I Do (William!)

[TATIANA NADJA GOYLE]

It was finally here.

It was going to be quite possibly the best day of her life (so far! She had the thrill of starting a family to come yet!) but at the same time she had never been so terrified in her life.

There was something about standing before the full length mirror in her white wedding dress that raised goosebumps on her arms and set her stomach full of butterflies. It probably didn't help that her mother was beside her fussing over every inch of the outfit she wore, right down to the shoes on her feet to the bands that kept her hair from falling into her face....really there was no need to pull at the hem of the dress in such a way! And if her mother thought she could tighten the strings of her corset anymore Ana would be forced the stun the woman! "Mama stop," Turning with a slight swish as the lace swept behind her she caught her mother's hands in her own. "Its perfect. Everything is perfect." Raising the hands to her lips she gently kissed them, looking into her mother's eyes as she did so and promptly tearing up to match the other woman.

Letting go of the hands she vainly flapped her eyes with her hands, as if it would stop the tears from falling since she couldn't afford to ruin her makeup right now. It didn't help very much but a proffered tissue from one of her cousins soon fixed the problem and with a sniff accepted the bouquet from one of the other cousins and turned to greet her father as he entered the room.

Which of course prompted a fresh batch of tears that threatened to roll down her cheeks. "Oh papa," She allowed herself to be swept up into the arms she had always run to whenever she had needed someone stronger than her mother. Her brother had never been a fixed point in her life and although he was no longer with them she couldn't help but be thankful he was no longer here...she dreaded to think how today might go had he been alive to turn up. Sniffling slightly she brought the tissue back to her face and once again swiped the tears from her eyes and a quick charm from her mother removed the tear marks from her face.

"There, now you are perfect." She commented as she now fixed the veil to her daughter's head, "And it is time to go out."

With a deep breath Ana hooked her arm through her father's, threw a beaming smile over to her cousins acting as bridesmaids and then to her mother, "We had better not be late then." She commented as she moved out of the room they had been in, heading towards the large wooden doors that acted as a barrier between them and the rest of their guests and most importantly her future husband.

As they opened and the first few notes of the wedding march began she took a deep breath to steady the nerves that still held her in their tight grip and focused on the end of the aisle where she could just see William move forward slightly so that he would be there to meet her at the other end and with that image in her mind, stepped forward into the start of her future....

[WILLIAM CHARLES GOYLE]

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The morning had been busy for everyone but William. He spent a lot of it sitting in an arm chair while everyone else ran around like a headless flobberworm. He was showered, dressed and someone had applied some sort of powder to his face to stop him looking so shiny in the pictures that would be taken. He didn't even realise that pictures were already being taken.

He was sat in a room in the church and then he wasn't. His mother ushered him out of the room and to the front of the church. There were people filling the church as he entered and he looked to his best man.

The nerves were setting in. William took a deep breath as he stood at the front of the church. His family and friends and Tatiana's family and friends filled the place. There were far more people here than he would have invited but this was a pureblood marriage, they had to be big and showy, they had to show the wizarding world that their parents had plenty of money to afford any sort of wedding they desired but the truth was William didn't care about anyone else today, he just wanted to see Tatiana and her smiling face. He truly hoped she turned up.

The doors of the church opened. William heard them bang open and he heard all the people stand. He took a deep breath and the wedding march played. He took another deep breath, not really understanding why he was so nervous when he was also so happy. He turned to look at his bride. She was exquisite as she walked down the aisle. William could not believe that this day had finally come. Over six years of longing and now they were here, soon to be man and wife. It was as though all his dreams had come true.

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[TATIANA NADJA GOYLE]

Everyone was staring at her. Not that it was something new and unusual but today it was all the more nerve-wrecking. All these people had come today to see two purebloods marry one another, a union that was a welcome one in their world. Some of them she had never met before in her life but she knew well enough that it would do no good to order them away from this place....some were simply there to see the continuation of the blood lines that they were all so proud and protective of and others were family she had never even met before and then there were reporters who would go away at the end of the day, their quills flitting over parchment with every single gory detail of the day. Those were the people she disliked the most for staring at her. What right did they have to comment on her choice of dress? Of the guests when they themselves had simply invited themselves along? Of her choice of husband? These people judged her because they had nothing better to do and despite this day being so special that nothing could truly ruin it for her she made a mental note to put a complaint in to their employers...she would not tolerate such an invasion of her personal life!

Shoving thoughts of her revenge on the tabloids she instead concentrated on putting one foot in front of the other, not willing to fall flat on her face because she hadn't quite judged where her foot ended and dress began. Why did the aisle seemingly go on forever? It wasn't an impossible thought of course. She was sure had there been any pranksters in the audience they might have thought it amusing to magically lengthen the aisle but since she was positive there were no such people it was simply her own imagination and nerves that conjured the thought...

And of course she eventually reached the end which certainly helped to calm her down. The worst part was over for the most part. She had gotten down the aisle without making a complete fool of herself, had satisfied those that had wondered whether either herself or her groom would actually make it at all and most importantly, was now at the place she wanted to be more than anywhere else in the world.

Turning slightly she gave a shy smile to William. He looked so handsome and not for the first time she partly congratulated herself on securing such a good looking, kind hearted (to her at any rate) man, thanked Medusa for allowing this to actually happen in the first place by refusing him and thanked her lucky stars that her father had approved of the match for she could never have married him without that approval...no matter how much she wished it to be so. With a shy smile she handed her bouquet to her mother and gently took one of William's hands in her own before turning her attention to the robed wizard who stood before them ready to go through the process that would end up with her being the happiest of women.

She was so ready for her fairytale ending...

[WILLIAM CHARLES GOYLE]

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There she was. A vision of pure beauty. She walked down the aisle at such a slow pace. William knew that it was traditional but he suspected that some prank had been played on him to make time flow more smoothly but it didn't matter. Tatiana was here and walking towards him. He smiled, possibly a little nervously but the only thing now that was making him nervous were the points at which he would have to speak during the ceremony and the hundreds of eyes, watching him. If it was just him and Tatiana, he wouldn't have worried so much. A smaller wedding would have suited him better but he knew that was not the way the pureblood world worked. They had to show off for them all and William would not have changed that through fear of his parents wrath and that of his soon to be in-laws.

Tatiana reached him at the end of the aisle. She looked radiant. William's breath caught in his chest for a couple of seconds as he took her in, her hair, her make-up, she looked as though she had come from one of his dreams, she seemed utterly flawless to him. She handed her bouquet to her mother and William just watched her in awe. She had made her wedding dress herself and to say that she had done an incredible job would have been a ridiculous understatement. She was absolutely striking. He took her hands in his and could have melted at her shy little smile, instead he found his heart skipping a beat.

The ceremony started and William could not take his eyes away from his elegant bride. He found himself lost in her gaze as someone close by droned on. There was little in the world that could stop him from staring at Tatiana. He just wanted to kiss her. He wanted to scoop her up in his arms and carry her away on their honeymoon so they could do the things that married couples did together, among other things of course.

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[TATIANA NADJA GOYLE]

As the minister began to speak Ana lost herself in William's eyes, only listening with half an ear to what was being said so she wouldn't make a complete fool of herself by missing the parts where she was supposed to speak. She was too busy planning their evening. After this they would have to go to the reception where they would have to greet guests, where half of them would be sincere in their well wishes whereas the other half would be those who wanted to see what kind of food she had put out for them, what the decorations looked like and when it came to the end of the night what she would wear to leave...would she wear a going away outfit or stay in her wedding dress? Ana could already answer that one for them. She would stay in her wedding dress...she hadn't spend so many hours creating this to only wear it for a few hours! Besides she wanted her husband to remove this dress and she would be damned if she took it off before then.

She jerked back to reality in time to hear the minister say 'Do you take this man?' and without even hesitating was saying "I do," before anyone could jump up and disagree with what was happening although they hadn't gotten to that part had they? From the corner of her eye she looked at the mass of faces staring at them and dared one of them to jump up and stop the union. She highly doubted her parents would allow anyone to get close enough for the minister to hear them say their objections and if what she understood of her beloved William she highly doubted his parents would allow the objections either.

Turning her eyes back to the minister as he asked William the same question and was that a little worry that flitted through the back of her mind? How could she worry? He was going to say I do just like she had! Perhaps it was just the nerves that had made her doubt for a moment that perhaps he would change his mind about wanting her as his wife? Afterall there was no doubt in her mind that this was exactly what she wanted for her life and she was positive that this was what he wanted but she was allowed to have just that little moment...nerves were like that.