| The continuing years of the Discovery Series storyline as the family gets ready for a big event. The family storyteller gathers up some photos and shares a perspective on the past. (including a "photo album" scrapbook) GSR/Yo!Bling/Etc. *Rated PG for Most Everyone. |
| LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY |
| Catherine & Warrick |
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| To say we weren’t your everyday couple would be like saying the sky is blue. And with this crazy mixed up family, it’s kind of a given. But even in this crew, we were different. First off, we’d both been down that road before, and failed miserably. Warrick’s first marriage was like an experiment in everything you’re not supposed to do. And mine…well, let’s just say I learned a lot of life lessons being married to Eddie Willows. The age difference wasn’t anything earth shattering, and the racial thing was never an issue for either of us. No, for me the big thing was that we worked together, and that we were such good friends before anything happened. That was never anything I had ever done. To get involved with someone who already knew all the deep dark secrets in my closet was really scary. In the end, none of it mattered. We just belonged together. It was just that damn simple. There was no one else on this planet who was more perfect for me, and he swore the same was true for him. The only thing we had left to sort through was how to let go of those old barriers and to truly accept one another in our hearts. It was also the easiest thing I had ever done. With Warrick, it just seemed like everything fell into place. The part I really struggled with was letting him into my relationship with Lindsey. But that had more to do with the fact that I had been the only parent for so long. Even before Eddie passed away, it was always on my shoulders, with some help from my family. And I kept trying to insulate Warrick from anything to do with Lindsey. However, the more I tried to keep him from dealing with the day to day parent stuff, the more he took on. Before I knew what was happening, the two of them were becoming a united front against me. And it was only broken when Lindsey brought a pimply faced boy to the house to “study.” Warrick turned into a whole different person and Lindsey came to me for support. Poor Warrick was beside himself, and I had to explain to him that the hardest part about being a parent was having to be the bad guy once in a while. And that was when it hit me; Warrick had become her father. We were her parents. And everything I thought I had to keep to myself in order to maintain our relationship was a joke. We called up a friend at the Stratosphere and booked our wedding for the very next week. It wasn’t fancy, or elegant or flashy, or larger than life. No, it was just us and our family, the whole crazy lot of them. We’d both been down that road before, and both of us had done the wedding chapel schtick, so this time we made it about us, and the people we cared for the most. I know it’s cliché and all that, but I can honestly say it was one of the happiest nights of my life. When I think about the life we shared, I always remember that night, and how it felt when I slipped that ring on his finger. I finally had a partner, someone to share everything with, and the rings we wear have been a symbol of that promise ever since. |