Hey everybody! Well this chapter took me a lot longer than i thought it would. School has just been to hectic for me! But here is the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own ALAB! The end would be different if i did.
Sukki POV
It was nice sitting in the sun with Katara, Zuko, Iroh, Sokka, Natalia, and Kya but I could feel the guilt gnawing away at the pit of my stomach. I knew that I was pregnant again but Sokka didn't the only other person who knew was the healer on Kioshi Island and she wouldn't tell a soul. Sokka didn't want any more kids and I had no idea what to do. That is probably why I want to stay here with Katara so bad maybe we could think of a plan of how to tell Sokka maybe or just a way to hide it until it is too late.
"Excuse me Zuko, but do you mind if I steal your wife for a while?" I asked him with a little fear in my voice.
"Only if I can steal a kiss from her first, then can you steal her." Zuko replied smugly. "What do you think Katara? Can I have a kiss?"
"Okay, but only one!" Katara told him before she kissed his scar.
"That doesn't count babe, but nice try." He said while she kissed his lips.
"Let's go Sukki." Katara told me as Zuko helped her up.
As we walked down the hall to my quarters I started to tell her my little secret. "Katara, I need your help. I don't know how to tell Sokka this but I'm pregnant again." I was waiting for the hurt look in her eyes but only saw joy.
"Sukki this is amazing!" She pulled me into a giant squeeze. "You will have to stay here until your baby is born. How far along are you?"
"I'm about three months along but every time I try and tell Sokka he tells me that he doesn't want any more kids. Katara I don't know what to do!" I said as she embraced me and sobs escaped her lips. We stayed that way for about fifteen minutes until she lifted my face from my shoulder and told me her plan.
"Sukki I am going to help you tell Sokka. Come up to my room I want to show you something!"
She took me to her room, set me on the end of her bed, and ran straight to her closet. "Here this is perfect!" She said pulling out an elegant dress. It was emerald green silk with yellow embroidering down the back of the dress. It had a v-neckline that exposed the collarbone and a little glimpse of chest. It ended just below her ankles. She helped me put the dress on.
"Katara!" I gasped. "This is beautiful! Where did you find it?" I was running my hands over the silk dress.
"When Zuko and I first got married we went to Ba Sing Se. I looked in a little shop in the middle ring and I had to buy it. I knew that it would be needed someday. Now how should we do your hair?" She asked before finding some emeralds in her jewelry box and layering them in my hair, which was pulled into a low ponytail. "There Sokka will never be able to say no to you now."
Katara dressed herself in an elegant yet simple red dress. Only slipping on shoes and pulling her hair to one side.
"Shall we go and meet everyone else in the dining room Lady Katara?" I said with a laugh before bowing down to her.
"I think was shall, Lady Sukki." We both laughed as we walked down to the dining room.
KPOV
As we walked into the dining room you could hear an audible gasp followed by silence.
"Sukki you look.." Sokka started. "You look beautiful." Sukki sat down beside him and gave him a peck on the lips. I took my seat in between Kya and Zuko.
"What happened?" Zuko said in my ear.
"I just was trying to help my sister that is all." I whispered back kissing his ear at the same time.
"What they need some spice in their life?" He joked stifling a laugh before I hit him in the leg.
When dinner finished Zuko lead me up to our room.
"I' going to take a bath." I informed him.
"One minute princess. Why did Sukki need your help? Is there anything I can do to help?" He asked while grabbing me around the waist.
"Well I was trying to make her irresistible to Sokka so that she could tell him that she is pregnant." I saw his face sink at the sound of my words.
"What? Another pregnant woman here with us? You are bad enough!" He teased before I jumped on him.
"I am really going to take a bath now." I said. I spent the next fifteen minutes bending the water around me before calling Zuko in.
"Um Zuko can you help me? I can't get out of the tub with this baby belly!" I said before he came in and helped me out. He took me out of the bathroom and into our bedroom.
"You are amazing do you know that?" I said kissing him on the lips. Sokka decided to walk in just at that moment.
"Hey Ka-" He said before his eyes got wide. He turned around saying. "Come see me when you get dressed."
"Great!" I screamed "now I have to go and explain myself to Sokka."
"Babe, I will go with you and we will just have to tell them what really happened." Zuko always knew what to say to make me feel better.
"Fine but I am warning you we are both going to catch hell." I said slipping on my wrappings and a robe. "Ready to go?" He asked me, while pulling me into a quick embrace. Sokka and Sukki's room was only a few rooms away from ours which made it even more unbearable. When we walked in Sokka exploded at us.
"What do you two think you are doing?" He yelled at both of us, until he turned and pointed at Zuko. "Do you know how badly you could have hurt her? She is almost seven months pregnant for Pete's sake."
"Sokka! Does it matter what we do? We are married. We can do whatever we want, whenever we want! You should have knocked! Just because we have a kid do you think we should stop having sex! What is that what you and Sukki did?" I yelled before I realized that I might have hurt Sukki by saying that. She was sitting on the bed in her pajamas. "Sorry Sukki I shouldn't have brought you into this." I said to her my cheeks flushing red.
"Katara you are right. But you really shouldn't have sex this late in your pregnancy." She told me. Her cheeks were becoming even redder than mine. Then Zuko stepped in to give me a break from yelling.
"We weren't having sex. She couldn't get out of the tub so I helped her and gave her a kiss while I took her into the bedroom to get changed." When Zuko finished Sokka's face got red too.
"Oh well… um… I guess that is okay… Sorry." He stuttered out, before Sukki stood up.
"Well now since that is finished with I have something to say." Sukki started trying to improve the mood.
"What are you doing?" I hissed in her ear.
"When Sokka starts to talk to me you and Zuko can leave." Sukki told me. "Well I wanted to say that I'm going to have another baby." Sokka was stunned and I knew that this was our chance to leave.
"Come on Zuko." I said grabbing his arm and dragging him out of the room. We ran to our room and I slammed the door. "That was interesting. Now let's go to bed before anything else happens."
Zuko fell asleep fast. I couldn't blame him he hadn't slept much the past few nights. About an hour after Zuko had fallen asleep and I was starting to doze off I felt a kick coming from my abdomen that woke me right up. I sat up in bed and pulled up my robe to see the little foot. My sudden motion had woken Zuko up.
"Katara are you okay?" He asked lighting the lamp on the nightstand.
"Zuko give me your hand." I said grabbing the hand he gave me and put it on my inflated belly. "Do you feel that?" I saw the corners of his lips turn into a smile.
"I think that our baby wants to tell me something." He said laying his head on my belly. "I see… Yes I understand that perfectly… Alright I'll tell her." He told my belly, smiling at me.
"So what did the baby say?" I asked him.
"He said that we should tell Sokka to stop worrying because he is perfectly fine and he can't wait to see his other beautiful face." He finished.
"Were going to have a boy?" I asked him with a smile.
"Yes we are. He said that he wants to be named Iroh Hakota." He told me.
"Iroh Hakota? I like it. Well that will be his name." I said. We fell asleep in each other's arms.
(2 months later)
I was taking another walk through the garden with Sukki. We both had huge bellies. We did this everyday when our husbands were working or doing something else.
"OW!" I yelled grabbing my enlarged belly. I doubled over almost immediately.
"Katara! What's wrong?" Sukki asked with a worried look in her eyes.
"The baby is coming! Go get Zuko!" I said through gritted teeth. Sukki ran to get him and they were back in a matter of five minutes.
"It's okay princess." He whispered to me whipping the hair out of my eyes. "This is what we have waited for. After today we are going to be a family of four."
So what did you think? I know that this chapter is short but i hope to have more time to write!
