Okay, this chapter was fun to write, if not really, really hard. The only reason I'm writing this is because this was a tiny plot-dormouse that kept opening the door to my head after watching that one episode with Hawky in it…and I felt bad that nobody writes for pairings with Momo…really, nothin' I could find.

-:-What If…After Sozin's Comet, Hawky came back to Sokka?-:-One-shot-:-Hawky/Momo-:-

Up above the trees and waters that he had to cross to get back to the Fire Nation and his new owner, after spending such a long time away because that blind girl's parents had taken a short eternity to write one simple note (weeks and weeks just to write something the clever bird bet that was less than a thousand words!), Hawky finally saw signs of civilization. It had taken a while to track down his new owner, but after getting information from various other messenger birds and beasts—including several ostrich-horses of all the stupid creatures—he had been led to the Fire Lord's palace.

Flapping his wings twice and ending in a dive, the red colored bird made like solid wind through the palace, evading being hit by the palace staff, or worse, hitting pillars that would definitely snap his neck on impact, looking from the tan warrior.

After five minutes of flapping from room to room, almost knocking over vases and getting chased out in the kitchen, Hawky came up short. His information had perhaps been misleading?

Finally finding his way out and into the courtyard, the messenger fluttered up and then settled onto a post of the palace roof. It had been exhausting and he was tired and hungry! Why did his life have to be so difficult? First he gets bought by a human not from his own nation, then he had been sent off to deliver a message to such stuck-up and stuffy people, and now he couldn't deliver the new message and had not eaten in two days!

His wings sulked downwards, almost like sagging arms and Hawky looked out over the courtyard. The place was calm and serene and from the corner of his eyes, he could see in the pond a mother turtleduck and her little ones, quacking and swimming about in the cool water. They looked well fed and he sulked further, a loud rumble sounding from his belly.

Then, out of nowhere, a loud thunk sounded behind him. That and a shadow across his back caused him to flutter and turn, ready to attack whomever thought to sneak up on him.

But, what was met was not the face of an enemy, but a pair of big familiar blue eyes.

'Oh, it's you,' he twittered irritably, wings folding back against himself.

The winged lemur that belonged to the bald child looked at him with what a human might call a frown, his gigantic ears folding back as he chattered, 'Yes, it's me. It seems you got lost on your way back home, eh, featherhead?'

Ah, the childish nickname the fuzzy rat with wings gave him back where he had been purchased. It sent an angry bristle up Hawky's spine, feathers ridging upwards and, as always, he brought up his wings, the obvious threat as if to say 'you are so going to get it' that he had come to align with the likelihood of them meeting again when the bird got back. Had attack the white thing he would, if not for what was brought out from behind Momo's back; peace in an offering.

Momo held up a large fruit, already bitten into by human teeth, and not so long ago, and Hawky felt all of his aggression fade away as Momo set it before him.

But, as he was still a little suspicious, Hawky didn't peck at it right away, looking instead back at Momo, the lemur's head tilted in wonderment of why the red bird wasn't gorging himself.

'…Why?'

'I heard your belly and didn't think it would be right to let you starve,' Momo chattered, licking one paw and carefully sliding it up and down one ear, trying to get some dirt off, 'I ate earlier today, and anyway, I was only going to bury for a snack for later.'

Satisfied with the answer, Hawky bent over and started pecking into the fruit, the seeds inside a dark purple unlike the soft pink of the fruit itself, but tasting of the juice.

When Momo continued bathing, Hawky got a good look at the flying lemur's body. Not like when they were fighting in the beginning, but a nice calming look at…an ally? Maybe. If they could be civil to each other after Hawky finished stuffing himself.