Chapter 18:
Conversations: Aang and Katara
Aang climbed into bed next to Katara and cuddled up next to her. Aang wrapped his arm around Katara's waist, locking fingers with her.
"What were you guys talking about earlier?" Aang asked.
"What do you mean? Toph, Mai, Suki and I?" Katara clarified.
"Yeah. When we walked in, you all seemed so serious." Aang explained.
"I don't know if she wants me to tell you." Katara felt uneasy talking about this.
"I won't tell anyone. Not even Momo." Aang laughed a little.
"Promise?" Katara didn't quite believe him; Momo was quite the chatterbox.
"I'll make you an airbender's promise." Aang said matter-of-factly.
"I know you won't tell, I just don't know if she wants you to know." Katara looked down at their hands.
"Don't know if who wants me to not know what?" Aang prodded.
"Its Suki." Katara sighed.
"Is she sick again?" Aang asked, face-palming with his free hand.
"No, she's not sick. It's much better than being sick. In fact, I don't think she was sick- I think it was just a the cause of her current situation." Katara tried to answer as vaguely as possible.
"Why can't you just tell me?" Aang asked impatiently.
"Because I don't want Suki to get mad at me!" Katara replied, trying to get Aang off her case.
"What could be such a big deal that Suki would get mad at you for telling me? I mean, come on Katara, I'm the Avatar. I'm the most reliable and trustworthy person on the planet." Aang tried to reason his way into knowing Suki's secret.
"Ugh, fine I'll tell you. Suki's… I changed my mind. Never mind." Katara said that to deliberately make Aang crazier about knowing.
"Katara!" Aang said loudly.
"That was my ear you just yelled into." Katara said, not amused.
"Sorry." Aang replied.
"I'll tell you…" Katara paused. "Suki's pregnant."
Aang leapt several feet in the air.
"What?" He exclaimed.
"Come back down." Katara smiled at her boyfriend's reaction.
"That's awesome!" Aang smiled as he returned to the bed from eight feet in the air.
"I know, isn't it just?" Katara smiled and felt excited that she was going to be an aunt.
"Sokka's so lucky!" Aang said, sitting next to Katara.
"Why is that? He doesn't really like babies." Katara laughed. "He finds them too squishy and gooey."
Aang chuckled. "He's right; they are squishy and gooey. At the same time, they're fun! Plus he got to… you know…"
"What?" Katara stared at Aang blankly.
"He got to do the thing that we've never done." Aang said, trying not to directly say the word.
Katara immediately realized what Aang was talking about. She couldn't believe that that was one of the first things that came to his mind.
"You have a very dirty mind!" Katara looked scornfully at him. "Of all the things you could think of, you think of that?"
Aang tried to look ashamed, but he didn't feel bad at all.
"Do you realize what this means Aang?" Katara asked. Aang thought he was in trouble.
"No…?" Aang hesitated, thinking that now he was going to be in trouble for having a dirty mind and not knowing the answer to her question.
"This means you're going to be an uncle!" Katara said this excitedly. Aang felt a wave of relief rush over him. Katara must not have been as upset as he'd thought. She'd been prone to overreacting about small things before they came to Ba Sing Se.
"Awesome!" Aang felt really excited. "Does Sokka know yet?"
"No. I don't know when Suki's going to tell him, but it better be soon because everyone's leaving to go back home in a few days."
"Yeah, I know." Aang said calmly. "Speaking of leaving Ba Sing Se in a few days, where are we going to live?" Aang asked.
"I never even thought about that." Katara said, drumming her fingers on her knee.
" We better figure it out soon, or else we may have some issues." Aang smiled and laughed lightly.
"Well, we could go back to the South Pole, what do you think about that Aang?" Katara suggested.
"I don't know. It's a little bit cold for my taste. Plus I think Sokka and Suki are going to live there." Aang didn't know where he wanted to live, but at the moment he didn't want to live at the South Pole.
"All the more reason to go! We can be close to family and Suki and I can help prepare for the baby." Katara pushed.
"I don't know…" Aang didn't know what to think.
"Well where do you suggest we live then?" Katara sounded mildly irritated.
"I don't know, just not the South Pole." Aang shrugged.
'What's wrong with the South Pole? You stayed there for 100 years!" Katara's irritation level was increasing by the minute.
"Well when you've decided, I'll make sure not to go with you." Katara was visibly upset; her eyes were tearing up, and she was tense all over.
"What's your problem Katara?" Aang asked, hurt by Katara's words.
"My problem? You're the one who has the problem! There's nothing wrong with the South Pole." Katara was furious.
Aang got up calmly and left.
"Where do you think you're going?" Katara screamed.
"You are not the boss of me, and I think remaining here for the time being is a bad idea. We are both tired, and I don't want to say anything that I will regret." Aang didn't wait for a response from Katara; he turned around and shut the door behind him.
"You get back here right now!" Katara shouted. The deafening silence that replied only made her more furious.
She flopped down onto the bed and buried her face in her pillow. She screamed into her pillow for several minutes before she realized that she had just completely overreacted.
Katara stood up and wiped the tears from her eyes. She walked over towards the door and opened it quietly, trying to follow Aang.
She looked around the main room, only to find darkness and lonely furniture.
She stealthily moved outside of the house to the courtyard in front of the house and saw Aang sitting on the side of the fountain.
Katara walked quietly to Aang and sat down next to him gently.
"Aang?" Katara spoke softly.
Aang didn't say anything; he just turned away from her.
"I'm sorry." Katara tried to speak to him.
Aang realized he was being just as childish as Katara and turned back around to face a sorrowful Katara.
"I shouldn't have acted that way. It's unfair and childish of me to expect that you do everything that I want all the time. I shouldn't blow up over every little thing that you do, and I'm sorry." Katara tried not to cry again.
"It's ok Katara. I'm sorry for saying the South Pole wasn't nice. I just don't want to spend my whole life there. I guess that's what I meant to say earlier, it just didn't come out that way."
Katara smiled at him and Aang hugged her tightly.
"So I guess I never really got the question answered." Katara said.
Aang let go of Katara and pulled his knees underneath himself.
"I suppose we could live at the South Pole. If you want to be with your family, then that's ok with me. I mean it's not like I have any family, right?"
"Are you sure that's ok with you?" Katara asked.
"Yes. Plus, if Suki and Sokka decide to move to the South Pole again, then it'll be much easier to travel as a group." Aang smiled.
Aang stood up and took Katara's hand in his and they walked back to their room.
Aang cuddled up next to Katara and put his arm around her, holding her tight.
"Goodnight Aang." Katara said softly.
"'Night Katara."
So I'm sorry it took FOREVER and a day to get this updated, but I've had a million things to do. We're trying to move and I have school, blah blah blah, but I hope you liked it! Oh, sorry for any continuity errors [if there are any] I haven't really even thought about the story since November. Well, Merry Christmas [or whatever holiday you celebrate], and I shall try and post more soon. (: