Elizabeth: I feel like a fairy-tale princess.
Emily: Except this magic doesn't end at midnight, Elizabeth. This magic will follow you and Lucky for the rest of your lives.
Elizabeth: I hope you know how much I love you.
Emily: Okay, no crying.
Elizabeth: Okay.
Lesley Lu: Ready, big sister?
Elizabeth: Ready, little sis.
Music plays.
Jax: Courtney, look, I know something's wrong. Just tell me what it is.
Courtney: Jax, not now.
Jax: I don't want you to start lying to me again. I thought we were past that.
Courtney: Fine. I'm pregnant and you're the father.
"Wedding March" plays.
Nikolas: All right, everyone, if you don't mind, please gather around. First, I just want to thank you all for making this such a great surprise for Elizabeth and Lucky. Most of you probably have absolutely no idea why we chose to have the wedding right here in the ballroom of Wyndemere, but there's a bit of a story behind it. Some years ago, we held a Bacchanalia ball here. Everyone say "Bacchanalia."
All: Bacchanalia.
Nikolas: Bacchanalia. Thank you. It was in honor of my late Uncle Stefan's engagement, and for those of you who were there, oh, what a party it was, and we'll just leave it at that. But what you may not know is that Elizabeth and Lucky were falling in love for the very first time that night. Well, they watched the entire party through the window outside in the garden, and, I don't know, I guess once they witnessed the festivities in here, they just got swept up in the romance of it all, because they shared their very first dance outside in that garden.
All: Aw.
Nikolas: And for years, Emily -- Emily? -- Emily and I have had both the privilege and honor to listen to the myriad of complaints as to how they were always on the outside looking in, both figuratively and literally. On the occasion of my brother's wedding to his beautiful, beautiful bride, we thought it was time that they come inside from the garden. So without further ado, I present to you for their very first dance as husband and wife, Lucky and Elizabeth Spencer.
Classical music plays.
Elizabeth: Oh, God.
Music stops.
Emily: Wait for a signal from me to bring out the cake. All right.
Alan: Em? Hi.
Emily: Hi.
Alan: I can't get over how comfortable you are here.
Emily: Yeah, it was my home.
Alan: Well, technically, it still is. I was watching you and Nikolas during the ceremony. You're both still so much in love.
Emily: Well, considering that you were so dead set against my marriage, Dad, you sure are pushing hard.
Alan: I never objected to Nikolas, it was his family, and I wasn't wrong. But the truth is, Em, you belong here with your husband.
Nikolas: Courtney, Courtney? Hey.
Courtney: Hey.
Nikolas: It's okay. This is an emotional day for everyone, I know. Are you okay?
Courtney: Yeah. No, the wedding is so beautiful because you and Emily did such a wonderful job. You should be proud.
Nikolas: What's going on? Tell me, what's going on?
Courtney: I got the DNA results back. It's Jax's baby.
Nikolas: Yeah. Well, we knew there was a chance that it wasn't going to be mine, so --
Courtney: I wanted it to be.
Nikolas: Yeah, so did I. I didn't know how much until this moment. But it doesn't change anything, okay? I still want to be with you. I want to be as much of a father to this child as I can, okay?
Jax: Thanks, anyway, but I'll be the father to my child.
Jax: I'd like to speak to my wife -- alone.
Nikolas: Let's ask Courtney what she wants.
Courtney: It's okay.
Jax: So how did this miracle happen, and why did you choose to tell me now?
Courtney: Obviously, I didn't know that I was pregnant until after I was already with Nikolas. Yeah, Jax, I knew that there was a slight chance you were the father, but I didn't want to get your hopes up and then tell you that the baby wasn't yours. I mean, I know how much this means to you.
Jax: Yeah, it means everything. I can't -- I can't believe you're pregnant. Wow. Courtney, I want to -- I want to raise this child together as husband and wife.
Courtney: No. We can't.
Emily: Nikolas!
Nikolas: I'm okay. It's all right, it's all right. I think I'll just watch where I'm going rather than just --
Emily: What happened?
Nikolas sighs.
Nikolas: Courtney got the paternity test back. Jax is the father.
Courtney: We'll raise this baby as mother and father, but not as a couple.
Jax: Come on, we've already come so far in making the peace with each other.
Courtney: But as friends. Okay, I just -- I don't think that we were meant for anything more.
Jax: We're going to be parents now. We at least owe it to this child to give it a try.
Courtney: Jax, what kind of marriage can we have if there isn't genuine love between us? I don't want to hurt you any more than I already have. I'm in love with Nikolas. I'm sorry, Jax.
Jax: No, I'm sorry for you because you don't realize that Nikolas is still hung up on Emily.