Little bit of back ground info:

-Aang was born about 6 years sooner in this universe, so he was 18 when the monks told him he was the Avatar. After they tell him that he would have to give up his attachment to Gyatsu, he ran away, and we all know the story after that.

Ages for all characters are:

18 - Aang and Suki

17 - Sokka and Zuko

15 - Katara and Toph (just so she isn't so many years younger then everyone else)

Let's review!

Zuko tried to comfort Katara, who just wants to be alone for a little while. Toph revealed a secret, Sokka is pissed at Aang, and Mai reminisces in an old memory (to be referred to later, all part of the plot, my dearies!).

Warning! Contains LOTS of DRAMA! -

Chapter three picks up with Sokka and Suki discussing a subject which Toph has currently made two not-so-subtle references to, half of the discussion which we have missed thank's to Mai's little back story.

Chapter Three

"YOU'RE WHAT!?" Sokka yelled as he fell out of his chair onto the dining room floor.

Zuko turned around to see if he could catch on to the conversation he had most definitely missed the beginning of.

"I didn't want to say anything until the war was over, and then everyone was celebrating, so I just wanted to wait until everything calmed down!" Suki cried out, looking stricken.

"How could you not tell me you were pregnant? What if something happened in battle? What if you'd been hurt, and the baby had died, what if YOU had died-"

"SOKKA, enough! It's done now, so just deal with it! Preferably NOT at the breakfast table where EVERYONE can hear us!" the Kyoshi warrior huffed, glaring halfheartedly at Toph.

"Hey, don't glare at me. I can feel the malice rolling off of you in waves. Besides, you weren't going to tell Snoozles without a little push anyway until you were ready to pop at this rate," Toph snorted, unrepentant.

"It wasn't your place," Suki growled.

"No, it was yours, but you weren't doing it, so someone had to. Sokka had a right to know, unless it's not Sokka's, that is."

Sokka froze solid, looking as pale at the snowy wonderland he grew up in.

"Suki," he asked flatly, without any expression on his face, "it IS my child, right?"

"Of course, Sokka! Who's else would it be? Why would you even think that- you know what, I'm not disguising this. Not here, not now, not in front of a room full of people who, personally, have no reason butting into our own personal business."

"How dare you," a familiar voice called from the doorway. Everyone turned to look at her as Katara strolled into the dining room towards the older teen.

"How dare you say none of us have a right to know what goes on in each other's lives. We've all lived together, nearly died together, have been a family, for MONTHS! Sokka is as important to us as we are to him, anything that concerns him, or you for that matter, is a FAMILY matter. And you, how long have you known? How long did you hide this from all of us and possibly put us in danger? Do you know what could have happened if something went wrong and none of us knew what was going on and couldn't help you? We were in the middle of a war, people were dying all around us, and you didn't think it was important to tell us we had another life to worry about?"

"That's just it, you didn't NEED another life to worry about, any of you!" Suki cried, tears streaming down her face, "I didn't say anything because I couldn't let you baby me and put yourselves in danger if the situation called for it! If something happened to the baby, then it was going to happen, but I couldn't let any of you risk yourselves for me!"

Everyone was deadly silent as Suki sobbed into her hands, trying to process her words.

"I... I love my baby, but I wouldn't let anyone else loose the ones they loved for me. I... I couldn't break up our family, not when the end was so close, not when we could nearly touch it and live in peace..."

"Oh, Suki," Katara whispered, wrapping her arms around the girl, "we understand. We know that the war was hard on all of us, but you still should have told us. We're a family, we would have helped you through this. ANY loss would have been felt, whether it was one of us, or the baby, but we'd have gotten through it together."

Suki continued to sob into the Water tribe girl's shoulder, stressed, tired, and frightened from all of the people yelling at her.

"Suki," Sokka called lightly from behind the older girl, who looked up with red eyes and a noisy sniffle only to have her shoulders seized in his hands, "don't ever hide anything like this again, alright? No matter how bad the situation, we'll get through it. I don't want you to feel like you're burdening anyone. Because the Kyoshi warrior I know isn't a burden. She's smart, strong, and reliable. The Kyoshi warrior I know isn't scared of anything."

Suki sniffled and shook her head, looking away from the man she'd grown to love.

"I'm still a woman, too, Sokka. I'm only a woman, with a man, having a baby. I can take on the entire Fire Nation navy without blinking an eye, but giving birth? Raising a child? I don't know if I'm strong enough to do that."

"I know you are," Sokka reassured, "because if you weren't, I wouldn't be in love with you. If you weren't strong enough to be a mother, then I wouldn't want to marry you, right here, right now."

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