Kiss The Bride

Annie was adjusting the loose strands of K's hair for about the fifth time, trying to arrange it perfectly, while Heather had her hands in the folds of K's dress to adjust it the slightest bit so it accentuated her waistline just right, giggling to herself the entire time.

"Told 'em it would fit you just perfectly," Kate said with a lazy grin as Kitty helped her zip of the back of her own bridesmaid dress.

"Fluke thing," K argued. "I'm getting fatter every day."

"Well then it's a good thing you're getting married today," Kitty said, grinning Jubilee's way for a second before she turned the force of an even fuller grin on K.

"You are way too happy," K said, fretting over the way the fabric laid across her stomach. "What? Can't wait to marry him off?"

"No — can't wait to see him happy," Kitty grinned.

K turned her way and looked almost insulted. "He's been pretty happy…"

"He's been over the moon," Jubilee corrected her.

"Then you've seen it." K tried to get Heather to stop fiddling with her makeup, since it had been done for nearly an hour, but that was clearly a losing battle.

"Then humor me so I can see him ecstatic," Kitty replied, still somehow grinning even wider than before. "Which he will be in about, oh, as soon as you walk through the trees to meet him there."

As the girls grinned and giggled and did their makeup one last time and generally congratulated each other on how good they looked, there was a light knock at the door, and only once Kate called out that it wasn't Logan and so it was safe did Scott poke his head in with a little grin. "We're ready whenever you girls are," he told them.

Annie beamed at Scott for a second and made sure to steal a kiss that had him wiping a bit of her brown lipstick off the corner of his mouth before she took a step back — at last — from K. "I think she's just about perfect," she declared.

"Overly generous with the compliments," K said to Scott. "I think it's a conspiracy."

"Well, it is your big day," he pointed out, though he added in an undertone just quiet enough for her to hear, "As long as you still want to. You know it's not too late to cut out." He was mostly teasing, but there was just enough sincerity in his voice to let her know it was still her choice.

"Do you know how irritated he would be if he heard you right now?" K asked, one eyebrow raised his direction.

"It's your day too, not just his," he replied, sounding completely unconcerned about it. "I want to make sure you're happy too."

"And you're sweet, " she told him before she slipped her shoes on and crossed the room to give him a quick kiss on the cheek. "I'm rock solid on him. It's the ceremony part that has me off."

"Well, I can't help you there, then," he said with a little smirk.

"I know," she replied. "Nothing anyone can do."

"Well, we'll just head out to go take our spots," Annie said and then ran over to give K a quick hug. "You're going to knock him speechless," she whispered in her ear before she and the other ladies slipped out.

Which meant that everyone but K was down at the big, flat rock in the forest — so it was time for K to make her entrance. Once the girls were all gone, Scott turned to K with the widest grin she'd seen in a while to offer her his arm.

"Have you been drinking already?" K asked. "I'm happy to help you find a safe place to sleep it off."

He shook his head and laughed. "No, no," he assured her. "Nothing like that. I just thought you might like a little company walking down the aisle."

She paused, the bouquet of white roses and fall leaves not quite in her hand. "You want to walk me down the aisle?"

"I'd like to give you away," he told her, the smile wide but slightly faltering as he added, "if that's alright with you."

"That's actually pretty much perfect," she said with a tiny smile. "If anything knocks him speechless, it'll be that."

"It'll be you, but I'm sure I'll help keep him that way," he teased, holding out his arm for her. "Shall we?"

"Now or never, I guess," she replied before she grabbed the flowers and took his arm. "Lead on — as always."

When the two of them stepped out of the cabin, there was no music, as they'd done for previous gatherings. This time, they were relying on the ambient sounds and sights of the forest around them, and Mother Nature was putting on a show.

It was late afternoon, and sunbeams were breaking through the brightly-colored leaves. Enough had fallen that the entire forest floor was a carpet of oranges and yellows, and as they headed toward the little gathered crowd, leaves were gently drifting down from time to time, though there wasn't the slightest of breezes.

The waterfall crashed quietly on the rocks in a trickle, splashing water onto those foolish enough to get that close to it, but thankfully, the group was small, and it was almost unseasonably warm under the brightly-colored canopy.

All of the girls were lined up on one side of the flat rock, with the waterfall and the trees serving as backdrop and decor. Kitty and Jubilee looked as though they were fit to burst as they beamed at Logan.

He gave them a little smirk as Kurt laid a hand on his shoulder to draw his attention to where Scott and K had just come out of the thick thatch of red bushes and yellow saplings that dwarfed the fearless leader.

He froze when he saw her — not even caring about the fact that it was Scott that was with her — who she was smiling at. He missed what Scott said to K that got her to grin up at him as Scott covered her hand on his arm with his and simply guided her all the way down the aisle.

When they reached the rock, Scott couldn't help but smirk at K. "Yep. You knocked him speechless," he whispered in her ear. K gave him a quick kiss and a mouthed out 'thank you' before she took her spot with a very focused and pleased-looking Wolverine.

Since Kurt had decided to be the best man rather than the officiant — and didn't look the least bit like he was regretting his decision as he watched his best friend's expression like he was about to float away with happiness on his behalf — he had asked Father Murray to do the ceremony. He was Kate and Kurt's priest, and clearly, the Elf-approved officiant was grinning as widely as if Kurt himself was performing the ceremony.

It was clear early on that Kurt had made his mark on the priest's notes, too, since his intro had a very Elf-like touch that had both little ferals glancing toward him for a moment, though Kurt looked as if he had no clue why they would be looking his way.

The ceremony as a whole was simple and very straightforward, though when they reached the vows, both Logan and K spoke in such low tones that no one could hear them over the waterfall as they shared very private vows to each other.

Noh was smirking from time to time through the vows, but he just shook his head when Jubilee looked at him with a look and a projected message that clearly asked him to share with the rest of the class.

Not to mention Clint, who could read both of their lips from where he was sitting — though not a one of them thought that he was going to stand up for a second to the look Natasha was giving him. All it took was for her to rest her head on his shoulder and he was carefully signing out what they were saying just for her as the Black Widow started grinning wider and wider with every word and with every smile that Logan and K shared.

When Logan and K at last looked to Father Murray, and he offered the "speak now or forever hold your peace," though, the scene was temporarily stolen by none other than Nick Fury when Kate noticed the one-eyed glare he was giving the entire assembled group, practically daring anyone to have a problem so he could introduce them personally to his boot.

But as entertaining as Fury's glaring was, he was completely upstaged by a very impatient Charlie, who was looking expectantly at the little ferals from the second row as she all but shouted out, "Dus' kiss!" and her parents looked downright surprised — seeing as they'd never heard her say that phrase before.

And then, as soon as Father Murray declared them man and wife, Jubilee shot out a stream of sparkling fireworks over their head as they shared a kiss — because there was just no way she couldn't, not when her adopted dad was that happy and grinning like that.

From there, the little group headed to a pavilion for some food and drinks. Again, they hadn't had to do much decorating, because Mother Nature had a full show on display with the beautiful October leaves, and they could still hear the faint trickle of the waterfall as everyone tucked into the outside meal.

"Went to an awful lotta trouble just for a picnic. You coulda done that bit in private, Elf," Logan teased once he'd stolen Kurt's flask.

Kurt had to chuckle and shake his head at his best friend. "Ah, but this is so much more fun — and it means you get a picnic too," he countered, taking it back once Logan had a good pull.

Logan shook his head at him before the two old friends ended up with their arm across each other's shoulders, watching the gathering of friends. "Still," Logan said, "you went overboard."

Kurt raised an eyebrow with a grin permanently fixed on his face. "How so?" he asked, his tone clearly teasing. "Were the decorations too much? Far too colorful?" He gestured at the leaves and the trees around them.

Logan gave him a dry look as the girls came up to the two of them to steal them back from each other. "Are we done now?" K asked. "Getting the urge to run away into the trees."

But before Logan could answer her, Kurt had teleported into more or less the center of the activity with a glass held high to propose a toast to the newlyweds. "To Logan — my best and certainly oldest friend," he said, shooting Logan a teasing smirk for a second. "You deserve every happiness, mein Freund. You've dedicated your life to ensuring the same for others, after all. I thank God that I'm here to see you find the joy you so richly deserve and the blessings ahead of you. Your friendship, steadiness, and constant support — it has been a strength to everyone who knows you, and now, I think I speak for all of us when I say it's the miracle we'd hoped for you to see you with someone just as deserving of happiness and just as steady and wonderful as you are." He beamed at both of them as he raised his glass their way. "May you live long, happy lives — both of you — so that we can show you even a small measure of the kindness and love you've shown all of us."

When the little group had all gotten their chances to wish them both well, Scott leaned in and gave K an extra squeeze. "I heard you had issues with Canadians? Why didn't I hear about this sooner?"

"Because she's Canada-racist," Kate said over K's shoulder with a huge smirk. "We're not encouraging her."

"You can't be racist toward a country, silly Hawk," K replied, doing her best to look irritated at Kate, though she wasn't able to drop the smile entirely.

"Well, I was just gonna say…. That's not an issue now," Scott said with a growing grin.

"Clearly," K replied with a little laugh. "I did break down and marry him. Didn't even need the shotgun to my head."

Scott chuckled as Logan narrowed his eyes at him. "No, that's not it," Scott said, positively beaming now as he turned toward Logan. "You just got married to a citizen on American soil." Scott chuckled under his breath at the look of dawning comprehension before Logan swore and K fell apart laughing as she held on to Logan for support.

"Did you do that on purpose, Kurt?" K asked as she wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes.

Kurt was grinning wide but had to shake his head. "No, I admit I didn't think about the implications," he said, half to reassure Logan. "And besides, the first one was set in Canada."

"Yeah but the laws don't work the same way," K said, grinning, before she gave Logan a long kiss. "At least it's the wolverine state. Take solace, sweetheart."

Kate was giggling madly as she looked over the newlyweds' shoulders toward Scott. "And here I am getting married in Germany. I didn't even think," she said with a teasing sparkle in her eyes.

"Better learn the language quick," Logan advised. "Probably gonna be some kinda qualifying test."

She smirked his way. "Was macht Sie glauben, ich habe nicht getan?"

"And here I thought you only wanted to know enough to seduce him," Logan said.

"Oh, I definitely learned that stuff first," Kate agreed with a little smirk as she snaked an arm around Kurt's waist.

"Selektiven Learnprozess," Kurt whispered into her hair with a grin.

"No shit," K muttered, getting a chuckle from Logan, though both little ferals looked mostly innocent when the two of them looked up at them.

Everyone in the little group was more or less fed and watered by then and enjoying each other's company — so Kitty insisted that it was time for the flower toss before K and Logan could slip away.

"But it's so stupid," K whined at her with her lip curled up.

"Its traditional — so you have to," Kitty decided. K shot her a little glare before she gave Kate a little wink. When she went to make the toss, she weighed the little bundle of roses in her hand before she tossed it high — and right into Kitty's lap. She then immediately turned her focus on Peter Quill.

"You're on notice," K said purely to watch Kitty turn a magnificent fuchsia while Kate positively cackled for a moment.

"It's traditional — so you have to," Kate said through her giggles, which just meant Kitty turned even more spectacular colors.

While the rest of the women were giving Kitty a hard time, Logan took K's hand and pulled her toward Kurt. "While they're distracted, Elf."

Kurt nodded for a moment before he put a hand on both of their shoulders — and in an instant, he'd taken the two of them off to K's cabin.

He stayed just long enough to make sure K wouldn't fall over, though that wasn't much of a concern as Logan picked her up and the two of them slipped off into the little house by the lake.

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Translations from German:

Was macht Sie glauben, ich habe nicht getan? - What makes you think I haven't?

Selektiven Learnprozess - Selective learning process.

And thus ends a SPECTACULAR volume. PLEASE keep your eyes open for the next volume - "Marrying An X-Man is Hazardous To Your Health" which will be available for eager readers on robbiepoo2341's profile. There's more to come, more to see, and we're so not even CLOSE to being done with these guys.