Sanctuary Secrets Sacrifice

Dazed and Confused

"The only real things in life is the unexpected things.
Everything else is just an illusion."
-Watkin Tudor Jones

There was a clock ticking away on the wall, and Katie had her eyes locked on it for some reason. Each tick and tock was another second her husband was late for a meeting he organized.

"Uh, Mrs. Queen-" Katie dropped her eyes to the man sitting in front of her and she gave an apologetic smile before once again pulling her phone from her pocket. Before she could even dial his number, the door had burst open and in rushed the man.

"I'm so sorry, I was in a meeting that ran way over time, and then I had an interview-" he looked over to the annoyed expression of his wife and knew his excuses probably wasn't worth much at the moment. "Twinkie, I'm sorry." the woman let out a sigh, before looking over to the man.

"Liver, we don't have to do this. At this point it doesn't really seem important." Katie says before looking back over to the man who sat observing the couple. "And we're just wasting Pastor Troy's valuable time, right?"

"I uh-"

"Of course it's not a waste of time, right?" Oliver said interrupting the man, before turning back to Katie. "Twinkie, this is something I thought we both agreed on. We wanted the wedding-"

"And we got it. It was small and intimate and-"

"It was in a hospital room where we didn't take any pictures or have this all out day of memories." Oliver sighed taking the seat beside the woman and taking her hand.

"Now is just not the time." Katie replied looking over to the man. "C'mon too much is happening right now, and trying to plan a wedding and deal with a campaign, and raise a baby, and deal with the other stuff." she shook her head before turning back to Pastor Troy who still just silently watched them. "I'm sorry Pastor Troy-" Katie stood to her feet, pulling her purse over her arm before heading for the door.

"June 18th!" Oliver called standing to his feet and the woman stopped. "June 18th at the the Star City Botanical Gardens, and you were going to wear a tasteful yellow wedding dress." she turned back to look at the man who gave her a smile. He always remembered the last time they were engaged how secretly excited she was about planning the wedding. "This isn't pointless Twinkie. It's actually very necessary for a list of reasons, but the most important one is that we get a day to once again vow ourselves to each other." he walked over taking the woman's hands. "Right now we're both here, and now we're truly wasting Pastor Troy's time." she looked into his eyes, seeing the hopefulness they held. She rolled her eyes before walking around the man to once again take her seat. "Alright, Pastor Troy-" Oliver walked around to take his seat as well before looking over to the Pastor. "I-"

"Ok, stop talking." Pastor Troy said holding up his hands and standing to his feet. He walked around his desk to lean on the edge between the couple. "First of all, hello, happy Monday and all that. Second, are we sure we all want a wedding?" Oliver turned to Katie who looked over to the man and gave a smile, before they turned back to the pastor.

"Yes, we do."

"That's great." the pastor said, before glancing down to his watch. "So we scheduled an hour meeting, that is about half over and—"

"And I'm so sorry, like I said I-" Pastor Troy lifted his head to the man who suddenly stopped talking. "Right, I will stop talking."

"Look I get you're a busy man, which is why I have to ask if you can really dedicate yourself to these sessions."

"Sessions?" Oliver asked with a furrowed brow, glancing over to Katie before turning back to the man. "I thought we were meeting to set up a date for the wedding."