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Bruce: 45
Dick: 28
Barbara: 24
Lilly: 24
Connor: 24
Jason: 21
Tim: 18
Damian: 12
The Wayne-Kent Wedding
"Billionaire Bachelorette Marries Small Town Farm Boy." I read aloud from the headline of New York City's Daily Bugle. "Today Lillian Wayne, the biological daughter of Gotham City Billionaire Bruce Wayne, marries Conner Kent of Smallville. The over extravagant shindig will take place at Kent's farm house in Smallville and will no doubt contain it's fair share of Alcohol soaked, belligerent guests..."
"My god who wrote that?" Barbara scoffed as she listened to me read the paper.
"Some jerk named...Peter Parker." I said looking up at her. Barbara and Dick had arrived at Conner's house much earlier than everyone else so that they could help us get ready. That was their duty as Maid of Honor and Best Man after all. There was still plenty of time before the rest of the family arrived, so Barbara and I were reading the articles reporting on the wedding.
"This one that Clark's friend Jimmy Olsen wrote is nice." Barb said handing me the current issue of The Daily Planet.
"This reporter is proud to announce the Wedding of Lillian Wayne, daughter of Gotham City's Bruce Wayne, and Conner Kent, the adopted son of Daily Planet's own Clark and Lois Kent. The happy couple met through the mutual friendship of their fathers' and have been friends for a rather long time. Lilly's older brother Richard Grayson married his High School sweetheart Barbara Gordon last year. With the Wayne family ever growing, one must wonder if the Mr. and Mrs. Kent to be will make roots in Smallville or if they will head back to Gotham City after the wedding. Either way, Lilly and Conner, from all of us here at the Planet best of luck and Congratulations! That was nice." I smiled looking back up at Barbara.
"Better than what that guy Pete Parker wrote anyway." There was a knock on the door of the room we sat in. Barbara guided her wheelchair over to the door and answer it. It was Dick who strode into the room with a big grin on his face.
"Just got off the phone with Alfred. He says the jet's landed and he Bruce and Dami are about an hour away with the dresses and suits, so you might want to start doing your hair or something. Oh, and Conner says hi, and that he still thinks it's stupid that he can't see you until later on. I'd better go, I think the company with the tables and dishes are here..." My older brother ducked back out of the room and secured the door behind him.
"It sure was nice of Kara to let you use her room for the wedding." Barbara said.
"She keeps insisting that she'll move in with Clark and Lois after the wedding, but it's been weird this week not having her here. Conner and I have each asked her to stay with us multiple times. After all Clark gave the farm to both of them not just Conner."
"So you're definitely staying in Smallville?" Barbara frowned. For the past month or so it had been up in the air whether Conner and I would stay in Smallville or move to Gotham. I knew Barb and Dick were hoping I'd stay in Gotham so that I would be closer to them and the rest of the family, but Clark and Lois had been hoping the same thing for Conner. In the end we decided to stay in Smallville because we would be alone, well practically alone if you count Kara, away from both our families. But Clark and Lois' place in Metropolis was only three or so hours by car and Bruce and the boys were only a trip in the Zetatube away.
"Yeah, we decided last night." I told her. "I couldn't sleep, and I knew everyone would want an answer today. But don't mention it to Bruce and Alfred or Clark and Lois. We want to be the ones to tell them. I can't imagine Bruce taking it very well."
" I think he and Alfred thought you'd live in your room at the mansion forever. I know Dick and I did for awhile, especially after what happened with...Wally." Wally. The mere utterance of his name still made my heart ache. I loved Conner of course I did. I wouldn't be marrying him if I didn't, but I still missed Wally every single day. Conner understood, thankfully. He understood that I loved them both, but in different ways. I could never compare the love that I had for Conner to the way I loved Conner and it was nice to have someone who understood that.
"Iris and Barry are coming aren't they?"Barbara asked as I picked up the curling iron to start styling my hair.
"Yes. I'm glad she agreed to come dress shopping with us and that she helped out with so much of the planning. It was nice, almost like having my own mother here."
"What do you think your mother would say about Conner if she were here?" I thought for a moment about that. I was only nine years old when my mother disappeared, but I had a pretty good idea of what she might think.
"She'd say, Lilly my kitten, he may be strong and handsome but I still don't think you should settled down just yet. My mother didn't believe on settling for anyone, but that wasn't from lack of trying. She only ever loved one man and you know Bruce isn't the marrying type. Not with my mother, not with Talia not anyone. Then once I was born she really didn't see the point in marriage since she'd always done everything herself."
"Let me help you with that." Barbara said as she started pinning curls into place.
Bruce, Alfred and Damian arrived almost exactly one hour after the Butler had called Dick.
"Miss Lillian? I have your dresses, may I come in?"
"Yes come in Alfred!" I said swinging the door open for the butler. He swooped in with four dresses in his arms.
"Where shall I..."
"Oh just in Kara's closet is fine for now." I instructed. Alfred did just that hanging each article of clothing delicately in the closet.
"Why hello Miss Barbara. Miss Wayne, Will that be all? If young Mr. Kent is anything like your brothers, I suspect he'll need quite a bit of help securing his tie. Excuse me."
"I think Alfred was crying." Barbara said once he'd left the room. "Or tearing up at least."
"Come on Barb, Alfred?"
"Hey that's what it looked like." Barbara shrugged. There was another knock on the door as Bruce stepped into the room.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, I just wanted to pop my head in and say hello. It's been awhile since I've seen you and..."
"Bruce it's only been two weeks." I rolled my eyes but pulled him into a hug just the same.
"Congratulations Lillian." Bruce murmured as he wrapped his arms around me.
"Thank you dad." I whispered, smiling up at him.
"It's not too late you know," Bruce said softly but very seriously. "You could still run."
"Bruce Wayne!" I exclaimed taking a step back. At first I felt insulted, like Bruce thought Conner wasn't good enough for me, but then I watched his serious expression change as he let out a hearty chuckle.
"Oh Lil, I'm only joking. I like Conner you know I do. No everything's going to be f..."
"Bruce! Can you talk to your son please?" Dick shouted from Conner's room.
"Fine." Bruce repeated. "Everything is going to be fine." he sighed before leaving the room.
"Wouldn't be a Wayne family gathering without Damian refusing to do something." I sighed in return.
"Oh never mind him, Bruce and Dick will get through to him. How about we get you into your dress?" Barbara suggested.
"No! Not without me!" A new voice spoke from the doorway. It was Stephanie.
"Steph!" I rushed over to hug her. "I wondered when you and the others were coming."
"Well, it's just me and Kara for now. Tim'll be over later with the rest of the Titans." She explained. "So about that dress...no wait, what does my dress look like? I bet Barbara's seen them, Barb promise me they're not yellow."
"I haven't seen them either." Barbara told her. "Lil wanted me, you, and Kara to see them all together."
"Where is Kara anyway?" I asked remembering that Stephanie had said the two girls arrived together.
"Right here!" The supergirl called as she raced in. "Sorry, I wanted to say hi to Conner. So these dresses..."
"You'll like them, I promise." I told Kara and Steph to sit on the bed and close their eyes. Going along with my plan, Barbara closed her eyes as well. Once I was certain that all three girls had closed their eyes, I unzipped three of the dresses Alfred had hung in Kara's closet earlier. The dresses were made in Central City, so this was the first time I was seeing the finished product as well. Iris and I had come up with a design together and then she'd taken them to a designer to be fabricated. I had to admit the designer did a good job of getting exactly what I wanted. Conner and I had chosen red, purple and black for our wedding colors and it had been surprisingly difficult to create something flattering that tied too each girl's specific looks. In the end I decided on a knee length tulle skirt with a sweetheart neckline and wide shoulder strap on one side. The dress itself was purple, something I know Barbara would be happy about because it wouldn't clash with her hair. Around the waist was a red sash that once the dress was on, would tie into a large bow in the back. "Okay, open your eyes." I instructed, hoping that they liked them.
"They're...perfect." Stephanie gushed as she plucked the smallest dress out of the closet. "You even remembered to get short skits so that I wouldn't look like a munchkin!" Stephanie, who was only a foot or two taller than Barbara seated in her chair had reminded me several times during the wedding planning process that I needed to get her a knee length skirt so that she didn't look so small compared to Kara.
"It's a good thing you didn't get them in red like I'd suggested." Kara smiled. "I hadn't thought about what that would look like next to Barbara's hair." It was Kara who initially suggested red and purple as the wedding colors. She said that the red would represent Connor as superboy and the purple would be from my Batgirl colors. The more we thought about it the more we liked the idea, but it had been Lois who pointed out that Barbara couldn't wear a red dress with her red hair.
"I'm quite grateful you went with the purple. I'm already going to stick out with my chair. Are you sure..."
"Barbara Eileen Grayson if you ask me one more time if I sure I want you up there I swear! Barb we've gone over this like, a hundred times! You're my best friend. I was there for you at your wedding, of course I want you up there at mine. Now come on, let's get you all dressed so we can make sure everything fits. Lois says if we need to, she can do alterations once she and Clark are here."
Another forty-five minutes passed by and Barbara, Stephanie and Kara were all in their dresses. We were just about to wrestle me into my dress when there was a knock at the door. One of their girls flung the door open and Damian was standing there with a bowtie clutched in his hands.
"Sister!" The boy called out as he shoved passed whichever of the bridesmaids had responded to his knock. "Your idiot husband-to-be needs you to tie this for him." Damian held the fabric between two fingers and forced it in my direction. Bending down I took the tie from my brother, but stared down at him.
"I thought Alfred was helping you guys get ready?"
"Tt Pennyworth is in there, as is father, but Kent's gigantic fingers were getting in everyone's way. He says the only one who knows how he likes his ties is you. Then he tried to come in here. Luckily Grayson could talk some sense into him. To please the oaf I've brought you his tie. So tie it, quickly."
"Ok, Ok." I said beginning the complicated pattern required to tie a bowtie. "There," I said after a moment or so. I handed the completed tie back to Damian. "Thank you for putting up with all of this little bird. I know family gatherings aren't exactly your thing."
"Tt I am only here for the free cake." The boy scoffed as he exited the room. The second Damian disappeared another figure emerged in the doorway.
"I'm sorry, I know we're really early but I wanted to come see if I could be of any help. I know how hard it is to wrangle one boy, let alone a whole wedding party."
"Iris!" I exclaimed before embracing the woman who'd become a surrogate mother to me during the whole process. "It's alright that you're here early. It's great actually. Bruce, Alfred and Dick have had their hands full all morning trying to get Conner and Damian ready. I don't even know if any of them are dressed or what the back lawn looks like. Dick mentioned hours ago that the dishes were here but..."
"Well there certainly is a lot going on today. Don't worry I brought Barry and Bart along with me as well. We'll make sure everything is settled downstairs, you enjoy your day!" Iris stopped down the hall to say hi to Dick and Bruce before going back downstairs to manage everything else.
"This place has been like a revolving door!" Barbara breathed as she brushed out her hair."I'm afraid to suggest getting you into that dress because every time one of us does, someone new pops through the door!'
"Well, I've got to put it on sometime." I said walking towards the closet once more.
"Conner would still marry you, even if you showed up dressed like that." Kara said, gesturing to my T-shirt and jeans. "But I suppose you've paid so much for it, you might as well put in on."
At long last I was in my wedding dress. It had been well worth the wait because I looked stunning in it. The dress's delicate fabric clung to me in what I was told was a trumpet silhouette. With the dress on, I have curves in places I didn't even know existed. I caught a glimpse of myself in Kara's mirror and I didn't even recognize myself. My usually wild and wavy brown hair was now pined in elegant silky curls at the top of my head. The hard brown eyes that always reminded me so much of Bruce's were somehow softer, more like my mother's.
"Why Miss Lillian, you look stunning." An awe struck Alfred breathed from the door. I could tell from glisten in his eyes that he was tearing up again. Something about the look in his eyes caused me to think of something that I, embarrassingly, hadn't before.
"Um, Alfred, could you get Bruce for me please? I want to talk to him for a minute."
"Certainly miss." The butler nodded before continuing down the hall. Bruce arrived seconds later looking panicked.
"Lil? What is it? Alfred said you wanted to talk to me? Is it about what I said earlier? Because I was only joking..."
"Bruce...Dad. Everything is fine. I haven't changed my mind about Conner. But I did want to talk to you, and Alfred. Together. Could you get him please?".
"Yeah, I'll get him. I'll be right back." Once he realized I wasn't cancelling the wedding, Bruce's face relaxed and he saw me in my dress for the first time. "You look beautiful Lil." He smiled and left, but he came back quickly. This time with Alfred.
"Is something the matter Miss? Does everything fit properly?" Alfred frowned.
"Yes Alfred. Everything fits just fine. I didn't want to talk to you about my dress." I assured him as I slowly stepped across the room. When I reached the two men, I took one each of their hands and held them in my own. "Being this is not the first wedding for either of you, you both know that it is traditional for the bride's father to give her away to the groom during the ceremony." Bruce opened his mouth as if he'd like to say something, but he remained quiet. "However, we Waynes have never been a traditional bunch and so, Bruce, Alfred, if it's alright with both of you..."
"Don't tell me you want Clark to walk with you instead of me." Bruce snarled suddenly. He might have been joking, but the look on his face suggested otherwise.
"No," I shook my head and laughed, whether Bruce was joking or not it was ridiculous that he thought I'd throw him out of my wedding. "What I was going to say is, if it's alright with both of you," In a last minute fear of rejection from Alfred, I looked up at Bruce. " I would like you and Alfred to give me away today at the ceremony."
"I think that's a wonderful idea Lil." Bruce smiled. He seemed relieved for some reason as if he actually thought I was going to ask Clark to replace him. Alfred still hadn't said anything. He was staring down at our hands, not looking at anyone else in the room.
"Al? Are you alright?" I asked as the butler gripped my hand a little tighter than necessary. "I mean I'll understand if you say no, but well in a way you and Bruce are both my dad. You fed us, read us stories, picked us up from school. You've both done all the things a dad is suppose to do. I know you don't have any kids of your own so I was just sort of hoping..."
"It would be my honor, Miss Lilly." The Butler said at last.
"Oh thank you Alfred, Thank you Bruce!" I flung one arm around each of their necks and pulled them in tight.
"Echmm." Alfred cleared his throat. "Yes well, Miss Lillian I must go fetch your veil. Please excuse me." Straightening up the butler left the room.
"I didn't think there was anything left that could surprise Alfred." Bruce chuckled. "I'd better go check on him." He left the room in search of Alfred.
"Alright let's see," I turned back to the girls. "You're all dressed, your hair is done. I've got my shoes on, my hair is done, my dress is on, now all I need is..."
"Your veil?" Tim asked from the doorway.
"Timmy!" I smiled as my brother leaned on the doorway, veil in hand.
"Alfred was running around with it down stairs. He seemed pretty stressed so I offered to bring it up for him. Here let me help you." He insisted. With a detailed eye, Tim set the headpiece over my hair. He a adjusted it a few times until it sat just right. "it doesn't look like you under there." He laughed as he folded the delicate lace away from my face. "But then again, the first time I saw you it was through a camera lenses and you were beating up thugs on the east end of Crime Alley. This is probably a better look for you."
"Thanks Timmy." I said adjusting his crooked tie. "How are things downstairs?"
"Iris, Barry and Alfred have pretty much gotten things covered down there." Tim shrugged. "Everything is all set up for the most part. Victor, Raven, Starfire and Garfield all came with me. Bart's doing his best to keep them occupied. And I think Bruce was saying that Clark is still waiting for a few members of the team to arrive at the cave before he and Lois come over. Do you hear that?" Tim and the rest of the room's occupants stopped talking and we listened. From just outside the house we could hear barking.
"Oh it's Titus. He doesn't like new people." I rolled my eyes referring to Damian's Great Dane.
"That is not my dog." Damian insisted from the hallway. "That noise is coming from your would-be spouse's pampered pooch. I've been instructed to calm him." He stalked off without another word.
"Poor Krypto." Tim shuddered.
"Hey Tim, do you know if anyone's heard from Jason?" I asked softly, afraid of the answer. He shook his head.
"No, I'm sorry. I just know that he sent his invitation back, but he did the same at Dick and Barb's wedding."
"Yeah, and he showed up an hour into the reception." Barbara remembered.
"Look at the time!" Kara exclaimed suddenly. I glanced over at a digital clock Kara kept by her bed, it was almost time for the wedding to start.
The ceremony began almost exactly on time. The hundreds of guests were all seated and everything was in place. I watched from the kitchen's back window as the wedding processional lined up. Alfred and Bruce were outside with them, making sure everyone was in their proper place. Tim and Stephanie were at the front of the line. They would be the first to walk up the aisle. Kara and Jason would have been next, but no one had heard from Jason yet, so she stood alone behind Stephanie. Dick and Barbara were behind her. Damian stood behind our oldest brother and his wife, with a dog leash in each hand. One leash led to Krypto and the other to Titus. The two dogs would serve as ring bearers with gold rings tied to their collars.
"What are you looking at?" I jumped out of my skin. Everyone was suppose to be outside. I spun around to see Jason leaning against the kitchen table with his arms folded. He wore dark jeans and a tuxedo t-shirt. "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?"
"W-...No! No. I, I just wasn't expecting you to show up!" I exclaimed. "You're even almost early."
"You sure do clean up nicely." He smirked. "I barely recognize Lillian Kyle under that get up."
"Lillian Kyle." I repeated. "It's been so long since someone's called me that. Sometimes I almost forget that's where we came from, that old grimy apartment building. When I was a kid I never would have believed this is how you and I ended up."
"Don't get all sentimental with me." Jason rolled his eyes. "I'm here for the free meal." He insisted.
"Well there's no food until after the ceremony, so you might as well go stand next to Kara and follow along until there is food."
"When in Rome." He shrugged indifferently before swinging the kitchen door open.
"Oh and Jace? Thank you for coming." I smiled.
"Don't mention it. Ever." He said walking away.
