Simplicity

"Kat, you cannot be serious!" Syd looks at the brunette woman sternly. She trusts Kat on many manners, including that of her own life, but this cannot be tolerated. "You need to do more for your wedding than go to a courthouse! You need a proper ceremony!"

"Syd, Doggie and I enjoy the simplicity of it, and you guys would be there, and that's really all we need," Kat tilts her brows at the frustrated young blond.

"I'm actually with Syd, on this, I think you should do more. It doesn't have to be pink–princess huge, but still, something," Z shrugs, ignoring the pout of the "pink princess" to her right. "I mean, come on, you must want to do something for your wedding."

Kat looks back up at her girls tenderly. "I didn't even think I'd ever be married again. Just being Doggie's wife is all I could ever ask for."

Z's eyes moisten at the sentiment while Syd is already a sniveling mess beside her. After whispering for Syd to suck it up she clears her throat. "What about something small, out back, under that tree DC likes?"

Kat seems to consider it. "I guess that would be fine but we still need an officiant."

"Sky can do it," Syd volunteers, causing the other two to look at her in askance. "He's fully ordained, on top of anything else boring he could possibly be."

"Why?" Z squints.

"I might have made him get ordained online when we were kids so he could marry my stuffed animals," Syd puts forward casually, trying not to linger on it. "Anyway, he could do it."

"Fine, but I only want family there, that means B–Squad and Boom only," Kat points.

"Yes!" Syd hugs Kat tightly. "I have everything planned out!"

"And I'll be there to dial it all down from fifteen to a two," Z assures Kat, once again ignoring Syd's pout. "We're your bridesmaids, Kat, we're supposed to do all this anyway."

Syd really did a wonderful job. It's before dusk, while the sun is still bright but not too hot. In the back, below the tree for which Cruger has an inexplicable fondness, stand the B–Squad and Cruger. There is a simple white stream of silk draped over a low hanging branch to create an altar, marked by single potted white lilies on either side.

"Congratulations, sir," Jack nods to the Commander, who has never looked so happy to be in a dress uniform. Bridge extends the sentiment, fiddling with his bow–tie.

RIC, sitting calmly to the side, feels a timer go off, and starts playing the bridal march.

Out steps Kat, looking positively breathtaking in her simple, white dress, billowing around her knees. Rather than a veil, a flower crown, clearly fashioned from the base's gardens, sits in her hair. Syd has straightened it for the occasion, leaving it light and bouncy around her face.

"Take care of her," Boom nods to Cruger with a smile, handing off his mentor.

"Apparently, I'm not allowed to be too formal with this," Sky frowns at Syd, who nods, "so, I'll keep things simple. I think we can all agree that of any love we've witnessed in our lives, none have been as pure, or as meant to be as the love you share. You take each other?"

"I do," Kat touches the ring that has sat around her mate's neck for weeks.

"I do," Doggie returns the gesture, lovingly.

"Well, I am very happy to pronounce you husband and wife; you may now kiss the bride," Sky smiles, feeling a genuine easement in marrying two of his best friends.

"Simple," Kat whispers as she leans into her husband.

"Congratulations, Mrs. Katherine Cruger," Doggie returns against his wife's lips.