HP:: The Beginning of Forever [Andromeda/Ted::PG]
Title: The Beginning of Forever
Character(s): Andromeda Black, Ted Tonks, assorted others
Prompt: 07. instrumental
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1230
Author's Notes: Well this is the last one. I've decided to call this entire arc Journey to Forever and this fic with such a prompt naturally called for a soundtrack, which found for download, here. 7spells has been immensely fun and I'd like to thank shored for creating it, because of it I was inspired to create minusoneday which is an entire epic fanfiction comm dedicated to telling the tale of this lovely pair from start to finish. Thank you to everyone. Just thanks.
She’s never been more terrified then she has been right then at that moment. Her normal Black confidence, so strong, so definitive, so lasting in her soul, seems to have evaporated the instant she stepped into the tiny chapel.
She’s pacing back and forth in the tiny room at the back of the small church that Ted’s parents got married in, and she can here the organist warming up, and realizes that the inevitable moment is drawing quickly near.
She feels a pair of cool hands on her exposed shoulders, the wedding dress that her equally banished Uncle Alphard showed up and provided for her having a gentle scooping neckline. She stops her pacing and turns to face the owner of the hands, her nervous eyes glittering and the shakes beginning to set in.
“It’s perfectly all right to be nervous; natural even,” Ted’s mother tells her, placing her hands on her future daughter-in-law’s cheeks in a sign of affection. “My son loves you and I know you love him, everything is going to be fine.”
Andromeda nods slowly, trusting this woman who raised the man she loves and clearly knows what she’s talking about. She takes slow, steady deep breaths, trying to calm herself, as Ted’s sister Mary adjusts the veil on her head, fixing it and readying her for the moment.
Then it comes, and she somehow finds herself at the end of the aisle, Alphard on her arm because her own father no longer acknowledges her existence and he is all she now has. The march begins to play and the people in the pews stand. There are more people standing on Ted’s side than hers, but she doesn’t care. She smiles a wide smile at her young cousin Sirius and his best mate, the bespectacled boy James, both of whom have snuck out of wherever they were meant to be.
She bows her head and looks at her shoes, grateful that the veil is hiding her face, and then she garners the courage to look towards the altar and to the waiting Ted. She sees him standing there, looking handsome and nervous and perfect and she falls in love with him all over again. He’s watching her, a nervous yet happy smile on his face and she matches his expression with one of her own.
This is truly the happiest day of her life thus far.
She reaches the end of her journey and Alphard gives her a hug and a kiss on the cheek and over his shoulder Sirius gives her a wink and a thumbs up; he is after all thirteen years old.
She turns her back on them and faces Ted, her nervousness slowly leaving her as she hands her small bouquet off to Ted’s sister Emma, her matron of honor, and Ted reaches out and takes her hand and smiles at her before they both turn to the minister who begins to ceremony.
She’s not really listen to the Muggle’s words, only vaguely wondering if the man knows that half his audience is from the Magical world and she looks at Ted out of the side of her eyes and smiles at him and he smiles back and squeezes her hand.
This is it.
This is almost the beginning of forever.
The minister is speaking to them now, he is looking at Ted, a man he has known since boyhood, and begins to speak those infamous words.
“Do you Theodore Tonks take Andromeda Circe Black to be your wife - to live together after God’s ordinance - in the holy estate of matrimony? Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, in sadness and in joy, to cherish and continually bestow upon her your heart’s deepest devotion, forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her as long as you both shall live?” the reverend asks.
Ted doesn’t even hesitate. “I do.”
The minister then turns to her and repeats the exact same thing, substituting the proper names in the right places.
She smiles and doesn’t pause either. “I do,” she says, the words feeling natural on her tongue.
The minister smiles at them both and continues, bringing up the rings, with Edgar Bones, Ted’s best man, and Emma produce separately and hand to each of them and they in turn hand the rings to the minister, who holds them up as the symbols of what they are.
“May these rings be blessed as the symbol of this affectionate unity. These two lives are now joined in one unbroken circle. Wherever they go - may they always return to one another. May these two find in each other the love for which all men and women year. May they grow in understanding and in compassion. May the home, which they establish together, be such a place that many will find there a friend. May these rings on their fingers symbolize the touch of the spirit of love in their hearts,” the minister declares before turning to Ted and handing him the ring.
“Theodore, in placing this ring on Andromeda’s finger, repeat after me: Andromeda, you are now consecrated to me as my wife from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
“Andy,” Ted says, choosing his nickname for her over her proper name, an action that brings tears to her eyes. “You are now consecrated to me as my wife from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
He then slides the ring onto her finger and it fits her perfectly as if it was meant to be there all along.
The minister smiles at this action, before moving onto her and handing her the ring for Ted. “Andromeda, in placing this ring on Theodore’s finger, repeat after me: Theodore, you are now consecrate to me as my husband from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
She takes his hand into hers and stares into his eyes and feels the repeated words slide naturally off her tongue. “Ted, you are now consecrate to me as my husband from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
She slides the ring onto his hand and squeezes his hand tightly with hers.
This is the beginning of forever.
The minister finishes his sermon and utters the fateful words, the words they have been dying to hear.
“I now pronounce you man and wife - and may your days be good and long upon the earth. You may now kiss the bride.”
Ted pulls back her veil, a smile on his face, just as there is one on hers and as if it is the climax of one of those Muggle movies he made her watch, the music begins to play just as he leans forward and kisses her.
This is forever.
Character(s): Andromeda Black, Ted Tonks, assorted others
Prompt: 07. instrumental
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1230
Author's Notes: Well this is the last one. I've decided to call this entire arc Journey to Forever and this fic with such a prompt naturally called for a soundtrack, which found for download, here. 7spells has been immensely fun and I'd like to thank shored for creating it, because of it I was inspired to create minusoneday which is an entire epic fanfiction comm dedicated to telling the tale of this lovely pair from start to finish. Thank you to everyone. Just thanks.
She’s never been more terrified then she has been right then at that moment. Her normal Black confidence, so strong, so definitive, so lasting in her soul, seems to have evaporated the instant she stepped into the tiny chapel.
She’s pacing back and forth in the tiny room at the back of the small church that Ted’s parents got married in, and she can here the organist warming up, and realizes that the inevitable moment is drawing quickly near.
She feels a pair of cool hands on her exposed shoulders, the wedding dress that her equally banished Uncle Alphard showed up and provided for her having a gentle scooping neckline. She stops her pacing and turns to face the owner of the hands, her nervous eyes glittering and the shakes beginning to set in.
“It’s perfectly all right to be nervous; natural even,” Ted’s mother tells her, placing her hands on her future daughter-in-law’s cheeks in a sign of affection. “My son loves you and I know you love him, everything is going to be fine.”
Andromeda nods slowly, trusting this woman who raised the man she loves and clearly knows what she’s talking about. She takes slow, steady deep breaths, trying to calm herself, as Ted’s sister Mary adjusts the veil on her head, fixing it and readying her for the moment.
Then it comes, and she somehow finds herself at the end of the aisle, Alphard on her arm because her own father no longer acknowledges her existence and he is all she now has. The march begins to play and the people in the pews stand. There are more people standing on Ted’s side than hers, but she doesn’t care. She smiles a wide smile at her young cousin Sirius and his best mate, the bespectacled boy James, both of whom have snuck out of wherever they were meant to be.
She bows her head and looks at her shoes, grateful that the veil is hiding her face, and then she garners the courage to look towards the altar and to the waiting Ted. She sees him standing there, looking handsome and nervous and perfect and she falls in love with him all over again. He’s watching her, a nervous yet happy smile on his face and she matches his expression with one of her own.
This is truly the happiest day of her life thus far.
She reaches the end of her journey and Alphard gives her a hug and a kiss on the cheek and over his shoulder Sirius gives her a wink and a thumbs up; he is after all thirteen years old.
She turns her back on them and faces Ted, her nervousness slowly leaving her as she hands her small bouquet off to Ted’s sister Emma, her matron of honor, and Ted reaches out and takes her hand and smiles at her before they both turn to the minister who begins to ceremony.
She’s not really listen to the Muggle’s words, only vaguely wondering if the man knows that half his audience is from the Magical world and she looks at Ted out of the side of her eyes and smiles at him and he smiles back and squeezes her hand.
This is it.
This is almost the beginning of forever.
The minister is speaking to them now, he is looking at Ted, a man he has known since boyhood, and begins to speak those infamous words.
“Do you Theodore Tonks take Andromeda Circe Black to be your wife - to live together after God’s ordinance - in the holy estate of matrimony? Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, in sadness and in joy, to cherish and continually bestow upon her your heart’s deepest devotion, forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her as long as you both shall live?” the reverend asks.
Ted doesn’t even hesitate. “I do.”
The minister then turns to her and repeats the exact same thing, substituting the proper names in the right places.
She smiles and doesn’t pause either. “I do,” she says, the words feeling natural on her tongue.
The minister smiles at them both and continues, bringing up the rings, with Edgar Bones, Ted’s best man, and Emma produce separately and hand to each of them and they in turn hand the rings to the minister, who holds them up as the symbols of what they are.
“May these rings be blessed as the symbol of this affectionate unity. These two lives are now joined in one unbroken circle. Wherever they go - may they always return to one another. May these two find in each other the love for which all men and women year. May they grow in understanding and in compassion. May the home, which they establish together, be such a place that many will find there a friend. May these rings on their fingers symbolize the touch of the spirit of love in their hearts,” the minister declares before turning to Ted and handing him the ring.
“Theodore, in placing this ring on Andromeda’s finger, repeat after me: Andromeda, you are now consecrated to me as my wife from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
“Andy,” Ted says, choosing his nickname for her over her proper name, an action that brings tears to her eyes. “You are now consecrated to me as my wife from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
He then slides the ring onto her finger and it fits her perfectly as if it was meant to be there all along.
The minister smiles at this action, before moving onto her and handing her the ring for Ted. “Andromeda, in placing this ring on Theodore’s finger, repeat after me: Theodore, you are now consecrate to me as my husband from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
She takes his hand into hers and stares into his eyes and feels the repeated words slide naturally off her tongue. “Ted, you are now consecrate to me as my husband from this day forward and I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity and with this ring, I thee wed.”
She slides the ring onto his hand and squeezes his hand tightly with hers.
This is the beginning of forever.
The minister finishes his sermon and utters the fateful words, the words they have been dying to hear.
“I now pronounce you man and wife - and may your days be good and long upon the earth. You may now kiss the bride.”
Ted pulls back her veil, a smile on his face, just as there is one on hers and as if it is the climax of one of those Muggle movies he made her watch, the music begins to play just as he leans forward and kisses her.
This is forever.