Thicker Than Blood

Chapter 13: Making it Official

No matter how much Jan and the others made it clear that they could hardly wait for the wedding now that Barney was there, it was still a couple months before Logan and K got around to it.

Mostly, they wanted to wait for the holidays — so that they could have their wedding just before Thanksgiving and then get away with the boys for not only that holiday but Logan's birthday and then Clint's.

Which was just fine with the boys, because it meant they got to get away to the cottage even earlier than usual, since that's where the wedding was — even if they did have to take some homework with them, since Barney's school schedule was so compressed.

But when the day finally came, it was hard to tell who was more excited: Jean or Jan. Jan was almost bouncing in place trying to keep from giggling every few seconds as she brought up the dress for K to change into. But on the other hand, Jean was helping the boys get dressed up, and she couldn't stop grinning either.

Barney was pretty excited as well, ready to do his bit. He and Clint would both be giving K away for the wedding, and since he'd already been through one set of parents getting married, he was far less nervous than Clint was.

Clint, on the other hand, seemed to be far more thoughtful that morning as Jean helped him put the corsage on his lapel. He wasn't cracking jokes, just... thinking.

He wasn't nervous about Logan and K getting married, either. It was just a big change, even if it wasn't. And he'd really, really been thinking. About everything. About how much his mom loved Logan and how nice Logan was to him and Barney and how he had come to rescue Clint twice in as many years from the worst trouble he had been in in his entire life.

"You okay, Clint?" Barney asked, bumping shoulders with his younger brother.

Clint nodded. "I'm okay," he promised. "I'm just thinking."

"Looks painful."

"Aww, shut up, Barney," Clint said, rolling his eyes — though Jean had to smirk to herself when she saw that it had, in fact, gotten Clint out of his head.

"Well, you both look amazing," Jean declared. "Let's go up and get your mom so you three can utterly destroy Logan."

"You're so weird, Jean," Clint said, shaking his head.

"I know," she said, ruffling his hair lightly.

The three of them made their way upstairs to where K was gamely allowing Jan to keep picking at her dress, brushing out nonexistent wrinkles and fussing over K generally.

"Hi guys," K said before she waited for Jan to turn her back — and then made a point out of scrunching up part of the dress just so Jan would have something to honestly do. "What are we doing today? Video games and pillow fights?"

"Maybe tomorrow," Barney laughed.

"You look amazing, Mom," Clint said, his eyes wide.

"So do you, handsome," she said with a smile. "It's not too much? Did she go overboard?"

Clint shook his head. "No," he said quickly. "I think you look like a movie star."

"So she only went overboard by a cruise ship," K said, again scrunching it up in an odd spot to watch Jan nearly swear.

"You really do look amazing," Jean said with an honest smile.

"I'm sure," K said. "I have a team of professionals, right?"

"Exactly," Barney laughed before he darted over to hug K. "You ready?"

"I think I have to hit a little makeup first," K said. "But it should give you boys five minutes or so ... let Jan give you another once-over."