Exactly, yeah, it's not about a wedding, it's about a marriage. And god, what a marriage.

...you know ever since I sobbed my poor little Browncoat heart when I first saw Serenity, I kinda prided myself in my attitude of "okay, so it killed me, and I'll probably cry each time I see it because let's face it I'm a crybaby for characters I love and hell do I love Wash, but I'm not gonna be in denial, he's dead and it was brilliantly done and the death he deserved ("I hope you end your life as a leaf on the wind") and I will not join any sort of denial clan." Except, the kid. That daughter of theirs (yes, it has to be a girl) is the one thing that makes me want to write denial!fic. I need to dig around and find that fic again which a friend of mine wrote, where that's precisely what it is, denial!fic and the daughter. And it made me cry.