"No, Aang. I need time alone to think to myself." She called out to him.
all during that next week, Katara was silent. Aang was dying to know why, and why she had freaked out. Finally after dinner one night, Toph stood up and said, "Katara, may I speak to you alone upstairs."
"What for?"
"Just a word."
The two girls went upstairs leaving Aang alone downstairs nearly killing himself with all the suspense of what was going on.
"What's wrong." Toph said.
"What do you mean?" Katara replied.
"Your acting weird and- you feel weird."
"Huh?"
"I don't know how to explain it Katara, but you FEEL weird. Like, when I sense where you are, you feel weird to me. But I don't know why."
Katara bit her lip and said, "Actually Toph, there is a problem... I missed my period."
Toph nearly fell from the news.
"What? You're- with Jet's?"
"I dont know... Me and Aang the night before, it couldnt have been much longer than twelve hours apart... Please don't say anything to Aang. I need to tell him, and I was waiting to make sure that my period just wasn't late... but it's been too long now..."
Toph nodded saddly, unsure of what else to do.
Later that night, Aang crawled into bed next to Katara and said, "So, are you ever going to tell me what this week had been all about?"
Katara sighed face down into a pillow and Aang rubbed her back and she mumbled, "I don't want to talk about it right now."
"I understand. I can wait... So, when do you want the wedding?"
"Huh?"
"What season? There isn't really a reason to have it in spring or summer, fall or winter though. Ooh, how about the solstice?"
"Aang."
"Though a full moon may be better. We could check-"
"Aang."
"and see if they could be really close together."
"Aang!"
"Yes my love?"
"Winter is in five months."
"Yea, I know. So?"
Katara sighed and sat up and burried her face in the pillow she had set up on her knees.
"I might not be able to fit into my dress."
"What?" He puzzled.
"... Aang, I don't really know how to say this, but I- I think that I might be- pregnant..."
Aang sat up and stared at her intently. "P-pregnant? Like, another person living inside of you? Like, nine months and a baby pregnant?"
"I don't know what other kind there could be." Aang leaned back against the head board, and that's when Katara started crying. "Oh Aang, I'm so sorry. I don't know whose baby it is. I'm so sorry." She hugged him and continued sobbing appologies into his shirt.
Aang bit his bottom lip and clenched his eyes shut. He rubbed his eyes and forehead breathing deeply. Slowly and depressingly he quivered out, "Please excuse me." before sliding away leaving Katara crying alone on the bed.
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A two months passed, and it was clear that katara was pregnant. No period, and her stomach had started swelling just the slightest, preparing itself for its new resident. She would pose in front of the mirror knowing that whatever beauty she had was about to be stretched and torn and ask herself why she did what she did. Why did she have sex with Aang? why did she go to Jets?
Aang could hardly speak. He would look at Katara and his face would turn sad and she would long for the time when he looked at her and a sly grin would over-take his face.
Aangs birthday passed with near no celebration. Katara got him brand new robes that she had custom tailored. They were Airnomad monk robes. He loved them. Toph ordered him cake, even though she knew Katara would be making him one. She still acted shocked when Katara pulled out her own, and Tophs arrived minutes after. Aang smiled more that day than he had the past few weeks. He smiled Katara's favorite smile, the last time she had seen it was right before he left for work the day after they had first had sex. The day she made the mistake of going to Jet's and getting raped.
three weeks later and they boarded a ship to Keoshi.
"Why can't we travel by land?" Toph whined as they got onto the ship.
"It would take too long, besides, it's less work this way and cheaper." Aang replied sitting down on the wood floor in his earth kingdom disguise that he had worn dancing with Katara. The two then started up a conversation about the new earthbending trick that she had taught him while Katara sat rubbing her stomach.
About two weeks later the boat made it's last stop before Keoshi. They all got off to stretch out and Toph and Aang started playing an earthbending game while Katara went to look around. She found a large and fluffy green parka and bought it. She pulled it on over her head, extremely satisfied when it completely flattened her front.
"Whats with the parka?" Aang asked as they boarded the boat.
"It's getting cold. I needed it for,- you know. To keep warm." she put her hand on her stomach, which Aang found her doing often.
"Oh, yea. Ok." He said going and sitting down again.
Another week later and they pulled to a stop on Keoshi island. They were the only ones getting off there, so it was extremely easy for Suki to get to them. She ran up and hugged Aang and toph tightly.
When she turned to Katara, Katara put up her hands in a halting motion and nearly shouted, "Suki I'm not feeling well, I will throw up all over you!" Suki smile and gave her a very light hug.
Suki lead them to sokka who was helping with setting up tables in the main hall.
"Guys! It's so good to see you!" He shouted jumping up to hug them. Katara turned green and brought her hand to her mouth and ran outside
Aang sighed and followed her.
"She said she wasn't feeling well." Suki told the confused Sokka.
Aang found Katara throwing up into some bushes a short walk over. He pat her back when she was done and offered her a cloth napkin he had grabbed on his way out of the main hall. She accepted it with an upset face. she wiped her mouth and on a different side, wiped her eyes. She then looked at Aang who had an equally sad look on his face and she hugged him tightly.
Later when Suki was showing them the decor, she stopped them at a room and went in and brought out a beautiful forrest green dress. "This is what the brides maids will be wearing. Katara, this one is yours. Here try it on!" She handed the dress to Katara who looked at the slim dress and gulped.
"Oh, but I dont think-"
"Look at my dress while your in there, its BEAUTIFUL!" Suki said opening the door.
Katara walked in and the last thhing she saw before Suki shut the door was Aangs panicked and frightened face. She pulled off her Parka and looked in the mirror at her once flat stomach. She tried on the dress but couldnt get it to Zip up, not without completely crushing her stomach which she would not do. She pulled it off and put on her other clothes except the parka. She hung up the dress and took a deep breath before opening the door, her parka hanging by her hand down her side.
Suki Scanned her from head to toe, only thinking about the dress, But Sokka was the first to notice her bubbly stomach. Before anyone could speak, Sokka grabbed Aang and put him down on the ground fast enoough that even Toph barely saw it coming. He had both of Aangs arms and was pressing his knee into Aangs back as Aang lay with his face pressed into the ground, his eyes wide.
"Sokka!" Katara shouted pushing at him.
"You got her pregnant! You son of a bitch, I'll kill you!" he roared pressing his knee farther into his back.
"I don't even know if it's his!" Katara choked.
Sokka froze, "What?"
"... I don't know if it's his."
Sokka got off of Aang who began coughing harshly and holding his stomach. Sokka got in close to Katara and said through clenched teeth, "Whose else could it be?"
"... Jets..."
"You bitch. You slept with two guys so close together that you don't even know whose BABY your having! You whore!"
"But I didn't-"
"Didn't what?"
"I-I-" She sobbed once and ran from the room.
Aang stood up and turned sokka around so that he could punch him in the face.
Sokka staggered back, and fell down on his rump and Aang shouted, "You're such an idiot! Katara didn't sleep with Jet! He raped her!"
Almost instantly, Sokkas face went from anger to confused saddness. His eyes became glassy and he put his hand to his head and whispered, "She was- raped?"
"Yea! He used chi tranquilizers on her and had her tied up for TEN HOURS."
"Where the hell were YOU?" Sokka shouted back.
"At work!" Aang yelled while running out the door after her.
He found her down by the beach, her parka on again.
"I'm sorry." she said as he sat down next to her.
He didn't speak, He just pulled her in for a hug and kissed the top of her head as she cried into his shoulder.
Later that day, Sokka came over to the rooms they would be staying in and apologized to the both of them and told them he would help in any way he could. He also gave Aang a birthday present, a story book. Aang leafed through it and recognized some of the tales he was told as a child.
"I swear I got it weeks ago. I didn't know- I hope- Your just such a little kid still... At least you were... To me."
Aang lightly smiled and said, "I love it. and I still am a kid."
"No you're not."
"Huh?"
Sokka hugged Katara and said, "You can't be a kid anymore."
Aangs face turned sad, "W-What?"
"This book, it's not for you anymore. At least not just you. It's for this little guy too." He motioned towards Katara's stomach. "And I know you don't want to believe it, and you dont want to hear it, but it's time to finish growing up. Every decision you make for the rest of your life isn't just about you anymore. It's for two extra. Whether this baby is yours or not. Understand?"
Aangs face was crunched up, in a depressed, not-sure-if-I'm-going-to-cry-or-not way.
"Sokka, leave him alone, you're making him feel bad. He was going to father a family eventually- it's just a little earlier than we thought."
"Ya. Well, I hate to tell you this, but Dad just got here right before I came over to talk with you."
Katara gasped and pushed Sokka out of the room and locked the door.
... "... Katara?" Aang asked as she looked around the room.
She slowly sank to the floor, Aang catching her and helping her to the bed where she lay on her side, hugging the pillow and she started crying. Aang bit his lip. He knew that he had to be there for her. Sokka was right, he had to stay strong and be there for her. Even if it killed him inside. He crawled onto the bed and pushed the pillow she was crying into out of her hands and replaced it with himself. She held him tightly and sobbed into his side while he rubbed her back.
Later her dad came up and knocked and called her name several times, telling her to come out. His voice was sad, Sokka had told him what had happened, but Katara did not respond to him, nor did she open the door. That night she just cried into Aangs side again and continued saying, "Oh Aang, I've brought shame and dishonor to myfamily." Aang could not reply.
The day of the wedding came. Up until then, she did not leave the room. Aang brought her meals, for she knew she couldn't stop eating. The baby needed the nourishment. There was a restroom attached to the bedroom, so that wasn't a problem. When it was finally time, Katara locked Aang out. Sokka came up to see her and she told him that if the wedding didn't go on as planned then she would surely toss herself out of the window from all of the guilt she would feel and already was feeling.
She watched the wedding take place from the window. She cried as Sokka and and Suki shared a kiss. Suki's dress was beautiful. She couldn't stop thinking about how she and Aang would have been sharing the same touching magic just months from now. But now the wedding was pushed back.
She finally forced a smile on her face, she wasn't sure why she did. It wasn't a big smile, it was hardly a smile at all, but she made herself do it before falling asleep.
She woke to Aang slidding into the bed with her.
"Aang? How did you get in?"
"There is a window my love. I am an airbender. It's not like it's any sort of problem for me."
"Don't be all bleh with me."
"Bleh?"
"You know. All cocky."
"Umm, ok? Sorry?"
"... I can't face my father. Not now."
"I understand." He said simply.
"We can't have the wedding until the baby is born. We can't stay here, spirits no."
"Our quarters in Bah-Sing-Sei were adequet. Going back seems best."
"What about Toph?"
"It's her home too. If she wants to come, she is welcome of course. It would be nice having her around."
"ok. We should leave as soon as possible.."
"Whatever you would like my love." Aang said kissing her forehead before turning over on his side facing away from her to go to sleep.
Katara sighed and laid down on her back, unable to cry anymore, she fell asleep.
cool right? Or not? probably not. Did you catch how much time just went by in this chapter lol. I just fast forwarded the shiz outta it! Dude, i bet i just twisted the shiz outta your mind. So many effin twists and shiz... God I hate myself for writing this thing... stay tuned for the twisted Shiz to come up :) YAY! LONG LIVE KATAANG!
