Enjoy this. OR ELSE. no i cant do anything, but it wouldnt make me happy if you werent happy with this chapter. because it's my favorite... EVER... so, yea. LONG LIVE KATAANG. disclaimer for the whole story: I in no way, shape, or form owner, or co- owner or creater in any way or had anything to do with the actual production of the series Avatar the last airbender or any of its characters or have anything to do with nikelodeon or is associates. :)
They got in the door and Toph pulled Katara into the elaborate living room where Suki and Sokka were drinking tea.
"Sokka! Suki!" Katara shouting as they stood up, equally excited to see her but not as surprised.
"Katara!" Sokka was the first to reach her. picking her up and spinning her in a circle. He set her back down and said, "Where's Aang? Where's the baby? It's a boy right? a big strong boy that I can teach how to do mannly things?"
Katara laughed and said, "Aangs outside with Autumn."
"Thats not a boys name." Suki smirked at Sokka.
"Ya, that's because she's a girl."
Suki squealed and hugged her. "I can't wait to see her!"
"If Aang let's you." Toph laughed.
They started talking and catching up, while very slowly started heading back outside.
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Autumn was getting fussy because she was getting tired. Aang rocked her and lightly shushed her. He reached to fix her blanket and she caught his finger in her tiny hand. She almost instantly stopped crying. Aang smiled as she yawned and blinked her eyes up at him.
He looked up at the house and glanced around himself and saw he was completely alone. He quietly hummed a tune then sang, "Leave falling all around, falling, spinning to the ground. Jump dear child catch them all, all the colors of the fall. Brown and orange, Yellow, red. dream of all these colors, dream them in your head. Dream of all these colors, dream them in your bed." His smile spread ear to ear as she fell asleep in his arms. He leaned and kissed her lightly on the forehead and leaned back on the bench.
He did not see Katara standing in the door way with tears down her face and she slowly walked up to him. he noticed her coming up and looked down blushing with a hard expression on his face.
"That was beautiful Aang."
"It was just a song I learned from when I was little."
"Yes, but it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen you do. You cannot deny your love for this child. I see it in you."
AAng chewed his lip and looked down at Autumn. He handed her to Katara and said, "It was just a song."
Katara still smiled. "I know you do Aang. You know it too. You are afraid though, dont' be. Don't ever think of Jet. When I look into Autumns face, all I can think of is you."
Aang ran a hand through his hair and repeated with a sigh, "It was just a song. Nothing more." before retreating to the inside of Tophs house.
Katara went to follow him and Toph followed and said, "I prepared you guys a room about a month ago, wan't sure when you were coming. 5th door on the right, top of the north side stairs."
"Thankyou Toph. Where are your parents anyway?"
"Vacation. They left two weeks ago and are coming back next week. This place was crawling with sitters before you came, but I fired them. I could get you guys a nanny for a few days if you want to have some alone time. I'm sure Aang is dying for you again after he got cut off after just a taste."
"What is with you and mine and Aangs private life?"
"You mean sex life? The one you dont have?"
"You dont either Toph. And Aang and I could start back up whenever we want."
"Then why dont you?"
"... I'll talk to you later Toph. I'm tired, and I need to put Autumn down before all this talking wakes her up."
"Ok. See ya Katara."
Katara waved to Sokka and Suki and started up the north stairs. She opened up the fifth door on the right and smiled at the deluxe room. She lay Autumn in the baby bed and marvled at the playful mobile hanging over it. She walked to the curtain surrounded bed and pulled back its drapes. she ran her hand along the sheets to find the top comforter to be a maroon, soft, hand spun silk. she pulled back the sheets and laid down in the bed after removing her shoes. she sighed happily into the swan-goose down pillows. It wasn't hard for her to fall asleep.
Aang came up not soon after and locked the window and drew the curtains. He locked the door and checked on Autumn. When he found her to be well, he suggled up to Katara, wrapping his arms tightly around her. She wimpered for a minute and he feared that she was going to go through another nightmare. She had been doing very well, she hadn't had one since before Autumn was born. He brushed her hair and was careful only to touch her there. She had nearly punched him in the face one night because she had her nightmare while his arm was around her waist. Another night she had shoved him off the bed when he rolled in his sleep so that his shoulder and leg over hers. He lightly shushed her and continued to brush her hair.
After a minute she stopped. Aang smiled and went to go to sleep himself but heard katara mumble.
"Hmm?" He said sitting up a little.
"I'm sorry Aang." She murmured.
"For what?" He sat up and looked at her and saw her eyes were closed. He waved his hand in front of her face an recieved no response.
"I'm sorry Aang." she said again.
"What for Katara?"
"I'm sorry I can't give you what you want." She sighed.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm so... dirty... I'm so unclean... I can't give you what you want. Not until I'm clean again."
"How do you get clean?"
"... I don't know yet. You deserve better than me... ... someone clean, like you."
"I love you Katara. You are the purest, most innocent person I know. Don't blame yourself for what happened to you Katara. It was Jets fault."
"... Jet."
"Jet's fault."
"I hate Jet."
"Me too Katara."
"He soiled me. He made me unclean."
"You're fine Katara. Dont think about Jet."
"... What if Autumn is Jets baby? What if she grows up crazy like him? What if her eyes turn brown and distrustful?"
"Dont talk like that Katara."
"You hate her."
"No I don't."
"You don't love her."
"I never said that."
Katara didnt say any more but rolled onto her back and breathed deeply. Aang looked at Autumn angrily. He did hate her. and he hated himself for it. The creature was responsible for all of this stress. She was responsible for their lives being full of doubt for the rest of forever. She was the reason he and Katara were constantly reminded of Jet. She caused them constant worry and he hated her for it. But she was just a baby. a beautiful, cooing, smiling baby. And he couldn't help but be nice to her... He couldn't ignor her, or be mean to her. Katara barely ever got up to take care of her in the middle of the night. Not as much as Aang. As soon as she started wimpering at all, Aang was there with a night time bottle, a fresh diaper, a funny face, and a warm blanket. He doubt that Katara even knew how much she was up in the night. once or twice, sometimes three times. He didn't care, she was a baby, she couldn't help it. He hated that he couldnt resist her.. She was like Jet like that. Katara couldnt resist him... And here was the consequence. he saddly fell asleep with moist eyes.
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After staying there for a week, Aang was about ready to go home. He was sick of just about everything there. Well, the material things at least. He loved being able to see everyone again. Almost everyone. It was almost just like old times. Almost. He and Toph got up at noon everyday and practiced earthbending and Toph was teaching him metal bending, it was very difficult for him, and she was the same old Toph. She launched a huge metal sheet at him and if he wouldnt have been able to matrix duck the thing, it would have cut him in two. That was not fun for him and he wanted to go home and practice without Toph popping out, throwing things at him.
Sokka loved playing with Autumn, though Aang prowled him while he had her, always watching. He hated that Sokka loved her so much, and that he had her so much, and that he cared so much that Sokka had her so much. After a few minutes of Sokka playing with her, Aang would grow so uneasy as to ask for her. No one ever refused Aang when he asked for her. They knew that he liked her, and they wanted him to show it.
"Aang, Toph, Suki, and I are having a girls day, do you think you could watch Autumn for a few hours?"
"Of course." He agreed. He stayed upstairs with her till she woke from her nap and then fed her from one of Katara's prefilled bottles for when Aang had her. When she was burped and full of energy, he took her outside to lounge in the shade of a cherry tree. He held her so that she could see around herself and look at all of the beautiful colors of the spring time slowly turning into summer.
He picked a fluffy dandylion and blew away the seeds. he picked up another one and Autumn reached for it.
"You wanna try?" he asked. He brought it down close to her and she wrapped her tiny fingers around it and opened her mouth and sucked in. she looked confusingly at the flower and shook it. Aang blew off the seeds and she giggled. He smiled then frowned. No, he wasnt going to be happy. Not for her. She looked up at him and wined for another flower. He picked another and blew off its seeds more lightly and created a light air current to keep them suspended in the air and gently fall back down on them.
One of them fell down on her nose and startled her and she took a sharp intake of breath, breathing the thing in through her nose. She sneezed, but the seed remained stuck. she coughed once and Aang pat her back lightly, not sure what to do. She sneezed again, but still nothing. She went to sneeze again and Aang was patting her back, hoping it would come out.
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The three girls were sitting on the porch, talking about various things.
"So when is youre wedding?" Suki asked Katara.
"In the fall, We're going to check out the island after we leave here. It looks just perfect on the map."
"I am so excited! What color are the brides made dresses?"
"I'm thinking blue. Mine will be White with blue accents, at least, thats the dress I have in my head. Oh it looks just beautiful in my head."
"Yea, mine was really nice, yours will be too, I promise, especially if you have it custom made."
All of a sudden they heard Aang yell, "KATARA! KATARA! KATARA!" They all jumped up and ran around the house to the source of his screams. He was pressed against the tree holding a loudly crying Autumn. He was holding her very close.
sokka ran out from inside his yells were so loud, and everyone was there, and katara noticed the back of Aangs head was red, and he was covered in cherry blosoms, as was the rest of the area under the tree.
"Aang whats wrong? Is something wrong with Autumn! Is she alright? Let me see her!" Tears were powring down his face.
"Aang what happened?" Sokka asked frantically.
Katara reached down for Autumn but Aang refused her and burried his face into the small bundle.
"Aang what is going on?" Katara said as Aang rocked Autumn and hushed her as soothingly as he could manage. and she quieted down to a low whimper.
"Aang!" Katara yelled getting worried and frustrated.
"Katara- she sneezed."
"Huh? What are you-"
"She sneezed, and blew me against the tree!"
Katara froze, studying his face, not daring to move. finally she choked out while the others stared wide eyed, "But that means-"
"SHE'S AN AIRBENDER! SHE'S MY DAGHTER!"
Katara collapsed to the ground crying and Aang leaned over to her, letting her share Autumn with him. "This is MY daughter! I'm a FATHER! I have a baby girl!" He exclaimed crying with her. and kissing her.
Sokka and suki were in an embrace and Toph was whooping and hollering.
"Katara, we're a whole family. The three of us, it's completely inquestionable. Jet is out of the picture forever!"
Katara sniffed and kissed him and then kissed Autumn. She then reached up and held onto Aang as tightly as she possibly could without squishing autumn between them.
"This is our daughter, Katara. Yours and mine. I wont ever doubt that again." Aang said kissing Autumn on the head.
That night Aang rocked Autumn in his arms while he sang her almost every lullaby he knew untill she fell asleep.
He sat on the end of the bed and put his face in his hands and sighed. Katara sat behind him and he said, "I am so sorry Katara."
"For what?"
"For acting how I did. It wasn't right."
"Aang, you didnt know."
"But there was the possibility! I knew it could be mine but all I could think about was Jet and what he's done to us. What he was doing to us. What he could have done to her..."
"Well, if its any consolation, I love you, and I forgive you. Autumn would too."
Aang had stopped listening, he was watching Autumn and he suddenly stood up and said, "He must be found."
"Huh?"
"Jet, There is no way I can stand any longer with him out there. soon the whole world will know that there is another airbender. Word will leak out somehow."
"So? Why should he care?"
"Katara, it's Jet. Think about it. He will find out about Autumn, and he WILL be angry. He already knew you had a daughter and was basking in the possibility that it could be his. That he could have driven a stake right between us. Now its DEFFINITALLY not his and we are tied even closer together. How will that make him feel?"
"...I dont know."
"He did love you, Katara. In fact, he was obsessed with you, so obsessed that he would do anything to get you. Do ANYTHING to try and get you to love him. He tried to cut you off from the world, and have you all for himself. But when you first rejected him, you called him a monster, you called him sick, and something broke inside of him. And with each rejection you laid out on him, it broke even more. eventually, he was shattered inside. And he grew back crooked and twisted inside, so deranged inside. It cooked for YEARS inside of him. He hates that we're together, the farther apart, the easier for him to try and slide himself between us. What ties us together closer than anything in the whole world?"
"Autumn." Katara relized.
"Yes. and her will stop at nothing to destroy her. He needs her out of the way. He must be found emediatly before he can find us."
"Well, we are in the safest place in the world. Maybe you should go search for him while Autumn and I stay here?"
"I dont't think I could do that... I dont think I could leave you, or her. I dont want to ever leave you again..."
"Well, then we can come with you... But I think this is something we should get our friends together on, to help find him."
"Well, Jets NOT in the fire nation. So Zuko's no help. He's not in the North or South pole. He's not at an air temple. So he's in the extremely huge earth kingdom. We are going to need a plan."
"Well, we have a bit to think about it."
"... What about the wedding?"
"It's still on. we WILL have it, no matter what."
Aang smiled and nearly tackled her to hug her. "Everything is going to be ok, isnt it?"
Katara lightly laughed and said, "That's what you have been telling me." she pushed him off and pulled the heavy curtains around the bed. She leaned over to give him a kiss like she did every night. Aang smiled and went to accept the peck. but it wasn't a peck. It was a kiss. A real, full force, powerful kiss like the one he had given her before he had left for work that fateful day. But it was even more than that. Aang slowly put his hands around her waist and she pushed him onto his back and rolled on top, straddling him. She started undoing her dress and Aang grabbed her hand.
"What are you doing?" He said sitting up a little.
"Well, I was taking off my dress."
"Why?"
"What do you think?"
Aang stared at her with a confused look. "Are you sure that-"
"Aang I'm ready. You've been ready, you just are too kind a soul to act on any of your urges. I'm sorry that it's taken me this long, but I'm ready to pick this back up... Are you ok with that."
Aang licked his lips and said, "... Of course... I would deffinitally love that... Alot..."
Katara grinned and kissed him again while continuing pulling off her dress.
:P ha. thats where I leave you with the ANSWER. dont worry, there IS more.. so so so much more... I'm hoping to get up about a chapter per week, with school starting and all, thats all i really have time for... stay tuned for some action, romance, and horror! next chapter prob in- 1-2 weeks with another shortly after. THANKYOU! LONG LIVE KATAANG!