In his rush, Sean finishes getting ready with plenty of time to spare, but it all still seems to somehow evaporate in a moment once he and Logan get to the church to wait on Meredith. It feels as if it's been no time at all, the two of them could have parted just a few seconds prior, when she arrives with the girls, looking completely transformed. He likes to think that he's done pretty well with his own outfit, cobbling it together from the clothes box's rare offerings over a period of months, swapping out a better fitting dinner jacket here or a nicer tie there. He'll never be fit for high society, but he can clean up well when he wants to. Then Meredith shows up and he feels like little more than part of the scenery while still staying on top of the world
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Waiting until both rings are securely on their fingers, Sookie stills, papers in her hands forgotten, glancing from side to side with a lightly suppressed smile. "Then, by the power vested in me by the great island of Tabula Rasa," she announces, flashes of scenes from films filtering through her mind, and not a single one standing up to this, "I now pronounce you husband and wife."
Meredith lets out a laugh, almost startled by those words, the stuff of sappy films she only ever really watches if someone else makes her. They sound different when they mean her. In a way, all this does is make official what's been true for a long time, give a proper name to what they are, but it still leaves her reeling to know they've made it this far. She doesn't want for Sean to lean in. There's no veil to raise, just the two of them and a ring on her finger, another of those things she never expected. Hands in his, she lifts her head to kiss him, putting the last touch on a ceremony that's been a long time coming just to happen at the right moment.
It's said and done, and Sean doesn't have the time to properly comprehend just what that means before she's sealing their vows with a kiss, maybe their most momentous one since a frigid July afternoon in the Compound basement, long ago. Certainly the most perfect, even if Sean's still too stunned to do anything more than what comes naturally, letting his eyes slip shut for a moment as he returns the kiss.
"I love ye," he says the instant they break apart, under his breath and so, so quiet, meant only for her. Then it's his turn to laugh.
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With a girlish grin, she nods, urging.
"You may now kiss the bride."
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"I love ye," he says the instant they break apart, under his breath and so, so quiet, meant only for her. Then it's his turn to laugh.
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