He smiled at her through all of it, squeezing her hand to help give her that extra bit of strength. The preacher then nodded to Stiles.
"Well, good thing for you is that I've got more than enough words for the both of us." He waited for the laughter to die down from their families before he continued. "I still remember the first time you told me you loved me. We were at homecoming, and you whispered it into my ear like it was a big secret - which I then proceeded to spoil as I announced it to the entire gym. But that feeling - I still feel it every time we're together.
"We've gone through a full spectrum of different emotions since we were sixteen. It was easy then when we were kids, when we just went with it. Neither of us know what the future would bring and the pain we would end up going through. We're not those kids anymore and while sometimes I wish we could be... we made it through that dark and scary part of our paths intact. Maybe a bit worse for wear in some places... but we're here, and we found other again both in body, and in our hearts."
He licked his lips, holding her hands tightly a moment. "I can't imagine my life without you in it. Just like this, feeling just like we do right now. And if that's the road that we had to take... then it makes every wrong turn along the way worth it to be standing here with you and knowing that we're never going to be alone again. That I'm going to wake up every day in your arms, know you're going to be standing next to me on my good days and bad, and that I will be there for yours. That we're going to have a family we both dreamed of with our friends all together the way we dreamed about when we were sixteen and falling in love."
He smiled at her. "I'm here, still a bit broken but a lot better than I was two years ago because of you. Because of all of you." He looked out at his family a moment, smiling, and then back at her. "This is my family. My pack. And you're my mate. I don't plan on ever losing that again and I will fight anyone who tries to tear us apart. I love you, Cora Hale, and I'm never going to stop until the day I die."
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"Well, good thing for you is that I've got more than enough words for the both of us." He waited for the laughter to die down from their families before he continued. "I still remember the first time you told me you loved me. We were at homecoming, and you whispered it into my ear like it was a big secret - which I then proceeded to spoil as I announced it to the entire gym. But that feeling - I still feel it every time we're together.
"We've gone through a full spectrum of different emotions since we were sixteen. It was easy then when we were kids, when we just went with it. Neither of us know what the future would bring and the pain we would end up going through. We're not those kids anymore and while sometimes I wish we could be... we made it through that dark and scary part of our paths intact. Maybe a bit worse for wear in some places... but we're here, and we found other again both in body, and in our hearts."
He licked his lips, holding her hands tightly a moment. "I can't imagine my life without you in it. Just like this, feeling just like we do right now. And if that's the road that we had to take... then it makes every wrong turn along the way worth it to be standing here with you and knowing that we're never going to be alone again. That I'm going to wake up every day in your arms, know you're going to be standing next to me on my good days and bad, and that I will be there for yours. That we're going to have a family we both dreamed of with our friends all together the way we dreamed about when we were sixteen and falling in love."
He smiled at her. "I'm here, still a bit broken but a lot better than I was two years ago because of you. Because of all of you." He looked out at his family a moment, smiling, and then back at her. "This is my family. My pack. And you're my mate. I don't plan on ever losing that again and I will fight anyone who tries to tear us apart. I love you, Cora Hale, and I'm never going to stop until the day I die."