ALWAYS (Smokey Gordon prompt)
Smokey Gordon x Female! Reader
PROMPT REQUEST BY @junojelli ‘’ You made me feel loved and wanted and for that, I’ll always love you.’’
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A/N: I LOVED WRITING THIS SO MUCH UGH….Also weird fact. I have 113 total and I did 18 and 113-18 equals 95 and well….this was the 95th request soooo It must be a sign…..
Smokey Gordon never thought that he would be getting married, let alone to be standing at his own wedding. But there he was, standing, dressed up in nice black suit, looking as fresh as the next groom. His hands would still get shaky, from time to time, but at least his legs were steady enough.
He could hear his mother tearing up, shifting a sob just alongside your mother. Both of them were giving their babies away, of course they were crying. Tab, his best man, the one he have his purple heart to, the one that had visited him and sent him millions of letters, was standing just right beside him making sure that he doesn’t collapse.
The moment he had seen you walk down the aisle alongside your father, he could have collapsed. It wasn’t the injury or the weakness of his legs that would often catch up with him. It was the sheer beauty of you, a literal angel dressed in white, wanting to marry him. Your smile was so radiant, so fresh, Smokey could literally feel his lips stretching out on their own.
You stood there in front of him, right there, your hair pulled back making everything about you so much prettier. Usually you were the most beautiful woman Smokey had ever seen, now you looked as if you turned into goddess. Your eyes had this spark and the soft redness of your cheeks was so beautiful that he could feel his eyes watering. And he had sworn that he wouldn’t cry at him own wedding.
He couldn’t peel his eyes off you, almost missing out the half of the ceremony because he kept staring at you like you had just dropped out from the heaven. But, for him, you did. You really did
You cleared your throat, trying to get rid of your own tears, fumbling with the paper in your hands, because you knew that remembering your vows would never happen. You were just too excited, too happy to even process the words that you had scrambled the night before. You figured that the best and the most honest vows would come when the time was right. And they did.
‘’Dear Smokey- oh God this sounds like one of those breakup letters that bunch of our guys got during the war-‘’ your shook your head, making half of the church laugh along with you. Smokey could feel his chest shake at your silliness even if he should have expected this from you. ‘’I wrote this at two AM, please don’t judge me.’’ You waved everyone off, making them laugh even more. ‘’Dear Smokey, I wish I could put everything I feel into words, but you know when it comes to it that I am very much hopeless…still, I chose to try. I was supposed to start telling the story how we met, how we fell in love and how it came to this but, the road had been a tough one for both of us…so I chose not to think about those times. I chose to think why I love you and the good times we had. I chose to lean on you because you’re the strongest person I know. I chose to love you, let you love me because you understood me, you understand me, and you will always understand me…and you light up the world around you. You do with words more than I could ever do in a lifetime and for that, I will always worship the ground you walk on-‘’
You wiped a few tears away, watching Smokey do the same, because it was very true. You were helpless with words, with putting your feelings on the paper, for telling a story without joking or laughing way too hard. It was something it never came naturally, but the fact that you tried so hard, stayed up so late just to do it for him, brought the emotions out of him like a flood.
‘’-and you chose me, for your future, for the life that awaits…and you could have had someone much better. But you chose silly little me, from a small town, woman stupid enough to head into war. And if anything, I thank God every day for giving me someone like you, for having you look at me as if the sun shines out of my a- OH I am NOT supposed to say this in church-‘’ Your mother gasped from her seat, your father had ended up laughing with the rest of the church once again.
‘’C’mon, you’re doing great.’’ Smokey squeezed your hand a little tighter feeling the happiness and excitement bubble in his chest.
‘’-bottom line is, you chose me. I didn’t deserve you back then, I don’t deserve you right now and I won’t ever deserve you, but God knows that I’ll try to. Because you love me as if I am the epitome of your dreams when in fact you’re the epitome of mine and, Smokey Gordon, I am the luckiest woman in the world.’’
‘’I can’t kiss her yet, right?’’ Smokey whispered to the priest, his eyes glistering with unshed tears that you somehow managed to bring out of him. For a woman with no sense of writing talent, you sure did pour your heart into it.
‘’Not yet.’’ The man chuckled, nudging him to start reading his vows.
‘’Here goes nothing.’’ Smokey chuckled. ‘’I didn’t write anything, I was so sure that I would know what to say, but there you are leaving me speechless like you always do. I know I was supposed to be the one with an amazing poem or letter of some sorts but that wouldn’t do it justice either. I remember seeing you for the first time, fuming with anger and I thought to myself ‘Yep, this is the woman I’m gonna marry.’ And I wrote so many poems about you doing basic training, it’s embarrassing, really-‘’ he chuckled, making your heart beat faster and the tears collect in your eyes. You were a person so tough that Smokey had rarely seen you shed a tear, but during the ceremony he had seen you cry more than all the years he had known you. ‘’-and I can never comprehend how your brain works or how could you ever think that you’re not deserving of me. You saved my life in more ways than one. You helped the guys carry me out of woods when your wounds were bleeding. You came home when I was still unable to move and you took care of me. You helped me get up, you thought me how to walk again, use my hands again and you have seen me in pretty embarrassing and compromising positions-‘’
At this point anyone who was trying to hold their tears in had given up. There was so much love between the two of you that even the priest had to turn away to get rid of the tears. That was it, your love had survived so much that even the toughest bastards, Toye and Bill, had managed to shed a few tears.
‘’Y/N, my everything, you saved my life when I thought it wasn’t worth saving. You saved me when I had begged you just to let me go, and the days I got so frustrated with myself that I wouldn’t even look at you. You saved me and I am the one who would never be deserving of you and everything you’ve done. You made me feel loved and wanted and for that, I’ll always love you.’’
Not a single soul had been in that church that hadn’t started crying at the sight of you two. The two lucky people that had been through so much, that had overcome so damn much and in the end that they got what they truly deserved was something everyone celebrated as holiday.
They watched the two of you right from the start, when you had first met. The times you had been thick as thieves and the times you had spent separated. And they knew that if there was anyone who could have pulled out what you did, they wouldn’t do it as nearly as good.
There was only one Smokey Gordon and there was only one Y/N Y/L/N, and no one else could compare.
