My apologies for the excruciatingly long time period between updates. My brain just keeps my pen flowing at the other stories and as much as I'd like to have no real world obligations, school and family come first. I hope you enjoy this chapter. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Maybe an excess of feelings and fluff and love? Let me know!

Merry Christmas!

The couple lay comfortably in Bolin's bed. He was on his stomach looking up at his fiancée who was sitting up cradling her burnt arm.

"Are those tea leaves helping?"

"If you ask about my arm one more time, you'll be sleeping on the floor." Jinora glared at Bolin with his worrying nature. She appreciated the care and the tea leaves that he made into a compress for her. They really were helping the pain, but the constant worrying and questions were getting infuriating.

"Maybe, I'll just poke it periodically to test your pain levels." He jokingly made a move to poke her arm as she quickly slung it over her head to safety.

"You are so mean. First, you hide my ring for over a year and now this. Tsk tsk. I thought you were better than that." She accused him playfully.

"It all had to be magical, whimsical, loving, endearing, tear-jerkingly perfect. "

"We'll Mister Perfect, it was magical and everything else as well as very very public. We are going to be on every newspaper and radio show tomorrow morning. This is going to overshadow your win. I can see it now, Probending Champion Engaged to Eldest Airbending Child. " She said with a frown. Then she gasped. "Shit. I mean we won't have to tell anyone; they all know. But shit, everyone knows."

"I'm not quite following this latest worry. The publicity I got, and apologize for. Why do we care if everyone knows?"

"I just don't know if my extended family and friends from University will appreciate this type of announcement. It's impersonal, while still very personal, I mean the proposal was broadcast as part of the post-Championship interviews. I guess it was unavoidable. I mean, brother-in-law to the Avatar marries eldest granddaughter of the great Avatar Aang, not exactly something people can resist."

"Excuse me. I am team captain of the fireferrets that should mean more than Korra's brother-in-law!" There was a mask of genuine hurt on his face.

"Yes, to your plentiful fangirls. That means everything." She rolled her eyes. His fans were a constant thorn in her side, but now that he publicly devoted himself to her, maybe they would back off and moon over Jet or someone else.

"Excuse you, but I'd like to think I made a name for myself. I don't have to piggyback off of anyone else's fame."

"I also would prefer to be known as Councilwoman Jinora, ambassador of the Air Nation to Republic City and Ba Sing Se, Alumnus of Ba Sing Se University, future author, and Master Airbender. Or just me." She looked him dead in the eye. Her point had been made. She didn't want to start a fight either. Not tonight. She dropped the glare and cutthroat tone. "But then there's another title I will be happy to have soon, The wife of the brother-in-law to the Avatar." She smirked at him with a wink. He felt his gloomy mood lift off him, remembering that tonight was a night to be celebrated.

"The future Mrs. Probending Champion, I like the sound of that." She felt his arms slide up under her. He pulled her into his lap; she leaned into his chest nuzzled her head against him. He felt wetness against his shirt, tears; she was crying into him.

"Sweetheart?" He pulled her tighter against his body to comfort her. "What is it? Did I hurt your arm? Are you having second thoughts? Do you hate your ring? I'll get you a new one a more modern on. I'll even carve you a betrothal necklace if you want one." Using her good hand she placed her fingers to his lips to silence his distress. She looked up at him, tears still glinting in her eyes, but with a lilted smile on her face.

"I'm just happy. I'm just so happy. The ring is beautiful and don't you dare try to replace it. We've grown very attached. It's just…" She let out a deep breath to compose herself, preventing a fresh wave of tears. "I…we get to share this with my whole family. You and Mako have been family for over a decade now, but we don't get to share this with yours. I don't know. . . It makes me miss them somehow, which is ridiculous. I never knew them; they died before I was born. I'm just being emotional, just forget it." She put her thoughts to rest with a kiss on her fiancé's lips.

"Nora, you break my heart. They would have loved you, and Korra for that matter, to bits. They would be so proud that Mako and I found love like theirs. Personally, I think ours is even better. We never would have had a reason to meet without the tragedy of losing them." Tears were escaping Bolin's eyes as he spoke. "Your family has always been mine, and will forever be mine even without you, but more so with you. Normally marriages are the unions of two families, our will just be the official addition. Now, we will all actually be related. But Mom and Dad are here in spirit, they left a void in our lives when they died and I'm bringing that void with me. You should be gaining family, a second pair of parents. Instead our kids will only have one set of grandparents. However, I think the excess of aunts and uncles and cousins will make up for everything; even so the amount of love I have for you can fill all of the voids." He stroked her hair off her face and kissed her forehead. The couple sat absorbing each other and this moment, soaking in everything that was about to happen.

"I can't believe we are getting married." Bolin said in a mildly astonished tone.

"I've been planning this since the day I met you. Albeit, those wedding plans involved you whisking me away to far off lands where we would go on adventures out of my books and there were talking animals and my wedding dress would be hot pink."

"You've had fourteen years to get used to this idea. Forever with you was easy to come to terms with, but even after trying to propose for a year I'm still not used to the idea of all of this being real."

"I never thought it would be. I honestly get to live out my fairy tale with my first and only true love. We'll be the stuff of songs and love stories."

The couple fell asleep just like that, her cradled in his arms whispering their love back and forth.

Jinora woke up the next morning, remembering she had a particularly good dream. She rubbed her neck as she tried to work out the kinks from sleeping in an awkward position, when her hand brushed the chain on her neck. Her fingers traced down to the hollow of her throat to her ring, knowing her dream was real.