(Personal opinion: I would've liked it better if the movie had ended with a montage of the new/rebuilt connections between the kingdoms, with both couples developing their relationships across the clips, spanning at least a year like Marianne's sword-training sequence was supposed to. This chapter is intended to have a montage effect.
Yes, given the length, I probably could have formatted this whole thing as a one-shot story, but I've never completed writing a multi-chapter fic before, so this is a real milestone for me! Also, since it's eleven chapters long and finishes on Christmas Eve - whatever FFnet tells you, this went up after midnight on the 24th, not before midnight on the 23rd! - it gives a 'Twelve Days of Christmas' vibe; I've got an update of a different sort planned for Christmas Day.)
In Which Matters Conclude With A Montage
"You're the Princess?" Bog demanded.
"You didn't know?"
"I thought you were the princess' bodyguard!"
"Okay, so I can be kind of protective of my sister, but can you blame me? I mean, if she can't even trust her own best friend …" Marianne cast a dark look in Sunny's direction.
"So." Bog was using his sceptre as a walking stick, as they followed the army back to the border. "What happens now?"
Sunny's trial was huge. Scandal rocked the kingdom when it came out that the whole plan had involved both princesses being coerced into marriage. Roland was arrested for conspiracy.
Dawn visited Sunny in the dungeon every day. Even when she was upset with him, she still loved him.
Bog and Marianne got in the habit of meeting at the border to talk. Sometimes her sister or father or his mother would join them, but more often, they met alone.
Marianne and Bog were roughly equal in skill when they sparred. Meeting to do that became a habit as well.
The next spring, elves, brownies, fairies, and sprites were helping the goblins cut down and dispose of the primroses.
Sunny's sentence was a lesser one, as he was considered as much a victim of Roland's charisma as a genuine co-conspirator. After a single year, he was released.
After Marianne and the Bog King had been meeting for a year and a half, Griselda, Stuff, and Thang quietly started placing bets on when the Bog King would overturn the love ban.
The Sugar Plum Fairy was freed of her prison, on the condition that she never brewed a love potion again – no matter what sob story the person requesting it told her.
It warmed Bog's heart, how delighted Marianne was with everything he showed her in the Dark Forest, admiring its dangers and its beauties alike.
It made Marianne laugh, how careful Bog was when interacting with anything from the Fairy Kingdom, lest his claws tear it to shreds.
Two years after confessing their love, three springs after the last attempt at a Royal Wedding, Dawn and Sunny got married. This wedding was not cancelled at the last minute.
During a moonlit flight through the Dark Forest, Bog spotted a patch of dark blue flowers he thought would look perfect in Marianne's hair. He lagged behind her for a moment to pick one.
It was surprising, but definitely not unwelcome, when after he gave it to her, she kissed him.