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25th August 1985 - Rabastan and William's Wedding.

A/N School and work start up for me again this week so unfortunately updates will change to every two weeks or more often if I have time. Sorry

Rabastan Lestrange was not a bad sort of person. But neither was he a good one. There were three things that were important to him: his family, his friends and himself. In that order. One might be wondering whether Rabastan Lestrange was a Hufflepuff, they would be wrong. For although Rabastan was loyal to the ones he loved, dedicated and patience was a strong suit, he was both determined and resourceful too, over powering the hats decision to naturally place him in Slytherin.

Rabastan was easily overlooked. His cheerful personality, mixed with his light green eyes and dark messy hair, had people thinking that he was too wrapped up in his latest joke to be of any importance, too childlike to be given anything serious. He got along with people from all walks of life, had made no enemies, and with a few notable exceptions was not scared of much. He had an average mind, only receiving five O.W.L.s, was a good Beater, but not the team captain, and tended to breeze through life without a care in the world. This all seemed to change when he met William. Rabastan was still fun loving and childlike, he almost seemed grown up. He knew William loved him no matter what or he would not be defying his whole family to be a matter of feet away preparing himself in similar robes, to make the biggest change in both their lives. William had decided he had no problem losing the Weasley name and taking on Lestrange with any future heirs doing so as well.

Sighing he left his room, very tempted to seek out his future Husband, instead he sought out his brother to help him with this damn cravat, why did he agree to such a fiddly tie, he knew as well as William did they both look better with dicky bow ties.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in another wing of the Manor, Hermione stood in her bedroom twirling around in her sleeveless knee length flower girl dress, which was a gentle shade of cream, sleeveless with a teal belt and peach flowers donned the bottom. Her hair twisted into braids which were wound around a loose chignon bun.

"Hermione Riddle will you please stand still!" Narcissa lightly scolded the young girl with a smirk.

"Sorry, Aunt Cissy." Hermione smiled sweetly.

"Uncle Bas will not be happy if you crinkle your pretty dress now will he!"

"Ok, it's just that it is so floaty." Hermione sang as she swung in another ballerina like circle.

"It is a very pretty, expensive dress!" Narcissa spoke in a way to make sure Hermione understood.

Clearly, the message got through to Hermione as she sat down and finished watching Narcissa fix her long blonde hair in loose curls. She wore green drop earrings with a matching pendant as well as a silvery shimmer sleeveless v-neck gown. She stood up from her seat to check her outfit looked perfect, she then placed a gurgling Aurora on her hip and took Hermione's hand whilst they walked to Draco's room. Once the two arrived they saw Bellatrix helping both Draco and Harrison fit their cravat, both boys had their hair parted to one side and matching light grey suits, not just any suits, suits which were imported from Paris and Madam Malkin had worked her fingers to the bone to have all the suits measured and put together in time. Both Harrison and Draco were looking the picture of perfection as always. Bellatrix wore her black curls down whilst she wore black heels to match the emerald green dress.

"Hermione you look pretty." Harrison bowed to his sister, Draco took that as his cue as he also bowed the same, remembering the lessons his Father had recently taught them.

Narcissa checked the boys over before taking both their hand's to walk to the guest room where William and Charlie had stayed the night and were finishing getting ready. Bellatrix took her click cam from her bag and took a picture of Charlie attempting to straighten each of their cravats.

"Stunning." Bellatrix shook the red head brothers out of their concentration and to the attention of the new arrivals to the room.

"Thanks, have you seen Bas this morning? How is he?"

"No, we have not Lucius spoke that he would be overseeing the preparations this morning."

The previous night the gentleman of the house had all shared a Firewhiskey in celebrating Rabastan's last night as a single man. Pumpkin Juice was provided for Draco and Harrison.

"It is a shame we can not have him as our Ministry Official witness, however, I am very happy for Ted to oversee as Tom ordains." Rabastan spoke whilst checking his suit.

There had been a small clause in Lucius's official documents when signing to be the Minister he could not oversee any official ceremony for 6 months and during this time an Unspeakable would be more often than not chosen to step in, the Minister Official being Ted Tonks.

"Are you ready?" Rodolphus turned to his younger brother.

"As ready as I ever will."

The party descended downstairs where they met Charlie, William, Lucius, Tom and Sirius.

"Wow... You look amazingly handsome." William stepped forward to meet his Fiance.

"You don't scrub up too bad yourself Weasley."

"Not for much longer." William winked at Rabastan before offering his arm for them to walk in together. As they had decided on a small family affair only all the men who were in attendance wore matching suits. Rabastan, Rodolphus, Lucius, Draco and Sirius wore Teal to match where as William, Charlie, Severus, Tom and Harrison all wore peach cravats.

The ballroom had looked exquisite, Narcissa and Andromeda had outdone themselves yet again. The cream and gold decor of the room royally suited and matched with the teal and peach colour scheme the gentleman had chosen. Six round tables with cream tablecloths with tall peach flower vases with teal roses as centre floral arrangements. Balloons filled with helium covered the ceiling, all mixing of different shades of teal and peaches.


The ceremony had thankfully gone very smoothly, both William and Rabastan gushed as Ted announced them 'Mr & Mr Lestrange'. Sirius, Remus and Fenrir had managed a rather good tune whilst wolf whistling, each earning a swat from Madam Longbottom who had chosen to sit with Neville, Xenophillius and Luna, Fenrir resisted but managed a small growl to escape. Augusta raised an eyebrow challenging the young man and wolf. She had seen many things in her lifetime that would scare her and one wolf in a room full powerful Witches and Wizards was not one of them.

"Do not fear Lady Longbottom, he will not hold such attack against you." Luna dreamily spoke as she drew with her fingers on Neville's arm. Augusta smiled and nodded to the young girl who seemed fascinatingly close to her Neville.

It was no secret to the anyone who sat in the room at that moment that Luna had the gift of seer passed through her Mother, Augusta only wished she knew what the girl might have seen! Hermione had taken her job as flower girl very very seriously. She was and every knew it the centre of attention. Neither William nor Rabastan minded at all, neither of gentlemen liked being the centre of attention.

"Mr and Mr Lestrange, it is now for your first dance!" Tom announced as if on cue everyone stepped to the outside of the floor, everyone except Rosmerta who was glowing and ready to give birth any day now. Narcissa had joked that their babies could have a contract in the making.

William placed his hand right hand on his Husband's hip and took his left hand in his. 'Ready'? William mouthed to his Husband. Rabastan only nodded his head.

As the music started the two began to sway in their own rhythm.

'To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him

Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
And I do'

"Are you happy my love?" Rabastan snuggled into William's shoulder.

"Always. Especially when I am with you, my dear." William spoke into his hair.

'I'll be good to him, I'll bring love to him

Everyone says there'll come a day when I'll walk alongside of him
Yes, just to know him is to love, love, love him
And I do

Why can't he see, how blind can he be
Someday he'll see that he was meant for me
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him

Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile'

Lucius had offered his hand to Narcissa whilst Tom very kindly offered his hand to dance with Lady Longbottom. Augusta checked that her Grandson was happy before accepting his hand, by Merlin was he happy, she had not seen him smile so much before. Maybe Harrison and Draco would do wonders for her shy Grandson.

'To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him

And I do
Why can't he see, how blind can he be
Someday he'll see that he was meant for me

To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him

Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
And I do

To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him
Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile
To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him

And I do'**

As the song came to an end, Rabastan and William had thanked everyone for attending their special day. Rabastan had not struggled with his vows as he feared he would. Charlie and Rodolphus had said prepared a speech each. Nothing had gone wrong, the wards had not wavered, the peace seemed too good to be true. However, it was, not a glitch in sight. The food had been amazing, thanks to Tink. Both William and Rabastan had wished for a buffet instead of a sit-down meal, neither of them really formal. William was bothered he could not see a sea of red heads in the room, however, he did expect such although he was very very happy with Rabastan it was Ginny he missed the most.

Severus had managed to not sneer through all the happiness, he did, however, roll his eyes at how happy Dolohov had become sitting at the children's table playing tea party! Severus had also not missed the lengthy conversation between Andromeda and Tom, did she have information for him? Albus had not spoken to Severus recently, and he had worried for a short length of time that he had blown his cover as a double spy until Dumbledore requested information on the day's events. He needed to make sure not to show any memories of Andromeda at the wedding. Tom did not want Dumbledore to know just how close Andromeda had become with her sister again. Sirius brought Severus a Firewhiskey so everyone had a drink of some sort to bid goodbye to the happy couple on their Honeymoon. Both gentlemen were very happy to prepare for their fortnight in France, courtesy of Lucius and Narcissa.

Severus had managed to not sneer through all the happiness, he did, however, roll his eyes at how happy Dolohov had become sitting at the children's table playing tea party! Severus had also not missed the lengthy conversation between Andromeda and Tom, did she have information for him? Albus had not spoken to Severus recently, and he had worried for a short length of time that he had blown his cover as a double spy, until Dumbledore requested information on the day's events. He needed to make sure not to show any memories of Andromeda at the wedding. Tom did not want Dumbledore to know just how close Andromeda had become with her sister again. Sirius brought Severus a Firewhiskey so everyone had a drink of some sort to bid goodbye to the happy couple on their Honeymoon. Both gentlemen were very happy to prepare for their fortnight in France, courtesy of Lucius and Narcissa.

**A/N The song is written by The Teddy bears and is called To Know Him Is To Love Him.