on then, sis." Lucy spat.
"Puh-leaze! It's your wedding day, and you wanna beat me up?" Mary asked astounded.
"Yeah, I do." Lucy said bluntly.
Everyone in the room laughed and whipped out their cameras. It wasn't every day you saw a woman in a wedding dress chasing down an airline stewardess. They would have seen a cat fight as well, but Lucy's wedding dress slowed her down so much that it didn't take Kevin long at all to catch her.
"Luce, calm down, they want you to toss the bouquet." Kevin said.
"Finally, we can get out of this joint." Lucy said, as she took her bouquet from Ruthie and threw it out into the crowd.
Ben, who still happened to be talking with Mr. and Mrs. Camden, was standing a bit to close to the crowd of single women, and when Mary caught the bouquet, she stumbled backwards a bit, and right into Ben.
Ben smiled, and helped her up.
"You okay?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Mary said, turning to watch as Kevin pulled the lacy blue garter off her sister's leg, and threw it into the crowd of men. It went a bit further than intended, and landed right in Ben's hands.
Ben smiled and looked over at Mary, winking.
Mary blushed and gave him a kiss.
"So," she asked. "Does this mean that we're unofficially engaged or something like that?"
Ben laughed. "Well that depends. Are we dating?"
Mary smiled. "Do you want to?"
"Yes." Ben replied. "Do you?"
Mary nodded.
"I love you." she said, watching as her sister and brother-in-law headed out the front doors.