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With the curtains removed, Alex sees hundreds, maybe thousands of people outside of the palace gates. A mix between Union Jacks, pride flags, banners and signs voicing their support.
The world, Alex’s world, comes to a screeching halt.
For them. For Alex and Henry. For Alex and Henry. For AlexandHenry.
or; a sort-of au that explores Alex and Henry's first public appearance as a couple if they were just a l i t t l e bit more dramatic and impatient
(also, Henry's wedding speech in the bonus chapter!)
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“Ready to share me with the world?" Alex asks, and Henry grabs onto his hand, leans in real close and puts his lips to the shell of Alex’s ear before whispering a quiet yes.
“I’ve been ready to show you off since day one of this thing. Aren’t you America’s most eligible bachelor, after all?” Henry smiles.
“Was. I was America’s most eligible bachelor. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but I’m off the market.” Alex grins back. Henry kisses him in response.🥹🥹
“Sweetheart, are you sure about this? You have my entire heart, this,” he glances down at Henry’s intertwined hand with his, just above his heartbeat.
“This is yours, no matter how you want to deal with this. If we go through those doors, that’s it. No more diplomacy, no more ways to spin this story. Our faces will probably be on every news media outlet in a matter of minutes,” he stops, tries to gauge Henry’s reaction to see if there’s any change in his behaviour, but his smile only grows, reaching one hand up to drag his thumb over Alex’s bottom lip.
“My love, I love you, I have held you in my heart since you first kissed me back. If I am to be one half of an international sex scandal, I want the world to know that you are so, oh so much more than that to me. Let someone else worry about how this will affect the image of the royal family or what implications this will have, I’ve done that for far too long. I want this, and I want you to do this with me. Let’s take back the narrative.”😭😭
Henry slows down, stops for a second before cradling Alex’s head between his hands.
“I’m going to be with you. That’s my aim, my goal, my reason. We are going to be together because I say so, and I won't sit in a big cold room listening to my grandmother berate me for it any longer. She always disapproved of my father, kept diminishing my parents’ relationship, looking down on him for his lack of nobility, but I loved him. And I love you. By God, Alex, I’ve been in love with you since we were kids, and I won’t have her do the same to you. She tried to ruin my parents’, I won’t give her the opportunity with us. You’re too damn important.🥹
when they’re alone in the early hours of the morning before the sun rises, whispered phrases like “I love you”, “you’re incredible, everything I could ever wish for yet more” and “come back to bed baby, work can wait until after breakfast”. Words only meant for Henry to hear. Those are the ones he’ll carry to the day he dies....🩷🩷
Alex pulls Henry’s hand up with both of his, placing it over the steady, although a bit sped up, beat of his heart and peers into his eyes.
“You have all of me. This beats for you, always. And even when it stops, history will know it did, ever since I laid eyes on you at the Olympics, probably. History will know that I belonged to you as you belonged to me. You are the absolute love of my life, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, and as such I need you to wait a few more hours and not fucking blow me in a public bathroom. I want to be able to tell the story of this day to our grandkids without blushing in the future, please. ” He feels Henry’s willpower slip by the sigh he lets out.
Henry lets his eyes slip back down to their intertwined hands before he resigns himself to wait a few more hours. Honestly, if Alex wasn’t as in love with him as he was, this desperation would be hilarious. As it is, it’s reciprocated.
“This is unfair,” he says, moving to button Alex’s dress shirt back up again and tucking it back into Alex’s pants. “You know future talk gets me all hot and bothered for you. Honestly Alexander, did you have to bring up our grandkids ?” He questions, sounding resigned as he looks up at Alex and hands him his discarded suit jacket. 🥹🥹
When I first met Alexander Claremont-Diaz, he came into my life at a time when I was hurting the most, feeling lost in a world I believed I had no place in,” Henry starts, and while while his eyes keep going between Alex’s own and the guests, he reaches down for Alex’s hand and meets it halfway, Alex himself already grasping for Henry’s himself.
Ugh
Being able to grow beside you is a great gift bestowed on me and I vow to you, Alexander darling, to never take that for granted. I believe we have made each other stronger, made each other better. I vow to always be a pillar for you to fall back on, to always make you coffee in the mornings and tea before bed. I vow to you that whenever we must be apart with an ocean between us, my heart will still beat for you. As it always will. And after we have gone, I am comforted by the assurance that history will remember us. History will know that I belonged to you as you belonged to me.” 😮💨
There are SO MANY GOOD PARTS OF HENRY and his SPEECH. Gotta reac it to really know it. ria Ria Ria ria🥹🩷☺️🦋
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Some closet, huh? The big reveal at the palace (and then their wedding)
“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are”. Tammy Baldwin said that, the first openly gay senator in the U.S senate, and she was right. I bet she’s pretty proud of you.” Alex says.“
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