A/N: Sorry it's been so long since I added a chapter. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with this, but I was just listening to music, and this came to me. Enjoy.
She always knew…somehow the moment she first laid eyes on him, she knew. If he ever finally opened up to someone, that would be the end of his defenses. She knew it even before she knew of his previous devotion to Stacey. She saw it in his eyes when he tirelessly slaved over one of their cases. It was this fierce devotion that both drew her to him, and terrified her. She had asked herself, when she saw him with Stacey, if it was really what she wanted. Did she really want to give herself so completely and totally to him? Someone who, if he ever gave in, would totally consume everything that she was?
The answer had always been yes. It was, it is, forever it shall be, she thought.
She hadn't thought he would ever give in. She hadn't believed that he would ever let his defenses down long enough to see the truth behind her emotions towards him. But he had. Thank the god that she didn't believe in, he had.
And now here he was, standing at the end of the pristine sterile corridor of their work place, wearing a nice fitting black tuxedo, with the tiniest of smiles reflecting in his shocking sapphire eyes.
There he was, not twenty…fifteen…ten…now just five feet from her. With tears in her eyes, she handed the simple bouquet of callalillies that she held over to Lisa, and turned to kiss her father on the cheek.
She looked at Greg, and thought that she saw a slight bit of moisture in the corner of his eyes. He smiled at her briefly.
"Who gives this woman to be joined to this man?" asked the priest.
Allison looked at her father and then over to Eric and Robert as her father said, simultaneously with the other two men, "We do."
Wilson chuckled lightly under his breath. They had made it a point for Chase and Foreman to give their acceptance publicly as they had originally been so completely opposed to the union, fearing for both Allison's safety and sanity.
After their approval was granted her, Allison moved forward and took both of Greg's hands in hers. They locked eyes, and carried on a conversation there that no one else but them could see.
Greg: "I love you" Allison: "I know, and I love you." Greg: "May it always be so." Allison: "May it always be so."Their mental conversation was brought to an end when the Priest asked them to recite their vows.
"Do you, Greg, take Allison, to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, until death parts you?"
Greg made it a point to first look out at the people that stood witness to their union, and then he stared soulfully into the eyes of his beautiful bride and said, "I do." Simple, and gruff, but so full of truth and honesty, that even those who thought he had no feelings at all began to doubt their beliefs.
"Do you Allison, take Greg, to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, until death parts you?"
She did not hesitate before saying for all to hear, "I do."
"Then repeat after me." Allison knew that Greg hated being given orders, but he made no fuss about this, and simply complied, staring her straight in the face the whole time.
Priest: "I Greg…" Greg: "I Greg" Priest: "Take you Allison" Greg: "Take you Allison"…
"I Allison, take you Greg, to be my lawfully wedded husband."
"To be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward"
"In sickness and in health, in weakness and in strength"
"Until death parts us."
"Until death parts us."
Greg slid the smaller band onto her ring finger to join her engagement ring, and she slid the larger one onto his hand, right where it had always belonged.
And so a covenant was made, between the two unlikeliest of souls.
"You may kiss the bride."
And Greg placed his hands on her face and kissed her more sweetly than he could ever remember doing before. When they parted, pretty much everyone with a soul that was present had tears in their eyes, including the blushing bride and groom.
As Wilson left his spot and sprinted over to the stereo system to turn the music on, the Priest stepped forward and said, "I present to you, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. And Mrs. Greg & Allison House."
Great cheers rose from those present, some because they thought now perhaps he wouldn't terrorize them so badly, and some because they were simply happy to see such raw love for once.
And off down the corridor the newlyweds limped, off to face the vultures and well-wishers, desiring only to start their new life together alone, in a quiet place, on a private beach where only their sighs and declarations of love, and perhaps a few sand crabs, would be near them.
A/N: Well, this isn't the end I don't believe. Perhaps I'll go on into the reception, I've got good ideas for that, and then off to the honeymoon. BTW: That quote "May it always be so", was from a Jane Eyre book.