Title: Going To The Chapel
By: karaokegal
Pairing: Stella Bonasera/Lisa Cuddy (CSI: NY/House)
Written for the Kiss Meme
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 326

Weddings. Jewish. Italian. It’s all the same. Food, drama and dancing.

Lisa came as a favor to her friend Marcus. It’s his cousin’s wedding and he needs a date. They’ve been doing this since the freaking prom. It’s getting as old as they are, but it’s comfortable as well, and they’ll go out afterwards and eat diner food, as though they hadn’t just stuffed themselves with the best catered food Livingston Township has to offer. Only they don’t because Marcus smiles at the bartender and ends up with more than an extra olive in his martini.

Stella knows the groom’s sister and RSVPs even though she hasn’t got a date and doesn’t want one. She dances alone in a corner of room, enjoying herself in the pleasure of others. Maybe there’ll be day like this for her, but until then she’s content to drink champagne for those who find love and silently wish them better luck with it than she’s ever had.

Later on, they won’t remember whether it was the Hoar or the Tarantella or just fate that sent Lisa spinning into Stella, knocking her back against a staircase where they landed in a dizzy accumulation of high-heels, dark hair and spilled champagne.

By the time the shoes are on the right feet and the seltzer has been called for, it won’t matter any more, because they’ve looked and seen and smiled and found a place amid the coats and Lisa thinks she’s pushing Stella, but Stella’s a cop and she’ll use the cuffs that she doesn’t have on her or anything it takes not to let this one go. If it takes a kiss, or several kisses, or more than that, so be it.

The bride and groom leave for Barbados to the ribald shouts of the groom’s friends. Stella and Lisa emerge from the coat-room with lipstick smeared smiles too late to say good-bye, so they take off together to continue saying hello.