With a hyperactive child on his lap that was calm only when there was food in front of her, after so many years of wishing for this very moment Dorian found himself sitting next to his renewed wife at their wedding. One year after their first daughter was born… Truly the most special day in his life. Two special days - the day Shay was born and this one. A nervousness he never felt before and there were many, many times when he was supposed to feel the way he did this morning but he never did. So it would be right to say he was indeed freaking out. It wasn’t only a wedding, it was his wedding, he was marrying (again or whatever) the only woman he could imagine having a perfect future with, future he didn’t have to imagine anymore. There was nothing that could help with calming down, not even their little daughter he was delighted to see as their flower girl. And listen, she was still young but with a little help of her cousins she did a perfect job. You’ll never see a flower girl cuter than Shay; her cuteness not stopping after she saw her dad just standing there with the biggest smile as he looked at his precious girl, making her attempt to run up to him. Usually someone would take the kid but not at this wedding, if you don’t count Dorian picking up his kid and refusing to let Davina hold her the whole time because that’s exactly what he did. She was in his arms as he waited for Jess, in his arms when it was finally time for her to walk out, in his arms as he kissed her chubby cheek whispering, ”Look, it’s mommy”. The idea of crying when seeing his wife walk down the aisle always seemed funny to him, he never understood it until now. Yes, it was really hard to fight back those tears, it wasn’t overwhelming it was just… a moment of pure happiness he thought he would never have, or deserve. Realizing what he actually had, what he will have and what his life has become. His perfect kid and his perfect wife.
“Of course you like cupcakes the most,” chuckling, Dorian was looking down at his little girl that was not so surprisingly still awake. With this food festival going on how could she not be? Feeding her everything she wanted on this one day before going back to trying to make his kid eat real food along with Jessica. A mission he knew would fail but it was nice to hope. His gaze often falling upon Jessica with a soft smile before gently taking her hand and placing a soft kiss on top of it while still holding Shay. Seeing that people around theme were slowly finishing their meals, he looked over at his mother before getting up, asking her to hold Shay for a little bit. Of course, Jessica would be the first person he’d give their child to but very soon he’ll be needing her for something else. So making his way to the middle of the venue and grabbing a mic people used before him for their speeches, he looked over at his wife that had that what are you doing look on her face. It was their wedding, he had to say a few things, didn’t he? “I hope you’re having a good time here, I just wanted to take couple of minutes to say something and before I start … Jess and I are betting on who’s going to get the drunkest tonight and my bet is on Riker… I know you’re sad I’m marrying someone else so drink up because I’m not losing again.” With a goofy smile, not missing a chance to joke around, Dorian took a second to look at the man, catching his sister giving him a dirty look. But his gaze quickly lowered, getting more serious.
Okay… How do I start this?.. I was never the one to dream about this perfect life with a wife and kids. I couldn’t imagine myself having that… You know how some people are so enthusiastic about it? I can’t wait to get married, have kids. I’m going to raise then in a perfect house and they’d have the best parents! Yeah, that was never my priority… Hell, I don’t think that though crossed my mind once. Sure, maybe one day but… I didn’t really want that. I wanted to be successful and famous. Be someone people would talk about… In a way be free to do with my life whatever I wanted. Wife, girlfriends? No, I don’t need that. That’s what I thought for a long time. I also never believed in love before which takes me back to that story of never imagining myself getting married… I never believed in love so what was the point of thinking about that? Imagining a perfect marriage and family? Why would that make me happy?” Ending that quietly, he took a small pause with a weak smile before continuing through a laugh. ”Don’t worry, that’s not what I think now! It changed when Jessica and I started officially dating and if we never did I’d probably still think that way but we did… and at only 20 I bought an engagement ring. Yeah, we were young but… it felt… right. I was never excited about anything the way I was excited about that. And terrified, in a good way of course, so… I was wrong to think I didn’t believe in love.
She made me believe in it and it took me a while to realize that for the longest time I was in love, with my best friend. She was the only person I was ever in love with.”
”What I wanted to say with this is that I’ve been in love with my wife for almost 20 years now. When she was away and I haven’t seen her in a long time, when we were fighting and she probably thought I hated everything that had to do with her, when we were together for the first time and when we weren’t anymore. When I was with other people, when she was… It… it had always been only her… It all started with this childish game we played at a random party when we were 13 and she kissed me… You can ask her about it later, I’m sure she’d love to tell you about it especially after pretending, for 4 years, that she couldn’t remember it… “ Letting the room fill with laughter, he looked at his wife and shook his head in disappointment, obviously in a joking way, proven with a mischievous smile that followed. ”But I knew I’d always do anything for her. No matter what our relationship was, no matter how much of a d!ck I was… Excuse me, there’s royalty here," Dorian whispered, keeping his smile on.
"I knew I would do anything for her even if I’m not the most creative person but lucky she likes to ramble and with that reveal what she wants. You know… I remember this one time we were talking about working out and whatnot and she said how she’d only work on her biceps by bringing food into her mouth and how she’s actually an olympic champion… That conversation ended with us agreeing that should be an actual sport so she could win and get a trophy because she is the best of the best even if she tried to reach out to someone and they said no. Well… I obviously know some people, one being a very important person in the International Olympics committee… the current president of the IOC and I reached out to him… Unfortunately he couldn’t be here today but I do have a little message he left for… Jessica.” Dorian glanced at her for a second just to see her confused reaction before turning to the screen on the wall and put on a video he had previously prepared for this moment - a familiar face to him showing up.
“First of all I want to say congratulations on your marriage and best wishes. Dorian came to me with a very unusual but interesting idea, saying how he wanted to do something special for his wife. This was the first time someone suggested something like this to me or my colleagues and as much as we wanted to do something about this charismatic idea we sadly can’t make, and I quote “bringing food into mouth” an official olympic sport. But what we can do is make it a Jessica Pierce only specialty and mention her as one of our best athletes. What we also can do is make a trophy for her, which Dorian suggested and we happily ended up doing…" the rest of his message wasn’t that important, or Dorian just didn’t listen to since his friend approached him and gave him that trophy. A cheeky smile on his lips as he turned to face the table where his wife was, but she was already making her way towards him, a smile that matched his. “Surprise,” only thing he managed to say before she pulled him in for a kiss he immediately returned, wrapping his free arm around her. “What a good addition to our shelf, huh?”
Yes I did use parts of this post for another reply but this was my original post I thought I’d never get a chance to share so… No judging.