"Sokka have you talked to her about it?" Zuko stared at the Chief.
"No," Sokka sighed, "I can't. She'll cry and I can't have that happen again. I can't watch her bawl her eyes out again."
"Sokka she's going to be you're wife in two months. You're gonna see her cry her eyes out countless more times then that."
"Yeah," Aang chimed in, "weather she hurts herself, if she cries on her wedding day, even if" Aang closed his eyes and breathed in, "even when she has another baby."
Sokka winced, "Yeah I know."
"So what you need to do is-"
"Please Zuko, I really don't want to talk anymore." Sokka looked away and swallowed hard.
"Okay, what do you…"
"I'm just gonna go back to my room and look through all the letters that my dad has sent me."
"Alright, see you later,"
"Yeah, see you." Sokka walked down away from the two.
"I think that was the most fun I've had in a while." Suki smiled at Katara and Toph.
"Yeah, I gotta admit my hair does feel silky smooth!" Toph laughed.
"Told you." Katara sang.
"Hey guys!" Aang came running down the hall to the girls.
"Hi." They all said.
Aang looked at Toph, Wow! She looks, wow! Her hair is down and it's all shiny and it looks like ebony silk and wow! Should I say something? No, I can't she'll beat the crap out of me for saying that she looks like the most beautiful person on the face of the earth!
"Aang?"
"Oh what Toph?"
"Are you serious?"
"What?"
"Oh nothing!" Toph shook her head and stomped off toward her room.
"Toph, what?" Aang shrugged his shoulders, "Ouch! Zuko! What is you're problem." Aang rubbed the spot on his head where Zuko smacked him.
"Toph just asked you what you thought of her new hair and you didn't say anything, you just stood there like an idiot. You know I'm kinda afraid that our Avatar can't even form a little sentence like 'Oh your hair looks nice' to his girlfriend, when he is going to go through his whole life with many speeches about peace and kindness."
"I didn't…I…I was…I" Aang stuttered and ran off in the direction that Toph stomped away.
Zuko smiled at Katara and she blushed and looked away.
"Well then," Suki breathed, "I guess that's my cue to leave."
"Oh no Suki you don't have to go." Katara looked at her.
"No I think I do," She laughed, "Zuko's looking like he wants to say sweet nothings in your ear." She tried desperately to hold in her laughter.
"Okay maybe you should go." Zuko pushed her away.
Suki laughed "Before I go where is Sokka?"
"He said he'd be your room reading letters."
"Okay thanks. See you later or maybe not." A small fire ball was thrown her way and she dogged it and laughed.
"Oh Toph come on!" Aang's head rested on her bedroom door, "I didn't hear you, that's all. If you were to ask that question again in the hallway I would have hugged you and touched you hair and told you how beautiful you look and then I'd…well let's just say you would have killed me for embarrassing you right there," He laughed. "Toph let me in please!"
"You're not gonna go away are you?" She asked through the door.
"Nope."
The lock clicked and the door was opened. "Fine you can comphf inm." Aang kissed her while she spoke the words 'come in'.
"You look beautiful," He touched her hair and smiled, "it's so soft. I love it!"
Toph turned her blind eyes away and blushed, "Thanks."
"So how much crap did you give the lady in the spa?"
Toph's eyes lit up mischievously, "I almost kicked one lady into the wall for touching my feet."
Aang smiled, "That's not nice."
"Who the hell told you that I'm nice?"
"I just assumed," They both laughed.
"Zuko where are you taking me?"
"Somewhere you've never been, Ka-tar-a."
"And where might that be Zuzu?"
"A garden."
"I've already been to the garden."
"Nope, not this one."
"Oh really?"
"Yup." Zuko opened a door and reveled a small pond with turtle ducks and flowers growing in many places.
"Wow, Zuko this place is so beautiful," Katara looked around.
"It's my mom's."
"Wow," Katara walked to the pond and sat, "Speaking of your mother, when is she coming back from the Earth Kingdom?"
"A few days, I received her letter yesterday."
"That's good. I miss Ursa, she and I have this knack to make fun of you." Katara laughed as she laid her head on Zuko's shoulder.
"Yeah you do," The Fire Lord's arm snaked around her shoulders.
"So you actually have time to spend with me?" Katara looked up, "No council or papers or meetings?"
"No meetings or council."
"Papers?"
"Yes many papers and documents and signing and hand cramping."
"Zuko you should get all of that done."
"No, I haven't spent much time with you."
"But don't you have to find stuff about Azula and what she's doing?"
"Yes but we can't do that until we have leads. And we have none for now."
"I wish this never happened. Maybe if we never got together and you stayed with Mai none of this would have happened, Suki would still be pregnant, Sokka would be a huge pain worrying about her, Aang wouldn't be worrying over Toph being hit my lighting, Toph would be…well she'd be the same-"
"And I'd be living in hell without you." Katara looked up at him, "I love you Kata nothings going to change that, not Mai, no one, I'm glad that the fortune teller told you that you'd fall for a powerful bender, because that means that I get to have you." He smiled, "Not to mention you'd be with Aang and it wouldn't be fun because we wouldn't be able to make fun of Toph and Aang being together."
"Uhg!" Katara smacked Zuko's chest, "You just ruined the moment," She laughed.
"Oh well sorry," Zuko cupped her cheeks, "This better?" He asked in a whisper.
"Yeah," Katara bit her lip and moved in to kiss Zuko.
Suki breathed a sigh as she walked to a secluded spot of the main garden. She went here everyday, sometimes even twice. Sokka never came with her, but today was different because sitting hunched over a small stone was Sokka and his shoulders we're shaking.
"Why?" Suki heard him ask, "Why couldn't she tell me? Why didn't I see the signs earlier? Why, just why?" Sokka's hand grazed over the stone, it said Wynono, son of Chief Sokka and Suki of the Southern Water Tribe and Kyoshi Island.
"Zuko said you'd be in the room." Suki walked up to him.
Sokka looked away and wiped his eyes, "I couldn't think so I came out here."
"Oh, I didn't think you came here, I thought it was just me and well Iroh." She pointed to the other stone that said, Prince Lu Ten son of Prince Iroh and Princess Koto of the Great Fire Nation.
"Oh," Was all Sokka said as he started to stand.
"Wait Sokka," Suki's hand grabbed his, "stay, please."
Sokka looked in her eyes, they were sad and broken, and they mirrored his perfectly, "Okay." He sat back down and Suki rested against his side, still holding his hand.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I just couldn't I was scared and nervous and I'm sorry," Sokka heard her voice crack as she began to cry, "maybe if I told you earlier you wouldn't let me go out side. Maybe I could have made you stay at the palace with me so I didn't have to go to the baby shower and…"
"Shh Suki, please, we can't erase the past." Sokka picked up her legs so she was sitting on his lap. He hugged her tight as she cried into his chest.
"I still don't know what Wynono means." Suki looked up into Sokka's eyes.
"I means first-born son." Sokka smiled and looked away while the tears fell.
"Sokka you don't have to look away," Suki's hand touched his cheek and she wiped the tears away. "You don't have to look away," She repeated and kissed his eyes and cheeks and last his lips.
Okay sorry wow! No excuses this time! Well maybe school and the hugest American Lit research paper of all time of which I got a B- on thank you very much!! Sorry lol. Um yeah here's something for everyone!
Um yeah NAMES!
Wynono= Native American and it means first-born son
Koto= Japanese and it means harp
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New Quesion...
What was Ursa doing in the Earth Kingdom?
I don't know why she was there so I need suggestions. I'll give you 3pts.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (c) Bryke and Nick
