Okay I had some extra time on my hands before the flight, so here's chapter 7!

P.S Thx for all the reviews so far[especially Avatar Wolf,Avatar4ever113, and Inkinhart]

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender, but if I did, would I be writing this?

"Hey Katara, can I come in?" came Toph's voice from outside her room.

Katara stopped her sobbing for a while, wondering. If Toph wasn't calling her Sugar Queen like she always does, she probably wouldn't tease her now. Katara opened her door, thinking that talking to someone would make her feel better.

"Hey Toph," Katara sniffled. As Toph walked in, she sat on Katara's bed, while Katara sat down next to her. After Toph took a deep breath, she began.

"Look Katara, crying over him isn't gonna work, so why are you even bothering?" She asked.

"I can't help it!" Katara said, angry at herself. "I can't get over that jerk! I...still love him."

"Katara, if I know Aang, he's not such a heartless guy." Toph reasoned with her. "I know he's loved you since I met you guys. He doubt he did it voluntarily."

"But seriously, he could've disagreed! He didn't have to leave me for some girl he barely knows!" Katara argued.

"Remember what you told me about how Aang ran away?" Toph asked, as Katara nodded mutely, before realizing Toph was blind, and she replied with a quiet "yes".

"You told me he blamed himself for leaving, after he heard that fisherman scold him for running away. Have you thought that maybe he did it because he didn't want to be labelled a failure? Toph asked.

"A failure? He just saved the world!" Katara said incredulously.

"Think about it; he ran away, leaving his people to be killed and Sozin waging war on the world. Then he failed at Ba Sing Se, leaving the Earth Kingdom to fall to the Fire Nation." Toph explained. "So when those governors asked him to marry someone else as a duty to the world, he didn't want to refuse his duty again."

"I...guess I never thought about it that way," Katara said, sadly. "So I have to just let him go?"

"Its his choice." Toph said. "Give him time. He'll come round to it. I'm sure he still loves you."

Katara sighed, before lying on her bed.

"Hopefully he will. Hopefully."

XxX

"You're really gonna leave Katara for her? I don't think you even like her." Zuko said, frowning. "You

"I don't have a choice. I really don't want to be known as an Avatar without honor." Aang said, ashamed.

"Honor. Trust me; I've faced that struggle before. Ba Sing Se." Zuko said sadly. "It was to either have my honor back and everything I thought I wanted, or to help you."

"I didn't know what I wanted," Zuko continued. "As it turned out, I chose wrongly, and I just barely managed to redeem myself by joining you guys. I told you guys;no one can give you your honor, its something you earn for yourself, by choosing to do what's right."

Aang remained silent. What was the right thing to do?

"Do what you think is right, Aang," Zuko advised.

As Aang left, he decided to take a walk through town to clear his mind. To think about what was the right thing to do.

XxX

As he walked down, he saw the palace city in its hustle and bustle, and he smiled, remembering the time they invaded the place. His smiled diminished, when he realized how much he missed being with Team Avatar. All of his friends, Sokka, Toph and especially Katara were gone. Without them, Team Avatar was just...the Avatar. There was no team, no friendship, no happy moments.

As he walked further, he saw people start to shun him, and was surprised. Normally he was the one shunning them. As he continued his stroll, he heard muffled whispers from some people.

"....he dumped his girlfriend for some girl he barely knew...what a jerk..."

"...some Avatar he is..."

He stopped in his tracks, before deciding to return to the palace. This was clearly the wrong place to be trying to think things through.

After having to endure more whispering, Aang finally made it back to the palace. Wanting to have some alone time, he sat down at Zuko's favorite spot, at a small pond with turtle-ducks swimming around. As he leaned against the tree, he again pondered. Was it worth giving up the only family he had for honor? He heard Zuko's words again.

"No one can give you your honor, its something you earn for yourself, by choosing to do what's right."

He remembered, at the Southern Air Temple, how Katara had said that she was family to him.

Sadness. Anger. All of these emotions welled up inside him as he looked at Gyatso's skeleton. Suddenly, he felt a wave of power come over him, and he didn't care. As he was contained in his orb of air, he heard Katara call out to him.

"Aang, I know you're upset... and I know how hard it is to lose the people you love. I went through the same thing when I lost my mom. Monk Gyatso and the other airbenders may be gone, but you still have a family. Sokka and I, we're your family now."

As he heard that, he started to come back to the ground, as Katara and Sokka approached him as his air bubble disappeared.

"Katara and I aren't going to let anything happen to you. Promise." Sokka had told him.

And they had kept their word. They didn't leave him. When he had hid the map to their father, they had forgiven him, and came back. They didn't leave him when he was stuck in jail in the town of Chin. They didn't leave him when he lost Appa in the desert. They didn't leave him when Azula struck him down with lightning. They had stuck by him when he failed at the invasion, and through the hardest time in his life when he had to face the Fire Lord.

He looked up at the moon. It seemed that even Yue was disapproving of his actions. He felt a tear come down his face as he thought about the past.

"Do what you think is right, Aang."

Suddenly Aang knew what he had to do. He knew what was more important. He smiled as he went into the palace. The first real smile on his face since Governor Shu had given him the task.

He was going back to his family.

There's chapter 7! check back for an update in about a week when I return from Perth, so pls review!