"I think I will make it first" Aang announced while mentally calculating the hight of the cliff to climb.
"Why? no bending alowed, and I'm taller, and I've been working on my climbing skills." Sokka repied sticking out his tounge at the younger boy.
"Your taller by like, half an inch, maybe." Aang challenged.
"Nu-Uh, it's way more than that! I'm like three inches taller than you deffinitly!"
"Must we mesure again? OK, back to back, let's see." Katara said lining the two boys up. She looked closely, standing as tall as she could on tip toe. "Hmm." she murmured running her hand across the tops of their heads.
"Well?" Aang asked hopefully
"You grew again, Aang! You're both the exact same height!" She announced estatic that her boyfriend had grown even more.
"Yes!" Aang shouted jumping in the air.
"No fair, it's like I stopped growing and you just shot up like a weed!" Sokka whined
"What's taking so long?" Toph demanded down to them from the top of the cliff side.
"Hey Toph, I'm the same height as Sokka now!" Aang yelled back up to her. She started laughing and Sokka growled.
"Well, Aang is 15, Sokka, and he'll be 16 in just five months. If he wasn't tall, I'de be worried about him." Katara mothered while pecking the tall boy on the lips.
"Alright, let's do this, and no cheating." Sokka squawked while rolling his neck producing several loud popping sounds.
"Ready, Set, GO!" Toph called down and Aang and Sokka tackled the cliff at the same time.
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"I still say you cheated." Sokka grumbled on the trolly ride back into Ba-Sing-Sei.
"You're just mad that you fell and Aang didn't stop. That's not really cheating, Sokka." Katara mused as she leaned against Aang who put his arm around her.
"Hey, it's unsportsman-like. why, If Aang had fallen, I would have stopped and at least allow him a ten second catch-up."
"I'm sure you would have. Hey why didn't we take Appa again?" Toph asked.
"It's his day off, the same with me except I have the week. Remember you're taking him to go pick up Suki tomorrow?" Aang reminded stretching himself and then returning his arm to it's comfort around his waterbenders waist.
"Oh yea! Suki" Sokka's mood suddenly seemed lighter.
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"Ok you guy's, I'm heading out, Oh, Jets dropping in later. I said he could chill here for a bit." Sokka said tightening his backback strap.
Katara growled and replied, "Sokka, we don't need a babysitter."
"Hey, I'll be gone for a whole week, and Toph can't see and has a short attention span, so, I need some eyes here."
"Watch it Snoozles, or you won't be able to see either." Toph menaced from the pillows in the sitting area.
"Just saying. Bye guys, catch'ya later." and with that, Sokka shut the door and was on his way.
Aang was sure to get in his alone time with Katara before Jet came over. She was allways different around him. As usual though, Toph warned them whenever Jet was about to arrive. They both bolted out of Katara's room to greet Jet at the door.
Katara wasn't sure whether she liked him there or not. She remembered finding him, just months after the end of the war.
~*Flash Back*~
Katara had been out wandering the town while Aang was at a meeting. She decided to take a different path than normal and wount up on the wrong side of town. She went to turn around but was attacked by three thugs who pushed her into an ally way.
"Lil far from home, arn't you princess?" one menaced guesturing to her fancier clothing. Now being almost royalty, Katara was blessed with whatever lavish things she wanted. Not the best things to bend in she discovered, or breath in.
"Yea, what would happen if you done run into some bad blokes?" another said pulling out a knife.
This was not much of a problem for Katara, she knew she could easily take three men down, her cockyness is probably what caused her, her trouble. She defeated the first two with ease, as she annticipated. But while she had been busy, the third had snuck around behind and brought the knife to her throat tearing the skin a little.
"Now, you choose, Beautiful. Live, or Die." When he said 'live', he ran his hand down her side, and when he said 'die', he pulled the knife even closer to her already bleeding neck.
Katara couldn't speak, she was to scared to, she had really messed up and had no clue what would happen now. she thought she was going to cry.
From out of nowhere, someone then came to her rescue. She thought at first it would have been Aang, but when she looked back to see who had pushed her out of the mans reach, she say Jet fighting him off. When the man finally ran off, Jet went to chase after him, but was tackled by a crying Katara extremely happy to see him.
"Is it really you Jet?"
"It is, I promise not to leave, not ever again."
The following was only known to Katara and Jet, hidden from everyone else.
Jet pulled Katara's face up to his and kissed her. Katara was once again frozen, then she pushed him off quickly once she regained her control.
"Jet, I can't, I mean, I-I have - Aang, we're dating now.
Jet looked lost when she said that, "Oh, but I thought, we, had something. You liked me first."
"We had something. I'm really glad you're alive, but, you were dead, and I went back to my first crush. I moved on Jet."
"To Aang?" he asked disbeleivingly, "But I'm back now, we can finally be together without this war to keep us apart." He smiled warmly.
She looked up into his eyes and thought about the beautiful grey ones that screamed love everytime she gazed into them and then she said, "No. I'm sorry, but, I could never do that to Aang."
He looked down, "You love him, don't you." it was more of a statement than a question.
"Yes. I do, very much so." Jet didn't speak. He sighed deeply and turned to leave.
"Wait! You have to come with me." Katara pleaded grabbing his arm. He agreed and they started off but then Katara stopped and hugged him as tightly as she could and said, "If Aang didn't love me, You would have my heart." she said into his chest.
~*End Flash Back*~
Jet grinned at them and said, "Hey guys, whats going on?"
"Not much, Just chillin, like always." Toph replied.
"That's cool. There's a street party going on near my apartment tonight, you guy's interested?"
"Sounds like fun, deffinitly!" Katara said. Aang looked at her funny for a minute, but smiled. Katara had forgotten about their home pik-nik plans.
They arived on Jet's street later that day greeted by lights and sounds and children running aound with sparklers, laughing as the sound of music reached their ears.
The group went out dancing together and Aang was enjoying dancing with katara and was slowly getting closer to her and went to snake his arms around her waist but she was lifted around the middle from behind and pulled away sqealing.
"Mind if I borrow her?" Jet laughed taking her away leaving Aang standing alone growling.
"This is great, I'm really having a good time, I'm glad we came." Katara said enthusiastically.
"I'm glad you came to." Jet replied as the danced to the powerful beat of the music. They didn't notice as the crowd slowly pushed them down the street and towards a pub. not being able to work their way out, they went inside and took a seat at the front bar. Almost immediatly two drinks were set down in front of them.
"Um, we didn't order any drinks." Katara called to the bartender.
"Overstock. free for the street fair." he replied setting another two down with the ones they already had.
Jet shrugged and drank it. Katara wasn't really thirsty but she didn't want to look bad so she drank some as well. It tasted bitter, with a funny aftertaste that lingered and stung her nose. "What is this?" she asked
"beats me, tastes good and it's free." he said drinking again.
They then started quizzing eachother about who liked what and what was ones favorite. They were interupted more than a few times for more drinks which they started to drink faster and faster. and Katara didn't notice when his and her words became more slurred and harder to understand.
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Aang and Toph were walking through looking for Katara and Jet.
"Wait, I think i feel them." Toph said concentrating.
"Where?"
"Right over, there." she said pointing.
Aang jumped up and saw them together and he and Toph went towards them but he stopped and said, "Wait, I want to see something."
"jealose much?" Toph laughted.
"Too much for my liking" he replied honestly.
"C'mon Aang, you guys have been dationg for two years, I don't-"
"Shh! I'm trying to listen!"
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"We should, we should, Hey are you listening? We should go find Aang and Toph. Cause it's really earl- late." Katara stammered.
"Awh, but I just wanna hang with you. We never get to hang out anymore cause you're always busy."
"That's cause you live here." she pointed to the ground.
"Nu-uh, I live over there, but I guess you wouldn't know that because you've never been allowed to come in."
"Allowed?"
"Nevermind. YOu should just come move in with me, then we could see each other all the time. But you live with Aang instead" Jet pouted.
"Well, duh. I'm his girlfriend. But we gotta go, c'mon, lets go." Katara said turning to leave.
Jet grabbed her round the middle from behind and laughed, "No! stay here with me!"
"Jet put me down!" She laughed while hitting him, "Put me DOWN!" She yelled louder.
"Rawr! I'm a gunna eat you! I'm a big scary monster!" He jokingly growled.
To further their joke, Katara shrieked, "Help! Someone save me from this monster! Help!"
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"He's attacking her!" Aang shouted jumping up from their hiding spot.
"No, Aang! Wait, he's just-" Toph started to say but was too late.
In one move, Aang had Katara free and Jet slammed against a wall.
"Ouch, hey what's going on?" His breath reaked of alcohol."
"How dare you touch her!" Aang spat tightening his hold on Jet's neck and slamming him again against the wall.
Katara wobbily stood up and saw Aang and Jet and croaked, "What are you doing?" she heard Aang yell at Jet again and slam him again into the wall. Wide eyed, she ran to Aang and started pounding on his back crying, "Stop it! Stop it! Let him go!"
Aang Didn't even flinch from her blows, he turned his head to her confusingly and said, "He was attacking you. Why would I let him go?
"What? We were just playing around." Jet moaned
"Shut up!" Aang yelled glaring at him.
"Aang, stop, please it's true. We were just playing around. Let him go, You're hurting him." She blubbered with tears forming.
That stopped him. He hesitated slightly before releasing Jet and he dropped the ground. As soon as he did, Katara fell down to him and helped him up saying, "I'm so sorry Jet." She hugged Jet and appologized a few more times before saying, "Go to toph, k?" He nodded and waddled off.
Aang didn't speak for a moment, he wasn't sure what to say, "Katara, I-"
"Stop talking... Why would you do that? we were just joking around and you attacked him!"
"I didn't know-"
"You weren't paying attention. You hurt Jet and you hurt J-Me!"
Aang studied her then said in disbelief, "Katara, are you- have you been- drinking?"
"Don't change the subject!"
"What subject?" he tested.
"The one about-" she paused and thought for a moment then shouted, "Jet! why would you hurt him?"
"You were drinking. I can smell it. You're drunk."
"Stop it, I don't drunk, I mean I don't drink!"
"But you did, I can tell!"
"N-no I didn't, you're crazy!"
"I'm not crazy, I just have common sense!"
"But I didn't drink, not a d-drop!"
"But you did! Listen to yourself Katara!"
"Listen to yourself!" she shrieked with tears down her face.
Aang growled but stopped. He knew she was crying because she was impaired and confused but still he felt horrible. "Katara, I-"
"Leave me alone." She cried running away.
Aang sighed and slowly followed her.
"I'm guessing you found out she wasn't in danger." Toph said as Aang reached her.
"I'm guessing you knew." he stated and then sighed, "Where's katara?"
"Crying. Again. She's such a cry baby right now."
"She's drunk. It's not her fault."
"Drunk? Hmm, never would have ever guessed she'd do that," They started walking, following the sounds of Katara's sniffling.
They found her crying into Jets shoulder wih Jet rubbing her back and quietly talking to her. Aang glared at him and growled, "C'mon We're going home."
Katara pulled away from Jet and they both started walking with the group. Aang didn't say anything at first untill their carrige pulled up. He let Katara and Toph go inside and shut the door behind them.
"Go home, Jet."
"I thought Sokka said I was stayin with you guys for the week."
"I don't care. You're not coming. Like I said, go home." Aang glared at Jet, daring him to challenge him. When Jet didn't budge, Aang continued, "You got Katara drunk, you're drunk yourself. You're not fit to stay with us, you're not fit to be around my friends, you're not fit to be around Katara." and with that, Aang climbed inside the carrige and slammed the door behind him.
They had to listen to Katara's tears the entire way home. Aang attempted to mollify her but to no avail, she just shooed him away.
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The next day she woke with a murderous headache. ot only did she throw up as soon as she woke up, but immediatly after breakfast as well.
"I guess you won't drink again." Aang mused.
"Fuck off." She said leaning over the sink. and that was the nicest thing she said to him all day.
Hey guys! I really hoped you liked the first chapter, this is a really awesome story, I promise! its omega intense and i already have the entire thing already written. which is about 10ish chapters,, so yea,, plus im writting a followup story,, which is three chapters in now with lots to go, but i wont start posting that till i have this one completelly posted and the second one at least halfway written and mostly typed.
oh, and if you find spelling mistakes, its because im using notepad to type on because thats all i have because my laptop sucks... so does my spelling... LONG LIVE KATAANG!