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Chapter 4

"Higher Aangy!! Higher!!" cried Jun, as Aang was jumping up and down at least ten feet in the air on the windy morning in front of Zuko's beach side mansion on Ember Island.

Aang laughed as he once again started for lift off and zoomed straight up into the atmosphere with little Jun in his arms. "Maybe when he's older his parents will let me take him on my glider with me." Aang thought.

The said parents were at the moment enjoying some rare romantic quality time with each other sitting out on a red blanket starring out into the waves with a cool breeze brushing their faces.

After the last shriek from Jun, Mei lifted her head off her husband's shoulders and asked, "Are we being responsible parents by letting Aang jump ten feet into the air with our son in his arms?"

Zuko looked back at her then listened to the next shout of joy that came from his son and said, "At least Aang isn't brining him out on his glider."

They both looked at each other for a moment in silent agreement, and then went back to their lazy, romantic quality time with each other.

Just a couple feet away, closer to the waves of the ocean sat Sokka trying to teach his daughter Min on how to build the "perfect sand-castle."

"Alright Min, The trick to this is to have the right texture of sand—Min!! What do you think your doing?!"

Min, not being very interested in the texture of the sand, only cared that she it got everywhere and anywhere on her father.

"No Min, you can't bury me in the sand right now, I'm trying to teach you a very important lesson!" Sokka wailed as he took away the shovel from Min.

Min did not like it when her favorite activity was taken away from her so she started to do what most one year olds do when they don't get what they want "WWWWAAAAHHHHHH!!"

Sokka immediately gave back her shovel and said, "Here I think you missed a spot."

Then Min just went right back to work on burying her father in the sand.

Several feet away, watching from a balcony in the mansion, Katara and Suki were laughing at Sokka's parental antics.

"She certainly has him wrapped around her little finger doesn't she?" asked Katara as she and Suki were leisurely lounging on some of the deck chairs along the balcony, sipping some lemonade.

"He has his moments; he is so protective of her. I feel sorry for all of the men in her future.," replied Suki.

Katara smiled at that comment, reminded of all of the teasing she and Aang have done with each other through her pregnancy. She glanced over to were Aang was having fun with Jun and sighed. Suki noticed this and asked.

"Everything alright with you and Aang?"

"What? Oh yes everything is fine at the most part. Aang just seems to be very contemplative and secretive lately."

"Really, how so?" inquired Suki.

"I don't know really, ever since I found out that I was pregnant he's been meditating a lot, and I've been catching him getting lost in his thoughts just by starring at me or at my abdomen ."

"Hmm, maybe this is Aang's way of being afraid for you and nervous about being a new dad." Suki responded hopefully.

Katara thought about that for a moment and looked over at Aang, who was now using water bending to surf the waves with Jun in his arms, and replied, "That might be some of it, but not in the way you think. Somehow I think he is afraid for me, but not just from the pregnancy, and I cannot see Aang ever being afraid to be a father."

Suki agreed with this but asked, "What do you mean by 'he's afraid but not just from the pregnancy'?"

"That is what I wish I understood." Katara replied.

Suki reassured her saying "Well, give him some time. All fathers respond differently when their wives are pregnant. Take Sokka for example, for the longest time he would not let me do anything while I was pregnant with Min, and I do mean anything. He went through this faze where he wouldn't even let me walk anywhere!"

"Are you serious!" cried Katara

"Yes! It was during my last week, and he thought it was going to hurt my feet too much and move the baby around to hard if I walked on my own."

"So you just went no where for a whole month?" incredulously asked Katara.

"No. I would not stand for that, so Sokka ended up carrying me everywhere! It's a good thing I only had a week left, poor Sokka, he almost broke his back!!" laughed Suki

Katara was laughing so hard tears were coming out of her eyes. "I can't believe I never knew that! Aang and I must really be out of touch with the family for me not to here that story until now!" wailed Katara, still laughing at the image of her ridiculous brother carry around his nine-month pregnant wife in the market.

"It has been a while since you and Aang have made a family visit.," added Suki

"I know what you mean; Aang's avatar duties keep him on his toes all the time. It is almost as if the world needs him even more now than it did during the war. There a treaty that needs to be signed there and then a dispute that needs to be settled here.," explained Katara.

"And you guys are always traveling aren't you?" asked Suki.

"In a way yes, the average time that we've stayed in one place since our marriage is from three weeks to one month. Once the world starts getting used to being at peace and the baby starts getting a little older we're going to look into buying a house in each the more frequent places we've been visiting. We're even looking into renovating the Southern Air temple so Aang will be able to teach the baby air bending." explained Katara.

"How do you know the baby will be an air bender?" asked Suki.

"Ohh, Just something about the way this baby moves in my stomach. He's practically flying." Katara answered.

"He?" Suki inquired jokingly.

Katara started chuckling herself as explained, "Aang believes we're having a girl, I think it's going to be a boy, call it a mother's intuition. We are both so confident of our guesses that we agreed that I would pick out a name if it's a girl and he'll pick out a name for a boy." Katara clarified.

"What names did you two pick out?" Suki asked.

Katara was just about to answer when there was this sudden sharp pain coming from her abdomen.

In the next room from the mansion sat the newly weds, Teo and Toph spending some "quality time" with each other on Teo's wheelchair when suddenly Toph looked up with a worried look on her face saying "Oh no, Katara!"

Teo asked, "What's wrong Toph? Can't this wait?"

"Waiting is the last thing we can do now! Come on I feel that Katara needs some help!"

They rushed through the house to where the balcony is and saw Katara on her knees with Suki trying to comfort her. Toph yelled out "I can feel the first contraction from all the way in the other room! Is it time!?"

Suki just looked up in surprise then looked back at Katara when she screamed "YES!!"

This is when Suki got over her shock and took charge "Right! Teo, go down to the beach and tell Mei its time and that we need her help in Katara's bedroom and then tell the boys that we need some hot water and blankets! And make sure Aang doesn't go crazy!"

Teo just stared at her and Katara in amazement for moment when suddenly all three women yelled at once "NOW!" and he was off.

"Toph! Help me get Katara to her bedroom!" Sukki ordered and Toph complied.