jackwabbit | New Fic: Ring Bearer, Epilogue

Ring Bearer, Epilogue

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Rated: G
Category: Double Drabble. Culmets. RickyVerse. Joy. Humor.
Time Frame: Sometime after season three.
Spoilers: General series knowledge through season three.
Summary: Sometimes, plans go awry. But when we are very, very lucky, they don’t. Also, some things are constant as the Northern Star.
Note: Another Ricky story, because I just can’t help myself. And because Hugh took over Paul’s arc for a bit, I decided to post that epilogue after all. So: another alternate ending to “Ring Bearer.” This one also isn’t rough at all. Honest. Taken together, these tell a larger story.

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Paul had had it all planned out.

Since Ricky couldn’t walk, the traditional meaning of the word hadn’t worked.

But ever since the idea popped into his head one night after one of Hugh’s truly terrible puns had set them on a contest that could only be described as ever-more-terrible with each exchange, he couldn’t shake it.

So he’d had it all planned out.

He had Ricky with him in bed. He’d waited until Hugh worked late so that wouldn’t seem strange. And when Hugh came home – when he came to bed – Paul asked him to put Ricky back on his shelf in the living room so they could have some privacy.

The box was under Ricky.

It was a surprise. It wasn’t a birthday, or an anniversary, or a holiday – it was just an ordinary day.

The kind of day Paul wanted so many more of.

And so he asked.

Hugh said yes.

It was the best ordinary day ever.

Obviously.

Now, Hugh was sound asleep on Paul’s shoulder, with a silver band shining on his finger.

Paul was smiling into Hugh’s hair.

He was thinking about the ceremony, of course.

After all, he had it all planned out.

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A/N: This one breaks the pattern just a bit. It didn’t originally do so, but after doing Hugh’s response, I felt this needed to be past tense, and one line just had to be changed. But overall, it’s still just those last thirty-eight words that tell this one’s tale, like all the others (except Hugh’s). This has been an adventure. I think it’s over now, but you never know. ;)