Disclaimer: If I owned LoK they would be even further behind schedule than they already are.

A/N: Finiiiiiiiiiiisssshhhheeeeee d! ;)

Chapter Six: A Heart

Three years later

As Skoochy made his way down Main Street in republic city, he could hardly find it in him to wipe the grin off his face. How could he? As he saw it to day was shaping up to be just great.

"Hey pally, what's got you all goofy?" asked Takeo with a smile holding out his hand to greet the young man. Skoochy reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a small pouch.

"This is the last payment on the loan." He said handing him the package of bills and coins, (that had been painstakingly scraped together counted, sorted and rolled up before he put them in the bag.) "And I have something to tell you…?"

Takeo smiled taking the bag, and looking through the money quickly "You know Skooch if you hadn't taken an extension on the loan you could have paid it off last year."

"I know, and that's what I wanted to talk about…" Takeo inclined his head looking at the slightly giddy man.

"Last year I was saving up to buy Jinora a ring and as of last week I've finally scraped together enough…" Skoochy raised his head enough to try and catch Takeo's reaction.

Skoochy was expecting a smile or a light punch to the shoulder, but the older man wrapped him in a quick hug, before pulling back to look at the young man he practically watched grow up. Then his expression turned serious for a moment.

"You know you're going to make a sap of me yet… You an' Dollface are finally tying the knot?" Skoochy nodded, before looking down.

"Well, I still need to ask her…?" he admitted.

"And what's stopping you?" asked Takeo raising and eyebrow at the man who had never had any problem asking questions before.

"I've never done this before… I just care about her so much; I don't want to get all balled up…" Skoochy sat down on the side walk, putting his head in his hand pensively.

"Listen, Skooch, if you and your doll had a chance of going south it would've happened a long time ago… and trust me I've had enough relationships go south to know what I'm talking about." Takeo gave a short pitiful laugh. "What I'm saying is you and your doll got something real special, I have worse odds betting on the probending matches I have thrown than on your relationship with Jinora." Skoochy looked up at him a smile beginning to creep back into his nervous exterior.

"How exactly do I ask her?" asked Skoochy. Takeo rolled his eyes at the younger man's unnecessary nervousness.

"You just ask… you'll know when the time is right… I did." he added as an afterthought, which reminded Skoochy of why he had chosen to talk to Takeo in the first place. Statistically he had the most practice even if it was only once and she died before they ever married. After a moment Takeo got up from bedside him, dusting the dirt from the sidewalk off his pants, before clapping Skoochy on the shoulder with one hand and extending his other arm to help him up.

"You and Jinora are finally tying the knot." he stated simply giving his shoulder another pat before looking away. "You did good Skoochy…" Takeo seemed like wanted to say more but he didn't. He waved goodbye and turned to leave.

"You're invited for the wedding, you know if she says yes…" Takeo turned back and gave a rare smile.

"I'll be there when she does…"

Skoochy found himself leaving their little meeting with the same goofy grin plastered once again to his face, and a single thought in his mind. He couldn't wait to ask her to marry him.

"Skoochy, what are you doing?" asked Jinora as he knelt in front of her, there was a certain excitement in her voice and he had never seen her eyes more alight than they were that day. They'd been on the roof top of the library for over an hour. It was one of their less planned dates that happened after he'd gotten off work and they were both starved. They'd gotten some dumplings from a street vendor and brought it back up to the roof top to watch the sunset. It was somewhere between the light dimming on the horizon until the sky was nothing more than purple fog and the feel of her heart beat as she lay against his chest when he felt the sudden urge to stand up and Kneel down beside her.

"Jinora," His voice took on a serious tone while he looked up at her to hold her gaze. "The day we met you told me we'd only meet again if I stopped stealing things from you…" Jinora smirked remembering their first encounter.

"And that didn't seem to stop you" she said implying the few other time he'd flinched something from her.

"But," he said pausing "I'm not the only one who stole something…" Jinora raised an eyebrow, at his assertion, but her chagrin turned to shock as he pulled out a small ring from a pocket in his vest.

"Jinora the day you met me you stole my heart, and every day since I find it more and more difficult to ever live without you, would you marry me?" He held the ring up to her. The front had three gold inter-connected swirls and the center one was inlayed with a diamond chip.

"You know, to tell you the truth I thought it was already mine." Jinora smiled and pressed a kiss to his cheek.

"It is, Dollface, now and forever" he cupped Jinora face pulling her back toward his for a real kiss. After a misplaced moment later Jinora pulled away to say, "I said yes by the way."

Skoochy laughed lightly, "I assumed as much." He said placing another kiss on her nose.

"But just to clarify" she said raising her head a fraction so their lips would meet again.

"Of course" he replied pulling apart so he could slip the ring on her finger.

"I love you Skoochy" she breathed her deep brown eyes sparkling in the fading daylight.

"I love you too, Jinora, always."

A/N: One part of my New Year's Resolutions is now finished (only twenty something more to go). So sorry this took so long I literally died (on ). See last year I died in real life and I felling to fan fiction world. Then, somehow I was reincarnated over the summer and I was able to live in the real world again. The only problem was that I could still see traces of the other side so now I am trying to find a way to exist peacefully between both worlds. It's taken me some time but I believe I am finally getting the hang of it.

P.S.: My understanding of the wedding stuff (for lack of a better word) in the avatar world is water tribe as we know used necklace to propose, fir nation I have no idea but in the context of Skoochy and Jinora would probably be irrelevant, air nomads because of their 'non-use of earthly possessions,' might not have had physical things that they used to proposed with, but I believe if any nation would use rings with rocks on them to propose, it would be the earth kingdom. It makes sense to me; if it doesn't to you, I don't know just pretend he proposed with something else. And I know everyone waited far too long for this ending and I can only hope it turned out as you expected.

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