Title: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
Characters: Everyone and their mother
Genre: Drama. Humor Family
Rating: FR18.

Warning: There will be lemons (aka Sex). Nothing too explicit, but there will be some. Lots of pranks and family teasing… but that's expected from the Buchanan's.

If you're not a fan of hopeless (or hopeful) romantic stories, walk out now.

There's no big plot, just love and loving in its various forms and expressions and songs.

a/n: There will be a couple of crossovers characters too, but they are not important to the plot, they are mentioned only in passing, as guests in a party. They don't affect the plot at all, that's why I'm not adding the story to the crossover section as the others I've written.

If you don't like my story, I would kindly ask you to PM me. Flames will be used at the barbecue grill at the Buchanan's backyard.

This is part of the Joy Buchanan series and written for the LIMA OSCAR VICTOR ECHO challenge from NFA website.

I hope you enjoy the music…

PRELUDE

I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.

I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains - but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burnt -but if I have no love, this does me no good.

Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.

Love is eternal.

There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues but they will cease. There is knowledge, but it will pass.

For our gifts of knowledge and inspired massages are only partial; But when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.

When I was a child, my speech, my feelings, and thinking were those of a child; Now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways.

What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; Then we shall see face to face. What I know now is only partial; Then it will be complete - as complete as God's knowledge of me.

Meanwhile these three remain; faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.

Love Chapter - 1 Corinthians 13, 1-13.