Shot in the Dark: A Mick Mars X Ozzy Osbourne Story

Chapter 47: The Prince of Darkness Takes his Queen Part 1 (Ozzy POV)

March 27, 1985, a date I could NEVER even at ANY rough patches, no matter fucking what could ever forget. On that date, that much remembered and much-loved date...I married for my first true time, the first time as I've come to see it.... didn't count and there is also the fact I genuinely could not remember my wedding with my ex. No need to go into details....

Anyway, it had been 10 days since my daughter's first birthdays and I was doing something I never imagined doing again and not only that...something that if I hadn't seen the light, or bloody well hadn't've pulled my head out of my arse and made things right with Mick, well it may not have happened.

Our wedding, mine and Mick's was something out of a fairytale.... Tony and Geezer's English Manor as a backdrop, perfect weather and I became fully united with my other half: Mick Mars-Osbourne...

Today I am getting married and its KILLED me to be separated from Mick and I miss our children, our precious little girls and I hope the three of them are ok. I know the kids are here, with Nikki I believe, he'd insisted, and I believe may bring them to see me before the ceremony starts. Now I am getting ready and I---

"Oz? All right their mate?" Geezer's distinct Birmingham accent floats to me and I shake myself out of my stupor, Geezer is currently bouncing my niece little Rose on his leg. Tony is beside him, and it makes me wistful because I really wish I could be that close to Mick right now holding him in my arms. 

I am a bundle of nerves.... I shouldn't be, but I am. This...I don't even remember or barely remember my first 'marriage' to Sharon, I think I was halfway high, but that's not the damned point. I just hate being apart from him for any length of time, I suppose it goes back to essentially losing him twice.... he's probably in much the same way as me.... oddly enough or maybe not, it makes me feel somewhat better...and truly I can't wait to marry him, THIS day I shall remember FOREVER.

"Ah sorry." I apologize, "Just a bundle of nerves.... I hate being apart from him for any length of time, suppose it goes back to essentially losing him twice...almost forever. I reckon he's in much the same way as me.... still, I cannot wait to marry him." My words echoed my very thoughts.

"Oz, I am proud of you for finally doing right by Mick not so long ago....it was there all the time, how very much you loved him. I could hear it in your voice....and you love him even more so now. As soon as you see him, all those nerves will disappear." Tony is very wise and sensible, and God is he right! "It is an honor to host your wedding and be a part of it." Tony adds on, smiling gently. There is a story behind those words too, he was referring to the fact that neither he nor Geezer was at my first wedding.... Sharon just wanted it over and done with, with only one witness...her mother. Though really it was because SHE is the one that encouraged me to quit Sabbath...and with already high tensions in the band...well Geezer and Tony couldn't stand her.

I am finally ready, and I hear two precious little voices and I KNOW along with Nikki's deeper voice, and I am at the door before I realize....

"There's my little girls!" I scooped them both up in my arms and look to Nikki....

"They were good for us, we just came from Mick....Gene is with him and has Nick and Sophie...Mick says he's really nervous, worried you'd change your mind...I told him there was no way in hell. He said to tell you, that he really loves and misses you....and I know you said Gene and I didn't have to go to so much trouble, but we are keeping them while you and Mick honeymoon."

"Tell him, there is no way in HELL I'd change my mind...I could never, and I really love and miss him too...and you guys don't have to do that really but thank you." I let my words out all in a rush or so it seems to me. But I feel two tiny pairs of hands on my face...

"Wuv ew daddy! Mommy wuv ew!" Angel, her little eyes and her face reminded me so of Mick.

"Wuv ew an' mummy pweety!" Michelle says matter of factly. Both really help me calm down some more, keeping me grounded just like their wonderful mother.

"I love you girls dearly, never forget and be good for your uncle and aunt...and also I love your mother so very much, more than my life." I get a little misty at these words, though I know tears will come when I see my beloved.... more precious moments are spent with my children, chatting with Tony and Geezer and before I realize it....i am standing at the end of the aisle waiting.... the anticipation ever building....

Twining vines.... flowers and an English manor as a backdrop.... very beautiful setting, a setting generously shared by dear friends, but NOTHING could compare to Mick....NOTHING.... Music is starting now, my little girls will be flower girls....one by one, gene with his and Nikki's children, everyone making their way down the aisle...my children now...running, clinging to my legs...and then OH BLIMEY....a literal angel...

At LAST, I catch sight of Mick...., MY alien.... looking like an angel, my dear fallen Angel, on the arm of Nikki and he and I catch sight of each other, tears in our eyes and time stops. Mick with a crown of flowers, blue ones making his fire eyes standing out even more...some make-up, ruby red lips...and to my great surprise....and wonder, a dress....as if it is made of clouds...sparkling, gossamer...delicate, Grecian sort of in style....and he's MARRYING me? How fucking lucky am I?

Mick reaches me and time starts again, as I after thanking Nikki and my daughters joining him then take Mick's hands in mine.

"You.... look like an ANGEL firefly.... god how I have missed you." I whisper.

"I've missed you too my prince....i was.... really nervous.... seeing you makes all that go away." Mick whispers back. I could not agree more my love.... I could not agree more. You Mick make everything better, everything.

Mick and I are in our own little world, the officiant begins the ceremony, I can't take my eyes off him....i do though only for the briefest of moments to check on our daughters and I can feel Mick's gaze in the same direction and I have to hold in a laugh as I realize they've apparently fallen asleep, Mick and I lock gazes once again....both of us amused and I swear Mick's eyes fairly glow, I feel a gentle nudge and I realize it's time.

I take a deep shaky breath and the tears I barely managed to hold back fall as I begin my vows:

"Mick....i remember the day we met, you hung back....and I could tell right away, you were shy. Well, there was more to it, you acted in the manner of someone who'd never been seen and wasn't used to being SEEN. The sound of your voice even then did something to me....and I didn't see it, I didn't know then.... I'd already fallen. I hurt you over and over, time after time...I took out my frustration on you...I was selfish and blind and wrapped up in myself and drugs. There is no true excuse my darling....and then came that night in the rain, you were so broken.... the fire being slowly extinguished from your eyes, you weren't the only one who wanted to FEEL.....but that night we created two precious little angels and neither of us knew.....then came the biggest mistake of my life, I'd already lied to you so much back then....and then the biggest 'lie' was reveled and it was too late then when I realized what my heart had wanted all along: YOU. I divorced, went to rehab....i did so much damage to not just you, but everyone.... you though...I can never show enough that I am sorry or say it....and then I found out you were pregnant, and I'd realized and finally began to make things right, to earn your love, your heart.... your forgiveness, to be yours in all ways. Mick, you helped me see the light...to become a better person. I fell in love with you over again and again, I do so each day.... you sacrificed your life, your health for ME. My firefly, I vow to strive to be the partner you need, you deserve and to be the best father to our children.... our children. I love you.... i love you so much.... i can't picture nor would I want to a world, a life without YOU." I am openly sobbing at this point, Mick in much the same state as i and I can barely see through my tears as I manage to place the ring on his finger.... I feel him squeeze my hands, lending me strength and he speaks to me the words of his heart.... his vows.... the tears ever flowing...

A/N: I am sorry for the cliffhanger!! Part 2 will pick up with Mick's vows. Stay tuned!