I do not own any of the Tinkerbell movies or characters. I only own Tiffani, Meadow, and Evie.

Story Start

The Winter Woods were beautiful. The sun reflecting off the snow and the little rainbows shining in the icicles hanging from the branches were breath-taking. I tightened my arms around Milori's waist as the wind picked up around us.

"Are you alright?" he shouted over the wind.

"Yes, this is amazing. The Winter Woods are gorgeous," I shouted back to him. I moved so I was closer to Milori and I put my head on his shoulder so I could see where we were going. I gasped at the sight of the castle of ice that we were heading towards. "Is that your home?" I asked even though I knew it had to be.

"Yes," he shouted back. He gave me a bigger smile than I had seen him give us as he motioned for the owl to land in front of the castle. "Welcome to my home," he said as he helped me off the owl. He went to hold his arm out for me to loop my own with, but I surprised him by grabbing his hand instead.

"What," he started to say but I stopped him with a squeeze of my hand.

"May I call you Milori?" I asked softly.

"You may, Princess," he started to say but I once again cut him off but this time I gently placed a finger on his lips.

"If I get to call you Milori then please call me Tiffani," I said and smiled when he gave me a happy look before squeezing my hand.

"Let me show you my home," he said and we walked hand-in-hand into the castle.

A few fairies were walking around the castle and they stopped to watch Milori and I walk around while he told me all about his home. I ignored their surprised looks and even some of them shouted happily as soon as we would turn a corner.

"It seems the other winter fairies are very happy to see us walking around together," I said after we passed another corner and heard two fairy girls screaming happily.

Milori paused and gave a sigh before running a hand over his face. "I apologize for their actions. They have wanted me to find my mate for a long time," he said with another sigh.

"Wait, so that connection you were talking about yesterday, were you talking about me being your mate? Am I really your mate like eternal mate?" I asked as I stood in front of him so he wouldn't look away or try to change the subject. "Milori," I said when he stood just looking at me and I could tell he was fighting with himself.

"Yes, that is the connection I was talking about yesterday. You are my mate, but I will not rush you or even force to be my mate if you don't want to," he said and tried to look down but I put a hand under his chin.

"Milori, this is sudden, very sudden, but I still want to get to know you and so far I'm liking the you that I'm getting to know. I have no problem with us being mates, it's actually kind of exciting to know that I've found the one fairy meant to love me for eternity, but I'm not rushing into it. We'll take our time getting to know each other and just take our relationship slowly," I said and I couldn't help but lean up and kiss him on the cheek again when he looked so relieved and happy.

"Thank you," he whispered and he pulled me into a tight hug, which I definitely enjoyed.

"Oh Lord Milori, there you are, oops, I interrupted, yup I did," a new voice called from the end of the hallway.

Lord Milori and I stopped hugging but I smiled up at him when I felt him wrap an arm around my waist to keep me close. "Hello Keeper, this is Princess Tiffani. Tiffani this is Keeper. He knows and writes down all the history and information of fairy world," Milori told me as the new fairy waved at me before approaching us.

"Hello, I'm the Keeper but my friends call me Dewey," the Keeper introduced himself with a bow of his head. "Your coronation ceremony was beautiful," he said as he leaned on his cane.

"Thank you and it's nice to meet you Keeper," I said but he corrected me and told me to call him Dewey.

"So what are you two doing?" Dewey asked as the three of us all started walking down the hallway.

"I was showing the princess around the Winter Woods and the castle," Milori said and I frowned at him.

"You know you can call me Tiffani in front of others too," I told Milori in a whisper and he looked at me as if it would be wrong to do that but I just gave his hand a squeeze. "It's ok, Milori," I said and he gave a nod.

"Well what do you think of our home so far?" Dewey asked as we walked out onto a balcony.

"It's beautiful. All of you are lucky to live in such a beautiful place," I said softly and I felt Milori give my waist a squeeze as he pulled me closer to him. I smiled as I leaned my head back on his chest as we looked at the beautiful forest and frozen pond below. My stomach growling just had to ruin the beautiful moment and I saw both men chuckling at me when they realized it was my stomach.

"A girl has to eat," I muttered as I went to move away but Milori wouldn't let me go.

"Let's get something to eat," he told me and asked Dewey if he would like to join us, and the Keeper happily agreed.

We walked deeper into the castle until we came to a nice dining area on a different balcony that overlooked the mountains behind the forest. Milori pulled out my chair for me before gently pushing it back to the table, and he and Dewey sat in the other two chairs as fairies brought out some food and drink for us. I was looking at all of the delicious looking food when I felt someone grab one of my hands under the table. I just gave Milori a smile as I squeezed his hand before reaching forward to try a bite of the warm soup sitting in a bowl in front of me. "Best lunch ever," I thought with a happy sigh after trying the yummy pumpkin soup.