Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for the ones that I created like Emma.
Author's Notes:
Banksiesbabe99-Thanks for the review, an update is coming…well now
Hockey-girl90-Thanks, and me to
Ghostwriter-Thanks, yeah I wish that at the end of the second movie Connie and Guy could have kissed, it would have wrapped the movie up nicely after how the two came into the movie
Lisa Ann-Julie's love life is still a bit up in the air…so to speak…
LOVEthemducks5 ()-Keep reading to see if things work out, but this is the ducks remember…
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW…
5 Months Later…
"Are you sure about this Connie," Julie asked with a concerned look on her face as she handed Connie a glass of water and then pulled up a chair.
"Yes Julie I'm sure, this is the only way it'll work," Connie replied with a slightly rushed tone to her voice as she drained the glass and then continued to put her makeup on in the mirror.
"Getting married by a justice of the peace doesn't exactly sound like the fairy tale wedding that," Julie started to say back with a somewhat melancholy expression on her face as she handed Connie her eyeliner before Connie interrupted.
"Guy and I can't afford a church wedding, it doesn't matter where we get married only that we do it," Connie interjected with a serious and only ever so slightly sad look in her eyes as she finished up her makeup.
"If you say so," Julie mumbled out softly under her breath as Connie put on her lipstick and then turned around.
"So…how do I look, think Guy will like it," Connie asked with a scared but hopeful smile on her face as she turned around and stepped back, giving the goaltender a full view of her best friend.
"You look…great, Guy won't know what hit him, trust me," Julie answered with a slightly subdued smile of happiness on her face as she wished that Connie and Guy could have the traditional church wedding but knowing that money was tight she knew that she'd have to come to terms with the change.
"You sure," Connie asked back with a slightly insecure look on her face as she looked to Julie for a bit before returning to look back at her reflection in the mirror.
"He's seen you after practice remember, no makeup, covered in sweat, greasy hair, and smelling like," Julie started to reply with a practical look of seriousness on her face as she wrapped an arm around Connie's shoulders before the latter threw up her hands in defeat.
"Okay I give, it's just that it's weird, I'm getting married today," Connie said softly with at first a nervous look on her face at first before she couldn't help but smile like the Cheshire cat.
"Not if you don't hurry you're not, Guy and the guys are already at the courthouse, if we don't hurry we're going to be late," Julie exclaimed with a frustrated and annoyed scowl on her face as she looked up and checked her watch against the clock on the wall.
"I can take a hint, okay let's go," Connie replied with a slightly flushed expression on her face before she tossed everything into her bag and then followed Julie out of the bathroom.
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They arrived at the small courthouse to find the parking lot almost full of cars, some familiar and others unknown. Guy's truck was parked beside Portman and Fulton's motorcycles, leaving only a space open next to the handicap space open. Julie pulled the car into the small space and parked, helping Connie out of the car by holding onto the veil and the bouquet. When they got to the front doors they were met almost immediately by Connie's parents, with her mother doing her best to keep Emma from spilling anything on her new frilly pink dress or messing up her hair, that had taken Connie all morning to comb out straight. Guy's parents were quietly sitting down on one of the benches, with Guy and his father engaged in a conversation that was clearly meant to stay just between the two of them. Guy's jaw almost hit the floor when he turned and saw Connie standing in the doorway. Unconsciously Connie blushed and looked away for a moment before regaining her composure and walking towards her fiancé.
"You look," Guy stammered out with an overwhelmed smile on his face as he tried to find the right words to express how he was feeling at that moment.
"Perfect," Connie said softly back with a nervous smile on her face as she couldn't help but reach up and pull a hair off of Guy's shoulder. Like her dress Guy had his best clothes on. Seeing as how he didn't have a tux and a wedding dress would have been far to expensive the two had gotten dressed up in the clothes that they wore to church, when they went.
"Yeah, we're almost ready," Guy mumbled back softly at first with a giddy grin on his face before he recovered and briefly turned his head towards the room where the justice of the peace was.
"There sure are a lot of people here," Connie observed with a slightly concerned tone to her voice as she got up on her tiptoes and tried to see if she recognized anyone.
"They're all here to see you Connie," Dwayne said with a proud smile on his face as he walked up, removed his hat, and bowed very gentlemanly to Connie before nodding to Guy.
"What am I…chopped liver," Guy asked with a fake look of hurt on his face at first before he couldn't help it and grinned as Connie rolled her eyes at him.
"Pretty much yeah, congratulations and best wishes," Kenny interjected with a happy smile on his face before he leaned in, shook Guy's hand, and then smiled at Connie.
"Thanks…we should probably get started," Guy and Connie oddly said together at the exact same time with surprised looks on their faces before shaking it off and starting to head for the justice's room.
"Now just hold on there darlin, just give us a minute to get ready and then we'll be all set," Dwayne stated with a bit of a nervous smile on his face as he jumped in front of Connie and Guy while Kenny and Julie led everyone else past him into the room. On their way by Connie's mom gave her a hug, and her dad sent a stern fatherly look of take care of my little girl or else look Guy's way. Guy's mother smiled happily at Connie before walking on while his dad patted him supportively on the back before tipping his hat to Connie and walking away.
"What's going on," Connie asked softly with a confused look on her face as she tried to put the veil on just right while Guy looked ready to push by the cowboy if he needed to.
"You'll see…it's my final surprise," Gordon announced with an energized and excited grin on his face as he walked out of the room and over to stand beside Dwayne.
"Coach what," Connie started to ask with a confused look on her face before Gordon interrupted.
"Call me Gordon Connie, I'm not your coach anymore," Gordon said softly with a slightly forlorn smile on his face before Connie looked embarrassed and smiled back.
"Come on cowboy we're ready," Russ shouted harshly in a whisper as he half leaned out of the room before ducking back inside.
"Gotta go," Dwayne stated with a very excited smile on his face before he tipped his hat to Guy and Connie and then left to join the others.
"One last pearl of wisdom, always be true to yourselves and each other, this is an important step that you're taking today, so…shall we," Gordon said softly with a light hearted look on his face as he slowly shook both their hands, gave them both a hug, and then gestured to the door.
"Here goes nothin," Guy whispered softly to Connie, as she smiled and nodded her head before taking a deep breath. The two followed Gordon into the room and were almost immediately stopped in their tracks by what they saw. Their families and friends outside of the ducks were sitting in chairs on either side of the aisle, with their ducks uniforms being laid overtop of the podium. But what truly caught their attention was that lining the aisle on both sides were the ducks, hockey sticks in hand, and looking like a kind of honor guard. When Guy tried to ask what they were doing Charlie just smiled and shook his head before turning back to the ducks and giving them the thumbs up. When Connie and Guy walked down the aisle and were married the ducks raised their sticks up high forming a fitting truss to walk under. Emma served as the default flower girl and ring bearer and had to be kept from trying to eat the ring by her grandmother before Guy slid the ring onto Connie's finger and they were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Guy Germaine.
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Guy and Connie walked into the mess hall at Eden Hall with Connie carrying Emma in her arms. They were taken aback by how much the mess hall had been decorated, complete with banners and streamers and everything. Their jersey's were framed and setting beside each other with collages of pictures of the two growing up nearby. Oddly enough after hockey paraphernalia began to appear in either's pictures the two now married seemed to be together in every one of them. The room seemed to be filled with more people than either could remember being at the wedding itself. Connie was about to ask Julie what was going on when Gordon stepped up to the microphone and started to speak.
"Okay everyone…first off I want to thank everyone for coming, secondly the food's good so don't hold back, and I feel that I have to admit that Connie and Guy, I lied to you guys back at the courthouse, I have one more surprise, it cost me all of my frequent flyer miles…but it was worth it," Gordon said with a happy and proud smile on his face before the middle of the crowd opened up and a long line was formed. Guy started to wonder what Gordon had meant but stopped when he saw Terry and Jesse standing shoulder to shoulder at the beginning of the line with Tammy and Tommy Duncan beside them. Peter and Karp were further on down the line with the former trying to keep the latter from getting to the food to soon. The receiving line took longer than anyone had expected as it took awhile for Guy and Connie to make it through the line, making sure to talk to everyone that had come.
The reception really got underway after Connie and Guy and their families got seated at the head table. Charlie and Julie got up and spoke a little about them as they served as best man and maid of honor. When the food began to be Guy expected Goldberg to be at the head of the line after the main party, but he was nowhere to be found. Rather than say anything Guy just got his food and went back to sit beside Connie. Connie spent most of the dinner portion of the reception trying to keep Emma from ruining her dress by spilling anything on it. As the food was being taken away Russ got up and walked over to a stereo sitting up on one of the tables while the ducks cleared the table's away creating a dance floor in the middle of the mess hall.
Guy led Connie out onto the dance floor and stayed silent when she started to ask him about what song that was going to be played. A small smile appeared on her face when the Righteous Brothers began to sing Unchained Melody's. Dwayne leaned back and turned the lights down low as Guy and Connie held each other close and spun around on the dance floor, being totally captivated by the moment and living in their own separate world. When the song ended the two kissed and then chose new partners and the dancing began. Connie's mom grabbed her new son in law's arm and pulled him out onto the dance floor as Connie then went to dance with Guy's dad. After some hesitation Adam nervously asked Julie to dance with him and she smiled back sweetly before taking his hand and leading him out onto the dance floor. Tammy had to decipher the signs as Fulton stuttered in his attempt to ask her to dance. When he finally got it out she chuckled a bit before slipping her hand into his, just as he was starting to walk away after thinking that she had declined his invitation, and the two walked out onto the dance floor. Charlie and Linda were off on their own, dancing slowly together with her head on his shoulder. Gordon pulled Casey out onto the dance floor but made sure to be on the opposite side to Charlie and Linda. The rest of the ducks either found someone to dance with or decided to wait as the party continued.
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"There has to be something wrong with this picture," Julie stated with a nervous pout on her face as she looked around and noticed that only she and Tammy were there to catch the bouquet.
"Probably, but this is their night," Tammy said back softly with a shrug of her shoulders before Connie turned around and then tossed the bouquet back high over her shoulder. Tammy made a move towards the bouquet before she stopped just short of grabbing it and allowed it to fall into a surprised Julie's hands.
"What…wait," Julie started to say with a confused look on her face before everyone began to hoot and holler in celebration of Julie catching the bouquet. When the garter came all of the guys crowded onto the center of the dance floor and Portman and Fulton pushed their way towards the front before Guy slid the garter off of Connie's leg and then sent it flying. Like with the bouquet before it all of the guys started to go for it before stopping suddenly. Adam stopped looking at the garter flying through the air long enough to notice that the other male ducks had all turned around to face him before Charlie stepped up and shoved him forward. The garter landed cleanly in his hands seconds later. His look of surprise and confusion brought more cheers from the crowd before the party resumed.
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The reception would have gone on longer but Guy and Connie had wanted to put Emma to bed at a reasonable time so as the clock hit ten at night the ducks started to file out. Guy and Connie stood at the door and shook everyone's hands and thanked them for coming. Everything went fine until Portman and Fulton go to Connie and Guy.
"Have you guys seen Averman and Goldberg…I haven't seen them all night," Guy asked softly with a slightly concerned and confused look on his face as he shook Fulton's hand while Connie received a bone-crushing hug from Portman.
"Nope, can't say that I have, what about you Portman," Fulton replied with a little bit to big of a grin on his face before he turned to Dean.
"Never saw either one of them," Dean answered with an overly cheesy grin on his face before Charlie stepped back into the room and added his own two cents.
"They're probably around here somewhere," Charlie added with a little to eager smile on his face before he grabbed Fulton and Portman and pulled them along after him. The rest of the receiving line went alright and thirty minutes later the custodian would be surprised to find both missing ducks tied up and gagged in the closet.
END OF SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW….
Author's Note: I went with Connie and Guy and the justice of the peace marrying them since I don't know if they'd have the money for a big church wedding. The ducks held their hockey sticks up like the Marines do with their swords when a Marine gets married and enough are present. I've always loved Unchained Melody's by the Righteous Brothers and for some reason it just felt like the right song for Connie and Guy's first dance together as husband and wife. Back in the first movie Fulton defended Tammy after some of the Hawks knocked her down so I had them dance together, Julie and Adam are self explanatory, as are Charlie and Linda along with Gordon and Casey. As for Goldberg and Averman Portman and Fulton knocked them out with sleeping pills, then tied them up before the reception started and shoved them into the closet so that the reception would go smoothly. I tried to fit anyone that's ever been a duck in here as attending the reception, as to me it'd be a fitting wedding present of sorts for Connie and Guy. Thanks to everyone for reviewing and I hope that you liked this chapter to. I'm thinking of making this into five one shots, with the first one being when Guy proposed, then the second being them telling everyone, this is the third one, with the fourth one being about Connie and Guy and the others a few years down the road before the fifth one is decades later with an update about how all of the ducks turned out. Thanks again and reviews are welcomed and appreciated.