A/N May 4, 2019: If you currently are reading this story, note that all chapters have been updated. See author's note for chapter 1.

Epilogue: Will she come?

JACK

As I'm standing here, waiting for her, I don't think I have ever been so nervous. My mouth is dry like sand, my palms sweaty and I can feel how tense my jaw is even if I try to put on a relaxed and friendly face. What if she doesn't come, if she has changed her mind? Then all the friendly faces around would just make it worse. They are all a bit of a blur to me right now, but I know they are here.

Spanner, Peanut – almost unrecognizable now that they are dressed to their teeth and Spanner even surprised by shaving off his beard. Maisie and Rab, as much in love as ever and newly engaged. Monk with his girlfriend (or maybe it is wife by now), Brains, Fingers, Kingy. She even convinced me to invite the wanker Charles James. I like his feisty wife though, so I guess that is some compensation for having to put up with him. Apparently, they managed to get a babysitter for their 3-year old because they did not bring her and from what I can tell by the exhilarated looks they are exchanging, they are looking forward to the hotel night on their own at least as much as to the wedding party. In the first row I see mum, already looking proud and tearful even if nothing has really happened yet. Will, who looks good these days, much more relaxed and good-humoured since he got out of running the company by himself and we found our way back to each other as brothers. Meghan beside him of course, Sarah and the boys, Georgie's family (ah, Lulu is actually still going out with that guy, the longest relationship I've seen her have) and then there's so many other friends. Almost didn't know we had so many as they are, now that I see them all in one room.

I asked Georgie if she preferred church or at the registry office and she went with church as registry office wedding still held too many negative memories. I don't mind, anywhere would have been fine for me but it does look amazing in here today and it feels formal and proper, which I kind of like for this occasion because it is a big day. When she said she wanted to invite all from the old 2 section I joked and asked if it was so she could send them after me if I didn't show up. I shouldn't have done that, she didn't take it well... I guess some things will never be funny no matter how much time has passed, and I should have known, and I bit my tongue and cursed my large mouth. The last thing I want is to hurt her or make her worry about this day. Wild horses could not have stopped me from coming here. I just hope she feels the same.

- OG -

He had proposed a year ago. He had taken her to Paris for a surprise weekend to celebrate that she had finished her second year of medicine studies. Before going, he had considered if this was the right time to propose, because he knew he wanted to, but had decided it would just be too much of a cliché to propose in Paris and skipped bringing the ring he already had bought. Once there, he was blown away by the romance of the city and by her. It was the first time she was there and for him it felt like a whole different city in her company despite that he had been there many times growing up. They were both so incredibly happy, strolling through the streets and flowering parks hand in hand all day, making love half the night. The second evening they had dinner seated outdoors of a small, romantic restaurant in Marais and laughed together as cliché after cliché was ticked off; the small tables with checked cloths, the moule frites with white wine, the ambulatory rose seller and the passing street musician playing French tunes on an accordion. He felt happy through and through and looking at her smiling face in the candle light he had known for sure that he wanted to spend his life with this woman. So, in the spur of the moment, without any prepared speech or ring, only the rose in hand that he just had been tricked into buying, he went down on one knee in front of her then and there and said; "Georgie Lane, I love you to bits and I want to be yours for the rest of our lives. Will you marry me?"

She had looked at him, slightly shocked and first no words came out. People around them had noticed what was happening and it was like everyone froze in anticipation, forks halfway to the mouth, waiter pausing his busy step, even the accordion player paused with fingers in the air.

Then she said: "Of course I will, Captain McClyde, I just never thought you'd ask me" and kissed him. She was the only one calling him captain these days and he liked it, coming from her mouth it both sounded affectionate and flirty and it always turned him on slightly.

Cheering and clapping broke out among the tables and the waiter brought a bottle of champagne on the house. Afterwards walked back to the hotel they giddy with joy and insatiable kept each other awake until the first morning light. They even made love on the balcony with a view of the Eiffel Tower, although the view was bit wasted on them as they only had eyes for each other, then fell asleep in each other's arms.

- OG -

Now the music starts, where the heck is she?

Finally! The doors swing open and there she comes with Max. She's here and… sweet fucking Jesus! She's so amazingly beautiful in that white lace dress that it takes everything I have to keep myself from crying. I can barely believe this day is finally here because I have wanted it for so long. I have never told her because I don't want to sound like an echo from her past - but I fell in love with her the first moment I saw her. It took some time before I admitted it to myself though. I thought Elvis sounded like such a looser that time he told me about how he had loved her right from the start. I didn't believe then that such things happened in real life and least of all I could believe it, or accept it, when it happened to me.

There is just no one else like her. Delicate on the outside, but inside so strong and courageous. She is both my weakness and my strength. My weakness because she sometimes makes me feel stripped naked from the strong feelings I have for her and I know that she could hurt me like no one else. My strength because with her I finally became myself again, leaving behind the cheeky, arrogant mask I put on the day I entered Sandhurst because I thought it was what I needed to survive the Army. I'm not sure she understands the effect she has on me, maybe it is for the best that she doesn't know that she has the power to ruin me because I love her so much. Sometimes I get a little restless, miss the action and the travels but I saw what it was doing to her, so I'm glad I took the decision to leave even if it was a bit earlier than I had planned. I'm not sure we would have made it to this day otherwise, so it was worth it, and I will never regret it.

I'm amazed I manage to get my words out loud, so everyone can hear them, my voice doesn't even sound weak. I don't really dare to believe this is all true until the moment she also says, "I do" and the priest tells me I can now kiss my wife. Then I kiss her, so we wish it was time for the wedding night already, and I whisper in her ear;

"I love you Mrs. McClyde."

"I love you, Captain McClyde."

I'm the happiest man in the world.

A/N: This story has now come to an end in the way I plotted it in my head to begin with, but I have become sort of addicted to writing about them so maybe there will be a sequel. Right now, I'm thinking of a completely different story but I have to try it out a bit to see if it flies before possibly posting anything.

First, when I discovered there was something as wonderful as Our Girl fanfiction earlier this summer, I just started writing for myself for fun because I thought season 3 lost it when Bones died. But when I have seen in the stats that you read it and actually follow the story chapter by chapter it has been really motivating. Now I will also catch up on reading more of others' work, didn't want to do that initially before I had found my own story so to say, so I wouldn't feel restricted bu what others have written. Now looking forward to reading your :) Thanks and love for following this to the end!

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Update May 4, 2019: Don't miss that I now have added an Epilogue 2 after this!