It Had To Be You: Epilogue
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Epilogue
The day Danneel proposes to Sophia, it's a cool fall day. The leaves are turning brown and falling off one by one to the ground and the smell of turkey is in the air. No, literally, the smell of turkey was in the air because Danneel had demanded she cook the dinner this year and ended up burning the turkey. To be fair, she also killed the salad, over seasoned the potatoes and burned the biscuits to the tray. It was a surprise proposal (surprise to Sophia anyway, everyone else was just waiting for Danneel to get the lady balls to do it) and Danneel didn't even have to get down on her knees before her girlfriend was pulling her back up and screaming "yes!" over and over again as she laughed hysterically. Jared will admit that, as sweet as it was, she also sounded like a psychotic maniac so Jared spent a good five minutes laughing his ass off as Jensen slapped him upside the head and called him a dork.
Which, come on, everyone knows Jensen's the dork in this relationship.
"Jared!! Where has my freakishly tall nephew gone now?" It's the day of the ceremony now and Jared is the best man, er, person -they never really got specific with terms, just told him he was going to be standing up there with them whether he wanted to or not- and his job was to keep the rings safe. Which was probably why Danneel was screaming for him like the world was falling, and in her defense it probably was.
"I'm right here Danni, calm down." Jared pushes open the door and has to duck before he gets hit in the head with a flying heel.
"How can you say that? It's my fucking wedding day, how the fuck am I supposed to calm down?" Over the past few months Jared's found it quite amusing that Danneel was the one freaking herself out while Sophia was calm as could be. Well, almost, there was that one time she had a meltdown and threw cake at Jared's head because he'd brought her the coconut sample instead of the cream vanilla surprise thing. That had been pretty scary considering the fact that they had been standing in a kitchen full of large knives that were way too close to Sophia's deranged access for Jared's liking.
"It's going to be okay, Danni. Do we have to have another talk about how everything is going fine and all the 'problems' you're finding are all in your head? Because at this point, I think we have to." Jared dodges another shoe flying his way and walks up next to her as she stares critically into the mirror. She probably thinks that there's something wrong with her dress, or that she looks fat -which no, Jared isn't even joking about that one. It was the scariest fucking conversation of his life and he does not want to relive it- or possibly that the world will decide to blow up right before they say 'I do'.
"But Jared, I can't find the rings! I looked everywhere," she motions vaguely toward the hotel room she left in shambles "and I just can't find them. How are we going to get married if I don't have the rings? Oh my god, you don't think that they won't let us get married without the rings do you?" Danneel is as frantic as Jared has ever seen her. Her hair is starting to slip from the neat bun-concoction she had going there, and her make up is smeared a bit when she was probably wiping her face with her fingers. Jared pulls her away from the mirror and sits her down on the edge of the bed, reaching into his pocket for the neat box with both their rings in the center fold.
"I have the rings Danni. It was my job to watch over them so you wouldn't lose the box remember? Now take a deep breath okay? Because you're due out there in, oh, 5 minutes." Despite the fact that her eyes widen dangerously, she listens to him and takes a few deep breathes. Jared rubs her back soothingly as his friend tries to calm herself down from the high she worked herself up.
"I'm freaking out over nothing huh." She says, and Jared almost wants to laugh and say 'No really?' but he knows how stressful these few months have been for her and Sophia, for everyone actually, so he cuts her some slack and settles for smiling instead.
"A little bit, but by the end of the day you are going to be married to one of the most amazing woman that I know
and you guys are going to enjoy you're vacation in Hawaii that we all pitched in for. You're going to have an amazing weekend and come back all tan and gorgeous and married." She fiddles with the fabric of her dress for a while, looking down at her hands as they work, before she smirks and looks back up at him.
"Are you trying to say I'm not gorgeous now? Because Jared Tristan Padalecki, my feelings are hurt. I'll tell Sophie on you and she'll kick your ass." Jared laughs and helps her up, opening the door for her.
"And I'm going to tell her you called her 'Sophie', you know she hates that."
"Yeah, but I'm her future wife and what are you, a measly nephew? We can replace you." Jared flips her off and they both walk out into the patio where everything is set up. The second they step outside, Jared catches sight of Jensen talking to Chad, already lined up at the altar looking extremely hot in his new suit.
After Jensen had kissed him, they left the party to go somewhere and talk, and no that isn’t a euphemism for sex. They really did talk, about everything. Jensen told him the whole story of what happened after Chad walked up to him that day and asked if he wanted to get back together with Jared. Jensen told him how the only reason he’d ended anything in the first place was because things were moving so fast and he got scared, thought he wasn’t what Jared needed at the time and ended it all before it came crashing down on him. Jared spent at least ten minutes berating him on how stupid that was, but he understood too. Back then they were young -it may have only been seven months ago but you’d be surprised at how much you can age in that time- everything was so simple for Jared that it never occurred to him to think about how Jensen was coping with any of it.
Jensen spots him as he walks up the aisle, eyes locking for a moment before he makes his way down to meet Jared halfway. Their kiss is soft, sweet, and it tastes like the future.
Jared ended up talking the longest out of the both of them. He spent at least an hour apologizing to Jensen for all the crap he pulled, for the shit he said and the torture he put Jensen through. It took a lot out of Jared to admit everything that had been running though his head, but it was worth it in the end when Jensen had told him to stop worrying so much. Oh, he’d been pissed to all hell with Jared and his shit but Chad and Danneel had slapped sense into him at the end there.
"Hey," Jensen says, eyes warm and lips tilted up in a smile that lights him up inside.
"Hey," Jared answers, smile brighter than it’s been in a long time and yeah, this feels like the future too.
End.
Masterpost ll Author's Note/Aknowledgements
Epilogue
The day Danneel proposes to Sophia, it's a cool fall day. The leaves are turning brown and falling off one by one to the ground and the smell of turkey is in the air. No, literally, the smell of turkey was in the air because Danneel had demanded she cook the dinner this year and ended up burning the turkey. To be fair, she also killed the salad, over seasoned the potatoes and burned the biscuits to the tray. It was a surprise proposal (surprise to Sophia anyway, everyone else was just waiting for Danneel to get the lady balls to do it) and Danneel didn't even have to get down on her knees before her girlfriend was pulling her back up and screaming "yes!" over and over again as she laughed hysterically. Jared will admit that, as sweet as it was, she also sounded like a psychotic maniac so Jared spent a good five minutes laughing his ass off as Jensen slapped him upside the head and called him a dork.
Which, come on, everyone knows Jensen's the dork in this relationship.
"Jared!! Where has my freakishly tall nephew gone now?" It's the day of the ceremony now and Jared is the best man, er, person -they never really got specific with terms, just told him he was going to be standing up there with them whether he wanted to or not- and his job was to keep the rings safe. Which was probably why Danneel was screaming for him like the world was falling, and in her defense it probably was.
"I'm right here Danni, calm down." Jared pushes open the door and has to duck before he gets hit in the head with a flying heel.
"How can you say that? It's my fucking wedding day, how the fuck am I supposed to calm down?" Over the past few months Jared's found it quite amusing that Danneel was the one freaking herself out while Sophia was calm as could be. Well, almost, there was that one time she had a meltdown and threw cake at Jared's head because he'd brought her the coconut sample instead of the cream vanilla surprise thing. That had been pretty scary considering the fact that they had been standing in a kitchen full of large knives that were way too close to Sophia's deranged access for Jared's liking.
"It's going to be okay, Danni. Do we have to have another talk about how everything is going fine and all the 'problems' you're finding are all in your head? Because at this point, I think we have to." Jared dodges another shoe flying his way and walks up next to her as she stares critically into the mirror. She probably thinks that there's something wrong with her dress, or that she looks fat -which no, Jared isn't even joking about that one. It was the scariest fucking conversation of his life and he does not want to relive it- or possibly that the world will decide to blow up right before they say 'I do'.
"But Jared, I can't find the rings! I looked everywhere," she motions vaguely toward the hotel room she left in shambles "and I just can't find them. How are we going to get married if I don't have the rings? Oh my god, you don't think that they won't let us get married without the rings do you?" Danneel is as frantic as Jared has ever seen her. Her hair is starting to slip from the neat bun-concoction she had going there, and her make up is smeared a bit when she was probably wiping her face with her fingers. Jared pulls her away from the mirror and sits her down on the edge of the bed, reaching into his pocket for the neat box with both their rings in the center fold.
"I have the rings Danni. It was my job to watch over them so you wouldn't lose the box remember? Now take a deep breath okay? Because you're due out there in, oh, 5 minutes." Despite the fact that her eyes widen dangerously, she listens to him and takes a few deep breathes. Jared rubs her back soothingly as his friend tries to calm herself down from the high she worked herself up.
"I'm freaking out over nothing huh." She says, and Jared almost wants to laugh and say 'No really?' but he knows how stressful these few months have been for her and Sophia, for everyone actually, so he cuts her some slack and settles for smiling instead.
"A little bit, but by the end of the day you are going to be married to one of the most amazing woman that I know
and you guys are going to enjoy you're vacation in Hawaii that we all pitched in for. You're going to have an amazing weekend and come back all tan and gorgeous and married." She fiddles with the fabric of her dress for a while, looking down at her hands as they work, before she smirks and looks back up at him.
"Are you trying to say I'm not gorgeous now? Because Jared Tristan Padalecki, my feelings are hurt. I'll tell Sophie on you and she'll kick your ass." Jared laughs and helps her up, opening the door for her.
"And I'm going to tell her you called her 'Sophie', you know she hates that."
"Yeah, but I'm her future wife and what are you, a measly nephew? We can replace you." Jared flips her off and they both walk out into the patio where everything is set up. The second they step outside, Jared catches sight of Jensen talking to Chad, already lined up at the altar looking extremely hot in his new suit.
After Jensen had kissed him, they left the party to go somewhere and talk, and no that isn’t a euphemism for sex. They really did talk, about everything. Jensen told him the whole story of what happened after Chad walked up to him that day and asked if he wanted to get back together with Jared. Jensen told him how the only reason he’d ended anything in the first place was because things were moving so fast and he got scared, thought he wasn’t what Jared needed at the time and ended it all before it came crashing down on him. Jared spent at least ten minutes berating him on how stupid that was, but he understood too. Back then they were young -it may have only been seven months ago but you’d be surprised at how much you can age in that time- everything was so simple for Jared that it never occurred to him to think about how Jensen was coping with any of it.
Jensen spots him as he walks up the aisle, eyes locking for a moment before he makes his way down to meet Jared halfway. Their kiss is soft, sweet, and it tastes like the future.
Jared ended up talking the longest out of the both of them. He spent at least an hour apologizing to Jensen for all the crap he pulled, for the shit he said and the torture he put Jensen through. It took a lot out of Jared to admit everything that had been running though his head, but it was worth it in the end when Jensen had told him to stop worrying so much. Oh, he’d been pissed to all hell with Jared and his shit but Chad and Danneel had slapped sense into him at the end there.
"Hey," Jensen says, eyes warm and lips tilted up in a smile that lights him up inside.
"Hey," Jared answers, smile brighter than it’s been in a long time and yeah, this feels like the future too.
End.
Masterpost ll Author's Note/Aknowledgements