Time

After peace negotiations and endless hours of debate on land territories and who owed who what, along with going all over the world to support Zuko and his ambitious recovery plan (which had worked out beautifully with his no-shit policy, amazingly enough), Aang and Katara were given a few years of relaxation. They were now in their late teens and had decided, before permanently settling down, that they would revisit all their stops they had taken during their beginning years together.

They had invited the rest of the crew to come along, but it seemed that both Sokka and Toph were busy in their own affairs while Zuko still had an entire nation to rule. They each said in their own way that they couldn't take such a large amount of time when they had other things needing to be done. It seemed fairly legitimate in their responsibility, so the couple had let it slide.

So that had left only the two of them to ride on the back of Appa with Momo curled around their shoulders, glad to be on the move again. They suspected that in the few months they'd been staying with Zuko he had been getting restless, if the increased pranks the little lemur had been making meant anything.

They were currently at the fortune teller's village enjoying themselves. Although it made a few of the villagers look up and point at the two of them while they sat atop the intricate lava formation Aang had created, they simply kept sitting there and holding hands, legs hanging off the black rock without a care.

As Katara massaged Aang's rough palm with her thumb, she divulged, "You know, this was where I first realized you in a different light."

"Sure it wasn't just the hot cinders and ash all around?" Aang joked with a bark of laughter; he'd been spending too much time with Sokka.

Katara playfully shoved him, careful not to go too far and push him off, before saying, "My fortune was I would marry a powerful bender, how you handled an entire volcano showed me just that."

She watched as Aang rubbed the back of his head before grinning shyly, saying, "I know."

Her blue eyes widened in shock before they narrowed in realization, she poked him in the ribs as she said, "You eavesdropped!"

"Hey!" Aang said as he tried to swat away her hand while still holding her other, "I was worried!"

"I forgive you," Katara said, causing him to sigh and slump, "I guess," she added as she poked him a last time, causing him to laugh before he swept his head down for a kiss that Katara didn't hesitate to return.

A little later and they were walking down the streets, turning and looking at the street shops and mingling with people. A few of them seemed to remember them, although they said Aang was quite shorter and Katara had a different necklace now. It had both of them grinning like idiots and tightening their hold on each other.

They were just deciding to leave after they'd visited Aunt Wu when they heard a loud, "Aang!" from behind them.

Turning around, they both blinked at the beauty before them. Her grin was wide as her hair was done in multiple braids that fell a good way past her waist, brown eyes warm and welcoming as her teeth were straight and white.

Aang looked around a few times before pointing to himself, silently asking, 'Me?'

"Yes you silly," the mystery woman continued as she took a few paces closer to them, "You don't recognize me?"

"I think I would-OW! Katara!" Aang groaned as he moved away the foot she'd stomped on.

"I'm Meng!"

Both Aang and Katara stared before it hit them and their jaws unhinged to hit the ground.

"Oh!" the now identified Meng said as someone came from behind her to wrap arms around her shoulders.

"If you'd excuse me, my lady and I have a very important date we need to get going on!" the young man said; Meng chuckled before waving goodbye.

They walked off, leaving Aang and Katara to stare after them in shock.

"That guy had big ears," was all Katara managed to say.

"Man, it's weird to see things change," Aang said as they resumed walking towards Appa, shaking his head lightly.

"Some things won't change too much, though," Katara said as she took a step closer to him and wrapped an arm around his waist.

Yet Aang seemed oblivious to what she was inkling at, as he asked, "Like what?"

Katara only sighed as they kept going.

AN: Thanks for all the continued support everyone, it's really appreciated!