The last chapter, mainly fluff with a little foreshadowing ;).

Time past rather quickly and a few months after setting a date for the wedding the day was finally here. They had decided it would be a rather small event only their closest friends would be invited. Sure it was accepted of Bruce Wayne to have a big extravagant wedding but today was not about keeping up appearances today was about so much more than that.

Emma looked at herself in the mirror smoothing out the dress. She had gotten a new one because she felt weird wearing the other one she got even though Bruce had loved it. This one was similar, with a simple elegance to it, the skirt was slightly full but not too puffy and it had a little bit of lace spreading the skirt from the body of the dress.

"You look fine Em." Said Misty rolling her eyes as she put on an earring.

"I'm very jealous." Said Sarah who was fixing her hair but turned to look at Emma as well. They were both her bridesmaid, Misty was of course the maid of honor. They paused when they heard a knock on the door. Misty went to open it just a crack and saw Bruce standing there.

"You're on the wrong end of the house mister, this is hen territory. I know it's killing you but you can be away from Emma for a few hours."

"I left my bow tie in the room. Plus I've seen the dress before I don't see why it's a big deal." Said Bruce rolling his eyes. Emma heard him a yelled an answer so he could hear her. "I got a new one."

"Why? I loved that dress." Said Bruce with a pout.

"Maybe because I was going to marry another man in it." Said Emma pulling a tie out of the drawer and handing it to Misty who then handed it to Bruce.

"There now, shoo." Said Misty with a shooing motion.

"When do you want to me send Gordon over?" Said Bruce walking further away from the door.

"He'll know when to go over, it's right before the ceremony starts." Said Misty. Since Charlie's parents were unable to make it, Gordon who had always been like a mentor to Emma would be giving her off today.

"Emma you really out to right a book on how to snag a man like that." Said Sarah.

"If I recall correctly someone else in this room has also snagged a good man. You got Charlie to quiet dragging his feet and finally pop the question." Said Emma with a smile that had not left her face since this morning.

"Yes, Charlie is a good man but he isn't perfect like yours." Said Sarah with a smirk.

Emma let out a laugh. "Bruce isn't completely golden he does have his dark side he just keeps it hidden very well." No one else in the room however didn't quite understand what Emma truly meant by that.

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"I must say it will be nice to know we were actually able to use the gardens for something useful." Said Alfred looking out the window at the setup for the wedding. "I believe you need one of these as well." He said handing Bruce one of the red rose boutonnieres.

"At least this color was easy to match. Did you hear Emma got a new dress?"Said Bruce putting his on his tux.

"I would imagine so, the old one would have been for her marriage to Mr. Viti." Said Alfred clipping the other on his tux.

"I remember picking that dress out with her, she looked amazing in it."

"Master Wayne you think Ms. Emma looks amazing in anything she wears." Said Alfred with a wry smile.

"Hey you won't be able to call her Ms. Emma much longer Alfred, soon she will be my wife and you'll have to call her Mrs. Wayne." Said Bruce smiling at the idea of it.

"For awhile there I thought we may never have one of those under this roof again, what with you new hobby, which has greatly improved my sewing skills but I'm not sure I want to keep having to work on my cross stitch using your skin for material."

"Things have actually been pretty quiet lately you haven't had to help me with that in awhile."

"Does this mean the mask might be hung up for good soon, Master Wayne?"

"I made a promise to my parents that I would not rest until Gotham was free of criminals, I keep the promises I have made, and sometimes I think this city may need me forever."

"At least today's promise should not be as much of a burden."

"Yeah that's true, we changed it a little though Emma said till death do us part was a little too morbid so we decided to go with so long as we both are living."

"A wise choice, Master Wayne."

"That reminds me, I need to go down to the lawyers office sometime when I get back, I need to add Emma into the will."

"Perhaps you can worry about getting married today Master Wayne and securing you estate in the event of your death after you get back from your honeymoon." Said Alfred shaking his head at Bruce's thought process.

"Right, this is supposed to be the happiest day of my life and I'm thinking about me death." Said Bruce with a laugh.

"Actually from what I've heard the happiest day of a man's life is the day his son or daughter is born."

"Alfred, I think I should worry about getting married today and thinking about children some other time." Said Bruce shaking his head at his best man and most trusted family friend.

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"I didn't think I would have to be doing something like this for at least another 15 years of so." Said Gordon his wife Barbara straightened his tie.

"You should be falter she asked you to do this." Said Barbara stopping to look at her work. "There that's much better."

"Thanks. I mean Barbs is just starting school now, it scares me to think one day I'm going to have to do this for her, It scares me that I have to do this for Emma. I mean it seems like yesterday I was busting her for breaking curfew, do you remember when she used to wear all that eyeliner?" Said Gordon with a nostalgic expression on his face.

"But you wish it were back to the days when you were just dealing with delinquent teenagers and you could actually be home at a decent hour."

"Yeah, but I don't miss the amount of pay. As Commissioner I know I'm going to be able to send the kids off to a good school when they are older. God they're going to be going to college before we know it."

Barbara let out a laugh. "Yes it's going to be scary getting old, but you hang around so many young people I'm not too worried."

"Yeah, I just hope Barbs finds a good guy when I do this, it makes it easier."

"Are you finally going to except Bruce then?" said Emma who had just gone into the hallway dress and ready for the ceremony.

"I'd better go to my seat." Said Barbara giving Gordon a kiss before leaving.

"From what I hear he's good at keeping his promises that's a redeeming quality." Said Gordon with a wry smile.

"You think you will be able to handle things the week Gotham's Dark Knight goes missing in action?"

"This may come as a surprise to you but we cops are still able to do our jobs when the Batman is not around."

"Thanks again for doing this; I'm really glad you said you would walk me down the aisle."

"Well I know you would have really wanted Charlie's dad he was really more of a father to you, I'm sorry he couldn't make it."

"Yeah it's alright though. If it wasn't for me I could have really done some bad things in life, you made sure I went down the right path."

"Hey we're starting in like half an hour right?" Said Misty coming out in the hallway to join them, Sarah was right behind her.

"Yeah I figure we should be ready now though, don't want to miss the moment." Said Emma.

"I bet this freaks you out a little doesn't it Gordon, I mean in a few years you could be doing this with your daughter." Said Misty smirking at him as Gordon looked pale.

"It will be more than a few years and I don't really want to think about it." He said quickly.

"If you two had a daughter do you think Bruce would be the over protective father type?" said Sarah.

"Are you kidding, over protective won't even begin to cover it." Said Emma thinking about the idea of having children and what that would be like. "But we have a while before we should even be considering having any, it would complicate things."

"It always does." Said Gordon with a sigh, he regretted having to work such long hours sometimes, but he knew he was just trying to make Gotham's future a little brighter for his children.

They stood talking for a few more minutes until they decided to move outside so they could hear the music when it started. They continued to talk about various things until finally the music started and everyone began to file over to the lawn where the ceremony would be held.

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Bruce stood at the altar in front of the priest, with Alfred by his side. There were not very many people at the ceremony. Mr. Fox, Barbara and her children, and Charlie where basically the only ones not involved in the actual wedding and most of them were friends of both Emma and himself. The only other person they both knew fairly well was of course in Arkham where he belonged, not of course that the Joker would have ever been invited to their wedding but Bruce was beginning to realize just how few people in the world they really knew. Of course all these thoughts were put aside when the music started and he saw Misty and Sarah in there red dressing holding white bouquets. Next came Emma one arm linked with Gordon's and the other holding a red bouquet of roses, she looked amazing in the simple gown.

"I believe I'm the luckiest man in the world today." Said Bruce to Alfred quietly.

"You truly are your father's son Master Wayne for he said a similar thing when he stood in your place." Said Alfred with a proud grin.

As Emma walked up the aisle rolling her eyes when Charlie whistled when he saw her, she looked directly at Bruce and saw him say something to Alfred before turning his attention back to her and smiling. She smiled back it felt like the longest walk she had ever taken in her entire life and the one she most cared about her destination. Finally she reached the alter and the ceremony began, they said their vows and priest talked some more but none of it seemed real until they said "I do" or until the priest said "You may now kiss the bride" And Bruce lifted the veil so that he was looking directly at Emma, his wife, as they stood both completely unmasked and he leaned in to kiss her.

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The reception was held in the main ballroom of the house and since it was such a small group of people it wasn't too much of a party but neither Bruce nor Emma seemed to really care. People came up to congratulate the happy couple and Gordon threatened to arrest Bruce if he did anything to hurt Emma as well as give his congrats.

Eventually Charlie brought a bottle of champagne over to the table where most of the party sat talking about various things.

"Alright time for toasts." He said setting the bottle down and quickly leaving to get some glasses and returning with some. "Apparently I'm your Alfred today." He said joining everyone at the table.

"Speak of, Alfred I do believe you are the best man, I bet you have a speech." Said Misty.

"I'm afraid I do not, I'm not very good at speeches the last one I had to give was at Master Wayne's funeral, I never figured I need to write another one. I just figured I use the same one again it's not like you would be able to complain you'd never have to hear it." Said Alfred.

"What you never though Gotham's most eligible bachelor would ever give up his bachelor ways." Said Charlie with a laugh.

"No not really. You see, have to understand I've know Master Wayne his whole life and I happen to know that when he sets his mind to something he doesn't change it, nor does he ever give up on something. Now I remember the day I convinced him to redecorate the house…"

"Yeah convinced me, he wakes me up in the morning to tell me there is an interior decorator coming over in a few hours and that I need to be nice." Said Bruce interrupting him.

"Mind you sometimes he doesn't know what's good for him. Now as I was saying he did what he was supposed to do he was nice to her, but I saw that there was something about this woman that was going to bring color into this dull gray house, both actually and metaphorically as a matter of fact."

"You kept telling me to stay away from her because she was engaged." Said Bruce interrupting Alfred once again.

"And she was and the proper thing to do would be to leave her alone however it's not like you would have listened to me anyway."

"I didn't actually otherwise we wouldn't be here, well you and I would be but probably not everyone else." Said Bruce with a shrug.

"Can I finish my speech now Master Wayne or are you going to keep interrupting me?" said Alfred in a scolding tone. Emma smirked over at Bruce who said "No go ahead."

"Well like I said before Master Wayne never changes his mind but I suppose there is a first time for everything. Emma would be over almost every day, all day and she certainly was someone special because Master Wayne rarely talks so much to anyone. And before I spend far too much time summing up these past months I would just like to say that for once I am rather glad that Master Wayne did not listen to me and that he changed his mind, because if not I doubt he would be as truly happy as he is today. Congratulations to the happy couple, and at least now we now the Wayne name had a far less chance of ending with Master Bruce."

After everyone toasted Alfred spoke again. "I suppose now Miss Misty would be speaking next about Ms. I mean Mrs. Emma."

"Well, Em knows this when she picked me to be her maid of honor I'm not one for speeches I tend to just say whatever is on my mind whenever it is. So right now I can see how happy my best friend is and I know she would have never been this happy with that other guy not to mention the fact that I think everyone likes Bruce better so…Congrats." Said Misty sitting back down.

Emma just shook her head and said "Thank you Misty you are always so sentimental."

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And so the reception went on as such, people telling stories of the past, deciding what they thought the future might hold and just enjoying one another's company. Eventually everyone left and it was time for Emma and Bruce to go on their honeymoon. Emma insisted they leave right after the wedding leaving no time for something in the city to go wrong and a certain flood light to go off.

Before they left however Bruce made Emma go outside so he could carry he over the threshold into the house. After setting her down the he grabbed their suit cases.

"Was that entirely necessary?" she asked following him out into the car, which was decorated and said just married on the back.

"Probably not but it's a tradition and I wanted it to be the house rather than the hotel room when we get there." Said Bruce with a shrug.

"You still haven't told me where "there" is." Said Emma hoping to hear about the location of their honeymoon which Bruce had kept a secret.

"Somewhere that isn't Gotham, where we can spend all our time doing whatever we want." Said Bruce loading the suit cases into the car.

"Can you please just tell me." She said with a pout.

"Nope." He said giving her a quick kiss before getting into the car, Emma getting in on the other side. They were heading to the airport when they were getting on the private jet to fly to there destination.

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Eventually after a long plane ride they landed in Jamaica where they then took at boat to their destination. Emma had been blindfolded since right before the plane had landed and was by now very confused as to where they were or where they were going.

"Well at least I know it's warm where ever we are." Said Emma as they got off the boat. She felt her warm sand under her feet.

"Yes, we're in the Caribbean." Said Bruce still not taking off the blindfold.

"I would love to see that." Said Emma growing impatient and reaching for the blindfold. Bruce grabbed her hand to stop her.

"Here let me." He said talking off the blindfold. Emma looked around and noticed lots of palm trees and a path leading up to a nice house up the way a bit. She looked behind her and noticed clear turquoise water with nothing around them for miles. "Bruce I love it, it's so lovely here. Where in the Caribbean are we?"

"I don't know I figured I'd let you decide it still needs a name." He said handing her a piece of paper. She looked down at it reading it carefully it looked like a deed for some land.

"Did you really buy an island?" She said in disbelief.

"Yeah I figured it would be nice to have a place to really just escape to. So you like it?"

"Like it? Bruce, this is amazing we have to explore this whole place. Did you have this house built as well?" said Emma beginning to walked towards it. However Bruce stopped her and picked her up bridal style. She let out a yelp of surprise and said "Bruce I am fully capable of walking."

"I know, but I do believe we have a lot of work ahead of us, we have a house to christen and a marriage to consummate, I'm just helping you conserve you're energy." He said with a smirk.

Emma let out a laugh linking her arms around his neck. "That's so very thoughtful of you, you're my hero."

"And you're my everything." He said giving her a kiss on the forehead.

Everything seemed to be falling into place. Emma could not have been happier if she tried. So her life didn't turn out the way she had planned it to. So she knew things would never be like this again, most nights Bruce would be gone or they would be stuck going to some party to social with people they did not really like. So she could be put in danger again because of the fact she was close to Bruce. So what, we the way Emma felt about a lot of things now because so long as she had Bruce in her life she would be ready to face anything life threw at her.

Well there it is the last chapter in Keeping Up Appearance. I haven't thought of a title for the sequel yet but I do have an idea of what it will be like. I will post a summery in this story when I have posted a new chapter for the sequel. Don't forget to review for this story one last time. Thanks for reading and keeping up with me and my typos.

Captain Turlow