I Think Malice Prime Is A Little Old For Adoption

Magtok slides the imaginary ring on her finger, which flickers and fades away since it's not real and not meant to be used like that. He quickly rises up from his kneeling stance, wraps his arms around his wife-to-be, and just...soaks it all in for a few moments. Wow, they're really doing this. The ring might've been fake, but that proposal and her answer was real. It's real, and she's not fading out of existence or anything. The world isn't on fire and neither of them are dying. Finally, finally, the constant, unending terror has abated.

"I love you," is all he manages to say, in a voice scarcely more than a whisper.