Disclaimer – I don't own the following, Woolworth's, an ice-cream parlor and the avatar the last airbender.

A/N – I was lucky enough to get the chance to see a lecture today on Meths (like the drug) it was all about P and what not, this is an extremely dangerous drug and I advise after seeing and hearing what I saw and heard never to try it. The pictures were vile. Ok well Don't Do Drugs! Ok and yeah I'm only 15 and I'm not the biggest loser to be honest, but I still think drugs are for losers. : ) ok enough of that here the other ½ of chapter 7.

The ball had officially started once all the important guests had arrived. So many familiar faces from the old days roamed the dance hall. The finest of music filled Aang's ears as he was still holding Katara's hand. The couple walked over to Zuko and Jin who seemed even more pregnant from their last visit. Zuko had a smile plastered on his face, he was in love with his wife this was clear, the smile only grew wider when he saw Katara and Aang morphing in from his peripheral vision and saw them holding hand.

"It's about time" He commented.

Katara smiled up at Aang who said "Sure is" and smiled back at his girlfriend.

"See" Jin exclaimed to Zuko, who nodded and smiled again.

Katara and Aang gave each other a confused look "Umm 'See?' are we missing something" Katara gestured between herself and Aang.

"Oh no…it's nothing" Jin said covering it up. Zuko was clearly suppressing a smile.

"What is it?" Aang asked curiously with a laugh.

"Well its just when Zuko told me about you guys, he told me one of the greatest love stories I had ever heard, but it lacked an ending desperately"

Katara and Aang were blushing a color resembling speechless.

"And now it looks like there will be a happy one" Zuko finished his wife's sentence.

"Oh well…we are flattered, thanks that's so nice" Katara stuttered.

"Yeah, well you guys seem like you have a story of your own too" Aang added.

"Yes indeed and it will be shared with our little one here, along with your story of course" Jin claimed.

Sokka and Toph had begun yelling again and drawing everyone's attention, surprisingly about something that seemed to matter.

"Well if I had of known you felt that way, I wouldn't of…"

"What you wouldn't of what?"

"Kissed him" Toph confessed.

"Alright folks it seems like you're all getting a little restless over there" The King said up from his podium distracting the public from Sokka's and Toph's situation. "So I'll give it over to Avatar Aang who has prepared a speech to end our glorious festivals" The crowd roared Aang felt nervous, it wasn't the speech anymore it was something else.

"All the nations, Fire, Water, Earth, and Air have been around since the beginning of time, in the sun, in the moon and ocean, in the earth and in the air. There will never be a time where people are completely at harmony, but that is where I come in. Harmony, I fight for every voice out there, man, woman or child. It's not because of me the war is over; it's because peace is how nature was intended. War is just an allusion of power, because when you take away balance all you have left is failure disguised as victory.

When I was broken from the iceberg I awoke to the most beautiful sight in the world, I was just a child and I thought all was still peaceful. But I was very wrong, I had to learn all the elements quicker than was expected and defeat lord Ozai and let me tell you it wasn't easy." Katara was so proud of him, this speech was almost completely new to her.

"I had friends from all around the world, even though very few were alive still after the 100 year wait if things had of been different but at the same time I'm not sure I would have been able to visit anymore" Aang continued his speech and people all around him seemed validly interested in what he had to say, especially Katara who couldn't help but smile just because he was. "Being the last of the air nomads is though as I have even more expectations than your regular Avatar. I think personally for me the greatest thing about me being the avatar was being able to be preserved in an iceberg, and to all of you I'm thinking you are glad of this also, but to me it was particularly special because like I said I awoke to the most amazing girl in the whole world, and she just so happens to be in this room" Katara blushed as everyone cheered and cooed at this. "Ok I'm sure you all know who I'm talking about, but I'll get her up her anyway to make it a little clearer. Come on Katara" The crowed cheered louder as Katara glided up the steps and onto the stage to meet Aang.

"What are you doing?" she whispered under her breath.

Aang ignored her and continued his speech "Ok so she may not, bend all the elements or be the bridge to the spirit world, but she is your savior. If it were not for her I would still be locked away in ice and be a 12 year old boy I imagine"

"Aang stop it, you didn't have to drag me up here" she whispered in embarrassment, the people were cheering louder and louder.

"Well, apart form thanking her for saving the world and me, I just want to ask you something"

Katara's heart stopped skipped a few beats and fell back into an irregular pace. Aang got down on one knee, and the crowds went silent.

"Katara I have loved you from the first day I met you and love you more and more every day. You have been my friend, my family, my best friend, my bending master, my girlfriend and now hopefully my wife, will you marry me?"

There was a silence that loudly filled the air of the very large ball room.

"Of course" Katara accepted and Aang bended himself up off his knee and brought her straight into her arms, the crowd waved with noise and applause.

Even Sokka and Toph had stopped bickering to here the whole thing.

"Hey where's her necklace? Ring? Lava lamp? Flying lemur? Something?" Toph asked Sokka.

"She has already got it, on her wrist"

A small woven necklace could be seen on Katara's wrist and they exited off stage hand in hand and the cheering eventually died down.

"That old thing? She's had that forever as far as I can feel"

"That's the point; he gave it to her when they were kids"

"Still it could use un update" she joked.

"Oh, well if your not a fan of the woven necklaces I wont give you this" And he pulled out a necklace obviously another one of Sokka's creations. Toph couldn't see it though so it wouldn't matter to her.

"You made me a necklace? Why?"

"Because Katara and Aang aren't the only ones that have been harboring an unspoken love over the years" he said and the pulled into a kiss.

Katara and Aang looked over at Sokka and Toph who were dancing near them, with hardly any rhythm and low class but all the same dancing.

"Good for them"

"Yeah, oh I almost forgot" Aang pulled out a box that obviously contained a ring.

"Oh Aang I love it" She said and they both started laughing at the familiarity.

"Yeah, well it's a little more up to date than this" he said pulling at her wrist.

"Oh so that's what your intentions were hmmm? Marriage?" Katara asked playfully she had never been so happy.

"Always have been always will be" He said slipping the ring on to her finger. The ring consisted of a yellow and blue gem in crested in it, and on the inside was in scripted 'love is brightest in the dark' to commemorate their fist kiss.

The newly engaged couple concluded the engagement with a passionate kiss.

"The perfect ending" Jin said looking back from the kissing couple to her husband who had her in a hug, and smiled.

The end

A/N ok crusty ending, I'm so ashamed seriously but meh oh well and all that Jaz. May do a sequel one day, but it wont be like you have to read this than that kinda one to get it, ok R & R still lol and I hoped you enjoyed.