Kevin and Jenny Ryan's Wedding Toast
By
UCSBdad
Disclaimer: Don't own any of it. Rating: K Time: At Caskett's wedding reception.
"I have some idea of what Castle's been going through these past few days." Kevin Ryan said with a smile. "I was worried sick before my wedding to Jenny. Not that I had any doubts about the marriage, because I didn't. I was terrified I'd do something to screw up the marriage ceremony. I thought of everything I could possibly do wrong. Fall walking down the aisle? Step on Jenny's train and tear her dress? Drop the wedding ring and have it roll someplace inaccessible? Sneeze on the wedding cake? Every one of those scenarios and more went through my mind in the days before the wedding."
Ryan grinned in turn at his friends Esposito and Rick. "Luckily, I had friends to help me out. Espo told me he'd keep the video camera on me at all times and that anything that I did that made me look stupid would be on You Tube before we left the church."
"Castle was equally helpful." That got a glare in Castle's direction from Kate. "Castle told me that no matter how badly I screwed up, he'd write a chapter in the next Nikki Heat book that would be ten times as bad and would make Detective Raley look like the biggest buffoon on the planet."
Ryan stopped talking until the laughter subsided. "I've been subtly reminding Mr. Castle of that at every opportunity."
"Subtlety is not your strong suit, Ryan." Castle called out.
"Or yours, Rick." Kate added.
Ryan continued. "But, since I'm a bigger man than that, I've done nothing to upset the wedding." Ryan waited just a beat. "After all, Mrs. Castle told me that if I did, they'd never find my body."
When the laughter subsided, Kevin raised his glass." So, a toast to the man who I know is happy on his wedding day, and the woman he has made happy, now and…Always."
Ryan turned to his wife. "Okay, Jen, you're next."
Jenny Ryan handed their son to Kevin. "Whatever you do, don't let Lanie have him or we won't see him until he's in high school."
Over the laughter they could hear, "Little Kevvie, don't you want to see your Auntie Lanie?"
Jenny looked at Rick and Kate. "I met Rick and Kate a few times before my marriage, and I heard a little about them. But, Kevin didn't talk much about his job, and still doesn't. He doesn't want me to worry. But after I saw Rick and Kate walking down the aisle at our wedding, I asked Kevin, "When will they be getting married?" He gave me an odd look and said, "As far as I know, they won't. Did someone say something and nobody told me?" I don't know why, since I really didn't know these two, but I said to Kevin, "Honey, they'll be getting married, too." And I was right."
"All it took was one look for me to see that they would be together…Always."