I Know That You Don't Like Me, But I Want To Marry Your Son

Simon Snow had done and accomplished many things in his young life so far. He had defeated the Humdrum, the Mage and stopped a new generation of crazy vampires from taking over the world. Just to name a few, along with taking out some monsters that posed a danger to others in his journeys. And in that amount of time, he had lost a lot of the people that he cared greatly about. But on the upside, he gained even more relationships than the ones that he had lost that shall last him at least 3 lifetimes, if not more.

The one relationship that he is very fond of is the one that he has with his old roommate and ex-archnemesis Tyrannus Basiltion "Baz" Pitch-Grimm. He has been in love with his current boyfriend since they were in their last year of school. And he is pretty sure that Baz has loved him even longer than that. And even though their relationship had hit a rocky patch at one point, after he had killed the Mage, defeated the Humdrum and lost all of his magick. For a long time, Simon had lost himself in a depressive-like state. He had a very low opinion about himself and thought that he didn't deserve to be in the same life with the people that he loves, let alone the same room. Though Baz was there with him through every single step of the way. Every breakdown, bad day, therapist appointment. The ups and the downs, and even the few days there at one point where Simon didn't even know what planet he was on. And because of all of this Simon realized that Baz was it for him. There were no ifs, and, or buts about it. He even went out with Penny to buy a ring and everything. He was fully and prepared to spend the rest of his life with Baz.

Though there was just one little problem in this big plan of his. For this thing to work, Simon had to go and ask permission from Baz's father Malcolm Grimm. Over the years after he and Baz had gotten together his relationship with his father has slowly gotten better. Though some topics are still just a little bit too sensitive to breach yet. They've made a lot of progress though and compared to where it was before, Baz and his father are in a good place now. And because of the improvement, Simon feels that the right thing to do before popping the question is to get Malcolm's blessings since Simon doesn't have any family of his own besides Baz, and Penny, he wants to have Baz's family there for the wedding. And even though he knows that his boyfriend won't admit it, but it kills him inside that his mother Natasha will never be able to see him continue to grow into himself and start new chapters in his life. He's not mad at her for it though, since it wasn't her fault that she was killed trying to stop vampires that were sent by the Mage to take her out. The woman died protecting her only son and now if she were still alive would probably be overly ecstatic to attend his wedding. Getting back on the topic at hand though. Simon knows that Baz would be completely devastated if his father and the rest of his family doesn't show up. And Simon just can't have that happen.

Which is how he had found himself standing in front of his family's home in Oxford. They had to move there the Christmas of their 8th year after the Humdrum incident on Christmas Eve. Even though he's been here hundreds of times since the move he's always come with Baz. As he was walking up to the front door, Simon had realized that this is the first time that he has come here completely alone, without Baz with him at some point. Baz doesn't even know that he's at the moment. He had told him that he was running errands for the owner of the bakery that he worked for and would be coming home late. Baz seemed to believe him, and he told him to have fun and be careful as he was sprinting out the door. He was running late to work that morning. And that was very unlike Baz. In all of the time that he has known Baz the only time that he was either late or didn't show up for something was when he was kidnapped in their 8th year, And even then as soon as Fiona had rescued him, he came back to school not even the next day. Though this time the reason for him being late was that he woke up sick this morning. Simon had tried and failed to convince him to stay home from work that day. But, Baz the stubborn arse that he is, said that he was fine and had left for his shift at the bookkeeping office that he worked at.