Jessica Williamson ✖ Johanna Mason (nooneleft) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2015-03-22 13:12:00 |
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Who: Jess & Lucas Hendrie + ALL OF CAMELOT & PLUS ONES (whoever wants to tag into the reception)
What: Their wedding reception! And a brief glimpse into the ceremony
Where: A private venue in Glastonbury
When: Sunday evening, March 22nd, 2015
Warnings: Uh. Camelot party?
Notes: No official posting order. Also, time is fluid. Feel free to jump around.
As promised, Camelot had put on a great wedding. Maybe a little fancy for their tastes, but Camelot had offered to pay for it all. Jess wasn’t about to complain about the wedding being fancy if it was basically a giant, day-long gift wrapped in flower arrangements and crab cakes. Jess wasn’t sure what a crab cake was, but everybody seemed to have them at their weddings, so she assumed it was on the menu. To be honest, she hadn’t paid much attention to the food except for making sure there would be cake. Which Ryder had dutifully taken care of, so she hadn’t bothered to worry about anything else.
Well. Almost anything else. The wedding had gone pretty smoothly. All the guests were in attendance and the wedding party was all accounted for. Daniel, Zach, and Christian were all looking sharp in their suits and Haley, Lana, and Libby in their sage green dresses on the other side of the alter. Jess had managed not to trip and fall on her way down the aisle, which had been a serious concern. The heels she was wearing weren’t very high, but it was an outdoor wedding, which meant walking on grass and soft earth, so it felt a little like a baby deer first learning how to walk. When she finally made it to Lucas she actually forgot what she’d been worrying about all week, at least long enough to grin at him. Lucas always looked good to her, but now he was looking very James Bond, and she was thinking of all the things she was gonna do once those clothes were off. Part of her motivation for that was just to get out of this dress, which she was currently standing there fidgeting in, but mostly it was about getting them both naked.
… Right. Probably shouldn’t be thinking pornographic thoughts about her husband-to-be while she was standing up in front of everyone in a wedding dress, that while a nice shade of ivory, was still whiter than Jess’s non-existent virginity. Husband, that was still weird. Jess had never been the most traditional person. Jess had never given marriage a second thought, even after she and Lucas got together. Not that she wouldn’t have considered it if they hadn’t had that conversation while hopped up on truth serum, but being with Lucas had always been enough for her. She hadn’t felt like she needed anything else, she was pretty content with her life, living with him and Maddie. Then they’d decided to get married, and suddenly everything felt a lot more real. They weren’t just playing house, they would be husband and wife. She would technically Maddie’s mother, even though she kind of already was, and she definitely loved the kid like one. Somehow the title didn’t mean the same thing without the marriage certificate, which was stupid. You didn’t have to be married to be a mother. Was she ready to be a mother? Jess soon realized it wasn’t being a mother to Maddie that she was worrying about.
“Huh?” Jess blinked in confusion, realizing the officiator was staring at her, and she had just seriously spaced out. At her own wedding. That was bad, wasn’t it? She wracked her brain frantically to remember the last thing that was said, something about a vow? No, vows. It was time for the vows. Okay, she could do this. Jess glanced at Lucas, feeling stupid with a bouquet in her hands, but she took a deep breath and started on what could only be described as a string of word vomit. She was just really nervous. “Yeah. Okay. I’m not… good. At doing the things that normal people do. Like this. Pretty sure I’m really bad at this. But. You don’t seem to mind how bad I am at the normal people things. You get me. Most people don’t get me, but you always do. I didn’t have to think twice about marrying you, because I love you and I love Maddie, and I love our weird little family...”
Jess was losing her momentum, choking out words when what she really wanted to say to Lucas right now was something she’d been keeping to herself all week. Maybe this would be the wrong time to tell him, but they still had to say the ‘I do’s’, so he had time to back out if he wanted. That thought made her sick to her stomach, at least she hoped that’s what it was, and she wasn’t about to get morning sickness in the middle of the afternoon. She paused, making a frustrated noise at herself, squeezing her eyes shut for a split second before opening them and just blurting it out. “... Ah, screw it. Luc, I’m pregnant.”
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