(A/N): Hey all...few announcements before we get started.

So, I'm still working on the new story. I'm hoping to put it up sometime in November, but once again, I'm not good with schedules. I'll try my best but no promises. I'm taking a lot more advanced classes this year (two sciences! Fun but hard) so it's crazy rn but I will get it up!

To the guests: I'm going to be temporarily enabling comment moderation because I've been experiencing issues with spam bots. Is anyone else having this issue? So far, I've gotten about 300 reviews worth of spam on a single oneshot. It was very Anti-CU. I hate moderating comments...I feel like I can trust everyone to be decent human beings and all that, but ugh...spam sucks.

Also, this story has received about 9,100 hits. Thank you very much! It hasn't passed the record of ~10, 300, but it's getting there!

Finally, I'd like to go into further detail on my new Discord server! If you are an artist, reader, writer, Beta reader, a combination of those, etc, then you're more than welcome to join a server one of my friends and I made. It's for people in Small Fandoms. You can meet and talk with Beta readers, get constructive criticism on writing/artwork, just hang out with us...whatever! We've got a good amount of people so far, but it'd be awesome if more people from this fandom joined! Everyone there is really nice! PM me if you're interested and I'll send you the invite link. If it works on here. We'll work it out lol.

*cough* anyway. I think that's about it.

ONTO THE ONESHOT YOU CAME FOR!

"It's way too quiet," Nya comments, setting down her bookbag on one of the pieces of covered furniture.

"Yeah," Cole responds. "I love it and hate it at the same time."

"Me too," agrees Nya. The two are silent for a while, taking in the house they'd bought recently. The walls are dark while every single piece of furniture has been covered with a white sheet. Nya think that they're probably going to have to do a lot of cleaning in order to restore this place to its former glory, but that can wait for now. She and Cole are just relieved they're back from the two-hour drive from the monastery.

"Seeing this and knowing that we've come this far..." Cole sighs with a soft smile lighting his lips, rubbing the back of his neck. "It makes me indescribably happy."

"I'm glad. After all you and the guys have done for our city..." she trails off.

Cole hugs her from behind. "You're a part of the team too, dummy."

"I know, I know. Yo-"

"Nya."

She chuckles. "We deserve some downtime, hm?"

"Yeah."

Once again, the eerie silence fills the atmosphere.

"This is going to take a while to get used to," Nya comments. She sighs. "Come on, let's go see our room."

…

A few weeks later, and the house begins to feel like home for the two. Nya loves having her own spaces to work and Cole particularly adores their huge, soft bed. The two had a new routine of waking up to each other and giggling about that before cuddling and procrastinating on waking up.

While Cole loved that, it was still a challenge to get used to it. Since he had bunked with the others for so long, he'd grown used to the normal habits of living with other people: having to share your space, getting used to having other people around constantly, all that, he was fine with. Of course, he enjoyed living with Nya, but they'd still had their moments: the ones where both would have come home from work in a worse mood than they had been in when they'd woke up. They would fight, and those nights were hard.

Cole knew that as much as he loved Nya, he still needed alone time. The same went for her too. And when that would happen, Cole would either head out for a run or go meditate somewhere quiet. Nya usually went off to the library or back to her blacksmith shop.

Afterwards, they'd feel much better and would usually end up compromising with the matter.

Cole smiles, wrapping his arms around the woman curled up in his side. It'd been a long, bumpy ride, but it had been worth it. So worth it.

The lack of fighting and action was odd, yes, but now that his life was turning more into that of a domestic one...he'd found other ideas creeping into his mind.

He was with the woman he loved now, and that opened up a window for so many new opportunities: they could spend so much more time together. They could get married, and maybe even have a baby one day, when they were ready. Or, as ready as they could be.

Cole smiles at the thought. He would love a son or daughter to take care of, even if the responsibility was much greater than anything he'd ever been through before.

Squinting through the light, he buries his face into Nya's neck, inhaling her scent.

He sighs.

"Stop, love, that tickles..." Nya mutters, shifting. The earthbender chuckles, plopping his head back down on his pillow.

"Sorry."

He feels little vibrations run through her back, signaling that she was giggling.

The laid there for another half-hour or so. Cole knew that neither would have to go to work until later today, so they could just mess around until that time came.

He sighed once the clock told them it was almost noon. "We should get up, huh?"

Nya releases a whine and sinks back under the covers, causing Cole to yank them off of her. She squeaks and flails in an attempt to regain the missing warmth. The earth ninja tosses the blankets to the floor.

"You suck," Nya murmurs.

"Heh. I-"

"If you make a joke about that then I will kill you."

Cole snickers. "You could try. I could just lift you up like a sack of potatoes and watch you squirm."

The water ninja groans, rolling off the bed rather gracefully. "Shh. I need to make coffee first!"

Cole pouts. "Come on..."

"Shush. Do you want some?" she questions, throwing on one of Cole's giant hoodies.

"You really need an answer to that?"

"Touche," she grumbles before exiting. Cole slides off the bed and gets somewhat dressed as well. Halfway through, however, his expertly-trained nose picks up the scent of bacon being cooked in the kitchen.

He rushes to finish up.

Once he does, he heads towards the kitchen to see Nya standing in front of the stove. He snickers quietly, transferring his mindset into ninja mode, sneaking up behind her and coiling his arms around her waist. She's not even startled, to his disappointment.

"Nice try. Don't touch the bacon; it's almost finished. Would you mind setting the table while I finish up?"

"Of course." He detaches his arms from her before walking over to the cabinet and pulling out two plates. Setting those on the table, he ventures back to the kitchen to grab the needed silverware along with napkins and cups.

Nya dumps the bacon onto a paper plate lined with napkins, so Cole picks it up and moves it in the middle of their table. She brings in the coffee and the two have a seat.

"I wish I could cook as well as you can," Cole murmurs through bites, "everyone hated my cooking!"

"You're improving. And besides, even if you're not that good at cooking you can still bake like a god," Nya states.

Cole chuckles. Even though he had never been able to cook very well, for some reason he was amazing at baking. He thought it was his severe case of sweet tooth, but Nya thought otherwise.

The two shared a mostly quiet breakfast with few words being exchanged before cleaning up and getting ready for the day.

Nya adjusted her shirt, a white, long-sleeved button up with dark black dress slacks. Cole walked up to her.

"I don't want you to leave!" he groans.

"I need to get in a little early. We have an important meeting that I can't miss. And besides," she pokes him in the chest, "You should start getting ready as well."

He pouts, grabbing onto her arm. "Noooo..."

"Hush and go get dressed. We'll be back home before you know it," she says with a smile.

"I don't wanna..." he drawls.

She gently smacks his hands away and presses a kiss to his lips. He smiles and pulls her to him.

"Now shush and get ready. When we're finished with work, we'll come home and watch shitty horror movies while eating pizza and snuggling under a blanket. Does that sound alright?" she compromises.

"Fine. Be careful," Cole states, smiling at her.

"I will if you will."

"Alright. I'll see you later, love," Cole says, releasing Nya.

"Later," she pauses before adding, "I love you, earthworm."

"I love you too, cutie."

I also posted a new Halloween oneshot if you're interested :D Have a spoopy/happy Halloween!