The Arrival - 55 The Wedding

Three weeks had passed. It took Shmi three weeks to plan and set up Jack’s and Shaak’s wedding. Jack had wanted to wait a few months before this would happen, however Shmi had reminded him that you never know what could happen.in.this life. It better to do something that you want now and not put it off for later.

With the war looming Jack knew his mother was right, and so today was his wedding day. To celebrate the day only major operations were continued. All others were given the day off to attend the ceremony. The wedding was being help at Madison Square Gardens in New York. The stadium seemed to be converted into a giant church as pillars rose from the floor to the ceiling. Jack at the moment was standing outside greeting his many guest that had shown up.

He had been at this for hours at this point as it seemed every clan elder on the planet had made a point to show up to show their support for his marriage. This had gotten worse as some senators had even shown up as well. Jack’s friend Keith had also been dragged here to help when he had unwittingly started to laugh at Jack’s miss fortune early.

As much as this part of the ceremony was killing him on the inside he knew it would be worth it in the in. It had been an entire day since he had seen Shaak Ti as with going with the old earth tradition the bride and groom were not allowed to meet each other until the moments before they would be wed. This had made him nervous in the beginning but with Jack’s ability to sense people through the force.

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He knew his wife to be had no plans on running off. After getting through the reception portion of the proceedings. Tha main event was about to take place. Taking his position at the top of a platform at the end of the bride’s walk way. Jack stood their with his grooms men waiting on his wife to be.

Second seem like hours to Jack as even though he could sense that she was just beyond the entrance. He started to feel nervous, maybe she didn’t want to get married right now, maybe she didn’t love him the same way he loved her. Thousands of possibles started running through his mind. All of them stopped when he say his wife being escorted by Qui-Gon down the aisle.

Finally making it to the top Qui-Gon passed Shaak Ti over to Jack as they then turned to face the old earth priest. ” Dearly beloved we are gather here to day for the joining of Jack Skywalker and Shaak Ti in holy matrimony.” The man turned to Jack, ” Do you Jack Skywalker take Shaak Ti as your lawfully wedded wife in sickness and in health, through trials and tribulations, for better and for worse, till death do you part.” Without any hesitation from Jack, “I do.” The priest turned to Shaak Ti, ” Do you Shaak Ti take Jack Skywalker as your lawfully wedded husband in sickness and in health, through trials and tribulations, for better and for worse, till death due you part.” With a shake voice and tears running down her face Shaak Ti smiled,”I do.”

The priest now turned to the crowd, ” If their is anyone who does not believe these two should be wed speak now or forever hold your peace.” Their was complete silence in the area as Shaak’s eyes darted from one person to another almost daring someone to say a word. With the silence holding the priest turned back to Jack and Shaak, ” With peace held with the power vested in me I now pronounce you Mr. and Mrs. Skywalker, you may kiss the bride.

Shaak before Jack a chance to react grabbed her husband as she forced her lips on to his. With the crowd cheering in the background the most important part of the wedding had gone off without a hitch. Now came the best part of a wedding the dinner and party after words.

The fest that was prepared was magnificent. They had to prepare enough food for the thousands that had come to attend, but some how the chiefs hired for the job managed to pull through. During the height of the dinner Jack rose to give a speech. ” Today on my happiest if days I stand her to tell you all one simple thing. Do not wait to tell the one you love that you love them. With the war drawing near it is time to take advantage of these peacefully moments and spend them with people you care about. For you never know what tomorrow may bring.”

With that the half drunken Jack sat back down next to his wife and the crowd clapped in approval. Jack’s words were mostly directed at his kid brother as he eyed the boy across the table sitting with Padma. Though the boy is old 14 at the moment the war would take him away from Padma for long stretches at a time. It would be best to put all of you out there now then to regret it later.

As the dinner and party that followed slowly started to come to and end Jack was once again forced to thank most of the main guest for coming for a relatively short amount of time much to Jack’s relief.

Jack and Shaak went through the long process of opening all of the gifts they received from the wedding. Though most materials goods did not have any meaning to Mand’lor it was the thought that made the gifts special.

For their honeymoon Jack planned to take Shaak to Scarif as the planet was known for it lush beaches. Jack had only wanted it to be the two of the but the elder council was not going to have any of that. With the war about to start they were not about to have their commander off world without escorted. So Jack’s new Flag ship the Battle Star Calamity would taking and bring the two back from their honeymoon.

Just before the two ser off for their two week vacation Jack gave Sharia a set of orders to find the jedi that had escaped from the jedi council. He had given her kill on sight orders. Sharia nodded and set off to complete the task though Jack had a feeling she would not be able to find the jedi easily if at all. Not trying to put a damper on his mood Jack picked up Shaak and carried her to the speeder that would take them to his ship.

— Redacted Location in space—

Blue team had just come off of RnR a few days ago. As much as they would have love to see their fathers wedding they had a job to do, and he would understand. Intel had found that the CIS were planning an attack to start the war. Blue team had been tasked find out the targets of the attacks and when they would take place.

This is what brought them out in the middle of nowhere to meet with a contact that had inside information on the attacks. The contact was new so John was a bit on edge about the meeting which is why the ship had sat cloaked for the past hour just outside of the meeting area. The contacts ship had been sitting there but it had many no attempt to use it sensors to scan and see if there were any ships near by.

Something didn’t seat right with John. John had Cortana run a scan on the ship and for the fourth time to scan came up normal. Before John could ask again something shimmered in to existence just behind the smaller ship. It seemed like this had been a trap all along but that was not the problem. The problem was where did the CIS get cloaking technology from. If the Mandalorians had a leak this could be very bad, but before John could go and sound the alarm Cortana stopped him.