Chapter 5: Marriage

If Rey had ever thought about her wedding, she would have imagined it on the desert plains of Jakku, with only acquaintances as witnesses. She had never, in her wildest dreams, imagined that she would be getting married in the middle of a hangar bay with the whole of the Resistance there to wish her well. But she was here, and she could think of no better place to marry Poe Dameron than in the very hangar bay where she had first begun to discover her love for him.

Finn, acting at the officiator, blessed them. Poe was in his flight suit; the white clothes that she had worn as a scavenger were Rey's bridal gown.

"I now pronounce this couple husband and wife," Finn proclaimed. He grinned at Poe. "If you like, you may kiss the bride."

Rey turned to Poe happily as her new husband took her in her arms and kissed her, to much applause...

Before long, Hermione found herself in her white wedding dress again, this time to say I Do before the altar and marry her other best friend. The same minister who had married her and Ron so many years ago, now blessed her and Harry, saying, "I declare you bonded for life! You may kiss."

Harry and Hermione turned to each other as one, kissing each other at the same time. Kissing each other as equals. Kissing each other as husband and wife. The crowd inside the marquee cheered in approval.

Gliding back down the aisle on her new husband's arm, and smiling with approval at how her and Harry's children - five cousins who were now step-siblings - were jumping up and down happily, Hermione was now greeted by her former father-in-law and mother-in-law. She beamed at them affectionately.

"I have loved two of your sons," she told Arthur and Molly. "What fine parents you are. We can only hope to do the same."

With that, Hermione and Harry raced through the crowd of well-wishers to the old Ford Anglia, starting it up so that it lifted off into the sky.

And as Harry and Hermione embraced and kissed, Hermione knew that she had been reincarnated into the perfect second life. She had found her reincarnated true love all over again, across immeasurable time and space, finding happily ever after anew in a place just as magical as that of a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.