Edit: January 30th 2010
I'd like to thank daydream11 for getting this in so fast even though she's a procrastinator, and thanks to all my reviewers! So anyway, this chapter's pretty short, but that's because it's just a filler chapter… Nothing too interesting happens here. It's just setting up for chapter five, which is setting up for chapter six! (Though chapter five does have a few surprises in it! ). So anyway, I hope you like this chapter, and I have no idea what else to say!
Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar, season three would've come out about six months ago… (But instead, it's tomorrow!)
The next morning, Sokka woke up just after the city started to awake as well and began to get on with his daily activities.
"Hi Daddy," a little girl called out to the warrior once he got dressed and went into the main room. He glanced over at the small table, and saw his daughter and wife eating breakfast.
"Good morning Suri," he said with a smile. "Morning Suki," he murmured as he gave his wife a peck on the cheek and rubbed her tummy, smiling when he felt a tiny kick from inside.
"So," Suki started, smiling at her husband, "what are the big exciting plans for today?"
Sokka thought for a moment. "Oh, I dunno… I'd like to see how things with Aang and Katara went last night, and I'd also like to spend the day with the two most beautiful girls in the world."
"What did Avatar Aang and Auntie 'Tara do last night?" Suri asked with innocent curiosity.
"Well, Aang decorated Katara's place with water lilies," Sokka said, winking at Suki as he said it.
The three-year-old gasped. "I told him where the water lilies are! I helped!" she squealed excitedly.
"Yes you did!" Sokka said, giving the little girl a hug.
"Wow Suri," Suki said, "you're a real match-maker."
Suri smiled proudly, dimples becoming obvious.
"Yeah, when I walked in later last night, I found the two of them kissing." He smirked at the small 'ew!' that came from his daughter.
Back at Katara's hut, she and Aang were awake, their bare bodies pressed up against each other as the morning sun peeked in from behind them.
"Wow," was all Katara could say. After their kiss from the night before, Aang had taken Katara into the bedroom, spending most of the night telling her exactly how much he loved her; and boy, did he love her!
Aang laughed, whispering into her ear, "You liked that, didn't you?" Katara nodded.
"We should have more nights like this," she said, placing her arms around his body.
"You're absolutely right," the airbender said. "If that's what you want, you've got it!" He fingered the betrothal necklace Aang had given her eight years before. The Avatar was happy that Katara still wore it, even after all these years. "So," Aang asked cautiously, hoping he wasn't pushing his luck, "when's the wedding?"
Katara's smile widened as she kissed him softly on the lips. "Hm… Whenever we get everything together; that should take only about a month or two."
Aang's eyes widened. He hadn't counted on a short engagement like that. Noticing the look, Katara smiled at him.
"Come on Aang. We've been engaged for eight years. I think it's about time we got married."
Aang's confused look turned into a wide smile. "You're right!"
After one last kiss, the engaged couple got out of bed, made themselves decent to the rest of the city (since the general public frowned on nudity, and they very well couldn't get frostbite in unmentionable places), then they left the hut, hand in hand.
"So, about the wedding," Katara said, speaking up for the first time since they talked about getting married, "we have lots of decisions to make."
"Like what?" Aang asked, sounding naïve. It was obvious that Aang was a novice when it came to weddings. Katara guessed that as a monk, he hasn't attended very many ceremonies, regardless of his Avatar status.
"Well, for one thing, the location…"
"Right here," Aang said simply.
"Okay, right. Then we have to figure out who's invited…" Immediately, Aang started to list potential guests.
"Well, of course, the whole city, and we can send messages to other friends: Toph, Haru, maybe the other Kyoshi Warriors, Zuko and Mai, Teo, but I don't think he'd come all the way across the world for that… Um, we can also..." Aang was cut off.
"Good morning Auntie 'Tara! Good morning Avatar Aang!" A high-pitched shout was heard from behind. The two turned in the direction of the voice, which was the mouth of Sokka, Suki, and Suri's hut. There was the three-year-old dressed in her usual blue furs, her brown hair braided into two thick ponytails.
"Good morning Suri," Aang and Katara said.
"Guess what?" The little girl giggled.
"What?" Katara asked, acting more curious than she actually was for the little one's sake.
"Daddy says he's gonna spend the whole day with Mommy and me!"
"Well, that's great!" Katara said to her niece just as Sokka and Suki walked out from behind her.
"So Aang," Sokka said, going over to the airbender. "How'd it go last night? I mean, I saw the kiss, but I wanted to hear about it from your perspective." He gave an eyebrow raise for good measure, which induced eye-rolling from two of the ladies present and a confused look on another.
Aang laughed, "It went great. Katara loved the lilies; we're getting married in a couple months."
"Awesome!" Sokka said, putting his arm around Aang.
"Auntie 'Tara," Suri said.
"Yes Suri?"
"Daddy said that Avatar Aang put lilies all over your house as a su-prise!" The little girl smiled at her aunt.
"Why, yes he did," Katara said, not knowing how Sokka knew about that.
"Well, when I talked to Avatar Aang two nights ago, I told him about the water lilies!" The three-year-old looked proud of herself.
Katara gave a happy and overly-exaggerated gasp. "You did?" The little one nodded. "Well, that was great. Thanks Suri!" She kissed her niece on the cheek.
"Come on Suri. Let's go find a penguin before Mommy gets a hernia from standing all day with a baby in her tummy." Sokka said as Suki scowled. Gigging loudly, and not knowing nor caring what a hernia was, Suri waved to Katara and Aang one last time before running off after her parents, giggling even more when Suki playfully pushed Sokka down onto the snow for his comment.
"So," Katara said after the threesome walked away, "about the wedding…"
Yeah. See? Nothing special… Uh, I can't give you an estimated time on when chapter five will come out… Hopefully I'll get it to you within a week or two? I'm in college, so… yeah. You get it… Please review!
(Avatar season three is in less than 24 hours!)
