OK. This is my first story for this fandom. I want it to really conjure up what I love about Avatar. I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to tell me what you think, and anything that really gets on your nerves. And, lastly, since I'm not a millionairess, I'm going to assume that I don't own Avatar.

The ragtag collection of teenagers that Sokka had so cheerfully dubbed "Team Avatar" were spending the afternoon at the Jasmine Dragon, relaxing and enjoying each others' company. Nearly a month had passed since the end of the Hundred Year War, but all of them still felt that they still needed some time to sit around, breathe deeply, and allow the wounds, both physical and emotional, to heal. Sokka was polishing the sword that had been retrieved after the battle and enjoying showing it off to Suki, who did indeed think that a sword made from a meteorite was almost as good as a fan. Appa was outside, eating his way through bundle after bundle of hay, and Ty Lee was stroking his soft, shaggy fur. Ever since she first saw him, she had been fascinated with the bison, for even Mai would admit that he was a magnificent creature, made even more so by his rarity. Iroh was brewing copious amounts of lychee tea, and the sweet smell wafted giddily through the building. Zuko was sitting by Mai on the side of the golden dragon fountain that Iroh had had installed only a week ago, exclaiming with all his usual gusto that it would make a great centrepiece (despite Zuko's concerns that there may not be enough tables thanks to that addition), holding her hand and talking about many things, but carefully avoiding the topics of Zuko's new duties as Fire Lord, the War, their recent break-up, and tea. Toph was playing with Momo, and keeping a watchful eye - well, a watchful foot, really - on Zuko and Mai, bending the side of the fountain so that they slid apart if it looked as though they were heading for a kiss. Katara and Aang were sitting by one wall, leaning their backs against one another and trying not to look as though they enjoyed the contact too much. Despite the fact that they had been together for nearly a month, and the fact that the two had by that time got used to the notion of being in a relationship, they had not yet plucked up the courage to tell their friends of this, and so were keeping it secret as best they could. Katara leaned her head back against that of her sweetheart and rubbed it, her soft hair tickling the skin on his scalp. Aang closed his eyes and snuggled further into her, trying not to let his enjoyment of the sensation show too much, lest someone (and, in his head, that someone took the form of Sokka) notice the casual intimacy of their position, and make the appropriate deductions. Katara inhaled deeply, bathing in the smell of the tea in her hands, and Aang felt a twinge of regret that he could not see the look on her face.

At length, Sokka concluded his conversation with Suki and got up, stretching out his aching arms before he sat back down again and addressed the room at large. "You know, Hawky brought me back a letter from Gran Gran this morning. She was asking when we'd be coming home."

Katara had just judged her tea to be cool enough and taken a large sip. Now, she spat half of it out and knocked Aang's head.

"Oww!"

"Home? I...I hadn't thought about it." Her face clouded. "I hope they're getting on all right without us." She shook her head, rose, and left. Aang made to follow, but then decided that it might look too obvious, so he sat down and began, almost without realising, to count a minute in his head.

Suki frowned. "We should all be getting home, really. The Island of Kyoshi is unlikely to encounter threat now that the War is over, but the girls will be needing me. I'd be a pretty awful leader if I left them alone for much longer - TY LEE!"

The door flew open, and Ty Lee cartwheeled into the room. "Yes?" she beamed.

"We're going back to Kyoshi Island. Get ready to leave."

"Yes, Ma'am!" Ty Lee grinned again and walked out on her hands.

Toph sat up abruptly, cradling Momo in her arms. She was curled up tightly into a ball. "I suppose you're all looking forward to going home." she said quietly. "You'll all get lovely warm welcomes and Sokka and Katara will get told how great they did and how proud their dad is of them. I don't know what I'll get - not that. When Mum and Dad found out I was the Blind Bandit, they said that I would be guarded twenty-four seven. That was the last straw - the reason I ran away."

Suki squatted down beside her and pulled her into a hug. "Toph, you helped end a war by taking out - what was it? - fifteen, twenty airships simultaneously by driving another one into them - which, I'll say, could have caught fire and burned both you and Sokka to death. If that doesn't change what they think of you, nothing will."

"That's exactly what I'm scared about." replied Toph glumly. "They'll put their own spin on it somehow."

Suki squeezed her shoulders, then released her. Toph sighed.

"I suppose we'll have to say goodbye to you all." sighed Mai. "We'll have to stay here."

"It's been great knowing you." Zuko told them. "You've really transformed my life - for the better."

"I hadn't thought about that!" cried Sokka. "Team Avatar is going to have to split up - forever!" He screwed up his hands into fists and clutched at his head."

"Calm down, Sokka!" Toph shrieked at him. "You're not helping anyone!"

"You'll have to drop in to Kyoshi Island some time." smiled Suki. "We'll make you very welcome." She smiled at him, and Sokka smiled back.

Aang, unnoticed, got up and went out onto the balcony. Katara was out there, and she was looking remarkably glum, from what he could see from her back. The two had a certain fondness for the balcony, and they both privately thought of it as their Kissing Balcony. He went up to her, and put an arm round her waist. She jumped.

"Aang! You startled me!"

"I could tell." he smiled. He put the other arm round her, and she returned the hug.

"I feel guilty." she said length. "I feel guilty that we left at all, and now I feel guilty that I didn't even think of coming back."

"We've had so much to think about." Aang said quietly. "Everything's changed."

"I know." smiled Katara into the sunset. "I've never known peacetime." She blushed suddenly. "And I've never had a boyfriend before." She pulled him into another hug, and kissed him happily. Aang returned the kiss, and Katara's arms slid around his neck in the position that both had grown comfortably familiar with. All too soon, Katara ended the kiss, and pulled away.

"We ought to be getting back inside. Leave it to Sokka to come out for some fresh air - or I bet Toph can feel how close together we are."

They went back inside, careful not to walk too closely together, and went and sat down at opposite ends of the room.

"Are we still talking about home?" asked Aang.

"Yup." Sokka confirmed. "We still have a lot of stuff to sort out - I'm going to do another schedule!"

"So you can pin us to it and yell at us for being behind?" asked Katara with a laugh.

Sokka shrugged. "Pretty much."

"I don't really have a home to go to." sighed Aang. "But I suppose I'll find somewhere once you're all back with your families."

"Come back to the South Pole with us!" cried Katara. The undisguised eagerness in her voice made everybody stare. "What? It's where his journey started."

"So, now we all know where we're going," Toph observed sadly, "I guess the only thing left to do is to...go home."