Epilogue

Joe and Ken stood in the large Conference room of the base waiting for Jinpei to tell them the girls were ready.

"Thanks for the drinks the other night Ken, I know it's hard since we can't leave the base, but it was still a good night with just the four of us." Joe looked at his best man. Ken had improved a little over the past week and had given his second in command a buck's night on the base. Jinpei had smuggled in two cartons of beer, and Jun had left the boys to it, deciding to spend time with her new sister Madeline and little Bayden.

Ryu still felt they had to do some silly thing with him. So he found a ball and chain that Joe told him was a bit old and unoriginal but it was all Ryu could think of at short notice. So Joe suffered for a few hours being dragged around the base by a tipsy Eagle, Owl, and Swallow, until they got his bride to take it off him.

Still it was the best time they had together since being confined to the base in fact for a long time.

"You know I can't believe they arranged all this under such short notice" The Eagle looked around him at the flowers in the room. The other end of the table had a white table cloth with seven place settings. Apparently Maria who was the base cafeteria caterer found out it was for a wedding and bought the flowers from Utoland for the reception.

Uncle Jinpei came into the room with Bayden in his carry basket and it was time to go.

Joe and Ken and Dr Nambu walked up to a hill just outside of the base, and waited for the rest of the wedding party to arrive.

Dr Nambu was performing the ceremony since he was qualified to perform legal marriages, something they found out when Joe asked if there was someone on base who could do it. He almost got emotional when Joe asked him to marry them. It was an unexpected reaction from a serious man like the Doctor.

Joe watched as Jun walked a little ahead of his bride wearing a light Emerald green satin dress and a small poise of flowers in her hand. Ken was staring at her and she was smiling back at him. Ryu had the honor of escorting the bride and Jinpei held his son as they all walked towards them. The sun was warm but a slight breeze that was in the air was cool, and the scent of the Bridal bouquets was in the air around them.

She looked so beautiful, she was wearing a simple but elegant ivory silk satin bias cut long gown with a small train the dress hugged her curves was revealing with no back and low plunging front. Her curly copper hair was caught up with crystal pins that the sunlight glimmered off, and a simple fingertip length veil.

Joe wondered if he could hold out past the planned reception with her in that dress, and tried to control himself as he watched her walk towards him. Lucky Jun had offered to look after Bayden for the night.

They had written their own wedding vows and the service was short but sweet and full of happy emotion.

Later, they all enjoyed each others company in the conference room that had been dressed up for the wedding. Jinpei had taken a liking to Bayden and had a camera, so he was the official wedding photographer, Joe found a fatherly instinct that he didn't know he had kicked in at some of the things Jin was promising to teach his son.

At one point during the meal Madeline suggested to Jun that when she and Ken decided to get married she would walk ahead of her as she walked down the aisle, and play the flute. Jun gave her sister a grateful smile and Ken even put his arm around Jun's shoulders and smiled into her green eyes. A sign of affection he had not given her in a long time.

They were just finished cutting the small wedding cake when the call came for the team to move out.

Joe looked at his bride and saw the acceptance in her eyes." It's what you do" She said as he leaned in to kiss her promising to be back soon for their wedding night and asked her to be wearing her wedding dress for him, he wanted to take it off her himself.

Little did he know that Jun had managed to break the security code for his quarters and it was dressed up like a honeymoon suite for them, it was a wedding gift for the team.

Joe felt Ken's hand on his jacket yanking him away during a rather imitate moment with his wife, she laughed as he was dragged out the door with the rest of the team.