Epilogue

Jinx

Jinx was freaking out, hyperventilating more like, as she paced around the bride's chamber. Her short, 100% lace dress was indecent as a wedding gown, she hadn't seen her groom to be since last night when Garfield and Dick dragged him out to his bachelor party, and her maid of honor was in the bathroom taking a test because the pinkette had been convinced there would be a baby bump by now and her friend was still slim as ever.

Nothing was going as she's seen it.

What if it didn't happen?

What if he walked out on her?

What if Dick, Garfield, and Wally were locked up for some stupid drunken shenanigans and her wedding was going to be ruined.

She would kill him. He would be dead in a shallow grave and she wouldn't miss him. Not one bit.

"Look I told you, half demon's can't have children." Raven threw the test at her friend. It was negative.

"It's all ruined. Nothing's right. Nothing nothing nothing."

"Calm down." Raven sat down, sipping on herbal tea, eyes focused on her pacing friend. "Garfield messaged me hours ago, they got hung up putting doctor light behind bars again this morning. Wally's been here patiently waiting driving him and Dick crazy since eight o'clock sharp." Raven's voice was steady and slowly the stress seemed to melt out of Jinx.

"Why hasn't he come to see me?"

"It's bad luck to see the bride before the wedding." Raven sent her friend a smug smile.

"I'm the meaning of bad luck!"

"You collect lucky pennies and four leaf clovers, now sit down before you make me sick."

"Oh this is the most glorious of days!" Kori swooped into the room through the window wearing her bridesmaid dress. It was also 100% lace, completely indecent and her favorite shade of purple. Raven's was a match in black with a little silver pin that said bitch of honor.

"Why did you let me pick these dresses. Shouldn't it be classier? What if Wally doesn't like it. What if he doesn't want to stay?" the peace Raven had attempted to settle upon her friend shattered as more thoughts filled her head of all the ways this day could go wrong.

"Will you just calm down, you're getting on my nerves." Raven frowned at her friend, typing irritably at her phone.

"The boyfriend Richard has everything taken care of! Only ten more minutes and we can begin the walking of the aisle." Kori's cheer was met with a scared cry.

"I'm not ready."

"Shut up!" Raven snapped, pulling Jinx's crystal ball from a small portal. "Just read your damn future and quit worrying,"

"I'm not in the right state of mind," Jinx's eyes grew wide like saucers as the ball was dropped into her hands. It was warm to the touch, the crystal reacting to her need to know.

"Then clear your mind." Raven breathed out and Jinx followed her friend's lead. She tried to push all the nerves out of her body before sitting cross legged on the floor, her dress riding up indecently showing off her lacy shorts beneath.

The crystal seemed to be calling to her, and Jinx answered readily. Opening her mind to the warmth. She was surprised at how easily the images came. Wally's smile, Richard's proposal, knocking Wally into the cake to keep him from getting it into her hair.

Warmth fell down her cheek and she was startled to find she was crying.

"Are you done now, we're going to be late to your wedding." Raven checked her phone once again.

"Thanks." Jinx dabbed at her face with the tissue Kori offered her. "it's just i've been looking forward to this day since he proposed last year and i've been dreading it too. How do you handle it with Garfield."

"We're not married," Raven responded automatically, as she had a million times before.

"You're demon married," Jinx stood up, adjusting her dress. She sat still as Kori fastened the veil into the ridiculous amount of curled hair carefully captured atop her head.

"Why did you choose and american wedding over a traditional indian one? Won't your parents be disappointed?" Raven skipped past the question, frowning down at her damn phone.

"I haven't seen my parents since the H.I.V.E. picked me up. There's no need to please them with a traditional wedding if they're not even going to be there to see it" Jinx's hands smoothed down her dress again, shaking just a little from nerves.

"Oops." Kori's voice was small and Jinx's neck almost snapped as she turned to look at the alien that was about to be dead.

"Don't tell me you invited them!"
"Too late to worry about it now, let's go." Raven threw open the door, dropping her phone into a portal. Jinx was indignant, stomping out of the suite to the entrance doors of the cathedral. Kori flew ahead of her, taking her spot at the front of the procession leaving Raven to jog along to catch up with the two uneasy girls.

"I can't believe you would invite them." Jinx was fuming as the music began. Victor, the nominated big brother, offered his arm to the bride.

"Look, you don't even have to talk to them. Vic's giving you away." Raven snapped as the doors opened and Kori began marching. Raven fixed her dress, a frown etched into her face. "You can yell later, just remember to smile." and then Raven was walking, leaving Victor and Jinx to wait for the que.

"You look pretty." Vic tried to ease the riot of emotions threatening to make Jinx snap.

"If Wally doesn't cry I'm going to make his life hell." Jinx murmured as Vic pulled her forward. Each step was torture. Every eye was on Jinx. It was a small, personal wedding filled with mostly superheroes. In the front stood Jinx's very traditional Indian parents. Jinx tried not to look, but her eyes still jumped to them, looking for signs of disappointment. She hadn't spoken to them in well over ten years, not since her powers of bad luck began manifesting, adding to the crazy hair and too pale skin.

She had left to go to the H.I.V.E. in order to save them the grief of raising a mistake. So of course she was shocked when tears of joy were streaming down her mother's face while her ever stoic father beamed at her. She was in such disbelief that when Vic dropped her off with a kiss on the crown of her head and Wally took her hands she almost began weeping herself.

And then there was Wally.

Moisture was building in the corners of his eyes as he beamed at her. She was so shocked and frazzled she wasn't even listening as the minister began the vows. They elected not to write their own because Jinx could think of nothing she would want to share in a room full of mostly superheroes and Wally could think of far too much.

At the exchange of rings wally slipped the piece of twine, now preserved forever after being dipped in silver, down her finger to rest against the engagement ring he had giver her for christmas.

It was all too much for the poor girl as elephant tears seemed to fall from her eyes.

As the minister announced them as Mr. and Mrs. West she crashed Wally to her, the kiss filled with all the passion she normally held back.

It was the happiest day of her life.

Raven

"So when are you going to tell her?" Garfield ran his hand down his mates back as she upended wedding cake.

"After the honeymoon," she groaned into the toilet.

She was three months pregnant.

And she was beyond pissed.

"How hard is it to fake pregnancy results?" Garfield asked, humor in his voice.

"She was so frazzled she didn't feel the magic on the stick." another groan.

"How long does this last for? I'm worried you're not gaining the weight you need."

"Now is not the time to be worried about my weight," Raven groaned before sitting back. Garfield smoothed sweat slicked hair away from her face before placing a gentle kiss on her temple.

"But you're going to be so sexy all round carrying my baby," he chuckled as demonic rage presented itself. As quickly as her four eyes opened she was back to the toilet, purging stomach acid.

"Maybe we should get married next," he mused as his hands smoothed down her back once more. Watching the amount of chaotic fun their friends caused at Jinx's wedding was fuel for the fire. Sure he was tied to Raven in a way no one else could come close to, but he wanted a physical marking for it, something to keep unsuspecting guys from hitting on what was his.

"Absolutely not. I'm not ready for this kind of unnecessary party planning. This was a nightmare." Raven groaned as she sat back once again.

"You feeling okay?" suddenly Garfield was worried. She'd been doing pretty well the last few weeks. Almost no morning sickness.

"I'm a demon, these things run differently." she frowned at the worry pulsing from her partner.

"I never thought i'd be able to have kids, you know that? Vic did a test on my DNA once, it might be too unstable." the worry he had been holding inside since Raven's first bought of morning sickness and they found out about the little bundle growing inside her tumbled from his mouth.

"Half demons are usually sterile." Raven shrugged, flushing the toilet before forcing herself to stand. "The fact that it even happened is a miracle."

"Not a nightmare," Garfield perked up. He had watched enough soaps on tv with Star to know how pregnancy was portrayed. The nightmare of morning sickness, gaining weight, and then your body never being the same.

"If it's part me of course it will be a nightmare. The fact that it's yours makes it a miracle," there was a soft smile on his mate's face and it drove him a little crazy.

"Wanna lock the door and have messy bathroom sex?" Garfield sent Raven a sunny smile. She rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"I have to make sure Jinx doesn't kill Wally."

"But that dress makes you look so fuckable!" Garfield groaned before standing up himself.

"Once all the wedding stuff is done i'll consider it." Raven opened the door, motioning for Garfield to follow.

"You think it's a boy or a girl?"

"We'll be lucky if it's not a goldfish," Raven muttered as she surveyed the scene. Garth, Karen, and Roy had come for the wedding and were currently acting as a human shield for Wally. The groom looked absolutely terrified, as he should, because Jinx was crackling with chaotic curse magic just waiting to be released. Smatters of wedding cake were smeared across the bride's face, in her bright pink hair, and all over her dress.

Raven sighed before stepping forward. Her powers had been acting odd lately and she could only hope she could hold a barrier long enough to calm Jinx down.

"Oh you guys are so cute," Jinx's mother smiled as she placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder.

Just like that the impending doom was gone and Wally was now cowering in fear for a completely different reason. Jinx's father had approached him and they were speaking in hushed tones.

"Well this party is just getting started!" Garfield grinned before lacing his fingers with Raven's.

"Weddings are such a chore," the empath groaned.

Koriand'r

"Boyfriend Richard have you not been enjoying the festivities?" the alien princess tilted her head. He had been acting very odd the past few days, jumping whenever she entered a room and not allowing them to sleep in the same bed. He had said something about the Batman not approving but she was worried there was something else bothering him.

"Oh the wedding? It's nice." the young detective pulled at his collar. Was it really this stifling hot all the time?

"Friend Jinx looks like she's enjoying herself," Kori beamed in the direction of their pink haired teammate. She did look pretty happy speaking with the older Indian pair while holding a death grip on her new husband.

"What about you? Are you having fun," Richard coughed into his hand, his throat constricting at the words he was supposed to be saying, rehearsed over and over and over into the wee hours of the night.

"Weddings on earth are not much different from the Celebrations of Binding on Tamaran. There is less fighting, but much the food and merriment." sudden dread filled The Boy Wonder. He had been so preoccupied with earth customs that he completely forgot about what kind of customs Kori might prefer.

"And what about engagement?" Richard asked, pushing the box with the very expensive ring in it further down into his pocket.

"Well the intendeds usually fight alongside each other in tournaments of strength to prove compatibility. They then begin the courtship rituals of the training together and continue to assist with the fighting together."

"What about in times of peace?" Richard frowned.

"Instead of the fighting it is the dancing."

"Would you prefer to be courted as they do on your home planet?"

"I think earth customs also have their merits. The exchanging of words and rings is like a tie to the other. I don't know if i would be able to choose between the two if i had to," Kori looked thoughtful, a light blush coating her cheeks. "You may find this naive of me, but i have considered our time together as the courtship rituals of my planet."

"Well then let me begin the rituals of mine," suddenly the weight that had been building in Richard's chest lifted as he pulled the velvet box from his pocket. He dropped to his knees in a smooth motion before opening the box to present the ring to the love of his life. "Koriand'r of Tamaran, would you do me the honors of becoming my wife?"

"Oh my!" the blush quickly spread to engulf the princess' face completely. "I would be honored!" she jumped out of her seat, throwing her arms around the man she had so completely fell in love with.

"I'd hate to ruin such a touching moment," a dark and familiar voice called from a distance turning Kori's blood to ice. She turned quickly, eyes falling upon the face of her sister.

"Komiand'r what are you doing here? I thought you were locked behind bars on Centari?"

"Thanks to you and your stupid friends I was. However I still hold some pull with the Gordanians." the tan beauty with raven black hair appeared bored, floating about them while studying her nails. Screams emitted from the non superhero guests as the superheros seemed to be struggling against many tentacled monsters. How had they missed so much?

"What are you doing here? I will not ask again," Koriand'r stood, anger fueling her strength.

"Oh i plan on paying you and your little friends back for pain and suffering." Komiand'r's voice was cold as she studied her sister. "And I plan on destroying this happy little bubble you've created in my absence. We really can't have the disgraced Princess having a happy ending after all.

"It's going to take a little more than a couple guard robots to ruin my happy day!" Jinx roared, her chaotic curse magic tearing into the robots attempting to assault her parents.

"You better think twice before coming near my mate," an animalistic growl escape the green bean somewhere in the crowd. Slowly chorus's of triumphant cries resounded from Titan's and other supers in the crowd as the bots were quickly dispatched. The smile slipped from Komiand'r's face as it grew on Kori's.

"You stand no chance against us," Kori said proudly. "And you shall not ruin such a joyous day."

So long live the reckless and the brave

I don't think I wanna be saved

My song has not been sung

And long live the fast times

So come what may

I don't think I'll ever be saved

Our song has not been sung

Long live us

A/N: So this is the end. It was super awesome writing this! I've really enjoyed it but now i have to show some love to the abandoned projects that should have been finished waaaayyyy before this plot bunny sunk its teeth into me. Feedback is love