Audrey

So much had happened leading up to this day that Audrey hadn't even really had time to process it all. She and Percy had to work twice as fast to put together the wedding because it was way over due, and Audrey had sketched and perfected her wedding dress when she was 13, and it just wasn't going to work with a pregnant belly. She couldn't wait until their little girl or boy was born, but a bride shouldn't have anything sticking out or their dress no matter what the circumstances were. She knew Molly was unfairly talented when it came to planning events and organizing things, but she wasn't so bad at these things herself. So with a little arguing and comprise, her future mother-in-law had agreed to back down a bit and let her have free reign over her own wedding. She was the last person to be marrying into the Weasley family (hopefully) so she wanted to be unlike anything anyone had ever seen before.

It took a lot of convincing, but eventually Molly had given in to Audrey's request of having the wedding in a hotel in muggle London. Since Audrey had wizarding and muggle friends, it was only fit to have the ceremony somewhere that both parties could get to. Simply put, it was going to be flawless and amazing and people were going to love it. The past three months had been full of choosing colors, flowers, invitations, themes and decorations and each day had been filled with meetings, to do lists, appointments, fittings and dead-lines. For anyone else this may seem like a lot, but for Audrey it was the perfect distraction from the bigger picture, which was the fact that she was getting married.

Yes, she had been the one that wanted to get married first, but at the time she hadn't realized what that would mean. Audrey loved Percy, but she had never been great at committing to things. It wasn't entirely her fault though. She had moved around a lot as a little girl and had been raised to embrace every opportunity thrown her way. She would try or join just about anything, but the problem was that she changed her mind so easily about things that she never really ended up sticking with things for very long. When she got tired of sitting around school all day, she had started modeling; when traveling the world became too much, she became Percy's assistant. That job had been particularly boring, but the fact that Percy was there is the reason she made it as long as she did. She'd tried out for the Harpies as sort of a joke seeing as she had never really played Quidditch before. She'd made the reserve team, but the early practice times were killer so that had only lasted a few weeks. The point is, Audrey was notoriously fickle, and marriage wasn't like a pair of shoes, or a boring job. Marriage was long-term and grown up and involved two hearts and a baby, so if she found some way to mess this up, she didn't know what she would do.

There would be no fixing it, or being forgiven. If she messed this up she would lose her soul mate, her best friend, and the people that she had grown to love as a family and that genuinely scared her. Everyone thought that Audrey was so perfect, and carefree and independent, but really she worried a lot and often felt lonely, she had just always had people around and it was easy to forget about your troubles when keeping up such a daunting image. For instance, in this moment, she felt like hyperventilating, which is something none of her friends would ever believe if she told them. There was only one person that would understand and since it was the night before their wedding, he was the one person she wasn't allowed to see. But honestly, she'd never paid much attention to rules before, and it was her wedding anyway, so she went to Percy's room. It was kind of fun sneaking through the halls of the hotel and it reminded her of her old Hogwarts days. She knocked on Percy's door, not expecting him to answer seeing as it was 3 in the morning, but placed her hand over the peep hole just in case.

"Who is it?" she heard him answer.

"Audrey."

"Audrey? Is everything ok?" he asked sounded very concerned. He swung the door open quickly and she managed to cover his eyes with one of her hands before he had seen her or anything. "I thought we weren't supposed to see each other before the wedding?"

"Well can you see me?" she asked.

"No."

"Good, I can't see you either. Can we talk?"

"If Ginny finds out we saw each other-"

"Oh, don't be such a big baby! Ginny won't find out, plus neither of us can see the other so no rules have been broken. However, we are standing in the middle of your doorway with no vision, so for all we know Ginny could be watching now." She teased.

"Touche." Before she could respond, he had wrapped his arms around her and apparated them to the bed. That was much smarter than her idea of them both trying to find the bed with their eyes covered. She heard him reach for his wand and flick it in the air before blindfolds cover her eyes. "Better?"

"Much better. What on earth would I do without you? Wait, are you blindfolded too?"

"Yes. Can't see a thing. What'd you want to talk about?" She didn't know exactly how to phrase it. She was nervous, but she wasn't scared. She didn't want him to think that she wasn't going to go through with the wedding, but she really needed someone to rant to.

"I'm kind of nervous. About tomorrow."

"Kind of nervous? Well then you're doing a hell of a lot better than me."

"What are you nervous about?" she asked. He had no reason to be.

"Well, I am supposed to be marrying the single most amazing woman on the planet in the morning and it just doesn't seem like something that would ever have been happening to me. I guess…I'm afraid you'll finally come to your senses and realize that you're too good for me just like everyone else thinks." So she was nervous that she might mess up the marriage, but he was worried that she didn't want to get married at all. They were quite a pair.

"You have nothing to be worried about Percy. I'm here and I love you no matter what anyone else thinks. Anyone that doesn't see how perfect you are for me doesn't know me at all. For all I care we could have gotten married in front of only our parents, but I couldn't deny people the pleasure of seeing my dress in person. It's that amazing." She said making him laugh, which didn't happen often so she was glad she could have that effect on him. "So stop worrying about me, I'm not going anywhere. If anyone should be worried, it's me. If anyone should be worried, it's me. You do realize you're signing up to live with my disorganization for the rest of your life right?"

"I'm well aware and I'd be an idiot to let you go, so you don't worry about that either. I love you so much Audrey Carizzales."

"That's great to hear, but I'll be a Weasley soon."

"Yes you will. You know, you still have time to reconsider becoming a part of my crazy family.," he joked, "They'd understand."

"Not happening. I love your crazy family, and I think it's safe to say they love me too."

"So, no more cold feet?"

"No more cold feet." She answered confidently. It was a good thing she had come to see him, otherwise she'd still be driving herself crazy with her random thoughts.

"Good," he said as he kissed her stomach, "because I want to be with my favorite girls forever."

"Girls? What makes you think the baby is a girl?"

"I don't know, I just have a feeling."

"Well I hope your feeling is wrong, because contrary to what you may believe, you're a huge softy and you would spoil that little girl rotten."

"Like you?" he teased.

"Exactly! Plus, I've already planned on filling our house with little boys."

"And my fill you mean…?"

"2 to 4, tops. That way I'll always be the princess of the house and there won't be some little girl trying to see my crown."

"Spoiled brat." He teased, before yawning and lying down on the pillow. Up until then she hadn't realized how tired she was.

"Well at least I can admit it." She laid down and scooted as close to him as she possibly could. She didn't care about the rules, she never wanted to leave his side. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight, love."

Percy

Percy hadn't slept this well in a long time. He felt extremely rested, which couldn't be the case because he and Audrey had to have fallen asleep around four that morning. He felt like he was in sort of a daze, but he could hear a shrill voice coming from far away. He listened harder, and the voice seemed to be coming from right above his left ear.

"Wake up idiot!" Ginny screamed, before smacking him on the head with a pillow. Or at least he assumed it was a pillow because he couldn't really see anything. "You overslept! Get up!" Percy jumped up and flipped the covers off of him, exposing Audrey, who had her arms wrapped around his torso. Just at that moment, he heard more footsteps pile into the room.

"Audrey?" Ginny said after gasping loudly. "Oh dear Merlin, you guys are disgusting! You aren't supposed to see each other, let alone have sex the night before your wedding. Eugh!"

"Blindfolds?" George asked. "Didn't know you had it in you Perce." Blindfold? Percy reached a hand to his face and felt the thin fabric covering his eyes. Well, that would explain why he couldn't see anything. He took the blindfold off and saw Ginny, George, Ron, and Bill standing over his bed. George and Bill were wearing expressions of gratification, but Ginny was pissed. He shook Audrey awake, but that only upset Ginny further.

"Well don't look at her, you did enough of that last night!"

"We only slept together." Audrey said sleepily.

"Oh, stop reminding me. Let's go Audrey, it's already 9." At the sound of that Audrey was on her feet and out of the door with Ginny in no time. Lucky for him he was a man, and he could have slept 2 more hours and still gotten to the wedding on time.

"Well, I'm up so you guys can leave now."

"Actually we can't," Bill responded, "we need to have a little chat."

"What about?"

"It's about Audrey and the wedding. We just want to make sure that you're ready for this and that you're not going to screw it up. So, are you ready for this?"

"Yes."

"And are you going to screw it up?" Ron asked.

"No."

"Great!" George yelled, before clapping him on the back, "Lovely chat."

"That's it? No brotherly advice or warnings?"

"All you need to know is that the answer is usually yes and she is always right."

"But what if the answer is no and she's wrong?" he asked.

"Well you're free to say no and feel that she's wrong all you want in the confines of your own mind at any time, but that's it. Unless you want to sleep on the couch, eat left overs and not have sex-"

"She's always right. Got it. Anything else?"

"Well yes." Ron said seriously. "We all like Audrey, love her really, and for some reason she is crazy about you-"

"Which is great," Bill interrupted, "so it should be really hard for you to screw this up, but just in case you need to hear it out loud-"

"Don't screw this up." George finished. Well they'd done a terrible job at making him feel at ease about this whole wedding. He was just about to panic, but he remembered the talk he had with Audrey last night, and deep down he knew everything was going to be ok.

"Thanks guys, but I think I've got it under control."

"Alrighty then, let's get you married!"

The rest of the day went by in a bit of a blur. They had all gotten dressed and ready and spent most of the time the girls were using to get ready to lounge around the hotel. He had no idea what the girls had needed 2 extra hours for, but they ended up going by quicker than he thought they would. Before he knew it he was in the lobby of the hotel waiting for the procession to start. He was in the front of the line, and all the rest of the family and bridal party were there waiting to get things started He heard the organ that signified that it was time for him to walk in, but before he could move, a large hand was on his shoulder, pulling him back.

"What the hell?" he yelled, right before turning to realize he was face to face with both Audrey's father and his father. "Oh, I'm sorry, sir." They had only met once before, but Percy hadn't really had to do much talking since Audrey was there. Her father wasn't the least bit intimidating, but his bond with Audrey was so intense that it made Percy nervous.

"Didn't mean to startle you son."

"Oh, it's no problem."

"We just wanted to wish you luck, and I think Brad had something else he wanted to add. " his dad said proudly.

"Thanks Arthur." Percy turned his attention to Audrey's father, but instead of seeing the man who was usually smiling and laughing, he saw a man that looked very scary and very pissed. "Percy, I'm sure you know how much I love my little girl, or I guess I should say woman, so I think you'll understand clearly when I say that if you hurt her, I have a lot of money and know a lot of people that will help me make you regret it for the rest of your life. Understood?"

"Understood." He said shakily.

"Well, now that that's cleared up, good luck!" he said returning to his cheerful demeanor, " I think you missed your cue."

Percy had no time to think, because he was ushered towards the large door and into the ballroom where there had to have been 300 guests. He realized more than ¾ of them were her guests, considering most of the people he'd invited were actually in the wedding. His nerves started to return as he reached the end of the aisle and turned towards the audience. The tune on the organ changed, and his parents walked in next. His mum was crying and nothing had even happened yet. Following them was Bill and Fleur, George and Angelina, Ron and Hermione, and Harry and Ginny. Lastly came Teddy, who had spent weeks perfecting his line for the wedding with Audrey's help.

"The bride is coming! The bride is coming!" he yelled proudly. He had wanted to get it just right for his Aunt Audrey, and he was doing an amazing job, but even cuter than him was the little girl sitting in the wagon he was pulling. Victoire had just about destroyed her parent's garden practicing her flower girl job. She was smiling brightly and carefully, throwing petals on either side of the wagon and giggling at Teddy's wagon-pulling skills. The tune changed once more, and Percy directed his attention to the door as they opened slowly. Audrey had spent a large amount of money on making sure the flowers and chair covers and decorations and cakes were perfect, but none of that looked as perfect as she did dressed in all white. She was the picture of perfection, and everyone was in awe of her as she slowly walked down the aisle with her father. By the time she made it to him, almost everyone was in tears and she nodded at him reassuringly.

After that, the majority of the ceremony went by in a blur. He repeated things when he was told and smiled every now and then, but couldn't focus on much else than the love of his life. Now it was time for the part he was really nervous about. The vows. Audrey had been telling him to write them for weeks, but he just didn't know how to put what he wanted to say into words. She was amazing with words, and he listened intently to her vows to him.

"As most people know, I like to think of life as a fairytale. I was the princess and the world was my castle, only there was something else missing. For so long, I wondered if I would ever find my prince, my knight in shining armor, my other half. Then three years ago, I took a job at the Ministry. Not exactly a castle, but I wanted to find an escape from my crazy life. Instead, I found everything I'd ever been looking for my whole life, but didn't know to look for. And now here we are with our future before us and I only want to spend it with you – my prince, my soul mate, my friend. I vow to be your guiding light and partner through the good times and bad, no matter what. It's a miracle to find the kind of peace and happiness that you've given me, and I don't know where I'd be without you. "

She was now among the list of people crying, and he wiped a tear from her eye before saying his vows. He didn't need to write them down or remember them; all he had to do was tell her what he had been thinking all along.

"Today is a very special day. Long ago you were just a dream, but today you are a dream come true. You often tell me that you don't know where you'd be without me, but I know exactly where I'd be without you. I'd be in my office at The Ministry, alone, distanced from my family and miserable. I'd just be Percy. From the first day I saw you I knew that things were looking up for me. You took the time to get to know me even though I didn't know myself at all. You gave me the courage to reconnect with my family, and are now blessing me with a family of my own. From this day forward I vow to love, cherish, honor, and protect you through good times and bad. With you I'm not just Percy, I'm proof that dreams really do come true."

There wasn't a dry eye in the entire room once they had finished their vows. Even the officiant was tearing, and Percy could barely hear when he told him that he could kiss his bride. Audrey had warned him beforehand that she wanted their first kiss to be G-rated, so he kissed her gently before turning to the crowd and walking hand in hand down the aisle with his new wife. He was so happy that he could have run out of there and shown her just how much he loved her, but her father had spent an unreasonable amount of money on the reception, and Percy didn't want to disrespect him in anyway. Plus, Audrey would never go for it with her hair and make-up and clothes to worry about.

"What are you thinking about Mr. Weasley?" she asked him dreamily.

"Well Mrs. Weasley, I'm thinking about how I'm going to restrain myself from ripping your dress off right here." He answered honestly. She blushed, which is something she never did, and he was proud that he could have that effect on her.

"There's a time and place for everything, dear." She said with a wink. "And we've got forever for that."

"Forever eh?" he said before he kissed her softly, "I like the sound of that."