*NOTE* Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight. You guys are the greatest!
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EPILOGUE
"Welcome to the Bellagio. How can I help you today?" the woman behind the counter said. Her nametag said Kimberly, but her smile said I'm a moron.
"I sure hope so Kimberly. A couple of friends of ours decided to come to town and get hitched. Now we didn't think it was right for them to with strangers acting as their witnesses. So me and my girl here, we hopped on a plane to surprise the crazy love birds. Do you think you could tell us what room they are in?"
"I'm sorry sir," Kimberly said, "it's against hotel policy to give out the room numbers of our guests."
"Well can you call up to their room and let them know that we came all this way just to see them?"
"Now that is something I can do." She picked up the phone behind the counter and placed the call. "Hello Mr. Black, its Kimberly from the front desk. How are you? Oh that's wonderful." She was grinning like an idiot while she continued the conversation. "The reason I'm calling is to let you know that you and Nessie have some visitors in the lobby. Let me just ask real quick." She focused her attention on us, "I forgot to ask for your names."
"Seth Clearwater and Quinn Foster."
"It's a Seth Clearwater and Quinn Foster," the smile she was wearing became troubled as she listened to the person on the other end of the phone. "He doesn't seem to be upset, but the young woman is a different story."
Kimberly was right to be afraid of me. I was on the verge of a complete rage blackout and the last time that happened it was a blood bath.
"Alright then," she said hanging up the phone. "Mr. Black will be down in a moment."
"Thank you Kimberly," he smiled. Was he seriously flirting with her?
It was suggested that I not do the talking and let Seth handle all communication.
"Come on sweetheart," he took my arm and led me away from the front desk, "why don't we take a seat and wait for the newlyweds and try to calm down?"
There were a group of stuffed chairs situated in front of the elevators. I sat in the nearest one which happened to face away from the elevators. It was probably for the best if I wasn't the first one who saw the groom.
"Calm down, are you serious?" I snorted.
"You're spewing you emotions all over the damned place and if you don't rein it in then there is going to be a lot to explain when I phase into a freaking werewolf right here in the freaking lobby."
He was right. It would be difficult to explain that to the Las Vegas authorities. I took a deep breath and hoped to whatever deity listened that no one got murdered today.
My heartbeat began to slow and a sense of calm washed over me. Seth let out a deep sigh and kissed my forehead.
"Thank you." I thought for a moment that he was going to kiss me, but something behind me distracted him. "You have got to be kidding me," he muttered under his breath.
I jumped up from the chair and spun around to see the man we were looking for. If we had been in a different situation I might have laughed at the words on his t-shirt. The word groom had been crossed out with a giant blue X and underneath was the words "bride's bitch".
"Hey guys," the groom said with a nervous tone to his voice. "What are you doing here?"
"Are you freaking kidding me?" I jumped up from the chair to attack the identity stealing mutt only to be held back.
"You might want to hurry up and explain yourself before she brings this place to the ground."
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3 Days before...
I had just returned from a trial in which it had to be decided whether a newborn would be spared. His name was Corey and he had no clue what was going on. He was confused and scared. After meeting with him I passed the judgement that he would be fostered by another coven and taught how to survive in his new life. It felt good to not have to punish someone for once.
It was even more exciting knowing that in just a few days I would be Renesmee Black. I was so excited that I had a hard time keeping the secret from Alice. On the plus side there was something that kept her too busy to notice any of my strange behaviour. About a month after Jacob and I got engaged Seth got down on one knee and asked Quinn to be his wife. Of course she said yes which sent Alice into an absolute frenzy. She saw herself as the mother of the bride and wanted things to be perfect. This bothered Quinn. It seemed like every idea she had was shot down. This then led to a huge argument. At least this is what Finn told me. I had missed the wedding war.
"She's been hiding out with Seth at the old house. Haven't seen her since yesterday," he said as he help Harriet draw a picture.
I turned my attention to happier things, "What are you drawing sweetheart?"
"Ness you can plainly see that it's a horse," Finn huffed.
"I was talking to Harriet," I tapped Finn on the back of the head for acting smart.
"I drawed a picture of Auntie Quinn and Uncle Set in lost veggies mommy," Harriet smiled. This was something she did whenever talking to any female member of the family. She called all of us mommy. When I asked her what lost veggies was she let out an annoyed sigh and held out her little hand. She was too busy with her art to explain so she decided to just show me. I linked my fingers with hers and saw what she was talking about.
Quinn and Seth weren't in lost veggies, they had found the plane tickets Rose had given me and had run off to Las Vegas. It didn't take long for me to find Jacob, drive to the airport and get us on a plane. There was no way I was going to let Quinn hijack my wedding.
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"Alice had her so stressed out that she didn't know if she was coming or going," Seth pleaded his case. "So I found this guy who makes fake Ids so that we could use the tickets that were in your names."
"Oh god," Quinn said when the elevator doors opened and she saw us all standing there. "What are you guys doing here?"
I ignored her question. My feelings were too hurt to give her an explanation, "I can't believe you did this to me."
"Ness I know you're upset, but I can explain. Alice had lost her mind trying to plan my wedding. I wanted a vanilla bean cake but she chose the Belgium chocolate. I wanted to have a bouquet of sterling roses and chose calla lilies. I wanted to wear a purple dress and she went ahead and ordered a white one. It wasn't even my wedding anymore. I'm sorry I stole your wedding."
My feelings had been hurt by Quinn, but not for the reason she thought.
Quinn Foster/Brandon/Cullen was my best friend, not to mention my only friend that wasn't family. I knew all the ways Alice had overruled any decisions she made because I was right by her side when it happened or chatted with her about it online when I was half a world away.
She had helped me plan my Vegas wedding and I was trying to figure out a way to take her along with us when the time came. I wanted my best friend with me on my big day and thought she would want the same.
When I told her this she burst into tears which caused me to do the same. Seeing that Seth was on the verge of tears himself Jacob made the suggestion that we go their hotel room. On the way up to the room Quinn sobbed about not getting to wear her purple dress like she wanted. That she was stuck with a cheesy shirt that was bought at the hotel gift shop.
Seth got Quinn and me a bottle of water from the mini bar and once we got our composure I made her tell me all about her wedding.
There was a gift bag on the table that had the words "Little Wedding Chapel" written on it. Quinn opened it up and took out a small bouquet of roses. They were the colour of her dream dress. Next she showed me a small photo album that held twenty four photos that had been included in the package they chose. She looked so happy in the photos like she knew she was doing the right thing.
There was also a DVD of the ceremony. I suggested that we watch and that way we could pretend like we were there. That seemed to cheer Quinn up.
"Uh guys," Jake said to get our attention. "You might want to see this." He was holding Seth and Quinn's wedding certificate in his hand and was doing his best to keep from laughing.
"What is it?" I looked at the paper in his hand and saw what it was that he found so funny.
"You better tell them."
I sat the happy couple on the bed and said, "The good news is that you still have a chance to wear the purple dress." I passed them the certificate to really look at. "The bad news, Quinn you're marrying an idiot."
When signing the certificate Seth had written Jacob's name instead of his own. He had forgotten to drop the act so technically Quinn was married to my fiancé.
"So we aren't legally married?" I was expecting Quinn to be upset, but she was the exact opposite. She never got a chance to respond to the new because the door to the room flew open.
"Renesmee Carlie Cullen!" It was the most angry I had even seen Alice in my entire life. She was furious because she had found out that Jake and I had planned to elope. No one was allowed to speak while she ranted.
Bella and Edward followed behind her acting embarrassed and a little guilty.
"And what hurts the most is that everyone knew! Is there some kind of glitch in the Swan DNA that keeps anyone who has it from wanting a civilised wedding?"
Before anyone could say anything Alice gave the international sign for shut the hell up by holding up her hand. She was staring at Seth's chest. "Why would you be Renesmee's bitch? Why does your shirt have the word groom on it? Why is no one answering my questions?"
"Please don't be mad Alice," Quinn begged. "I screwed up and I'm sorry."
Alice remained calm as Quinn explained how pressured she felt into having someone else's dream wedding. She told her that she just snapped and stole the plane tickets to elope with Seth. Alice was silent for a few minutes, taking it all in. Then forcing a deep breath she asked if she could watch the DVD of the wedding.
Jacob pushed play and we all watched an overjoyed Quinn commit herself to a simpleton wolf. Once the show was over Alice walked over to Seth and we were all convinced that she was going to hit him, but instead she pulled him into a hug, welcoming him to the family. She told him that the happiness on Quinn's face was enough for her.
"You might want to hold off on that pixie girl," Jake showed her the marriage certificate.
"Oh sweetheart," Alice wrapped her arms around Quinn and told her that she would take care of this. Alice whipped open her cell phone and began talking to someone named Jenks. After a lot of okay's and sure's she hung up the phone. "Here is what we are going to do. At eight we will go to one of these dreadful chapels and get you two properly married...that's if you still want to be married to someone who has proven himself to be functionally retarded?"
Quinn threw her arms around Alice.
"Alright," she said, "we have three hours to find you two dresses." Alice was giving Quinn her purple dress and the second dress was for me. "Well I'm not letting you get married in one of those god awful bling, bling, I got the ring t-shirts."
At eight o'clock I was standing next to Jacob wearing a simple black dress. Standing next to us was Seth and Quinn. We were having a double wedding. Our witnesses were Bella, Edward and Alice. As part of the wedding package there was a web cam set up so that everyone back home could watch.
Alice was going to find it painful to talk once we were done because she was biting her tongue while an Elvis impersonator performed the ceremony.
It all seemed to happen so quickly. Elvis was talking about love then asking each of us if we would take our respected other, we answered yes then the grooms were given the go ahead to kiss the brides. Because they had already had their kiss, Seth and Quinn gave each other a simple chaste kiss.
The kiss Jake and I shared was different. He picked me up in a tight embrace and whispered a thank you before pressing his lips to mine.
Even though my family was watching the kiss was hot. My heart felt like it was going to beat out of my chest as we teased each other with our lips and tongues, neither of us caring who saw. It didn't matter anyway. We were husband and wife now and there was nothing that would ever tear us apart.
"That's what you think kid!"
Alice was shouting at the computer screen. Harriet had asked if she and Finn could visit Mr. Elfish in lost veggies. Alice had conceded to two weddings. She was not giving up another one. She was going to throw the biggest, most bad assed wedding the world had ever seen and Finn and Harriet were going to smile and say thank you.
We would all get our happily ever afters', regardless if we had a hand in planning them ourselves. The main thing was that we would be happy and that's the way all good stories should end.
~THE END~
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Well kiddies, that's it for Renesmee & Jake. I hope you enjoyed the epilogue and that you will join me for my next story "Coffee Bean Guy". Thank you so much again for your reviews, encouragement and putting up with my delayed updates. I love you all! XOXO.