Greetings and Salutations to you all! I was originally going to put this out last night but I wanted to tweak it and I was also partaking in some supermehafoxyawesomehotness by acting like a 5 year old and embracing my inner Darren. Went to watch Lion King 3D in my Harry Potter scarf and Starkid Glasses...Oh yeah I am the real deal...super geek and proud baby! Ok Ok enough about my randomness...this is the epilogue and I am glad that some of you liked that way I wrapped it up in the previous chapter.
I will leave a more appropriate A/N at the end but for now read...my wayward sons and daughters...enjoy.
PS- In case you want to call shenanigans on me...in this time gay marriage is legal in Ohio. Just an FYI
PPS- Hopefully you aren't too hard on me for grammar and such...its been hard to write this because of the mind set I've been in...review pls, good or bad.
I Thought You'd Never Ask – Epilogue
(KPOV)
"I feel fat! I look fat! This is pointless...". I stood there staring at the full length mirror trying desperately to fix the vest that would be underneath my suit jacket. I tugged and straightened the front but no matter what I did I felt like I was retaining a swimming pool. I mean I had tailored these to fit me perfectly, why was it being so difficult today?
Finn was standing beside me looking somewhat helpless tying his tie when he turned around to look at me.
"You're not fat Kurt; nor do you look it. You have less body fat than most athletes, come on here let me help."
I rolled my eyes at my brother because he was the last person that I wanted fashion advice from...he couldn't even tie his own tie for crying out loud! I was too tired to argue though. I wanted an end of summer wedding, because school would be starting back up in the fall and Blaine would be starting rehearsals shortly so it was either powerhouse all the wedding details and get married this summer or wait a year and get married next year. Thought I was done with school you ask? Well I may or may not have taken a post graduated music class just to keep myself in the game. It really was just for fun. But I digress.
I personally couldn't wait to marry Blaine, and from the exasperated tone I got when I suggested waiting he seemed to favour the rushed wedding as well. I mean I pulled together my parents wedding in less time but this was my wedding...everyone knew it demanded perfection. I had spent all summer with Carol and the girls and of course Jay who had to lend his many two cents in finalizing all the details and now here I was, too exhausted to argue as my fashionably handicapped brother tried to straighten my suit.
Here I was, oh wow here I was...my wedding day.
Oh shit I'm getting married to day, Oh my Gaga...
"Hey Kurt? Hey man are you ok? You just turned super pale, even for you...all I did was want to help with your suit, I can not touch it if you like?"
"Huh?" I wasn't really there, only registering Finn's back peddling face.
"Uh sorry Finn, I just kinda realized that I'm getting married today...my brain kinda shut out."
"Are you nervous?" I thought about it for a second and only smiled.
"About marrying Blaine? My inner diva would like to say Hello to the No, I would never second guess that. It's just surreal ya know...". Finn stood behind me and pulled the creases out of my vest from behind.
"Ya I get it Kurt trust me. I'm really happy for you ya know?" Finn tugged again and somehow it seemed to look better.
"Thank Finn. Where did you learn that trick from? It looks perfect now."
"You think living with you for so many years, you would have noticed that I can retain some information, even if it's about clothes." Finn wrapped his arms around my waist and shoulder and leaned his chin on the top of my head. We both stood there looking in the mirror at ourselves and a small smile appeared on my face at the sight.
"Finn...thank you." He didn't move from the embrace at all but merely kept looking at us standing there looking so grown up but yet still the odd step brothers from years past.
"For what dude?"
"Firstly, don't call me dude...you know I hate that." He laughed and resisted the urge to mess up my hair. "Secondly just thank you. If it weren't for you I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't have found myself or Blaine again for that matter. I don't think the title best man could suit you any more."
Finn's eyes were glistening by now but he never stopped making eye contact.
"You're welcome Kurt. Now..." he pulled away and straightened my tie some how and pulled my ¾ length jacket from its garment bag.
"Now?" I popped an eyebrow and looked quizzically at him for a second.
"Let's go get you married bro."
"Ha! Ya I guess it's almost time...and um Finn?" He helped me place the jacket on my shoulders and smoothed out the lapels.
"Ya?"
"I love you, you know that right?"
Finn smiled that smile that I fell in love with when I first met him. Then it was the smile that melted my heart, now it was the smile that saved my soul. He really was the best brother, and I wouldn't have had our relationship be anything but the way it was.
"I love you too buddy; just the way you are...remember that today ok? Let's knock'em dead!"
I'm getting married today...
(BPOV)
"B! Stop pacing you're like a frickin cat, you're going to wear a path in the floor if you don't cut it the fuck out!"
I wasn't pacing was I? Oh wow I guess I was, oh and I was sweating too, I must look like a complete wreck. I stopped and turned to see Jess, my little Jess sitting there very demurely in her burgundy dress, matching mini roses in her hair with elegant make up on. She looked beautiful. She also looked concerned, her brows furrowed as she took in my appearance. Then she got up and walked over to window where I was now standing, gazing out of the garden. The garden was fairly small, almost like an old English garden that you would read about in a child's fantasy novel. There was a small arch covered in flowers that matched Kurt's colour scheme and rows of chairs, draped in burgundy and leading up to it where all of our guests were already seated.
It was a small wedding, just what Kurt and I wanted, with only our immediate family and friends. Of course the Warblers and New Directions were there but it looked perfect in my eyes. Kurt had wanted to get married here, back in Lima, because that's where his father and mother tied the knot. They got married on this exact same spot in their own version of a winter wonderland. I felt truly blessed that Kurt would want me to share this day with him, and this special place in his family's history by adding our own moment. He had laughed and said that it was a way of carrying on tradition in his family, we may not have gotten married on Christmas but we'd share the location with them for life.
The sentiment was a little lost on me until I saw the venue put together; and now I felt anxious and nervous as I stared out the window.
Was Kurt nervous? Was he having second thoughts? Would he freak out if everything including me wasn't perfect? I guess that explained the pacing.
"Jess...this is really happening isn't it?" She leaned against my arm, careful to not smudge her make up on my sleeve which I was thankful for for responding.
"Yeah B, it is. Would it be cliche if I said that I knew this day would come?"
"Huh...what do you mean?"
"I mean your wedding day...with Kurt. I know that I bugged you about him before you got together, you do know how much I love to tease but...I could tell that you always wanted this with him, even when you guys never said it out loud ya know?"
"Wow Jess is this the sentimental side of you that I've missed all these years?" I laughed and rested my arm around her shoulder, relaxing at the touch of my best maiden as I was calling her.
"Oh shut up Blainey Bear, I can still be a sassy bitch if you'd like, I just...I want you to know that this is where you belong...here...with Kurt. I knew it the first day I met him at our apartment. The stars in both your eyes would never and will never burn out. This is the real deal...so stop stressing the fuck out you're giving me an ulcer!"
"Ah Jess one brief shining moment right from the heart and then your mouth took over...I knew there was a reason why I asked you to stand with me today."
"Ha, yeah because no one else wants to put up with your nervous Nellie shit." I kissed the top of her head lightly, careful to not 'mess with the do' as she said.
"Yeah thanks Jess. That and I know you love me...come on..." I poked in the side and she squirmed out of my grasp and squeaked.
"Yeah yeah yeah I love you, now come on and stop being such a girl!"
"Pfff...says the girl who likes girls."
"Hell yeah..just means I know my women." she winked as she made her way to the door but before leaving she turned around to face me again, "I'll see you out there B, you look really good by the way," That was the only time I had ever heard Jessie start and finish a thought or sentence without any sass or hidden meanings and that thought alone made me realize that I chose the right person to stand up with me on my wedding day.
I'm getting married today...
(KPOV)
There was going to be no walking down the aisle at this ceremony, it was too hokey so Blaine and I decided it would be nice to walk in from the sides together. We would start on opposite ends, me standing on his family and friends side and his on mine. We would walk towards one another, shake the hands of each others parents and then meet in the middle to start the joining of our union. It seemed so simple but now as I stood there with Finn in front of me I could see that the walk might be longer than I thought.
"Come on Kurt...showtime." He was facing me and I had been so zoned out that I hadn't seen him turned around. I only nodded and took a deep breath before the music started, one of Blaine's own compositions that he wrote specifically for our wedding, and my brother began to walk to meet Jessie. I could only see Finn moving and the slight ruffle of burgundy from the little redhead on the other side, I was still completely blocked from Blaine's view and vice versa. Only when they switched sides and stood back in their respective spots did I get a look at Blaine.
You know when people say that when you're in one of those moments that everything becomes fuzzy except for the one thing your focusing on...well this was that moment. I smiled and it was a facial feature I would be sporting for the rest of the day.
He looked fantastic to say the least, his hair was styles but lose how I like it, and the suit fit him perfectly. The burgundy from the vest only accentuated the flush on his cheeks and the ruby in his lips which were turned up in a full smile. His suit was a different make then mine but it suited his body type in all the right ways. His eyes were shining even though I wasn't close enough to see their colour, but I had them memorized anyway. I don't anyone in my eyes had ever looked so beautiful.
As we made our way, painfully slowly I might add, towards one another I could see and feel his smile grow. Walking with our hands in our pockets like too strangers walking on the street because of the casualness of it but with eyes fixed on each other like we had been looking for each other forever.
We broke our gaze only to shake each others parents hands, me his mom and Blaine my dad before turning around beside our friends to face off once again.
I couldn't help the tears that were forming in my eyes, especially when I saw the tears in Blaine's. We lightly reached out and held each others hands not breaking eye contact as the ceremony started.
"Hello everyone, I would like to welcome you on this day where we are here to celebrate the union of these two very special men, Blaine Everett Anderson and Kurt Elizabeth Hummel. I have been asked by both parties to keep this short because neither one wanted it to be long winded. I have also been informed by Mr. Hummel here that if anyone had any objections to this union then they should've spoken up sooner and not come this ceremony."
The crowd laughed because they knew that was something that was so very me.
"So I will ask both of them now to read their vows to one another." Blaine went first, squeezing my hands a little tighter as if to make me hear what he ha to say even more true.
"Kurt. I could write you hundreds of letters or thousands of songs that expressed my love for everything that you are...but it will never be enough. I could tell you that you're brilliant and beautiful or any other number of compliments but I feel it would always come up short because I can never tell you how much you mean to me. You really are the sun, and moon, and stars for me Kurt...and I feel so honoured that you gave me the chance to be yours. And I will spend every waking minute trying to prove that to you. I love you Kurt."
People were probably already swooning or in tears but I couldn't stop looking at him, I was still zoned out, lost in his gaze but I knew it was my time to speak.
"Blaine. I know that I'm usually the one with witty comebacks and I always seem to have something to retort but I had a really hard time writing down what I wanted to say today. I have loved you since the day we met, standing there in your Dalton blazer with the kindest expression on your face. You helped me, you saved me, you loved me and if I was one second later on that staircase I might have missed you. It took me a long time to realize that even if we hadn't met that fateful day at Dalton that we would have met at some other time. Because there is no way that fate could have kept us apart, we belong together.. My missing puzzle piece, Blaine I love you."
Blaine was crying now...matching the emotion that I was willing to be kept at bay.
"The rings please." Jessie and Finn walked up and presented us both with matching white gold bands that complimented our engagements rings perfectly. We were adamant about finding wedding bands that looked great with our engagement rings because neither one of us wanted to take them off...ever.
"Blaine...do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded..."
"Oh yeah...definitely" I laughed at his impatience and it reminded me of my dad's reaction to his ceremony with Carol.
"Ok then Kurt, same question."
"Yes, yes I do...more than anything."
"Ok so I guess we're doing the short version today. Gentlemen it gives me great pleasure, by the great state of Ohio, to pronounce you husband and husband. You now may kiss gentlemen, congratulations."
I jumped into Blaine's arms, wrapping my hands protectively and securely around his neck as he lifted me off my feet and spun me around. There was no sound only the feel of my new husband lips firmly against mine. I could feel Blaine smile into the kiss even as I opened my mouth to deepen it briefly. He seemed to sense the same as I did as sound came back to us both, we still had an audience.
Our guests were clapping very loudly, so Blaine released my lips and lowered me to the ground. We just stood there laughing and crying at the same time not quite believing that we were actually married. I had my dream come true; I never thought in my wildest hopes and thoughts, I would have never thought this could have happened to me.
"I love you Blaine."
"I love you too Kurt."
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(BPOV)
The reception was perfect; like literally perfect. We laughed, we drank, we ate and I cried like a 2 year old when Finn reprized 'Just the way you are" for both of us, and this time it included the Warblers too. It was a perfect afternoon. We had had a morning ceremony and and afternoon lunch because we wanted time to catch our flight to Paris where my mom...well my dad's money...was sending us to for our honeymoon.
We were sitting in the back of the limo, well Kurt was basically sitting in my lap with his very talented mouth attached to my neck. Well he was talking into my neck, wait he was asking me a question...why was he talking to me right now?
"Baby?
"Hmmm." I really couldn't focus and now he wanted to talk?
He pulled away, my beautiful husband pulled away and looked at me with a very serious face and I had to blink numerous times to clear my head.
"Blaine, I want to go somewhere before we head to airport, will you go there with me?"
I smiled and rubbed his cheek with my knuckle, caressing his face with this familiar gesture and Kurt closed his eyes into it, still in my lap, but he looked like he could have fallen asleep right there from the sensation.
"Of course baby, what ever you want."
He smiled and leaned in to kiss me again, and that's where I lost my train of thought.
We pulled up to our unknown destination, because I was literally to engrossed in Kurt to know where we were. Before I could register anything, Kurt had gotten out of the car and held a hand out to me, "Mr. Hummel Anderson?"
"Hmmm I like the sound of that." I grabbed his hand as he pulled me out of the car, that's when it hit me where we were .Kurt gently pulled my hand as we walked down a small path right in the middle of the perfectly landscaped area.
"Give me a minute honey, wait here." Kurt let my hand go and went to kneel on the grass a few feet away.
"Hi mom. I know it's been a while but I moved away so it's hard to get here sometimes. I miss you...so much. I wished you were here today because well...mom I got married. I can't even believe that it happened really. And well I brought my husband here to introduce you to him. You've heard me talk about him before...it's Blaine mom. You would have loved him...Blaine honey come meet my mom."
I just smiled and took his hand and knelt down beside, finally sitting comfortably cross legged, bringing Kurt into my lap.
"Hi Mrs. Hummel, it's nice to finally meet you. Your son and I got married today and I promise I won't ever let him go...you helped raise the love of my life. I wish you could have been there."
Kurt just stared at me with the biggest smile on his face before kissing me gently.
"Now, today is perfect. I love you Mr. Hummel Anderson."
"I love you too Mr. Hummel Anderson. Thanks for marrying me Kurt."
And that was the end of our beginning.
A/N: Hi there everyone, does anyone else want to be there for their wedding? I do I do. Ok guys I thought that I would have a lot of things to say here but I don't. Only that I love all of you and I'm glad that this story had a decent following. I hope to see you all in future stories and I hope that this one ended the way you wanted. Love you, ok now I'm crying...lol and laughing