Author's Note: This is when Aang finally comes in! Remember he doesn't know the baby is here, he definately doesn't know that he has a daughter instead of a son, and he absolutely, positively does not know that the only girl he has ever and will ever love is dead so let's see what happens! But remember he won't get there until the fifth chapter most likely and this will be a short chapter so enjoy and please review.

Chapter Three: The Arrivial of the Hawk

Aang's Point of View

I sighed into the warm air of the fire nation. I felt oddly lonely and on edge. After seven and a half months of what Katara called "overprotecting" it felt wrong to be here without her beside me, two heartbeats pumping in her body. I knew I shouldn't have left, but she gave me that look with those big round blue eyes and I melted. She had always had that effect on me.

I heard an intake of breath and automatically reached my hand over to where my wife's hand laid, then I remembered. My wife was far away, miles away even by air, expecting my child, alone. I turned and saw Zuko standing there watching me.

"I thought you would be out here." He said, as he settled beside me.

I knew he wasn't Katara and I definately didn't want to hold his hand but it felt comforting to have someone there beside me, but it wasn't the right someone, I knew instead I should be by somebody, two somebodys.

"How?" I asked him, turning to look into his golden eyes. His eyes struck me, they were like fire. They could blaze fierce and deadly but they could calm and warm.

"I know you Aang. You have always liked to feel free and without Katara here, you feel tethered and anchored to the ground. That is why you are on the roof of my home, you are getting as close to the sky and the feeling of freedom you want as you can.

"Thank you for clearing that up because I really didn't know what I was doing on a roof." I replied. "Your right Zuko. I just don't understand it. Back there I have a wife and a son coming, I am definately more tied down back there than here and I still feel freedom there." I said, a small plea in my voice as I ignored the snort of laughter that came from my friend.

"Katara is your freedom Aang." He sighed. "She keeps you flying with her love and you keep her from falling into the deepest depths of the ocean with yours."

"Thanks Zuko! One more thing though! How did you get so wise?" I asked, amazed.

He shrugged. "Being Firelord makes you pick up on some things. Now there is a messenger hawk in your room and it has some frost on it's feathers so I think it may-"

"Katara! Oh no! What if it's the baby? Thanks Zuko!" I yelled over my shoulder as worry pounded through my veins.

I found the hawk and ripped the letter from it more fiercly than I meant. It squawked in protest and flew away, though a few feathers littered the floor. I scanned the letter, quickly recongizing Sokka's sloppy scrawl. I looked up at my reflection, my own horror stared back at me. It had to be Katara, or she would have written to me herself. I knew that nothing except secrecy, death, or gruesome injury or sickness would keep a letter to me if Sokka was sending one too. Or there is another thing that could have held her back...childbirth.

No no no no no NO! She was the one who told me to go and see Zuko, the baby will wait for you. Why had I looked into her eyes? Why had I let her melt me again? What kind of father was I? I hit myself in the head and thought You idiot! Why would you leave her there in the end of her pregnancy with YOUR child? My child? I am a father! Ugh! I was already a bad one too and I hadn't even seen my son yet!

I sprinted from the room, only grabbing my glider and a small portrait from my bedside table before sprinting after Zuko. In a few very rushed minutes in which I told Zuko, he decided to come with me, informed his wife, and we were on Appa.

"Yip-yip!" I said, urging him to speed forward. Soon I grew frusturated at how slowthe water beneath us passed. I strapped my glider to a harness on my back.

"Take the reins Zuko!" I commanded. He took them and turned to me, eyebrows raised, obviously confused. Then I jumped, diving into the water. I combined waterbending and airbending, shooting forward, closer to the southern water tribe, closer to home, closer to Katara and my child.