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Wedding Bells
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A month had passed since Sophie's attack, and today was the day Gideon and Sophie would start their married life together.
"Tessa you look lovely." Sophie said as she finished doing up her dress. Cecily entered the room just then in the dark blue material that they had used to make her a dress for Sophie and Gideon's wedding, Tessa and Sophie turned to her and their eyes went wide.
"The dress matches your eyes perfectly!" Tessa exclaimed. She was wearing the same dress, only hers was red. Her hair was in the same complicated style.
"Thank you, you look lovely also."
Cecily handed Sophie her dress and she quickly left to change
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Cecily paced around the halls nervously. She had spoken in front of others before, but never at something as important as a wedding.
She muttered her speech over and over quietly, trying very hard to recite it from memory.
"Cecy?" Cecily turned towards the door, there stood William.
"What's gotten into you? I haven't seen you look this anxious in a very long time." Will smiled.
"I- I was just going over my speech, that's all," she said tentatively.
"You'll do fine, no probably not as well as me." Cecily playfully punched his arm, he feigned hurt.
"I love you, Cecy." He said, looking somber. Cecily was taken aback. She knew that he loved her, she was his sister, but he so rarely said it aloud.
"I love you, too, Gwilym."
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"Nervous?" a voice said behind Gabriel.
He turned to see Cecily, in stunningly beautiful dress that made her look all the more beautiful to him.
"You look beautiful," he whispered.
"Thank you," she said shyly.
They took their seats in the front row of the reception hall and watched as Gideon appeared at the front; sending a nervous smile in their direction.
"Showtime," He whispered in her ear as Sophie appeared next to Gideon.
He watched in awe as they exchanged runes, their love for one another etched into their skin forever, tethering them together in an angelic and lifelong bond.
As the runes glow faded into a dull shine, Sophie and Gideon smiled at one another. Sophie's face changed entirely when she smiled. The pink scar on her cheek stretched and caught the light. She looked so incredibly happy in this moment.
He had made up his mind, he wanted to propose; he just didn't know when, or how exactly, but he would figure it out.
He didn't care whether it was an extravagant proposal or if he asked her to marry him one day after training, all he knew was that he did not want to live a single day when Cecily Herondale was not his.
They had grown, as people these past few months, but they had grown together, and he wouldn't have wanted it any other way. He wanted to grow, with her, for the rest of their lives.
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The reception was a small one, with only the people who meant most to the two of them. Other than Gabriel, neither Sophie nor Gideon's family were there.
Gabriel's speech was very light-hearted and humorous unlike Cecily's. She made her way to the front of the room.
"Hello, my name is Cecily Herondale," she began, "when I had first come to the institute, I knew very little about Shadowhunters. They had deprived me of both my siblings and left me with nothing. I deemed that they must be evil, for the stole from me what I loved most. I came to bring my brother home, to have the family that I knew I would never have again. But as time went on, I became closer to all the residents of the London Institute, and I realised that they weren't monsters, but amazing people.
"My brother chose to live as a shadowhunter, because he wanted to protect me, but I never knew that. Throughout the time I stayed here, I became very close to Miss Sophia Collins; a mundane with the sight who deserved to be a shadowhunter more than anyone else. We all just failed to see that; except Gideon.
"Gideon, I can't tell you how lucky you are to have Sophie in your life, I know you will take care of her and that you will do everything in your power to keep her happy. Looking back one month ago there are many things I thought I wanted to change, the battle, the loss, the death of our loved ones.
"One month ago, I would have done everything in my power to change the past. But if I had, I would have never met the amazing people I am proud to call family, looking back now, I wouldn't change a thing. Looking back now, I realise that the family I thought I had lost forever is the family I found in the Shadowhunters. I wish you the best in your many years together."
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Love Always,
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