Zuko
It had been over a month and a half I had seen Aang, my lover of almost ten years. The letter I'd received via messenger hawk said that he should be home that day. It was now late afternoon, so Aang had better show up soon.
"Fire Lord Zuko?" The ambassador's tone made it clear that he'd been trying to get my attention for several minutes now.
"I'm sorry, Ambassador Ling, what were you asking?"
"I was asking, my Lord, if you had had a chance to-" Ling was cut off by the door being flung open by a guard.
"Fire Lord Zuko, sir. The Avatar's sky bison has just crossed over the palace walls." In other words, Aang was finally home. I couldn't wait to see him.
"Thank you, Shen."
"I'll ask you later, my Lord. You are obviously…distracted… at the moment."
"Thank you, Ambassador Ling. If you would excuse me?" I exited my study after Ling nodded and headed out to the front courtyard to greet Aang. I made it to the throne room before meeting Aang. I nuzzled his ear while holding him tightly. "It's about time you come home," I purred. Aang laughed softly.
"I've missed you, too."
"You're off that 'I want to be the bottom' kick aren't you?" If someone had told me ten years ago that there would ever be a day when I would miss being the bottom for Aang, I probably would have tried to burn them. Ten years with the eternally patient Aang had done wonders for my temper.
"Yep." Aang flashed me a quick smile then kissed me lovingly, nipping my lower lip. That was another thing that had changed over ten years. I used to have to bend over to kiss my lover. That, or Aang would have to use an airball or stand on his toes. The technically-younger boy had shot up over the years, and was now barely a quarter-inch shorter than me. Aang toyed with my hair, letting the long strands trail over his fingers. "I'm going to screw you into the mattress so hard, you'll leave a permanent indent," he whispered, making me blush.
"I'm going to hold you to that, Avatar Aang." His grey eyes sparkled at me.
"I always keep my promises, Fire Lord Zuko." We kissed again, separating only when my mother came into the room.
"Boys! You have a bedroom. Perhaps you two should make use of it."
"Yes, Mother."
"Yes, Lady Ursa." Mother had told him repeatedly to call her 'mother' or 'mom,' but Aang rarely did. Especially if he was caught off guard or embarrassed, like he was now.
"I don't know about permanent, Aang, but we definitely left an indent on our poor mattress." Aang laughed softly at my comment, then kissed me again.
"Zuko?"
"Hmm?"
"Um, I'm not sure how to put this…" He took my hand and pressed it gently against his stomach. "You want kids, right?" I looked at him, a little confused.
"I need to have at least one child who's a Firebender, for succession and all that."
"That's not what I meant. I know we both need to have children, I just wanted to know if you wanted children."
"Yeah, I want children. But I knew when we fell in love with each other that I wouldn't have children with the one I love." He looked relived at my words. He shifted so that he was straddling me.
"I have a surprise for you."
"What?"
"I'm pregnant."
"Huh?" How could Aang be pregnant? He was a guy. We were both guys.
"Roku told me while I was in Ba Sing Se. The spirits-I don't know which ones exactly-did something so that I could get pregnant. I don't know what they did, but it has to do with the Avatar cycle. Anyway, that's why I went on that 'I want to be the bottom' kick for like a month. You can't have kids, but I can. And to get pregnant, I had to be, um, on the receiving end." He blushed slightly, looking more like the innocent little monk I had first fallen in love with.
"You're really pregnant?"
"Yep. With twins." Twins? They were having twins?
"You're crying. Why are you crying?"
"They're tears of joy, Aang. I'm crying because I'm happy, because you've given me a gift I never thought I'd be able to receive." Aang smiled happily at me. "Oh, spirits. How are we going to tell everyone?"
"We'll think of something. Most of our group is coming here for the reunion, so we can tell them then. Your mother lives here in the palace and your sister lives close by, so we can tell them as soon as we figure out how. We can tell Iroh the next time we go visit him. That gives us plenty of time to come up with something." I wasn't sure it was going to be as simple as Aang was making it sound. In the meantime, I had to find some scrolls on pregnancy so that I knew what Aang and I could and could not do. There were bound to be some in the library.
"We have plenty of time before we have to decide how we tell everyone, Aang. Why not spend some of that seeing about making that indent permanent?"