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[freedhunter]

Ford had never been one for symbols of things. Things were what they were, regardless of names and symbols or signs.

He loved Darcy, and he could no longer picture life without her. He certainly didn't want to. But when he had asked her to marry him, he hadn't asked because he himself wanted to get married. He honestly didn't care one way or the other, and he sure as hell didn't need some piece of paper or ceremony to tell him that he loved her. But, she did want to get married.

She also wanted wedding rings, for the both of them. Again he didn't really care. He didn't need a ring on his finger to be married. What was a wedding ring, anyway? A signal to others that one was married? A signal of "I'm claimed already." He didn't need it.

But just as he didn't need to get married or wear a wedding band he still would. Because she wanted that, and he didn't mind it. Hardly a price at all to pay for making her happy.

So they had taken one of their lazy days to go shopping. For rings. "So what kind of ring do you want?" He asked where they were walking down the street hand in hand. Further down that street were a jewelry store that he hoped would have something that would strike her fancy.

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[freedhunter]

He returned that kiss, and then went off on his own. It didn't take too long for him to assemble an outfit that would be good enough. It was just a matter of locating the right stores. Actually, he got away with just two, one for the clothes, one for the shoes. Then he headed back to the hotel, but made one little detour. To the court house. Then back to the hotel for to wait for Darcy.

[ocdarcy]

She didn't take too long to find something she was happy with. It was a beautiful full length dress in emerald green, like he'd suggested. It was flowy and light and she was perfectly happy with that. She did buy herself shoes as well, making sure that they were something she could be comfortable in. Awesome. She had a wedding dress now. 

Darcy made it back to the hotel in not too long of time, but still after Ford--Jonathan!--dress on a hanger in a bag and in hand. She hung it up in the closet in the hotel room and then made her way over to the bed to her to be husband and laid down next to him. "Were you successful?" she smiled.

[freedhunter]

"I was," he said and put the newspaper he'd been reading aside. Indeed, there were another clothing bag hanging in the closet, outfit ironed and wrinkle-free and ready to be worn.

"I also made a de-tour to the court house," he said, reaching to slide his arm under her neck for her to rest her head on. "How soon do you want to do this?"

[ocdarcy]

"Good," she grinned up at him, getting comfortable with her head rested on his arm now that he was offering. She was more than happy to lay here for a while. They could go get drinks later, too. There was still so much relaxing to be had! "As soon as possible so we still have some time left over after to pretend this is also our honeymoon. Or we simply did it backwards, that's fine too," she laughed, draping an arm over him. 

[freedhunter]

He just nodded, silent at first. "There's an opening on the day after tomorrow if we want it." He said. Two days, and then another week afterwards before they had planned to be heading home. Of course, there was nothing that said that they had to be heading home just yet. They could extend their stay a bit if they wanted to.

[ocdarcy]

No, they were not in any rush to get home. She kind of wanted to get it done so she didn't have to think about it. "I could do that," she agreed, but she didn't know what he was thinking exactly. Did he want to do that? Was he ready? Obviously he was ready, or he wouldn't have bought rings.

"If we do that, then we need to call the jeweler and tell him and hopefully he can have those ready in a couple days," she thought out loud.

[freedhunter]

He was ready to take tis step, no doubt about that. His only hesitation had been if she, woman as she was, would need a ton of time to get ready. They did that in his experience. Hair, nails, whatever... But then again, things like that had never seemed to be a big priority for her.

"SO you call the jeweler and I call the court house?"

[ocdarcy]

Yeah, Darcy had no feeling about hair and make-up. If she couldn't get it done in a half an hour, then she didn't care to get it done. Sure, she'd make herself look pretty, but she wasn't actually having some insane wedding where everyone needed to be perfect for photos. She only needed to look good for him.

"Okay," she smiled, moving off the bed to go and grab her phone and dial the jeweler after looking up the number. "Hi, it's Darcy... yes... we have the date. Mhmm. So his will say Darcy and the date and mind will say Fo--Jonathan and the date... yep. Thank you so much." She hung up and smiled over at him, laying back down on the bed.  

[freedhunter]

He was on hold and so he heard her halting herself about which name should be in her ring. It made him chuckle. He didn't quite know why, but he was very much amused by that whole thing.

Then he was finally put through. "Hi, this is Jonathan Ford. I was in a bit earlier about- Yeah, that's me. We'll go ahead and take that opening. Uh-huh. Two-thirty is fine. Alright. Thank you."

[ocdarcy]

She heard him make the appointment and grinned. Darcy, never in her life, thought that she would get married. She knew how messed up she was in the head and that factored into a lot of it. Who wanted a girl like her? Apparently someone who wanted to be punished. She found it almost amazing that he would put up with her like he did, but as things started to get better, it all started to make more sense to her. It didn't really matter about what they were before, but what they were now.

Darcy snuggled up beside him, that same giddy grin on her face. "We can pick up the rings that morning," she said, glad that the salesman was able to have them ready.

[freedhunter]

Ford tossed the phone aside. "Well then, my dear..." He started. "You now have the rest of today and tomorrow left as Miss Schumacher. How does that feel?" And he had the rest of that day and the next day as an unmarried man. Scary.

[ocdarcy]

Darcy giggled and looked at him, shaking her head in disbelief at first. She couldn't help but be excited. "Like I'm going to get to have a very happy life with a wonderful man," she said, still grinning wildly and nuzzled in against his side. "What about you? Mourning your freedom?"

[freedhunter]

"What freedom?" He asked flatly before cracking up in a grin. "Seriously though, it's not really going to be any different in two days than it is now. Which makes me realize that we're seriously doing things backwards when you think about it. Getting married before we even move in together." Though that was largely a technicality since she did spend the majority of her time at his house anyway. "Maybe we should do something about living arrangements too?"

[ocdarcy]

"Not everyone lives together before they get married and I am mostly at your place anyways, though that's raising my gas bill," she admits thoughtfully. They really should be moving in together. Actually together. She doesn't need her house but she needs to be closer to work, definitely. Especially now that Francis isn't a concern.

"We should figure something out. I do need to be closer to work," Darcy thought out loud. Maybe he had some good input.

[freedhunter]

"Weren't you saying you were going to quit your job?" Or had he just misunderstood that part? "Anyway, there is always my house. Or some other house. Or, just a thought... We could move somewhere else entirely." Starting fresh somewhere else actually did have a certain appeal to him.

[ocdarcy]

"I was thinking about it but when I brought it up you sounded kind of iffy. I do love my job but... I don't know. I feel like I need to move on a little. I have a lot of money saved and I could sell my place and live for quite some time without any of that income and find something else or..." be a mother was the next though she had but she should let them get past this first. "where would you want to go? I'm certainly not opposed but do you want to do that?"

[freedhunter]

"I don't know. It's just a thought. Now that Francis is okay, there's nothing saying I need to stay in Boston." As long as she would come with him, that was. "Truth be told, I feel kinda done with Boston."

[ocdarcy]

"I don't really care. I've never much loved Bosron. It just wasn't New York. I wanted to be out of Queens," it was a give that she would go with him. Of course she would. That would be stupid not to. "We could go and start over somewhere." she was starting to like thy idea.

[freedhunter]

"We could." Start over. He did like the sound of that. No more organization, no more angst and panic and all of that shit they had had to wade through. Just them, starting new. "Preferably somewhere warmer than Boston. Got any ideas?"

[ocdarcy]

"Warmer is good. Somewhere pretty," she suggested, shifting to nuzzle in against his shoulder. He smelled like the ocean. She was going to really enjoy looking back on this. "I don't think I care where. We have a lot to look forward to. Anything we want."

[freedhunter]

He ran his fingers through her hair, absentmindedly toying with the ends of it. "So how about... We start looking into wherever we might want to go, and in the meantime you move your stuff over to my house?"It wasn't like they had to rush deciding where to move, but they could start to dream a bit. Plot and plan.

[ocdarcy]

The rest of her stuff, he meant. A lot of her clothes had already ended up over there with spares of most things. She's so used to his home its like she's been there the whole time anyway. That's an easy enough transition to make, she figured. "That sounds good," she agreed.

"So..." she sounded a little more unsure, though, "I guess I should quit my job." That really felt like the end of a chapter for her.

[freedhunter]

"If we're moving, yeah. But we don't know when we'll do that. Or with any certainty: if. So there's no rush for you to quit right away, is there?"

[ocdarcy]

"No, I didn't necessarily mean that I do it right away, but if we decide where to go and leave... I don't know. That makes sense," she replied, feeling like it finally was all coming together and that meant everything was changing. What were her options? Did she even need them. Suddenly this got really scary. "This isn't going to change things for us... not in a bad way right?" She needed a second of reassurance.

[freedhunter]

He turned his head to look at her. "Not unless you suddenly decide that I'm boring without all the drama and find someone better or something like that," he half-joked. "It's gonna change, yeah. It already is. But from where I'm standing, all I see is changes for the better."