"Oh! I just love weddings!" Amy gushed as Adalet slid bobby pins into the blonde's hair to keep it in place, "thank you again for asking me to be a bridesmaid, Adalet!"

Adalet smiles, "you don't have to thank me, Amy! Now, that should keep your hair in place!"

"And speaking of hair," Roxie grabs the bride by the arm and shoves her into a chair, "you need to do something with yours!"

The girls had taken over Adalet and Fili's home for the wedding day, leaving the boys to use Yann's place for their wedding preparations. The main floor of the cabin had been rearranged with the dining table turned into the hair and make-up spot, the dresses hung along the staircase banister, and other items were scattered around the room.

"Now, how do you braid hair?" Roxie inquired, grabbing sections of Adalet's thick black hair.

The bride laughed, "we should get my brother Magnus in here, he's great at braiding!"

"No! No boys allowed!" the coroner proclaimed, "we don't want them to spoil the surprise!"

"It's my brother, not Fili!" she smirked, "it's not unlucky for the bride's brother to see her before the wedding!"

"Yes well-"

The women looked up at the sound of the doorbell ringing. Hannah got up from her place on the couch and went to answer it. She opened it and two unknown women stood on the other side.

The women looked to be in their late fifties. One was of average height with long, curly red hair the colour of fall leaves that was beginning to grey at the roots, warm brown eyes, and fair skin adorned with freckles. She wore a light blue knee-length, off-the-shoulder dress with a lace overlay and a simple white belt cinched around her waist. Her black heels and modest silver jewelry tied the look together.

The woman beside her was taller, even taller than Adalet, with wavy black hair with silvery-grey strands mixed in that reached her shoulders, bright blue eyes, and a slightly tanner complexion to her companion. She wore a champagne-coloured dress that also reached her knees but hers did not have a lace overlay. She wore a matching blazer over top of the dress which had a shiny floral pattern stitched into it. Finally, she had on cream-coloured heels and jewellery similar to her companion's.

Adalet's eyes lit up, "Aunt Runa! Aunt Eir!"

"Hello, Adalet!" the raven-haired woman, Runa, smiles, "I hope we're not interrupting?"

"No! No!" she replied, "Roxie was just about to do my hair."

"Roxie was just about to try!" Roxie corrected, "are they...?"

"From New Asgard?" Adalet guessed, "yes, met Magnus and Tómus' mothers, Queens Runa and Eir Dahl."

"Ah, Aslan told us that your team was aware of your... Galactic half," the redhead, Eir hums as she approaches her niece, "now, what were you planning on doing with your hair?"

"Just something simple," the bride answered, "I have some of my beads to braid into it, and Fili got me some small flowers as well, so maybe a half up half down style?"

"I think that would be perfect," she replied before turning to the coroner, "do you mind if I take over?"

Roxie grinned while stepping back, "knock yourself out! I'm terrible at braiding!"

"Are Magnus and Tómus here too?" Adalet inquired as her aunt began to braid the middle section of her hair.

"Yes and don't worry, your fathers are keeping them away from the groom," Runa assured as she faced the rest of the people in the room, "and you must be my niece's teammates, it is a pleasure to meet you."

"Wow, I can't believe I'm meeting a real Queen!" Amy breathed, "I feel like I should be bowing!"

The older woman laughed, "please don't, I always get embarrassed when people do."

"It's true, her face goes as red as my hair!" Eir teased her wife, "Heimdall used to do it all the time to annoy her when we were younger!"

Runa rolled her eyes, "oh, that man! He always loves to push my buttons!"

"Well, it's an honour to meet more aliens!" Hannah says, trying to contain her composure, "Adalet's been telling me about space, it's fascinating!"

"It truly is," the queen agreed, "even for those of us who know of the existence of other species, new surprises and discoveries are always being made."

Eir secured the half-up-half-down braid she had done along the back of Adalet's head, "you should talk to Aslan about space sometimes, once you get him going he won't stop! Now, where are those flowers..."

"Right here, Aunt Eir," Adalet answered, picking the small basket of white baby's breath flowers Fili had given her yesterday.

Eir took some of the flowers and began adding them to the centre of the braid while making sure that the silver beads she had strung into it were still visible. She used bobby pins to secure the flowers in place for the wedding.

"Are there any weird Asgardian traditions for weddings?" Hannah inquired.

Runa pondered, "not really... We do have a sword exchanging ceremony, though Adalet has refused to give her husband a sword for some reason..."

Adalet rolled her eyes, "if you knew how many times his family gets involved in murder investigations because of their knives, you'd understand why he's not getting a sword! Maybe I'll make him a knife someday though..."

"Oh, is that the reason?" she hums before continuing her explanation, "according to Aslan, New Asgard is very similar to Earth's Nordic nations, though we would be what you'd consider "stuck in the past" compared to them. Of course, I did have to scold my sons for wanting to have Fili fight them for the right to marry Adalet..."

The bride groans holding back a facepalm, "that's not an Asgardian tradition, that's just my brothers being assholes to my husband!"

"Yes well tell that to them," she smirked, "hopefully Heimdall hasn't taken his eyes off of them..."

"Far better not have," she grumbled, "or else they'll all be in trouble!"

"Now, now, no bloodshed on your wedding day," Eir orders, gesturing for her niece to stand, "let's get you into your dress, we don't want to be late!"

Adalet was ushered behind a folding screen while Amy grabbed the bride's dress bag off of the banister. She held the bag as Eir and Runa removed the dress from it and helped their niece into the gown, tying up the corset once the dress was on. Adalet then slipped on some fingerless, floral-lace gloves that ended just below her elbows and covered her tattoos. Lastly, she slipped in some simple gold stud earrings.

"Oh, who is it now?" Roxie groaned, going to answer the door.

This time they found Aslan, Heimdall, Yann, and Nathan on the other side of the door. All four were dressed in suits for the wedding with Adalet's fathers and best friend wearing matching red ties and pocket squares.

"Hey! I thought I told you today this was a girls-only cabin, Yann!" Roxie scolded the forensics expert.

Yann holds his hands up in surrender, "you really think you can stop a set of fathers from seeing their daughter before her wedding? Or her best friend?"

"Nathan!" Adalet grinned once she caught sight of the coroner, "you made it! Are the others here?"

"We all got in yesterday," Nathan answered as Roxie reluctantly let the small group into the house, "Ramirez and Dad picked us up at the airport."

"Heimdall! Aslan! I told you too not to come here! You'll start crying!" Runa berated the men.

"Now Ro, you know that's not true," Aslan argues, though his subtle attempt to rub his eye did not go unnoticed.

"Uh-huh," she hums doubtfully, "keep telling yourself that."

"This woman," he stage-whispered to Yann, "worse than my mother!"

"Oh, hush, Aslan," Heimdall scolds his husband, "and besides, Runa, what makes you think I haven't seen Adalet yet?"

Runa huffed, "I ought to blindfold you, that Omni-sense of yours can be so violating sometimes!"

The Pacific Bay residents in the room froze at the mention of Omni-sense since Nathan was currently present. But the ME seemed the least bit surprised by the mention of the superhuman ability.

"What?" Nathan questioned, seeing the look on his uncle's face, "you think I didn't already know about Adalet being an alien?"

"Let me guess, U.N.I.T.?" Yann responded.

"Yup!"

"That's right, you were the U.N.I.T. agent Adalet was sent to assist," Aslan says to the coroner, "so sorry to hear about your Director, I bet Kovac left a lot of work behind?"

Nathan snorted, "we're going to be cleaning up his messes for years to come..."

"He was certainly a... Unique man," Heimdall settled on, having never met the man himself but had listened to Aslan rant for hours about the other Director.

"Unique... We'll go with that," he rolls his eyes.

"Er... Anyway," Amy decided to change the subject, "we have a wedding to get to!"

"You're right!" Roxie agrees, glancing at the kitchen clock, "We better get going!"

"Just one more thing," Eri grabbed a wooden box off of the kitchen table and opened it to reveal Adalet's diadem, "Aslan, Heimdall, would you two like to do the honours?"

Aslan and Heimdall smiled as they walked forward to remove the diadem from its box. The two approached their daughter and set the crown onto her head, pushing the ends of it into her braid to keep it in place. Adalet smiled at her fathers as she saw tears building in each of their eyes.

"Come on, before you make me cry," Adalet whispered.

"Wait, I almost forgot!" Yann spoke up, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a red ribbon which he passed to his nephew, "I researched that Turkish wedding tradition involving a red ribbon, and got one in case no one else did."

Adalet smiles, "you remembered!"

Nathan took the ribbon from Yann and approached his best friend. Adalet held her arms up as the coroner wrapped the ribbon around her waist three times before tying it into a simple bow in the front, letting the ends fall.

"Now let's go, we have a wedding to celebrate!" Runa ushered everyone out of the front door and to the waiting vehicles.

The girls (except Adalet) all piled into Yann's van and the forensic expert drove them out to the wedding venue. Meanwhile, Adalet and her fathers climbed into the back of the pick-up truck, which had a tarp covered by a white blanket laid out over the bed of the truck to prevent dirt from getting on the wedding dress and suits. Nathan closed the tailgate behind the three before getting into the driver's seat and following behind his uncle's van.

Adalet sat in-between her fathers with their backs against the cab of the truck, watching the log cabin fade away into the distance. The sun was shining above as they drove through the winding forest road, watching the trees pass by them.

"You know, it seems like just yesterday I was being summoned to New Asgard to meet you," Aslan mused, taking his daughter's hand.

"That's what you said at my graduation," Adalet teases, playing with her father's fingers.

"Yes well, when the King and Queen of New Asgard order you to visit, and then introduces you to the planet's Assistant Ambassador and are then told that you have a newborn daughter with him, it makes a lasting impression," he smirked, "though I can't say there has ever been even a moment where I regret that day..."

"Even after that time I almost gave you frost bite?" she inquired.

"Even when I couldn't feel any of my fingers," he promised, placing a kiss on her hair.

"I love you too, Baba," she smiles.

"Well, I for one can't believe that my baby is all grown up and getting married," Heimdall joins in on the conversation, "why, I would swear you were still my baby girl, chewing on my hair like it was the tastiest thing in the universe!"

Adalet groans, "Faaaaar! I was a baby! Babies chew on things all the time!"

"Ah, but most of the time it is a one and done situation, you on the other hand were making me consider washing my hair with pickled herring juice to try and get you to stop," he laughed, "I was scared I'd end up bald because of you!"

"If I catch you telling Fili any of these stories..." she let the warning hang in the air.

Heimdall smirked, "what makes you think I already haven't?"

Adalet groans, "Is there like a father's handbook that says all fathers have to be an embarrassment to their children?! Because I think you two could win an award for it!"

Aslan laughed as he reached his arm around to hug her, "ah, we're just teasing you... And besides, I'm sure Fili's parents have plenty of embarrassing stories about him, we could trade!"

"Is it too late to call off the wedding?" she questioned as the truck slowed to a stop.

"Sorry, Letty!" Nathan calls from the driver's seat as he cuts off the engine, "but I'll drag you down the aisle myself if I have to!"

Adalet shakes her head with a smile, "and this is why you're my best friend, Nate!"

The small group got out of the truck and approached the Orleans Hall. The reception was to be held inside of the rustic hall while the actual wedding was happening in the large field behind the building. Adalet couldn't see past the building with her normal vision, but a quick look through Omni-sense showed her the set-up for the wedding.

Rows of dark brown chairs decorated with red ribbons were set up in the field creating a wide aisle for her to walk down. Vases of yellow sunflowers and red tulips lined the aisle at every third row of chairs, and at the end was a wooden wedding arch covered in red and gold fabric and more flowers.

Adalet avoided looking at Fili and instead shifted her vision to see who had come to attend. There were many people in attendance, most of whom she had met and befriended during past cases in Pacific Bay, including:

Zack Taylor and Carly Lewis from Ocean Shores.

Harvey Fitchner from Bayou Bleu.

Sue Xiong, Sergei Yablokov, and Andrew Kamarov from Inner City.

Kitty LaBombe, Agatha Christmas, Blake Cooper, and Louis Cooper from Jazz Town.

Dimitrios Moustaki, who had finally gotten his arm cast off, from White Peaks.

Gaston Dumas, Susan Blair, and Dick Shakespeare from Ivywood Hills. All three of whom had been cured of the brainwashing the Utopians had done to them.

Agent Z and Jarvis Donne (both in disguise), and Tiffany Dunn, who looked like a completely different person after completing her rehab, from Rhine Canyon.

And lastly, David Rosenberg, Karen Knight, and Ruth from Innovation Valley.

There were also people in attendance from before her time in Pacific Bay: her old teammates David Jones, Grace Delaney, Eduardo Ramirez, and Alex Turner. Plus Cathy King, Valentina Ramirez, the three Ramirez girls, and Avi Douglas. She also saw John, Quinn and James Savage.

Of course, there was her current team and their families here including Léon, Jessica, Lily, and James Toussaint, Jupiter Crane, and Heather Valentine.

Lastly, Adalet smiles as she sees both sets of her grandparents sitting in their seats and near them were her brothers Magnus and Tómus Dahl.

"Stop looking," Heimdall whispered to his daughter as they stood behind the building and waited for everyone to get into their places.

"It was just a peek," Adalet replied, "besides, you did it on your wedding day, hypocrite!"

"Heimy, you promised you wouldn't!" Aslan complained despite their wedding having been several years ago.

"Like I don't know you had Adalet check on me for you," Heimdall countered knowingly.

"And this is why Oberon and I eloped," Nathan chimed in as James Savage, Russell, Avi, and Ahmet approached.

"You did?" Adalet questioned, looking at the coroner.

He hums, "if his family could have come it would have been bigger, but given the... Circumstances, it was just us, the officiant, and my grandfather as a witness."

"Yeah, I can see how that would have been a challenge," she agrees before turning to the four who had just arrived, "Is everything ready?"

"Yup!" Avi chirped, swinging his basket of red and yellow petals.

"The only thing left is for you to walk down the aisle," Russell added.

"Fili's going to cry so hard," James smirked, passing his sister-in-law her bouquet of sunflowers and tulips, "you look very beautiful, Adalet."

"Thank you, James, nice to see you haven't ruined those hunting clothes we got you," Adalet teased, taking in the simple black hunting gear the man wore.

"Thank you," he replies, "now, let's get you down that aisle!"

The group got into position. Amy and Russell took their positions at the start of the lineup and were followed by James and Nathan, who were Adalet and Fili's best man and man of honour respectively. After them stood Ahmet carrying the small pillow holding his parents' gold wedding bands, and lastly was Avi with his basket of flower petals who was practically vibrating in excitement.

Adalet took her position at the back of the lineup with her fathers. She linked her left arm with Heimdall and held her bouquet with that hand. She took a hold of Aslan's elbow with her right hand just as she heard the music begin to play.

She watched as Amy and Russell walked up the aisle side by side and broke off to their respective places once they reached the end of the aisle. Nathan and James followed their lead and the hunter took his place beside his brother, who was anxiously awaiting the arrival of the bride. Then Ahmet walked up the aisle to stand beside his father holding the pillow with the rings in his hands. Lastly, Avi nearly rushed up the aisle as he tossed flower petals down along the path before stopping at the top and moving to sit beside his grandfather.

As the music changed into the bridal march, Adalet and her fathers moved to the start of the aisle as everyone in attendance stood. As they began the walk down the aisle, Adalet locked eyes with Fili.

True to James's words, his little brother had tears in his eyes already. But the blinding smile on Fili's face showed that they were anything but sad. Adalet could feel tears in her own eyes the closer she got to the altar, and she heard Edward Dante, who was officiating the wedding, telling Fili how lucky he was. Her husband's response was a breathy "I know".

Reaching the wedding arch, Aslan and Heimdall each placed a kiss on their daughter's cheeks and she returned the gesture before they let her go. Adalet passed her bouquet to Nathan to hold onto, then took Fili's sweaty and shaking hands in her own.

"You all can take your seats," Dante orders the guests, "I am Edward Dante, and I have the privilege of officiating this ceremony today. On behalf of Filian Savage and Adalet Sadik-Halvorsen, welcome and thank you for being here. Thank you for gathering to witness their marriage and to share in the joy of this special occasion."

"As I was preparing my speech for today, I contacted my friend Olivia Hall from Grimsborough to get a better insight into Fili and Adalet's life before Pacific Bay... Olivia told me how the couple had originally gotten married just after midnight inside her courtroom mere hours before the groom needed to leave for work overseas," Dante continues with a smile, "why, my wedding had been rushed, but we still had time to put a ceremony together!"

Many of the guests laughed at the comparison and Fili smiles sheepishly in embarrassment.