Author's Note: This is the final chapter for 'All the Right Moves', which will wrap up various elements of the story. I am planning a sequel 'A Knight's Journey' which will deal with Keith and his reaction to Allura/Lance as well as finding out about his family. The story will also have some scenes with our married couples and other team members. Look for it probably around the beginning of June, once I finish 'The Best of Friends and Plans'.

For a visual on the court wedding dress, do a Google search on 'Russian court costume' and you will understand the description.

Bonus points for the person who remembers what film the comment about the priest at the wedding came from!

A special thank you to my ongoing reviewers E.M. Blaine, KathDMD, Myra the Sark, and Turning Ticks. Your feedback and encouragement were appreciated!

Epilogue

Her Majesty Queen Allura was sitting in her niece's room watching her get ready for her wedding. Larmina looked incredible in the court wedding dress, which every female member of the royal family wore for their weddings. The over dress was white satin, heavily embroidered with silver thread and iridescent crystals. The under dress, which showed in the front was white and silver brocade. The bodice fitted tight and was cut to sit just barely on the shoulder. The over dress flowed back into a train, and the sleeves were long but cut open from the elbows.

Allura had worn the necklace, earrings, and tiara from the 'Lion's Paw' parue, which was a set of family diamonds. It was called that because the clusters of diamonds in the pieces represented lion's paws, and the lion figured in the royal coat of arms. Larmina wore a necklace of huge creamy pearls, a pair of diamond earrings that Pidge had given her, and the 'Lace' tiara that had been Allura's birthday gift to her.

Instead of the tulle veil that Allura had worn, Larmina had a beautiful lace veil covering her flaming hair. It had in fact come from Falcos, her Mother's home planet, and was the one she had worn when she married Larmina's Father. Falcos had been known for their lace making, and the veil was one of very few surviving pieces from the planet.

The earrings were square cut diamonds, each one three carats, set in a frame of platinum and tiny diamonds, that hung from platinum and diamond hooks. They had been Pidge's wedding gift and were also her 'something new' to wear. Everyone had gasped when he presented them to her at the rehearsal dinner last night.

Allura thought about how she had been wearing that dress just a little over three months ago when she married Lance. She still smiled as she thought of him going to ask Fredericks for a quick wedding! Luckily, the Count had been planning the wedding since Allura had turned eighteen. He was also relieved that Her Majesty was not going down her brother's path.

Lance had been pleased to find out that Count Fredericks did indeed play cards, and especially liked poker. He was less pleased to find out how good the Count was at the game. Lance had also not been able to convince him of the superiority of Irish whiskey to all others, but was not giving up hope.

Allura looked at her niece again and had a thought; she said "You look wonderful, even if it isn't a Gavin!" That made them laugh and Allura asked "Did he understand why you turned him down?" After Larmina had been photographed on Dradin, in the black dress, Gavin D's business had soared. He was so thankful about the extra publicity, that when Larmina's engagement had been announced, he had offered to design a wedding dress for her! When Pidge heard that, he had pointed out that a priest with an erection was so off putting! Everyone had been in the rec room when he said it and they all burst out laughing, even Allura.

She smiled and remembered how Lance had insisted that she borrow the black dress for their honeymoon. Allura had been shocked at the underwear Larmina had given her to wear with it. She was even more shocked at the reaction that Lance had when she wore it. He took her out to dinner, but they hadn't made it through the main course before Lance was calling for the check. Allura still grinned when she thought about what happened the rest of the night.

Larmina said now "He understood once I explained the whole court wedding dress thing. I did let him design the dress I wore last night though, so he was happy." She went on "Elena was asking me about it. You know that she and Bandor are going to Dradin for their honeymoon, right?"

Bandor had in fact come to visit the week following Lotor's attack, and the day before Prince Fauk of Odeos arrived. After spending five minutes with Erik, all that Nanny would allow, Bandor was at loose ends. He had been disappointed to find out that Larmina was off the market, and thought he would have to console himself with learning about the water project Pidge was overseeing for the Southern Dominion.

Allura though, remembering what her Father had said about making Bandor welcome, included him in all the events for Prince's visit. Prince Fauk had brought his Prime Minister, who really ran the show, and his younger sister Princess Elena. Princess Elena was nineteen, with honey colored hair, blue eyes, and a dimple that showed when she smiled. She and Bandor took one look at each other, and didn't see anything else for the entire visit.

The Prime Minister had been confused as to why Her Majesty's cousin, the King of Pollux, was included in the visit, until he saw Her Highness and His Majesty together. The Prime Minister was sure that Her Majesty had arranged the whole thing on purpose, and was flattered at her kindness. He signed the trade treaties, and also offered up some long term leases for bases on the auxiliary planets in Odeos' system. The Alliance had had their eye on those planets, but the Prime Minister had not been receptive before.

Bandor was so happy with Elena, who was a kind, cheerful girl, as well as pretty. He couldn't believe how things had worked out, and was looking forward to his wedding in several months. The only drawback, Bandor had told the team, was that he was going to have an idiot for a brother-in-law. That comment had caused Lance to observe privately to Keith that things would even out, because Sven had a pompous ass for a brother-in-law!

Keith agreed, but did think that Bandor was a little less impressed with himself than usual. Keith and Lance were almost back to their old friendship. After Allura had told Keith the news he had retreated to his room, not knowing what to say or do. It was there that Coran had found him, to give him some information on the Knights of Arus. Their old chapter house was in the Mountain Dominion, on Mt. Cransus. It had recently been opened up again, and the library was intact.

Keith decided he needed to get away from Allura and Lance for a couple of days, and thought the chapter house was the perfect place to go. He ended up spending over a week there, enjoying the calm quiet the place offered. Keith did not find resolution to Allura, or to his family's history. However, he was able to accept how things had turned out, and when he returned he congratulated them both. He had also picked up some clues about his family, and was now following them up.

Pidge had not gotten any further on the haggerium infection that Sven and Daniel had. The information he picked up on New Balto though, had some promising avenues he wanted to follow. Once he returned from his honeymoon he was going to get to work on it. For now, Daniel was still grounded from the Lions.

Sven was still on Crydor, but Erik was back with Romelle on Pollux. Her depression had been brought on not only by her pregnancy, but also the situation on Pollux. She and Sven had been living at the castle with Bandor, so Romelle could help him. Sven hated the castle, and Bandor grated on his nerves, which the haggerium only intensified. Romelle had agreed to move to their own place, hoping that would help the situation.

Sven had picked out a small two bedroom house, which he thought was perfect. He had always hated the idea of servants, so he told Romelle they didn't need them with a small house. Romelle found herself trying to keep house, help Bandor, and be pregnant all at the same time. It didn't help that Sven never wanted to go anywhere, and expected Romelle to have dinner for him every night.

After Erik was born Sven didn't see the need for her to have any help, and the lack of sleep finally pushed her over the edge. Unfortunately the edge involved trying to kill her husband, who infected with haggerium, fled the planet taking their son. However, things were better now.

Romelle moved to a larger house, engaged some servants, and asked Nanny to come with Erik to Pollux. Bandor offered his support to the plan, so Allura had gone along. She had been concerned about Nanny not wanting to go, but Lance made Nanny's decision easy. She had always had the most issues with Lance, and the thought of her darling princess marrying someone like that was too much for her.

Nanny stated that she would rather go to Pollux than see her princess with that hooligan. Allura was secretly relieved by Nanny's decision. She had been afraid that Nanny would want to come back to the castle, and she knew how that would play out.

Sven had been to visit Romelle and Erik twice, but the visits had not gone well. Sven did not like the house Romelle had chosen, the way she had decorated it, or the servants that were there. He tried to put on a good face, but the haggerium made that impossible. Pidge had observed that even if he could cure the haggerium infection, Sven and Romelle would still need a marriage counselor.

Vince was still struggling about Larmina being with Pidge, and their sex life. Daniel was tired of it, and not to long after they had gotten back from New Balto, he'd had enough. He gave Vince a link to a Club Med resort on the planet Baden Bathos, which had been rated the wildest, sexiest resort in the galaxy. It was said that anyone could get laid there.

Vince by now was willing to try what seemed to be the guy solution for everything, so he had requested vacation time and gone to the resort. He did manage to get drunk, but it was on fruity drinks with umbrellas in them. Not only were the ladies not impressed with what he was drinking, but he got vilely ill too.

Lance overheard the tale when Vince got back and threw his hands up in despair at this lack manliness in a cadet. He was sharing his disgust at Vince's behavior with his poker buddies, and Fredericks came up with a solution. His friends all had grandsons and great-grandsons at the Arusian military academy. He knew who the wild boys were, and weren't.

Fredericks suggested that since the cadet's lessons were screwed up between weddings, honeymoons, and other trips, they should spend a couple of weeks at Arus' academy, doing their course work. He would see to it that Vince roomed with some wild roommates, while Daniel would be put with better behaved ones. Allura had gone along with it, as it was presented to her as an academic exercise.

After it was over with Daniel said that he had been bored to death. He had done nothing but study, and go to chapel. The only positive thing he saw was that he finally understood and passed his physics exam. Vince on the other hand came home with a new found ability to play cards, swear almost as well as Lance, and a taste for whiskey.

The drawback from Lance's point of view was that it was Arusian whiskey and not Irish whiskey, but he was sure he could fix that. Daniel was annoyed that Vince still had not gotten laid, as he was tired of Vince thinking about Pidge and Larmina in bed. He was dreading them being on their honeymoon, and was almost tempted to go back to the Arusian military academy to get away from it.

Allura was brought back to the present by Larmina asking her a question "How long do Pidge and I have to stay at the reception for?" Allura knew that Larmina wanted to get to the honeymoon sooner, rather than later. They were going to the island resort of Heligdorre, in the North Arusian Ocean. It was one of Larmina's favorite places on Arus, and Allura had given them the use of the royal house there.

Lance had taken Allura on a month long trip for their honeymoon, all over the galaxy. He had wanted her to completely relax, and also wanted all of her attention. She smiled at Larmina and said "After you eat, cut the cake, and dance some, you can leave. By then I'll be tired and want to go upstairs!"

Larmina looked at Allura and said "Are you sure you're feeling all right? You've been rather tired lately! Didn't you have that dizzy spell the other day?" Allura shook her head and said "I think it is just a bug that is going around. My stomach has been upset off and on."

Just then a maid came in with some food, as Larmina had said she was hungry. The maid walked by where Allura was sitting, and she smelled the soup and sandwiches. All of a sudden her stomach started churning, and she barely made it to the bathroom before she threw up.

Larmina saw Anna and the other maid exchange looks, and suddenly something clicked in Larmina's mind. She waited a minute and then walked over to the bathroom, and looked in. Allura was just rinsing out her mouth when she saw Larmina there with a big grin on her face.

"I'm going to have a cousin aren't I?" She asked in a low voice, and Allura got a big smile on her face. "We're waiting until after your wedding to announce it!" She told her niece, who hugged her as they both laughed together!

FINIS