18-Mr and Mrs At Last

Part 2

Courtney took in a shaky breath, staring at her reflection in the mirror. She was wearing the dress she had picked out a few months ago. It still looked as beautiful on her now as it had then. The sorcerer had vowed to keep it simple, with nothing to distract from the dress and her natural beauty.

"I'm so scared." She whispered, running her hands down the puffy part of the pure white dress.

"You can start a war, you can die and come back to life and you can even live with Arianna whilst training to become a Princess!" Taylor stated. "But you get scared at the thought of getting married?"

"Yes."

"Today is your day." Rebecca told Courtney in attempt to calm her nerves. "It's all about you...-"

"And a little bit about Duncan." Phoebe butted in, "But mostly you."

"I'd laugh if the butterflies in my stomach weren't annoying me." Courtney replied with a dead straight face. She had one hand rested on her stomach and the other clenched in a fist at her side.

"It's just nerves." Rebecca smiled, removing Courtney's hand from her stomach. She knew exactly how it felt to be in Courtney's position right then. "Trust me, I know how it feels."

"My nerves are going to kill me." Courtney said, her voice shaking slightly.

"Technically you're dead anyway." Taylor mumbled.

"Not helping, Taylor!" Courtney snapped, turning her head around to face her almost cousin-in-law. That wasn one part of her new family she wasn't jumping at the chance to join. Sure, Taylor was a good-hearted person, but she wasn't exactly the best at keeping things, such as opinions and technicalities, to herself.

"Ignore her." Bridgette told Courtney, walking over and placing her hands on her nervous best friend's shoulders. "What you need to do is focus on the positives."

Courtney nodded her head, taking in another deep yet shaky breath. It was a good thing Bridgette was around; otherwise Courtney would have attempted to kill a vampire already. She was just a bit shaky, nervous about her whole day. She knew it was unlikely Duncan was going to do a runner at the altar, but she just had a very weird feeling in her stomach.

"Bridgette's right." Gwen chipped in, seeing the nerves weren't exactly calming themselves. "You're marrying the man you love and you'll live happily ever after."

"I'd probably kill myself if I was married to Duncan that long." Taylor piped up again.

"Technically you're dead anyway." Courtney replied, mocking Taylor in a child-like voice.

Duncan groaned, rolling his head back against his shoulders so he could see the ceiling if he opened his eyes. He didn't. The pain that was in his head hurt too much for him to do a lot.

"Drinking last night was a mistake."

"My head is spinning..." Trent mumbled, blinking his wide eyes to try and steady the room. It didn't work.

"I think I'm gonna hurl!" Eric stated, making a quick dash for the bathroom.

"Nice, Eric, real nice." Duncan shook his head, speaking his words with heavy sarcasm.

"We are so never drinking the night before an important day again." Geoff said, his hand glued to his head. "EVER!"

"I feel like shit!" Kevin complained, his head flat down on a nearby table.

"That's a bad word!" All eyes turned to face the doorway. Standing there was a small child; her blonde hair was plaited behind her, with pink flowers all over. Her big blue eyes were watching everyone at once, and her tiny lips were forming a smirk at the very look on their faces.

"Belle!" Duncan coughed. "What are you doing here, sweetheart?"

"I'm looking for mommy."

"Other side of the church!" Kevin told her, pointing towards the wall behind Duncan, thus signaling the direction Belle should go in to find what she was looking for.

"Thank you." Belle smiled, skipping away from the boys.

She skipped up the aisle, the few guests who had already arrived awing at her as she moved past them with a wide smile on her face. She was just the perfect little angel to most people. Those people clearly didn't know Belle very well. She was quite a trouble maker to the known.

"Hey, baby girl." Courtney smiled happily, pushing all the nerved to one side as she saw he young daughter come prancing in through the door. She looked beautiful herself, all dressed up in her flower girl dress.

"Hi." She smiled her mischievous smile up at her mother, walking towards the table which contained a few spare breakfast muffins.

"Knock, knock." Courtney smiled again as she saw her father leaning against the doorframe. "Wow...You look...Wow."

"Thanks." Courtney giggled, a small blush appearing on her cheeks.

"Do you girls mind giving us a moment?" Nigel asked the rest of the room.

"No at all." Bridgette answered for everyone. They all got up and left the room.

Nigel shut the door behind him, sighing to himself. He gave Courtney a good look up and down as she did to herself as she kept on staring at her reflection in the body-sized mirror.

"This is it." Nigel said. "I'm losing my baby girl." His voice sounded scared, worried almost.

"I'll always be your baby girl." Courtney tried to smile, but it was hard. Both looked as if they were about to burst into tears at any given moment.

"I have something for you." Nigel reached into the pocket of his jacket and pulled out a small black box.

"What is it?" Courtney asked, removing it from her father grasp as he held it out to her.

"These were your mother's." Nigel told Courtney. Her eyes moved downwards, staring at the box just so she wouldn't have to meet her father's gaze. They never discussed her mother. Ever. "She wore them on our wedding day." Nigel continued.

Courtney opened up the box to reveal a necklace and a hair clip. They were both round, completely black with a small white pattern running across. They were identical, and they looked as if they had never been used.

Nigel reached down and took out the hair clip first. He pushed a part of Courtney's hair back as she squeezed her eyes shut. The memories she had of her mother, the mother she had met in her month of death, were coming back to her now. That night she had been locked in the basement of the Tracking Academy, and some of the things that had been said.

Courtney opened her eyes and turned to the mirror, moving her away aside for her father to fasten the necklace around her neck. She slowly opened her eyes, letting her hair fall back down.

"Wow..." Courtney murmured a few stray tears in her eyes. "Thank you."

"Your mother would be so proud of you." Nigel told Courtney, resting his hand on her cheek as they stared into each other's eyes.

"I know she is..." Courtney smiled back.

"It's time to go." Came Belle's voice through the wooden door. Both Nigel and Courtney smiled.

"Okay, Belle." Courtney replied.

"You look very pretty, mommy." The small blonde girl smiled at her mother as she popped her little head around the door.

"Thank you, baby." Courtney smiled, truly feeling beautiful too.

Belle shut the door and Courtney took in a deep breath. It was finally time.

"Are you ready?" Nigel asked. Courtney nodded.

"I'm ready." The two smiled at each other. Nigel reached for the handle to the door, but Courtney quickly stopped him.

"WAIT!" She called out, her eyes squeezed shut. "I-I have something to tell you first..."

A/N: =O! What could Courtney possibly have to tell Nigel? !O=

LOL!

Mmm...ONLY ONE CHAPTER LEFT! hehehe!

Please, do excuse my wedding scene as I have never actually been to a Wedding...and I don't plan on making you sit through all the boring bits...LOL!

So...I'm kinda addicted to P!nk songs right now...Listening to Just Like a Pill (Never heard P!nk sing it before, only Cascada's cover of it) right now...Family Portrait is AMAZING! I'm quite addicted to it right now...In a sort of way, it understands me...Despite the fact it's about divorce...

LOL!

/h ';'']']...I kinda just dropped my DSi on the keyboard...LOL!

Thank you to;

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eternalstarlight28: Yep...You are soo cool because you dropped the 'h' ;) LOL! ahaha! Yeaaahhh ;) Sure it's not ;) LOL! Thank you :)

Okay...You guys, as usual, have just cheered me RIGHT up...That and P!nk's song u + ur hand (and I just spent about five minutes wondering where the + button was on the keyboard -_- FAIL!) LOL!

And I started THREE new songs LAST night! LOL! Please check them out :) PLEASE! TxC, DxG and DxC. I decided I should start writing a TxC and a DxG story again :) I did enjoy writing the last ones :) LOL! And, as always, I LOVE DxC! hehe!

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