A Runt Luna
Chapter 48

"Mom, please don't cry." lan said with a nervous smile. He stood tall, looking proud in his black suit. Ian had taken to calling her mom when she was returned after those months of capture.

"I'm sorry. I'm just so happy for you." Rory said, straightening out his bow-tie.

"I am going to go check on things, but I will be right back." It was half true, she did

have to check on things and make sure that everything was perfect, but Kole had previously asked her to step out so he could talk to lan privately.

Rory moved outside of the bedroom, before moving to the bedroom that Missy was getting ready in. Knocking slightly, she peered inside, her breath catching as she say Missy wringing her hands and obsessively moving over her dress smoothing the non-existent wrinkles.

"Everything thing ok in here?" Rory asked.

"No-l- I don't know. What if he regrets marring me? What if he realizes that I am not worthy of him." Missy said, her eyes filling with tears obviously repeating what her family taunted her with before.

"That will never happen, he loves you so much." Rory said smiling resting her hands on Missy's shoulders.

It took nearly twenty minutes for Rory to help calm Missy's fears. Rory returned to lan's room and saw that he was looking a little green, pacing back and forth.

"Is she alright?" lan asked, his wolf sensing what his mate was.

"She is, she looks beautiful." Rory smiled. "Now, if you are ready we can get this show on the road!"

"Ok, yeah." lan nodded.

The ceremony was beautiful, Rose was the ring barer, Parker and Steven the flower girl and boy. Steven being almost two followed his sister down the aisle tossing the white lily blossom on the ground. As planned, after they were done they sat next to their parents. Everyone stood as Missy walked down the aisles, but unlike many, Rory was fixated on seeing lan's face as he saw Missy for the first time in her gown.

"Are you crying?" Kole asked as Missy reached where lan was standing.

"Of course I'm crying! I'm just so happy for him." She said wiping her tears with her finger, until Kole offered her a handkerchief.

"Me too, me too." Kole nodded kissing the top of her head. As the ceremony proceeded, Kole remembered the feeling of nervous and complete happiness he had felt when he married Rory. It wasn't until after Rose was born, having gone through a rough patch during Rory's first pregnancy. At the time Kole was happy and nervous that he was going to be a father, but he was upset that he had bit the inside of her thigh, feeling that he took away her choice and was truly stuck with him. But both his sister and Edna knocked him upside the head a few times and made him see reason.

"I love you." Kole whispered into her ear, as he adjusted Steven on his lap.

"I love you too." Rory smiled before turning her full attention back to lan and his wedding.

*---- 1 YEAR LATER

Laughter made its way into her home, as Rory stood at the kitchen sink watching as the kids were playing in the yard, while washing the dishes. She had been watching Matthew and Klaire while Georgia and Alex were having a day trip. She turned her attention back to the dishes that she was watching, glancing up when she heard screaming giggles. The ten year old boy, Levi, who had moved in a few houses down, was outside chasing Rose. Levi had been over more often than not and deep down Rory knew that Rose, despite being only eight, found her mate.

"What's going on?" Kole asked coming up behind her, kissing her forehead.

"The kids are playing with the neighbor boy."

"Again?" Kole questioned a frown on his face, replaceing it odd that the neighbor boy was over so often.

"Are the young ones down for a nap?"

"Yeah, George and Ryker put up a fight, but I won in the end." Kole said talking about Georgia and Alex's two youngest. George was two and Ryker was only a few months old.

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Georgia had decided that it was only right for her to have one child named after her, but she had thought that she was having a girl, but Georgia Junior turned out to be a George.

"I'm glad you were able to best a toddler and a baby." Rory smirked as she

finished rinsing the last of her dishes.

"Ha, Ha. So what's this kids deal."

"I think Rose found her Mate." Rory whispered over the running water, so the kids wouldn't hear them with their enhanced hearing.

"WHAT!" Kole yelled, his voice reaching a high octave that Rory didn't know he possessed.

"Shh, you'll scare them."

"But she's EIGHT! That fucking punk." Kole said his face turning red.

"Don't you do anything." Rory said catching Kol's arm before he could run off and scare the boy. "They are kids, nothing will happen for many, many years. But if you scare him off, you are setting your daughter up for unhappiness."

"But he cant be her mate, he's a human."