Happy Fathers' Day everyone! I know I'm probably late for most of you, and sorry about not updating in a couple months, but inspiration almost completely vanished. I just made a goal of getting a story up, and decided to finish an old one for fathers' day, even though there's only about ten minutes left of the night.
So, this is short, and probably the best I could do with the lack of inspiration, but I finished one from that long list of unfinished stories. Anyway, Aang is tired, Kya's tired, I'm tired, and I really can't remember the point of this. It's called Naptime for a reason.
Going home for lunch on Air Temple Island was a common occurrence when Avatar Aang needed to get some space from city hall and the council. He understood that he should help as much as he could, but didn't really know how he could do anything more than stop a few arguments over who should do what. And when the council members argued amongst themselves and drove the meetings late into the night, only to start again early the next morning…well, it was one of those days where he preferred space.
Katara was well aware that Aang was frustrated and tired, and while they ate, Kya more or less playing with her food more than actually eating all of it, she tried to convince Aang that the best thing he could do was take a break, and it continued until after she had sent Kya off to play for a few minutes and Aang was getting ready to leave.
"One day?" Katara asked.
"Katara, I can't," he retaliated. "They need me at city hall to help with some problems."
"But you also need time to relax. You look exhausted."
He knew that she was referring to the bags under his eyes from lack of a good sleep; with work and his four year old daughter keeping him on his toes, he usually went to bed late, sometimes not until early morning. "I get plenty of time to relax," Aang yawned, covering his mouth with a hand. "It's not like I don't sleep."
Katara rolled her eyes, "Working so much cannot be good for you. Why don't you take a couple days off? We could go on a picnic. Just the three of us."
The Avatar laughed, "I don't think Sokka would like it if I didn't suffer with him."
"Sokka will be fine. You don't have to be there all the time. Let them work things out on their own for once."
"But I already told Sokka-," Aang began before stopping when something attached to his leg. Looking down, he saw his adorable daughter smiling back at him, and he scooped her up into his arms.
"Looks like I'm not the only one who doesn't want you to leave," Katara smiled as Kya laughed and hugged him back.
"Daddy, can you show me how to make those flower thingies again? I wanna make some more, but I need help." Aang was about to reply to the little girl, when Katara spoke up.
"Not so fast young lady, it's about time for your nap."
Kya frowned. "But Mommy, I don't wanna sleep. I wanna stay up and play with Daddy," she replied, rubbing her eye as she tried to stifle a yawn. "I'm not even tired."
Aang laughed, "We can play for as long as you want as soon as I get back from work, okay?" Kya sighed. "But you have to listen to your mother. If you take a nap, you won't be so tired later," Kya still didn't look so sure and Katara rolled her eyes at how ironic it was that he, of all people, said that when he wouldn't even take a quick nap. "And then we can make all the flower crowns we want. We can even make one for Momo."
Kya grinned at him, "Really?" She grinned even wider as he nodded and hugged him even tighter. "Thank you Daddy." Aang smiled and kissed the top of her head.
Katara had stood watching the exchange with a smile on her face until she remembered the time. "Aang?" The avatar gave a questioning look to his wife, but he quickly realized what she was thinking. He sighed, but gave her a small smile as Kya looked between the two of them and yawned.
"I can put her down for her nap before I go," he said. Kya smiled at him tiredly, and Katara nodded her thanks, moving forward to give him a kiss before saying she was going to clean up.
Aang carried Kya to her room and tucked her in despite all protests that she wasn't tired. He leaned down to kiss the top of her head and was about to say goodbye, but she stopped him. "Daddy, why don't you take naps? I heard Mommy say you should."
He smiled at her, "I'm afraid I just don't have the time."
"Why not?"
"I have to work Sweetie."
"So," she shrugged, unimpressed with his answers, "I gotta play, but I still have ta take naps." She said it so seriously that Aang laughed.
"You'll miss it when you're older," he smiled, and she yawned.
"Daddy, can you stay until I fall asleep? Please?" He was about to reply that he was probably already late, but one look at her adorable blue eyes had him completely forgetting about the council.
"Of course Kya," he smiled and she scooted over and patted the bed next to her.
"You can lay right here," she said, to which he tried not to laugh. Her bed was way too small for him, let alone both of them, but she seemed adamant to prove his thought wrong. She practically had to get off her bed before he could even get into a position he could at least pretend was comfortable enough, but he did (after a very weak protest), his head at one end feet dangling off the other before she curled up next to him and tried to cover him up with the blanket too.
At this point, Aang was tired enough that he didn't care that he was uncomfortable and would have a sore back later or that he was just suckered into not going to work by a four year old; he was ready for a nap himself. He was just about to doze off when he heard Kya ask, "Can we make a flower thingy for Appa too?"
He yawned, "I'm sure he'd love one. We'll need a lot of flowers though." Kya nodded in agreement, mumbling something about being able to find them before finally dozing off. It wasn't long before her father also fell asleep too, keeping an arm around his daughter so she didn't fall off the bed.
A half hour passed before Katara heard the phone ring, and she went to answer it, hoping there was no trouble that needed to be cleared up or that her husband would be home late another night that week. She was surprised, however, to be called by her brother asking where Aang was. "He didn't make it back?" Katara turned to look down the hallway, where the door to Kya's room was still slightly ajar, and she could here Aang snoring and smiled. "He was held up and won't be back today. You know what? He can't make it tomorrow either. Will you tell the other council members?" She didn't wait for a response before continuing quickly, "Thanks Sokka. Bye."
Like I said before, I'm tired, and want to tell you about how hectic a couple things have been, but I won't, because I'll start rambling, though one thing I will tell you anyway. Maybe two.
First, back when school was still in (about two weeks ago that this mainly happened), I had one final project for English and History. We had to learn about a famous person (a few restrictions) and present as if we were them for fifteen minutes. html had to be used, and I actually did it this time! I was so proud, but not the point. The person had to be American, influenced something, and dead or probably not going to do anything else in their life. So, because my sister's friends had done the project before, one of them told me to be Dian Fossey, someone I had never heard of and probably never would have. (She studied gorillas in Africa)(Gorilla's in the Mist lady) Yeah. I thought it was really cool because I'm very interested in zoology and even though I hated gorillas before (don't ask why. Just never liked them much), they kind of grew on me. Well, as amazing as I (still) think she is, it took me about two days before I had to present that I realized that she was insane. She was extremely dedicated, and it's amazing, and weird, what she would do. Worth researching if you're up for it.
Second, why do cat's like boxes? We got a couple kittens about a month ago and they keep playing with an old box in my room. There were three kitties, but we gave one to a lady my mom works with, (who happens to collect gorillas) and we traded. Went to see her a few days ago and to drop off the lent gorilla, and she's doing great. Her brother and sister are pains though, and I completely love them (our other two cats don't). But the box thing. I could never figure it out. Oh well. Sorry about the rambles, it's past my usual sleep time, so goodnight, or morning (which ever you are).