Creating Our World Chapter 22
The war ended three years ago. Sokka, Toph, Suki, Zuko, and I all helped save the world thanks to our Avatar Aang. With the exception of a life we lost, Yue.
Life after the war hasn't been the easiest to tell you the truth. From me being kidnapped, to Aang's repopulation plan, to Mai's pregnancy complications...to be honest, I wish we were back in the war days again. At least then I knew that we would all still be friends in the end.
However, there has been happiness to correspond with the sadness. Yue is back! Umm, well that's good for everyone but Suki. Well...we found a new Earth King! Yeah, I give up, life's pretty rough.
The new adjustments to our lives have been hard, and with the new responsibilities, come new problems. Problems all of us are going to have to face.
Previously On Avatar...
Aang found out the repopulation plan worked and Katara is not too happy about it. Mai has awoken.
Regular P.O.V.
Mai, Mai, goodness, Mai answer me." Zuko scrambled by the bedside of his wife with the rest of the Gaang watching on.
"Zuko, maybe commanding her to wake up again is giving her more motivation to stay asleep," Toph interjected, Zuko shot her a glare immediately upon the word 'commanding', "just saying." Toph added, putting her hands up, feeling the glare.
"How about you just hold her hand, rub her hair, and let her feel that you're here?" Katara suggested. Aang wanted to do the same for her, but knew now wasn't the time to bring up their relationship problems.
"Mai, Mai, I'm here. I'm here for you baby. Just wake up."
"Ew, please stop with all that mushy stuff or else I'll welcome death."
"Mai!" Zuko called. He immediately laid upon the lady and hugged her with every ounce of his body. It was that moment he knew what was most important to him. Her.
The rest of the Gaang gave applauses and cheers, but none wanted to ruin the moment between the couple, slowly they began filing out of the room, but welcoming Mai back as the left the door.
"Katara. Katara, can we talk?" Aang called.
"Aang. Please. Just focus on anything or anyone else. We'll be okay. Let me be alone for awhile and try to help someone else for a change."
He reached out for his love but knew she was right. This whole time he'd lost what had been his goal this whole time. He needed to build republic city. For his friends. For his fallen Airbenders. For Katara. For his child...or eventual children.
There was no world where things between him Katara would be perfect forever. So right now he was going to listen to the love of his life and fix the world that they love in.
"Sokka. Yue?"
"She leaves today Aang. Consider that problem solved."
Aang appreciated Sokka for immediately understanding what he needed to hear. One problem down, several more to go.
"Toph. R.C.?"
"Still in construction. There were a few problems that but i fixed them with my metal bending skills." Toph boasted, stretching her arms.
"Suki?"
"Yes Mr Avatar?"
"I need you to go and check in on the woman from the repopulation plan, figure out the situation and help me out with some solutions. Guard her too."
"Seeing as I'm the firelord's guard, I could only protect her if she stayed on the premises."
Aang pondered, looking toward Katara. He knew this was going to be hard for her, but he didn't want it to be excruciating.
"I'll get her. And I'll bring her here. Suki focus on your job which is guarding the palace. Aang..." Katara stopped, not really wanting to address her boyfriend right now. "Figure out what's next."
"Okie dokie Team Avatar. Break!" Sokka yelled, too excited to have a mission to accomplish.
The day passed into night and Katara was wiped. She had spent the day getting a room ready for the woman that was carrying her boyfriend's child, hoping tomorrow would go smoothly and she would agree to stay at the Firelord's palace.
The last thing she really wanted to be is the 'Avatar's Girlfriend' but recently that's all that she's been handling. What to do with Aang's problem with this? What to do with Aang's problem with that? It's all just too much.
As she prepared to go to bed to wake up the next morning for the possible worst day of her life, she heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?"
"It's me Sugarqueen! Open the door!"
Katara rushed to open the door to the Blind Bandit standing beyond the threshold holding her hand out.
"Toph, I don't have any money to lend you to gamble tonight, I'm sorry." Katara said, beginning to close the door.
"Oh hush up Sugarqueen and take my hand."
"Toph I'm seriously not in the mood, I have to go see this stupid-"
Toph silenced the water bender by leading her down the dark hallway and not even caring to hear what she was going to say next.
"Listen Katara. Aang loves you. We all know he does. It's been a thing since you guys first met, I'm told. This whole stupid plan shouldn't steer you guys away from each other. If anything he needs you more than ever right now and vice verse. Just don't let these people take you guys down."
"Woah Toph. I have so many questions, but I guess the main one is why are you telling me this?"
"It's simple."
Katara was going to ask her to explain that vague answer but then she looked up to find it.
She saw Sokka, Suki, Yue, her dad, Gram Gram, the White Lotus, everyone. And in the very back was Aang.
Hakoda walked up to his beautiful daughter and gave her his arm for her to latch onto.
"Dad, what-"
"It was Sokka's idea, that Aang strangely went along with."
It was a wedding.
It was her wedding.
It was their wedding.
"Dad, I don't know, this all seems like the wrong time-"
"Do you love him?" Hakoda questioned, looking intently at his daughter.
"What?"
"Do you love him?"
"Of course I do."
"Then I see no better time than the present."
Katara smiled as she let her father guide her down the mini isle. She smiled to see that Yue was officiating and Aang had the biggest, most stupid grin plastered across his face.
When they reached the front, Katara turned toward Aang, and even though Yue was saying something, she heard nothing as she looked upon the boy she met all those years ago in that iceberg, and the man she fell so madly, deeply, and immensely in love with.
"Katara. Times haven't been easy in the slightest. But somehow you and I always have been," Katara raised an eyebrow and Aang laughed at her impatience. "Let me explain. From the beginning, even in the hardest of times, I always knew I wanted to be with you forever. I wanted to love you forever. That there would never be anyone or anything that would make me change that love or take it away. As a child I knew what love was by looking into your eyes and realizing how it made me feel. That kind of stuff you can't just find. It has to be given to you by some higher power or something. Losing everything before the hundred year war was the hardest thing I have ever had to come to terms with. But for you, I would do it a thousand times over, ten fold, just to know the thing I'd open my eyes to would be the bluest, hopeful, crystallized eyeballs I have ever seen. You are my world Katara. I'm not making it or building it, you're letting me have it by being mine. Trouble will come. When you're with me, it's kind of guaranteed, but as long as I keep waking up to those eyes, I know everything isn't as bad as they could be."
Yue smiled and turned toward Katara to hear what she had to say.
"Aang. In the simplest of days, time with you has never been enough. So on every other day, date night is nearly unimaginable. That's why today, the fact that we are here, doing this right now, is a testimate to our relationship. I have never known anyone who has had such an optimistic outlook on life. Before, I would have called that person crazy, but now I realize it's powerful. You took a young, naiive, hopeful girl from the Southern Water Tribe-"
"And her brother!"
Everyone glared toward Sokka and Suki nudged him in the side but Katara and Aang just laughed.
"Yes, and her idiotic brother, and you let them grow up. You let that girl realize that she was more than just a helpless child that had her mother ripped away from her. You let her realize that she was a warrior. And you let her realize it on her own. Our relationship wouldn't be ours if we didn't have the days that we felt everything is going wrong. But just like I told you on the Day of the Black Sun, and just like I will keep telling you until the day the sun doesn't rise for us anymore, we believe in you...I believe in you. Once I hear you say that to me or vice versa, I know everything is going to be okay. Nothing is perfect, but my love and life with you is. That's not just something you take for granted. I know that now."
You could tell that everyone in the room was emotional. This relationship has grown before everyone's eyes, and now that they were reaching this milestone, people couldn't help but realize how far each of them had come, individually as well.
"I'm sorry but I have to ask...are there any objections?" Yue questioned.
Katara rolled her eyes, and Aang stopped breathing, both of them knowing that this night was going far too well to end without a hitch. Surprisingly though, no one spoke.
"Thank the Spirits!! Then by the power vested in me, as the Moon Goddess. I know pronounce you, husband and wife! I think you know what to do from here."
Everyone applauded as Katara and Aang kissed as though everything really would be sealed after they'd done so. They laughed as everyone crowded around to say their congratulations.
"Yue?"
"Oh, hi. I thought I'd slip away, I didn't want to ruin the moment."
"No, you should say goodbye."
"Oh no, no, no. I've already caused far too much trouble here. It'd probably be best if I just left without any commotion."
Suki walked toward the woman she had been internally battling for the past month, and for the first time, saw a woman who had lost everything, but gained everything.
"Look Yue, I never really gave you a chance. I let my jealousy get in the way of getting to know you instead of just saying hi, and I am so so sorry for that."
"No Suki, I am the one who's sorry. I knew you were jealous and I kind of appreciated it because I thought it meant that Sokka still had feelings for me. I know it was wrong but, he was the first and last boy I ever felt something for. And now i'll never be able to feel something like that again. I just wanted to be reminded of how it felt to be human again. But Sokka loves you. It's incredibly obvious. With me, he never let his guard down. With you, the only reason he felt comfortable to act so kindly toward me is because he feels safe with you, and that he can be himself and act on how he feels. So thank you for giving him something I never could, even if I were alive. And I'm sorry for giving you such a hard time."
Suki was crying. How could she not see that that was how Sokka felt. This whole time she'd been overthinking everything he'd done with her, when really he was just saying goodbye to a woman he never had a chance to.
"Thank you Yue."
The pair hugged, and then they both knew the Goddess was about to leave.
"Tell them I said goodbye and that I loved every minute of this journey. Even if I was just a warning."
Suki laughed. "I will, shine bright up there will ya? It's been a little too dark lately."
Yue giggled and nodded. Suki blinked and when she opened her eyes again, the young lady that stood before her eyes was gone.
Sokka came rushing out of the room to find Suki wiping her eyes of their tears.
"Suki? Come on we're gonna have the cake now!"
He ran out to grab his love's hand and noticed they were wet.
"Are you okay?"
"Yea I'm fine, I can finally say that things are looking a lot brighter now."
Sokka raised his eyebrow but shook his head, the duo ran inside the room to find happiness, an emotion that was long overdue.
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xoxo, Luv Angel01