DoomPet

Chapter 103

"Crüe do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

He leaned forwards and smiled, "I do."

There was a pause from the officiant. Their face didn't change as if they hadn't heard him.

Crüe tried to speak more clearly, "I do."

"Oh whoops! Sorry about that, I put you on mute." Their embarrassed face glowed up at them through the screen of a tablet Elena had let them borrow. They leaned down and clicked a button, "Ok try now."

"I do." He gripped the Slayer's hands under their kitchen table and gave him a confused look. Glancing at the text box in their video call that the Slayer had already typed his own "I do" into.

The officiant's face gave no indication that they heard them until a solid five seconds had passed, then they nodded and gave the two love birds a thumbs up, "Ok all good! I'll ship your papers to you and that's it. Bye."

"But wait don't we kiss and exchange the rings-" Crüe couldn't halt the officiant and they left the call, leaving him and the Slayer alone in their apartment, newly wed.

The Slayer turned to him and slowly placed his ring on the demon's finger. Crüe did the same. Then, he reached up, grabbed his horns, and gave him a kiss. The mere act of doing so made his neck ache and he thought he might bleed through his bandages if he kept the odd angle so he had to cut it short.

There was no uproarious crowd cheering them on as they walked back down the aisle as one. There was no family and friends huddled around them. They sat there in silence for a few moments, both leaning against each other thinking of all they had lost and all they were still afraid to lose. They got up and put the tablet on charge together.

The only molecule of any celebration was a bottle of wine Crue had snuck out and bought last night after Haine and Devo were asleep. Yesterday had been hell with his son falling ill. He poured two glasses and they sat on the bed. "This isn't what I expected." He said in an odd neutral voice.

Even when he had been shown the rings all he could think of was how Grim held them in his grasp. The grand reveal had been ruined and the celebration had long since been dead on arrival.

The Slayer put his hand on the demon's thigh, passing him a note, 'We could do it over when everything goes back to normal.'

Crüe read the note and played with it in his hands, folding the paper until it was a tiny square. "No, it's not that. All I want is this." He squeezed the Slayer's hand and leaned into him. He spoke with a trembling voice, "I love you."

The Slayer felt tears run down his face that he couldn't stop, he laid his head against Crüe's chest and felt like a failure. Despite his flesh healing and him starting to get back on track he had failed his lover in so many ways. Samuel and Haru loomed over every move he made. They should have been at their wedding. Their wedding should have been a happy event with a big party afterwards and a honeymoon. Instead it was a desperate little ceremony of them silently begging the gods to not separate them.

They both drank some wine trying to chase the feelings of sadness away and cried softly trying to find comfort in each other.

Eventually Devo returned from an adventure of getting food at the cafeteria, Daisy and her children bounded alongside him. Wiping his tears away, Crüe hid the wine and glasses in their room and stepped out, "Having a good time in the human world?"

Devo was just stepping out of the spare bedroom and closed the door behind him, motioning to it, "It was nice. Haine's still resting. He said thanks for moving him off the couch though." His eyes glanced down and he nodded and the wedding band on his finger, "That's nice, so... you're married?"