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Chapter 37

Katara's POV Finale Pt. 3, the final chapter

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"Pregnant!" I sputtered out. The doctor nodded his head slowly as if he didn't quite understand what I had said. "How could…what…I don't remember me…"

"Many things could have happened," Dr. Schmidt said, cutting me off. "I'm assuming you don't take birth control, right?" I nodded. "That could be one of the problems we face…" his voice trailed off.

"And?"

He looked up from his clipboard. "And…I'm assuming that you and this fellow here like to have…" He looked over at Zuko.

"Sex," Toph said, helping him.

He put his hand over his face to cover up his smile. "Yes."

"How the hell did this happen?" Zuko said, raising his voice.

The doctor sighed. "Well, all I can tell you is to remember the last time it happened. Was there protection involved or did you guys just…go into it?"

"I put the condom on," Zuko said quickly. "I remember taking it out of the wrapper and—"

"You didn't," I said softly. Zuko turned his head and looked over at me.

"I did, Katara," he said. "I remember. We couldn't have forgotten, I always remember. I could've sworn I most definitely did. I couldn't, I shouldn't, I didn't forget. I'm positive that I didn't."

I frowned. "We didn't use protect. You forgot—"

"I didn't forget!" Zuko exclaimed.

I sighed. "Then tell me how I'm pregnant, Zuko? Who else could I have been with to get pregnant? Jet? Aang? No, it was you, Zuko, and you forgot, again."

I saw the doctor frown out of the corner of my eye. "When was the first—?"

"Graduation," Toph whispered to him.

"Ok, let's just say I did forget," Zuko started, "it was only like one time. Nothing should happen, right?"

I rolled my eyes. "Once can be enough, Zuko. You saw what happened at our graduation party."

Zuko sat down in the chair next to my bed. He put his head in his hands. "How could you?"

"How could I what?"

"Be pregnant, Katara, again," He put emphasis on his words. I could tell that he was thinking deeply on this subject. He ran his hand through his hair, "Couldn't this have waited?"

"You've got to be shitting me, Zuko? You're the one wants to have sex with me all the time!" I screamed at him.

"Oh, so now it's my fought, Katara?" he asked.

"You got me pregnant. This is your fault, Zuko."

"My fault?" he question again, raising his voice. "My fault? Tell me exactly how this is my fought, Katara."

"You didn't put the freaking condom on," I said. "You were so excited that you forgot the main thing. Protection."

"Well, sorry for wanting to 'make love' with my girlfriend," he said, crossing his arms over his chest.

I scoffed, crossing my arms over my chest. "Yeah, I'm sorry too."

Dr. Schmidt raised his hand, ordering us to be quiet. He put his glasses back on and looked back at the paperwork, flipping through pages casually. He chuckled lightly and looked up. "You forget the key word, Ms. Marine."

"What was that?" I said.

"I didn't say that you are pregnant, Katara," he said, shifting his glasses up onto his face. "I said that you were pregnant. You're not pregnant at all anymore."

"So what are you saying?" I said, gripping my bed sheets. "Are you telling me that I had a miscarriage?"

He nodded. "It is sad and very unfortunate, but…yes. You did have one."

"She couldn't have," Zuko said loudly, gaining the attention of the police officers in the other room. My father walked into the room.

"What's going on in here?" he asked.

"I was there. I saw her having the heart attack. She…she couldn't have had a miscarriage. She couldn't have," Zuko's voice cracked.

The doctor cleared his throat loudly. "That so called 'heart attack' was actually a miscarriage. We put you, Zuko, out the room because she was starting to bleed...a lot. You may not have seen it, but I spotted it, and realized that there was something wrong. That's why you had to leave," he said, clearing his throat again. "I know that if you would've seen the blood…you would've gone ballistic. Katara then went into a state of shock, Zuko. That's why she was unconscious for a while."

"Wait, what happened?" Hakoda said, raising his voice. "My daughter had a what?"

"She had a miscarriage, dad," Sokka said softly. "But it's not like you would care about it anyway."

"I care a lot, son. My daughter just had a…a," Hakoda took a deep breath, letting the new information sink in. He turned towards Dr. Schmidt and put both of his hands on his shoulder. "Is this true, Schmidt? Did my daughter have an actual miscarriage?"

"Would I lie to you, Hakoda?" he said. "Your daughter had a miscarriage. Do I look like a person who would like to about something important like this?"

I grabbed my knees and hugged them to my chest. I put my head between them and started to cried. Zuko sat on the bed and hugged me tightly. Toph, Suki, and Sokka came up from behind him and hugged me as well. It was a sort of group hug.

"I'm so sorry, Katara," Zuko whispered into my ear, like it was his fault the miscarriage happened. "I'm so, so, so sorry that this happened to you, to us." Tears had started to form in his eyes. "And I know it hurts so bad, Katara, I know it does. But I'm sorry. I'm sorry for getting you pregnant, I'm sorry for yelling at you, I'm sorry for being the way I am with you. I'm sorry for just…everything. I am so sorry my love," he whispered softly. "

I wrapped my arms around his neck and sobbed into his shoulder. I never knew that losing someone you never knew could hurt so much like this. "Why did I have to lose our baby?" I cried into him. I was suddenly overcome with grief, and I could not speak any more words. Zuko held me tightly, rubbing my back in the process.

"We will get through this together," he said. I broke away from his hug. He was trying to contain his own tears. I nodded and leaned in to kiss him, hard. Tears rolled down my cheeks as his lips moved rhythmically with mine.

"Stop," Hakoda said sternly. I ignored my father and continued to kiss Zuko. "I said stop!" he said louder. He walked over to Zuko and pushed him away from me. "What's your problem, boy?"

"I don't have a problem," Zuko mumbled, wiping his eyes.

"Why do you have the nerve to kiss my daughter like that?" he asked. "Do you think she actually wants to kiss you right now? She just had a miscarriage and—"

"What is wrong with you?" Zuko said harshly. "Your daughter is in pain, and all you care about it why I'm kissing her? Maybe it's because I'm her boyfriend or just maybe, just maybe I'm trying to comfort her! Did you ever think of that?" Zuko pointed at me and continued once my dad didn't say anything else. "I love your daughter, Hakoda, and she loves me. If you haven't noticed, there's something that clicks between Katara and I! When I see her, I get excited and know that I'm about to get a kiss and a friendly hello. When I wake up, I look over at her still asleep form and say, 'I don't deserve her. She deserves someone better than me'."

"Yeah, I would agree with that," my father mumbled.

Zuko sighed. "When I kiss her, it is so cliché to say but, fireworks go off in my head, making my head spin in different directions, craving for more. When I make love to her, I know you don't want to hear it, Hakoda, but you know how it goes down in the bedroom, and that makes me go even crazier for her. Somewhere in my heart I know that she is the one for me." I swallowed and looked up at the two men that I loved. Zuko: the loving and caring, protective, hot guy that got me pregnant, again, and Hakoda: the over protective, always loving dad.

I breathed in heavily. "Is this karma or something?"

Sokka put his hand on my hand and gripped it tightly. "No, sis, life doesn't work that way; you know that as well as I do."

"Yeah and bad things happen to bad people, too," I mumbled

"You're not a bad person, Katara," they all stated simultaneously.

I sighed heavily and rolled my eyes. "Well, I am, and this…this is karma playing its role in my life."

"You've shouldn't have been screwing around," Hakoda said simply. "You basically let karma in. Karma's like, 'keep on having sex, and see what happens', well you kept having it, and here's karma messing with you." He chuckled softly, but in an angry way.

"Shut up, dad!" I snapped. "Do you not know what I'm going through right now? I just lost my fu—freaking baby! What the hell is your problem? Is there something funny?"

He started to speak. "Katara, you know that—"

"You know what?" I got up off of the bed and opened the door, "just go, dad. I really don't need you here right now. I have all the people I need already here. You're just making things worse. Go deal with the case, please." I held my hand out, motioning for him to leave. He stood with is mouth open at me.

"Come on, Katara," he scoffed, "You know that I'm just…as angry that you lost your baby as you are. I know that you are hurting right now, I know that. But it doesn't make it right when you have a hooligan boyfriend who's trying to take the place of me, Katara," I sighed and started to walk towards the door. "I love you, Katara, but I don't want anyone coming in between us."

"I don't see you as much as I used to, dad," I said. "This isn't high school. I make my own decisions whether you like it or. I'm 22 years old; I know what I'm doing. And my friends, Sokka, and Zuko are going to be there for me all the time and I'll be there for them when they need someone to lean on."

"I am here for you, Katara," Hakoda said sadly. "I just want you to want me. I don't want to have someone blocking my way from you—"

"There's no one blocking me from you, dad!" I said starting to get angry. "If you wanted to see me, you would come and see me. There wouldn't be any blocking, you'd just be there. The reason that you don't come like you used to is because of Zuko. Plain and Simple. But I don't care, I love Zuko and that's that."

"You've really gotten mature, Katara," my father said with a smile. "I think having a baby has really made you change in many ways you might and might not know. But just hear me out, Katara," he took a deep breath, and continued, "you went out against my rules and got with Zuko. When I found out that you were pregnant by him, it made me disappointed because we had a bond, and then it broke because of that whole issue. You may have thought that I was overprotective, and maybe I was, but I was doing it for you, Katara. You see what Mai was trying to do to you. I don't want anyone hurting my baby girl. And when I see you getting hurt, my fatherly powers are going to step and deal with whatever happened. I just want the best for you, Katara."

"I appreciate that, dad," I said softly. "But you have to understand that I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm an adult and I can't have my dad coming in to my life thinking he can do whatever he wants with it," he opened his mouth to speak, but I continued. "I can handle things, dad, on my own. I may need to you here and now and thank you for that. But now, I think Zuko is only person that knows what I'm going through. I mean, it was his baby, too."

My father nodded his head and smiled. "Then I guess I'll let you guys have you time alone." He motioned to the rest of them, "C'mon guys! Come help me with Mai. I think she's going to need to help with medical assistance." Sokka, Suki, Jet, Toph, and Aang followed my father out of the room, shutting the door behind them.

I sighed and turned to look over at Zuko. He smiled at me, patting the bed for me to come over to him. "Those were some nice things you said about us, Katara." He went on top of the bed and lied next to me. "I didn't think you could stick up to your father like that."

"I didn't think I had it in me either," I agreed with him. There was a slight pause before he spoke again.

"So…do you think we'll get passed this?"

I shrugged. "I don't know if I ever will. Paxton almost had another sibling, Zuko. We almost had another child."

"Remember the time before we had Paxton," he started, "and we were trying to figure out a name for her?"

"Mmhm." I said, following with a laugh. "How could I forget?"

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Flashback

"We are not naming her Zuko Jr.!" Katara screamed.

I sighed. "Yes, we are, Katara. We already went over this plenty of times. Why can't you just go with it?"

She scoffed. "The last time I 'went with it' I had sex with you and now I'm pregnant."

This was the time where Katara's cravings were way off. We were eating squid pasta with a cheese sauce made from buffalo milk. Yeah, it tasted as bad as it sounds, and it was only the third month.

Katara hit me with the pillow angrily. "Besides, we don't need any more Z's. Look at your family. You have, Zuko, Azula, Azulan, Sozin, Ozai—!"

"Don't yell! That's bad for the baby!"

"Oh, so now you're some expert on pregnancies?"

"I never said that," I retaliated.

"Then what are you trying to say, Zuko?"

I sighed, changing the subject. "What do you suggest we name it?"

She rolled her eyes. "It's a girl, Zuko. We already went through this."

I scoffed. "Whoa, so you don't want a boy? His name is going to be Zuko Jr., Katara."

"Why do you think it's a boy?" She scowled. "I'm the one carrying her, I can feel her. We're not naming her Zuko!"

I grunted. "Ok, we're not naming her or him Zuko." I thought for a moment. "If it makes you happy, how about we start thinking of some girl names? What about Song?"

"We are not naming her after one of your many girlfriends."

I sighed. "So, Jin is also out the question then, too."

"You think?"

"Uh…Azula."

"Don't kid with me."

"Ok, how about—"

"I got it!" She raised her hand, not allowing me to speak. "How about Paxton? What do you think?"

My face: O-o

She frowned. "What? Is that not a good name?"

I sighed. "It's ok, I guess."

"You guess?" She raised an eyebrow. "Ok? How about I let you pick the middle name, Zuko?"

I nodded eagerly. "Uh…ok, let's choose…Gabriela. Paxton Gabriella Sozin."

She grimaced. "Paxton Gabriela Sozin? Don'tcha think it sounds kind of cliché?"

"Cliché? Katara, you said that I could pick the middle name, and that's the middle name," I said pouting.

"That's so common."

"So what?"

"How about I just pick the names?"

"Don't go there, Katara. You just told me I—" I crossed my arms.

"Just shut-up!"

I scoffed. "You don't mean that. That's just the hormones talking!"

"Hormones can't talk genius!"

I smiled mischievously. "I love you."

Her face softened. "I love you too."

I pointed at her as she was about to kiss me. "I told you it was the hormones! First you were all mad at me and now you just can't keep your hands off of me!"

End Flashback

"You were such a jerk back then," I said with a laugh.

"Yeah, the jerk that got you pregnant, two times," Zuko said.

I hit him in the stomach and laughed. "I like this."

"What?"

"Just me and you hanging out," I said. "I wish that me and you could just go somewhere and be in peace for once. No worrying about work or Paxton or anything. It'd just be and you in a paradise."

He nodded. "I think everybody wants that, Katara. But I think that the best thing we can do is enjoy this moment we have now together. That's the best thing in my opinion." He scooted over next to me and I sat in between his legs. I rested my head on his shoulder and he put his arms around my waist, pulling me tightly in to him. He entangled his hands with mine, and I put my leg over his. I could feel his heart beat in my back, his soft breathing on my neck. And soon later, we were both fallen asleep…together.

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