A/N: So this is another request from Jokermask18 about Aang asking Roku how he mastered the Avatar State while married. Hope you all enjoy it. And you can still review, but I just got two books that I've been dying to read, and they are both over 500 hundred pages, so updates will be slower. Don't forget to review! And if you haven't already, like me on FB, under Freyaloves. You'll get inside info!

They had been attacked.

While working with the Earth Kingdom colonies, Aang had let his guard down, and Katara was attacked.

She wasn't hurt too seriously, but what stung was that Aang knew that had he been able to go into the Avatar State, Katara would never have been hurt.

And that was why he was currently in the shade of a tree, meditating, trying to reach the Spirit World. He knew Roku had mastered the Avatar State, and had been married. So maybe there was a way that Aang could master it without having to give Katara up.

Suddenly, all feelings of his body left him, and he knew he had entered the Spirit World. "Roku!" he cried out. "I need your help!"

Roku then appeared before him, dressed as he usually was. "Yes, Aang?"

"Roku, Katara was attacked, and since I haven't mastered the Avatar State, I wasn't able to help." Aang said dejectedly.

"Ah, I see." Roku said. "I can teach you how to master the Avatar State."

"No, you don't see!" Aang cried out in despair. "I can't let go of Katara. And you mastered the Avatar State and still got married. How did you do it?"

Roku remained silent for a long time. "Aang, I was married, but . . . It's hard to explain. I loved my wife, but I didn't love her so much that it got in the way. When I had to let her go, most of my love went with her."

Aangs eyes filled with tears. "I can't let her go, Roku."

"You will have to if you wish to master the Avatar State." Roku said harshly. "It is the only way."

"No, it's not! I will find a way!" Aang yelled. Suddenly the world shifted around him, and he was in the arms of Katara.

"Katara," he gasped out as the tears started to flow.

"Aang, what's wrong?" she asked, stroking his back. "What happened?"

"Roku said I have to give you up to master the Avatar State," Aang said brokenly. "I won't let you go."

"Aang," she whispered. She was touched that he loved her so much, but . . . he had to master the Avatar State to become a fully realized Avatar. "It's okay if you let me go."

"Katara!" Aang said in shock. "I won't. If I do, Roku said I won't love you like I do now. And I don't want not to love you."

Katara shook her head. "Aang, the world needs you more than I do your love. You'll just have to let go."

Aang looked at her with tears filling his eyes. "Let's make a deal," he said. "If I cannot find a way to enter the Avatar State without letting you go in two months, then I'll do as Roku says, and . . . and let you go."

"Deal," Katara whispered, and then kissed him. "Just know that whatever happens, I'll always love you."