Navajo Nation - Arizona

[middle-amazon.livejournal.com]

As befitting the tradition of the groom’s people, the guests are assembled in a circle around a handmade clay tier. On this tier are baskets filled with flowers. One basket holds plants from his desert home. Another basket has more worldly flowers happily provided from a flower shop in Gotham. One holds blossoms from an island which has now disappeared away from Man’s World. The final and largest one holds a hodgepodge of plants - Tamaranean flowers share space with Atlantian seaweed and Mid-western wildflowers...white Themscyrian lilacs flank a small bouquet of orange roses named after a Wayne family botanist over a century ago. All are from gardens surrounding a tower in San Francisco which houses a family that the couple have fought with, beside, and sometimes even against but have always been a part of.

The groom, dressed in a red silk shirt and, out of respect for private memory, plain black silk pants stands...or rather fidgets...awaiting the bride. Even through all the battles, even through the challenges of Hades domain and the pair dying in one another arms, he’s still amazed he’s even here. His daughter is by his side, holding his sweating hand, swinging his arm, and smiling a smile so big it could swallow her face.

Roy Harper and Donna Troy began their relationship as their family - the Titans - began. Their fortunes rose and fell with the volatile team. Their relationship over the past 14 years has always been a potent mix of love, friendship, duty, humor, borderline insanity, and loyalty. For some, “Titans Together,” is a battle chant. To some it’s a homecoming and reminder there is a place for caped misfits and orphans to find themselves. To others, it’s a memory of youth and times past. To this pair, it’s a way of life and today just adds one more wrinkle to that statement.

Let’s begin...

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[delphic-child.livejournal.com]

In the back, a red haired woman smiles.

[jla-extras.livejournal.com]

"Donna, Roy--" He gestures for them to move into position. "It is time for you to exchange the vows you have written, to seal your fates together."

[middle-amazon.livejournal.com]

Donna gives a look of decidedly mock exasperation to thier old friend. Holding back the giggles gets harder.

[delphic-child.livejournal.com]

It's contagious. Lilith raises a hand to cover her mouth. She's giggling too.

[arsenal-arrow.livejournal.com]

Oh. He's first. He hears the other giggling beyond his own and just smiles wider. It would've probably been a good idea to write this down, but everything he'd written down sounded stupid and since when has he really thought about anything he's said?

He clears his throat and straightens up a little, trying to fight the giggles with the serious. Deep breaths. "Donna, we've been together a long time. In and out, off and on, but always together. There were some bad days where it felt like you were the only person in the world that even acknowledged me. I was never alone as long as I had you, and you promised me that. I needed to hear that. I don't think I'd be here right now if I hadn't heard that from you when I did.

"I love you, Donna, and I'm going to spend the rest of my life making sure you know it. I will protect you, love you, and never leave you. I'll do everything in my power to make the bad times a little better, and the good times great. I'll help you reach your goals, and be there for every step with you. I will never lie to you or even try. There are no secrets between us. I will always let you be you, because that's the woman I fell in love with. I want to have a family with you and share every single day of the rest of my life with you. There is nobody else. There never really has been. And I'm going to spend my life honoring, protecting, respecting, and loving you as best I can."

[delphic-child.livejournal.com]

Her best friend is getting married. It hits her like a ton of bricks. Suddenly the giggles are gone. It's like somebody threw a switch. Tears start to form in their place.

[middle-amazon.livejournal.com]

“Roy...My Sunshine...my constant source of light, warmth, and humor...hope and dedication...The one who makes me happy when skies are gray.”

She raises her eyebrows.

“There are no words are there? Nothing is adequate to cover how much I love you...How much you bolster me...How much every day with you can and has been stronger, richer and feels more alive then one without you. There is no promise of the future that covers just how much I’m looking forward to it.”

“My best friend...The one who I run into every type of hell with. The one with the faith and defiance to never leave my heart." Damn, she's crying anyway. "You have my esteem and respect. This...This is what I promise." She chokes a little. "I promise my support, my strength, my love, and my protection. I will share with you my laughter and my tears. I will rise to greet the future and those in it - and I will go into this future unafraid because you will be with me."

[connor-hawke.livejournal.com]

Is Connor going to chalk up that stinging in his eyes to the desert sand? Hell, no.

[jessequick.livejournal.com]

Jesse's gaze is fixed on Donna and Roy, her own vision clouded by tears. And affection for the couple marrying.

Life seems flawless.

[-nightwing-.livejournal.com]

It would take a heart of stone to not be affected. Dick is watching the closest thing to a blood sister he has in his life get married to one of his best friends.

This, of course, gives him the right to kick either of their asses if they screw up.

But this isn't like the day she married Terry. There's something profoundly more genuine here; more compassionate and heartfelt, and it's made all the more real by the reminder that Dark Angel's shadow no longer darkens their doorstep.

It's been a long time coming.

Procrastination in love seems to be a hugely Titan thing.

[oracle-watching.livejournal.com]

From her wheelchair, Babs watches her husband watching the bride and groom, guessing at his thoughts.

[tempest-swims.livejournal.com]

Garth for his part wears an inscrutable face.

"Do you have the rings?"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wondergirl_/]

Cassie's standing behind Roy, having run up to him when she remembered she had the ring for Donna. There's a smile across her face, one that's sad, yet happy. Her eyes are red from tears.

She brings the box forward to give to Roy.

[speedy-mia.livejournal.com]

Mia walks to the front, "I have Donna's for Roy," and hands over the ring giving the couple a smile and a wink as she does so.

[middle-amazon.livejournal.com]

Donna flashes a smile at Mia. "Thank you."

Wordlessly, she takes his hand - the same one he shoots a bow and holds children with. She slips the second part of his ring - the wedding piece - onto his finger.

[arsenal-arrow.livejournal.com]

The giggles haven't completely gone. It takes him a second before he takes the ring from Cassie, sighing out a "thank you" to her before he turns back to Donna.

It's almost over. Just a while ago he was being antsy for it to start and it's almost over. He takes Donna's hand and just looks at her before a long moment, then slips on the ring. Her engagement ring wasn't dual, but the wedding band offsets it nicely with silver, and white gold carvings that represent "family" in Navajo.

[tempest-swims.livejournal.com]

This is both the easiest thing in the world to say and the hardest. Easy because he's had front row center seats to this show for much of his life. Hard because his own promises like this are vanishing like seafoam for the second time in his life.

"Let these rings be a symbol," he notes solemly. "A reminder and token of this day and the promises you have made to yourselves, your family, and to each other. Around you today, you are surrounded by your people who you can look to to support you..."

Then every ounce of seriousness vanishes and he wears a boyish smile few ever see from the Regent.

"Now, it's about time you kiss our favorite girl, Harper. The food's getting cold."

[arsenal-arrow.livejournal.com]

He can absolutely do that. His grip goes right to the familiar place, holding her gently and pulling her closer to him.

He kisses her for the first time, his wife.

[middle-amazon.livejournal.com]

She is giggling into that kiss and her arms go around...

My husband...Great Goddesses..." She tightens her arms around him. "Thank you...

[etai-yazi.livejournal.com]

And Lian is the first to make a noise.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"