This has a lot of Dean POV, I haven't done that in a while. Caution… he may be a little out of character. I tried, I really did! But I have been watching large amounts of Smallville season 4… and as most of you know Jensen Ackles is in that… so there may be a little bit of Jason Teague (before he went insane) creeping out of his character now and then… just a warning…
Oh Yeah.. another warning… this chapter was nine pages long on word
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Chapter 10: The Days
"Where have you two been? You left at like eight and it is two in the morning!" Gabi yelled as we walked in the door. I laughed a little and hugged her.
"You worry too much." I told her. I was unusually happy right now. So was Dean, it was somehow strange. But I was enjoying it.
"Fine, oh by the way I have your present." She told me. She went over to her bag and pulled out a photo album. I raised my eyebrows and opened it. What I saw made me gasp.
It was a rather large book to begin with, and it was no wonder. It went as far back to the day I was born. She had actually gotten a hold of the pictures with my mom holding me when I was just a few days old. The album ended with a full page of pictures Gabi had taken in the last week. Then on the back cover is a slot there was one of all four of us crammed into t he back seat of the Impala laughing our heads off.
"Gabi! When did you have time to do this?" I asked her. She shrugged.
"I have my ways." She said smiling. I hugged her again.
"You are the best." I told her.
"Yes, this I know." She said. I laughed and we sat down on one of the beds and flipped through the whole book, doing commentary on all of the pictures. Sam and Dean joined in after a while.
"Woah… Gabi who is that guy?" Dean asked as he pointed to a picture with Gabi and her ex-boyfriend who were cuddled up on a couch in our old favorite coffee shop hang out.
"Oh, that's Jake. We dated from like senior year in high school until my junior year in college. Apparently I was to free spirited for him." She said. Then I saw her look at Sam and smile. "But that is just fine with me, because I have found someone ten billion times better."
"Yeah who likes that you are free spirited and ignorant." Sam said as he grabbed her hand. She gasped and looked at him.
"I don't remember saying anything about ignorant!" She exclaimed. We all laughed at her.
"It's ok though, I like it." Sam said smiling. She smiled back and kissed him on the head.
"Good." She replied.
Dean flipped back a few pages and looked at this picture of me and Gabi on the beach in Florida when we were about five.
"Damn Annie, how old were you?" He asked. I looked at the picture.
"Five, almost six." I told him. He shook his head.
"You were like a skinny midget kid… with very sun bleached hair…" He added. I slapped him on the arm.
"Hey! That is me you are talking about!" I exclaimed, he laughed and turned to look at me.
"You were a very pretty little girl, you were just tiny. Guess not much has changed." He teased. I narrowed my eyes at him, but I couldn't hold it anymore. I burst into laughter with the rest of them.
"Guess not much has changed." Sam said. I picked up a pillow and threw it at him.
"Hey! Pick on people your own size!" I joked. Dean grabbed my waist and I turned to face him.
"Aww, but if we did that every time we wanted to pick on some one then you would never get teased!" He said. I acted like I was going to bite him then I grabbed the book and walked off.
"I don't like you guys anymore." I said as I sat down on the other bed and flipped through the album. Their laughter eventually seized and Dean came over to me.
"Hey, I love that you are so little. I think it is pretty damn cute." He told me. I laughed and looked up at him.
"Good. And I was never really mad by the way. I like being little too. It has many advantages." I told him. He smiled and kissed me for a second, then the kiss got deeper and everything that happened at the cottage ran through my mind. So I broke away.
"From now on, we are getting our own room when we go places, deal?" He asked.
"Deal." I replied.
"Hey guys, we probably need to go to sleep, it is almost four." Sam suggested.
"Yeah, I am exhausted." I said honestly. Dean nodded in agreement. So Gabi and I changed and within ten minutes the room was filled with the peacefulness of four people sleeping.
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Gabi was mean. Gabi was very, very mean. I woke up at ten, which was only six hours after I had fallen asleep which did not settle well with me. Plus Sam had already dragged Dean off somewhere, and now Gabi was telling me to get up and get ready because the two of us were going to lunch.
"Where are Sam and Dean?" I asked groggily. If one of them were here, she would leave me alone.
"They went out somewhere to look at something. They aren't going to be back until about six either. So we are having a girl's day out!" She exclaimed.
How in the hell was she so perky? I wanted to slap the girl across the face.
"Gabi, I love you and all, but I had a rather exhausting night and only got six hours of sleep compared to my normal like ten. So can we hold off the girl's day until like noon?" I pleaded.
"No, and I don't care how exhausting your night was. You are going to get up, shower, get dressed and be ready to go in an hour and a half got it?" She said as she ripped to blanket off of me.
I was only wearing shorts and a sports bra, so the cold hotel room air hit me hard. I groaned loudly and got up.
"You suck." I muttered to her. She just smiled.
"Good morning to you to sunshine!" She said. I locked myself in the bathroom and took a long shower.
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(Dean's POV)
"Dude, what the hell? You woke me up at like eight, I barely got to sleep and now you won't even let me drive my own car or tell me where we are going. Did you go crazy or something?" I asked Sam.
He dragged me out of bed, made me shower and get dressed and told me we weren't going back to the room until six. Nothing was making sense.
"I told you, we are going to get coffee then spend some guy time together. Ever since the girls came with us we haven't gotten to hang out and neither have they. Well except for when you and Annie were fighting but that is another thing that we won't talk about." Sam told me. I smirked and shook my head.
"Ever think I wanted them to come so I wouldn't have to spend so much time with you?" I joked. He could tell it was a joke though and rolled his eyes.
"So have you and Annie decided anything about the whole wedding thing yet?" He asked, changing the subject.
"No, I mean we don't really care when. It is more like where. I guess it will just happen when the opportunity arises." I said casually.
The truth was, I would have done it at this very moment if I could have. She didn't want something cheesy and I couldn't blame her. I mean every girl supposedly has dreams about this being something special and I wanted it to be special for her. But nothing mattered to me, as long as I was with her.
Yes it was true, I, Dean Winchester was actually going to get married. How weird. And I was excited about it. One year ago I would have laughed at myself for thinking that anything like this was even possible. Deep in the back of my mind I did have those dreams like any other guy of getting married and having one person to trust unconditionally. But I never thought with what I did that it was possible so I made myself believe that I didn't want it. I let Sammy have those hopes and dreams and hold on to them. But then Annie happened. And I learned that I could have what I wanted, and I couldn't be more grateful.
"So if say… tonight when we got back she had found something perfect for you guys then but you had to do it with in an hour you would?" He asked.
"Yep, happily to I might add." I told him. Then I laughed and leaned my head back against the seat. "She is so worried about all of us all the time. I mean, I worry about her being so worried. And yeah the main reason I want to do this is because I love her, but then I think if we do this, then she won't have to worry about me anymore and she will be so much better."
"She is a great girl. How she managed to fall for you though is something I have yet to figure out." Sam joked. I hit him on the arm and then turned to stare out of the window.
"So what about you and Gabi? What have you two been up to?" I asked. I watched as his face turned crimson. I laughed.
"Aww little Sammy is all grown up." I teased.
"Hey, I was grown up long before Gabi. You just weren't there." He said, adding the last part quietly.
That whole situation was still a little bit touchy for us. So we avoided it as usual.
"But how do you feel about her?" I asked. He smiled a little.
"I love her, a lot." He told me. "But part of me is scared to make anymore of a commitment then we have right now. I mean if something happened to her like it happened to Jess… I wouldn't be able to live with it."
He still loved Jessica. He always would and you could hear it in his voice.
"I think between the four of us she will be just fine." I told him the big brother part creeping out of me.
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(Annie's POV)
Gabi and I went to eat and get large amounts of coffee. Then she took me to, get this, a bridal shop.
"Come on! It will be fun!" She said. I shook my head.
"No Gabi, come on we both know that I am not going to have one of those kinds of weddings." I said as I pointed to a gorgeous white dress in the window. "So why even get my hopes up?"
"Come on! You know you want to!" She pleaded.
She was right, I did want to. But I knew that I would see all of these beautiful wedding gowns and bridesmaid dresses and in actuality I would never have that.
I bite my lip and looked in the window again. I really did want to at least look, there was no harm in looking, right?
"Ok let's go!" I said with my voice full of excitement. She smiled and we walked in the door.
So I quickly learned that not all wedding dresses were pretty. Some were actually drop dead disgusting.
"Anything in particular that you are looking for?" A lady asked us. I was about to say no, but Gabi popped in first.
"This is my cousin, she is getting married." She said. I rolled my eyes and blushed a little. The lady laughed.
"Yes well most people that come in here are. But what kind of wedding are you having?" She asked. I smiled and shrugged.
"Something very, very small. Probably no more then ten people there." I said. That was actually an overstatement. It would most likely be 5 people. That included Dean and me and the person who was marrying us.
"So you don't need something to elaborate, but by how young you are I take it this is your first wedding?" She asked. This woman had a lot of questions
"Yes, and hopefully my only one." I told her. She smiled and led me over to another section of the store.
"Well, every girl's dress should be memorable. Even if it isn't a huge princess dress. But it should be something special." She said. That is exactly what I was thinking.
"I agree. But under the circumstances…" She shushed me.
"Dear there should be no circumstance, if you find what you want then you should get it. Hands down." She told me.
Once again, she was right. I think I had found another angel.
"You're right…" I said quietly.
I looked around and then I saw it.
There was nothing elaborate about it. No chiffon or over dramatic crystal beading. There wasn't even the slightest petticoat on the skirt.
It almost looked more like a prom dress then a wedding dress. But I fell in love with it.
It was white and sleeveless, with the littlest crystal beads in a straight line across the top of the bodice. The rest was just soft silk. The skirt flowed and fluttered a little.
It was the simplest thing ever. But I loved it.
"Gabi… I want it…" I told her. It was my size too. This all seemed to good to be trued.
"Then you are going to get it." She said matter of factly. I shook my head.
"It is probably to much for what we are going to end up doing." I said sadly.
"I don't think so. Plus is it on sale so you wouldn't be out of a lot even if it was." She said. "At least try it on."
So I did. And then with out anymore hesitation I bought it.
"So have you and Dean even talked about when you are going to do this?" She asked. I shook my head.
"We have pretty much just decided that when the opportunity arises we will. But like I told him, I will not get married in a place that had neon lighting." I told her. She laughed and turned to look at me.
"Good, because I wouldn't let you." She said.
We got back to the hotel and the boys still weren't back yet.
"Hey Annie, will you put the dress back on so I can take a picture? That way even if you don't end up wearing it you can have some memory of it?" Gabi asked. I sighed and went into the bathroom.
I came out and Gabi got an unsatisfied look.
"Hmm… hey just for fun can we do your hair and make up to?" She asked. I laughed at her.
"What if the guys walk in?" I asked.
"They won't. Sam just called me and said they were going to be a few more hours." She told me. I rolled my eyes.
"Fine." I said.
All we did with my hair was spiral it a little tighter then it was naturally. Then I just put on a little more make up then I normally wore.
"It is still missing something…" She said. She dug through her bag, then through mine and finally pulled out the diamond necklace from Tiffany's that my dad had gotten me for my twenty first birthday. I hardly ever wore it, but I kept it just incase I needed to dress something up.
"Perfect!" She exclaimed. I laughed and put the necklace on.
I felt ridiculous. "Are you happy?" I asked.
"Not quiet." I narrowed my eyes at her, and then with out any warning I was blindfolded.
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(Dean's POV)
"Sam, what are we doing?" I asked. He had made me go to some tux place as a joke and the guy who dressed us was seriously gay. And now Sam wouldn't let me change.
Sure, I looked good. I wasn't really wearing a tux, just the pants and white shirt.
Supposedly it was a joke that had to do with the whole wedding thing.
'Just to see what you want to wear.' When Sam said that I had a weird notion that my brother had changed sexualities on me.
Now he wouldn't even tell me where we were going and we looked like idiots. Then finally he pulled up to the beach and we got out.
"Just a warning, this was Gabi's plan. I went along with it, but incase you want to kill me, just know that it was her idea." Sam told me. I was so confused. But then when we walked out to the beach I finally got it.
"Dad?" I asked as I saw my father. He was dressed up to, and then Annie's dad was there, and two other people who were talking to Annie's dad. The woman looked a lot like Gabi, so I assumed they were her parents.
My dad smiled and hugged me. Then Annie's dad came over to me.
"I don't think we have ever met properly." He said holding out his hand.
"No, we haven't." I said.
This was all to much and I was in major shock.
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(Annie's POV)
"Gabi, I hate you and you are pissing me off." I said gritting my teeth together.
After she blindfolded me she literally hand cuffed me to a chair and I think, from what it sounded like, changed clothes, re-did her hair and make-up and now we were heading to some place that I couldn't see.
"You hate me now but in ten minutes I am going to be your favorite person." She said sounding very sure of herself.
I groaned and leaned against the car seat.
"I would rather be spin kicking a demon right now then be with you." I told her.
She laughed. "Love you too cuz.." She said. Finally the car stopped and we got out.
She grabbed my arm and made me stand somewhere.
"Ok, take your blindfold off now." She told me.
I did. And what I saw brought tears to my eyes.
"You did this?" I asked her. She nodded proudly.
"Well if you don't like it then it was Sam's idea." She said. I laughed.
"It is perfect… how?" I asked. Tears threatened to run down my face, but I held it together.
"Hey, like it has been said, I am amazing!" She exclaimed. I laughed.
"Yeah, you are!" I told her. We hugged.
"Now, we better hurry because I tried to set this up for sunset since it is your favorite time of the day and the sun is getting ready to set. Plus my parents and your dad and John have been waiting here for a couple hours and are getting antsy, plus your dad may try to interrogate Dean if we don't hurry." She said. I nodded and looked out again.
Never in my life would I have guessed that someone could even pull off a surprise wedding, but Gabi and Sam did.
And it was perfect.