Hi everyone! Sorry it took so long to get back to this *ducks* but, I should be able to work on it more often now! Please R&R, I love them!

Three months of planning by Helen and Ashley had Will tearing his hair out. He had never pegged his future Mother-in-law as an out of control squealing mother of the bride. That being said, Ashley was just as excited as her mother, and had even forgone her daily visits to the firing range to plan with her mother. The two Magnus women could be found in the library, the kitchen, North tower, or in one of their bedrooms on the bed planning. Helen and Ashley knew this and so today was a girl's day out to give the guys a break.

Helen and Ashley had gone to a meeting so that they could do a final fitting for her dress. Last week they had finalized the guest list, the menu, and the reception. Ashley and Will had agreed on getting married in the Sanctuary Chapel and having the reception in the main ballroom, so that their closest friends could come without Helen having to spin a cover story for the wedding.

Ashley was slipping into her dress while Helen sat outside the dressing room reading over her notes on the dress again, when Ashley called for her. Helen looked up and set her notes back in her purse. "Yes Ashley?"

"Can you help me with this?" Ashley's voice rang through the door. Helen heard the lock click, signaling that she could enter and she did, locking the door behind her. Helen inhaled deeply and looked at the gown hanging on the wall; her daughter was currently fighting with a corset that had been hers at one point.

Helen chuckled before grabbing the laces and tightening them. Ashley gasped as she felt the corset tighten around her. "Mom, does it really have to be this tight?" she said as Helen tied the laces in the middle.

"Sweetheart, this corset is a rather temperamental one that even I fight with. They are tight for a reason. However, I am surprised that it fits you as well as it does." Helen informed her daughter as she grabbed the gown and helped her into it. Helen started doing up all of the buttons of the strapless dress and Ashley just looked in the mirror. She didn't look like Ashley Magnus, the kickass girl anymore. She looked like Ashley Magnus, the woman who was getting married in four days.

"Mom, when you were going to marry my dad, were you nervous at all, even if you didn't get to go down the aisle?" Ashley asked looking at her figure in the mirror. Helen smiled and wrapped her arms around her daughter's middle.

"I was very nervous, I wanted to rip my hair out. When I started planning I didn't know that I was pregnant with you. When I found out about you fathers issues, I went to James and Nikola and they helped me preserve you. I didn't want you to live in a world where you would be looked down upon for not having a father. I only wanted to keep you safe." Helen said. Ashley hugged her mother's arms and rested her head on her shoulder.

"I know mom." She said before noticing that Helen had tears in her eyes through the mirror. "Mom, are you okay?" she said pulling away and turning around. Helen nodded and wiped her eyes.

"I just can't believe you've grown up so fast, I still think of you as that colicky baby that had me up at all hours of the night. I remember 26 hours of labor and the time you broke you leg, and now you are getting married." She said hugging her child close. Ashley hugged her back and smiled.

"We will still live in the house Mom, it's not like we're moving out." Ashley said smiling.

"I worry about you though, and it's partly the not moving out that I wander about." Helen chuckled before turning her daughter around and beginning to undo the buttons on the back of the dress. Ashley smirked.

"It's not like we'll be the next room over Mom. Besides, don't you want grandchildren?" Ashley asked smiling. Helen's head snapped up with wide eyes.

"Someday, Ashley, just not right now." She said smiling nervously. She had thought of grand kids. Ashley laughed and slipped out of the dress, patting her mother's arm.

"I know, but not many kids can say that their grandma is nearly two hundred." Ashley pointed out. Helen shook her head, she really shouldn't be apprehensive about grandchildren.

"Darling, I still look to young to have grandchildren, much less have a child your age. I think it would be awkward, I could give you a sibling that is fifty years younger than you." Helen mused. Ashley laughed harder at that.

"You will always look too young, why not do it anyway, I wouldn't mind a brother or a sister, I could teach them to ignore Uncle Nikola, and shoot guns." Helen paled at her daughter's line of thought.

"I couldn't Ashley, when would I find the time?" she said seriously. "I would love to have another child but when and with whom is another set of questions entirely."

"Mom, you could do artificial insemination, and we would all be there for you, there doesn't have to be a guy. If you want a baby then go for it, we're all here for you." Her child turned around, waiting for the laces on the corset to be loosened. Helen thought about it while she loosened the laces and helped her daughter out of the white Victorian style corset.

"You are getting married in four days, I'll think about it okay, but you won't know until after the wedding." Ashley nodded at her mother, hoping that she would say yes. She would know in about a week, and that was good enough for her.

Okay everyone, there's the chapter! Up next, the Wedding!