"Come on, the quicker we get off this ship the quicker we can get there," I tell Zuko who lies half asleep in his temporary bed.
"Argh," he groans rolling over before finally he sits up, stretching his muscular arms above his head.
"Daddy," Rewah babbles as he toddles toward Zuko his chubby arms out stretched.
Smiling Zuko picks him up placing a kiss on top of his head of fair hair (the same colour as Zuko's) before pulling me quickly into a family hug.
It's then that I notice that the man I secretly like is shirtless. Blushing I place a kiss on Zuko's cheek before drawing back and standing up, before moving to his bag where I grab a pair of underwear a top and a pair of pants from it and throw them to Zuko who place's Rewah down on the bed carefully before striping off there and then as I clean up the rest of his stuff.
"How come you went back to bed, you looked wide awake this morning," I ask as we grab our belongings (mine and Rewah's had been by the door) and begin to make our way to were Uncle Iroh waits with Turok.
"I was hungry, so I was just going to get something then go back to sleep, I hadn't even planned to be up that long," he tells me.
I nod as the comfortable silence kicks in, something that only continues when we meet up with Uncle and Turok.
…
Before long we're standing on a beach the ship slowly disappearing into the horizon as we walk toward the village.
"We should get there around midnight, that's if we don't stop and then we have a day to find you're Mother but then we must make our way back to the ship. It's returning with a few more passengers from further out that way," Uncle says pointing opposite to the way we had come.
"That should be enough time," I state grabbing a hold of Zuko's hand, the one that doesn't hold Rewah.
He gives me a soft smile that I quickly return before we follow along after Turok and Uncle Iroh.
…
"Oh yes I know Ursa," the seventh person we asked answered, something that excited me and everyone else a lot.
"Do you know where she lives," Uncle Iroh asks getting straight down to business.
"She lives west. Just outside the town in a small white cottage, you can't miss it," the kind man tells us before he walks of toward what can only be his wife.
"My Rohan lives near there," Turok tells me softly as we walk west.
"Are you coming back to the ship with us," I ask my friend with a small smile.
"No," he tells me with a shake of his head.
"I shall miss you. I may not have known you long but you have grown on me," I laugh.
"I'll miss you too," he tells me before a wide grin breaks across his face. "There it is."
A two story house, warm and bright looking stood beside three other houses, a ten metre gap between each.
"Would you like to stay the night here, your mother is sure to be asleep," Turok asks Zuko kindly.
Zuko stops and thinks for a moment before finally nodding slightly, reluctance but thankfulness clear on his face.
"She'll still be there in the morning," I tell him taking his hand again.
He only smiles at me as we follow Turok.
…
"Thank you so much for letting us stay here," I tell Rohan and Turok later that … morning as we all stand to head off to bed.
"It's no problem," Rohan smiles at me and the others once before I drag Zuko, who still holds Rewah, behind me to the bedroom that had been set for me and him, a soft good night sounding from both of us to the others.
"I'll put the cot up," Zuko tells me when we get to the room, pulling out a lightweight folded wooden traveling cot for our son.
I nod, dumping our bags on the floor before dressing Rewah in his Pj's.
"Done," Zuko states turning around just as I finish dressing myself.
"Say night to Daddy," I coo at our son walking over to Zuko and pulling him into a family hug.
"Night Re," Zuko says softly kissing him on the head before allowing me to put him to bed.
"Sleep tight," I whisper kissing Rewah on the forehead before I turn around to face Zuko whose putting his now dirty clothes into a separate bag full of Mine, his and Rewah's already worn clothes.
"Night," I yawn crawling into the bed and settling down on my side.
"Night," Zuko says pulling me into his arms before snuffing out the candles with his bending.