Author's Note: Okay this one is split into two point of views, Kaya and Aang. I am taking an idea that I had and Avatar Obsession (another awesome author) suggested also, so maybe you can figure it out. We only have two chapters after this and I think they will both be in Kaya's point of view but that may change. I should probably stop rambling and continue...
P.S. I am sure you can figure out what is going to happen from the title but let me reassure you no one is going to die. It's not that kind of reunion.
A.N. I can't believe it chapter fifteen!
Chapter Fifteen:(^) Reunion
Kaya's Point of View
I wiped the tears from my face yet again and lay down on the furs in my room. My eyelids drooped and I fell into a restless sleep.
Bright light shone before me and I wondered if it was day. I felt around for one of my furs so I could shield my eyes but felt nothing but cool stone beneath my fingertips. That was peculiar. I opened me eyes just enough so that I could squint. I opened them instantly when I saw where I was. I wasn't nestled in my furs in at my home in the south pole. But laying instead in silk robes, blue ones that fell to the ground as I stood, on a cliff. The ocean crashed before me, but it wasn't any ocean I had ever encountered before. The waves tossed on the beach, silver against the bronze sand. The sun was red, a fiery blot of paint in the sky. I stared, awestruck, around the paradise as my eyes grew accustomed to the bright light.
"Enjoying the view Kaya?" I turned, startled and became face to face with a very pretty woman with blue eyes and dark hair...like mine. This was the face from my dreams!
"How do you know my name?" I asked, not scared just curious and shocked.
"Do you not recognize me? I am a part of you even if you do not know it." I pondered her words, coming to many conclusions.
"Are you future me?" I asked her, my confusion building. I looked down embarrassed at my answer, she didn't even have my eyes.
"No sweet I am not nor will I ever be part of your future." She said to me, sadness in both her strong voice and sweet eyes. "I am nothing more to you than a mere memory and I regret it. I did not fight the darkness, it took me by surprise. It left it's mark on the ones I loved and still love."
I looked up at her and I drew a breath of amazement.
"Mom?" I asked, uncertain and afraid to get too hopeful.
"Hello again Kaya." She said, pulling me into her arms.
"Hello mom...finally hello." I said hugging her back once the shock wore off.
"I am sorry Kaya. So sorry that you didn't know me and I don't know you as well as I had wished. I can watch you but I don't know your thoughts or feelings. But yes I have watched you for all your life and your father too."
I pulled away and looked at the ocean, not wanting to talk about my father.
Her hand touched my shoulder and I looked at her, tears yet again spilling over my cheeks. She wiped my tears with her soft hand and laid the other on my hand.
"Kaya your father is struggling, has struggled for ten years." She told me. Anger started to boil inside of me.
"You defend him! He could have at least spared me a glance in my lifetime!" I shouted, and instantly regretted it at the look of pain that crossed my mother's face.
"I am sorry mom I didn't mean-" I swallowed the rest of my apology when she turned away from me and stared into the distance.
"Do yo think I wanted this?" She asked, her voice was shaking with anger.
"I didn't mean it." I said, trying to calm down before I hurt her again.
"I can't hold my daughter. I can't wipe her tears or teach her all I know. I can't protect her! All I can do is sit and watch as my ten year old daughter battles her way alone, nearly alone. I can't stop misfortune from directing itself towards her. I can't turn the tide like I could when I was alive. I just stand and watch as the waves crash down on her, one after the other. I can't tell my husband to move on, find comfort and joy in our daughter, whom he avoids! All because of me, because I died." She said, tears shimmering on her tan cheeks.
I walked over and took her hand, pressing it to my cheek.
"She can forgive. She can make it. She can love and dream just like any other." I assured her.
I realized that her figure was growing fainter.
"Forgive your father. I wish I had more time with you but I am only granted so much, besides I have another dream to enter. I love you Kaya. Always remember that, never forget." She told me her outline now barely visible.
I stepped back and watched as my mother disappeared into the air.
A single tear fell to the ground for I knew I would not see her for a long while.
Then I woke.
I laid in bed, thinking about my mother for a long time.
Her last words seemed to echo.
"I love you Kaya. Never forget that, always remember."
She loved me, and I loved her. I would be proud to be like her.
"Goodnight mom where ever you are."
Aang's Point of View
Yue appeared before me, shining silver, glorious, like the moon. I felt power coming from her in waves and I welcomed it, feeling like the ocean was within me.
"Hello Avatar Aang. I have not seen you for a long time, though when you live eternally time time does seem slow." The pretty moon spirit said to me.
I bowed in front of her, hiding my smile at her cool attitude.
"Greetings Yue. I see spirit-hood has done you well." I teased her.
She smiled and inclined her head as a response.
"Why have I been brought here?" I asked her, worried.
"You are to meet someone." She stated as if she did this every day, which she may.
"Who? Is it Roku?" I persisted. She just gave me a small smile and said nothing. I hate when spirits do that.
I looked around at my surroundings. It was a place of which I had not been before. Though there are plenty of places in the spiritworld that I have not been nor will likely ever be, I reminded myself.
"Where are we?" I asked the immortalized spirit.
"A place of my choosing for this particular meeting. Do you see the waters below us?" I nodded. "They are called the Whispering Seas. The mist around us the Murmuring Mist. Why? I am not sure; it was named long before I entered this world. I do know that I have no control over its waves or tides...and sometimes if you listen very carefully voices rise from your surroundings but never has anyone made out what they tell." She finished the sentence and grew quiet. So quiet I could hear my blood run through my veins, but no voices.
I sat on the a large rock and started to meditate. Breathe in...breathe out...breathe in...breathe out...loosen you muscles...relax...let your chi paths clear...
I opened my eyes and looked at Yue, who was studying me curiously.
"Yue?"
"Yes Avatar?"
"Who are you summoning?"
"How do know I was summoning someone?" She looked perplexed and ruffled for a moment before she regained herself.
"I can feel it." I told her.
"Feel it?" She repeated slowly, confused.
"Yes your waves. They become distant and strained as you try to link your energy to someone or something to bring it to you, here to us."
"Very observant. Very good Aang. Very good indeed. I am in fact trying to call someone here."
"Who?"
"One of my benders." She told me before turning away before I could ask anymore questions.
"One of your benders?" Now it was my turn to stupidly repeat things.
One of your benders I thought Wait a moment...moon spirit...moon...waterbender!
Do you mean a waterbender Yue?"
She nodded, now looking a little weary.
I was weary too. Everyone knew what came to mind when I thought about waterbending and their benders. I restrained myself from getting hopeful. I refused to be let down again though I knew it would happen. I would hope and then watch them fall. I had stopped waterbending, or at least as much as could stop. I couldn't even go near the ocean or a stream without thinking about her...my Katara.
"Is it her?" I choked out. I received no answer so I turned to were the spirit had been moments before. All that swayed in her place was the dreary mist from which came no voices or comfort.
"Her who? Are you waiting for someone?" A voice said from behind me. It wasn't Yue, but I knew it. It stirred memories of battles, and training, midnight walks, and blue eyes.
I turned and there she stood. Katara, my wife, the mother of Kaya, our daughter, my child, my Katara.
"Katara" I breathed.
"Hello Aang." She said before she rushed over, joyful tears in her eyes, and hugged me fiercely.
"Katara."
"Yes that's my name." She said, sounding like Sokka.
I pulled back and took in as I had many times before all of her beauty. Her long dark hair, her blue eyes, her tan skin, her soft hands, her...all of her.
"I missed you Katara." I said, breathless, which had nothing to do with the hug. Her gaze hardened at that.
"That is what I came to talk to you about." She said softly, sitting down on the ground and pulling me down after her.
"What do you mean Katara?"
"I mean you miss me too much. You need to move on." She said clasping my hand.
"But I love you Katara and I will never love anyone else."
"Aang what about Kaya? She needs her father in a world that has already taken her mother." I opened my mouth to argue but she plowed on, her voice still soft, yet sad, regret-filled, and a little angry. "She wasn't the one who took me. Time did, and fate, and destiny, and future. Stop pushing away our daughter because she was born the same day I died. She needs you and you need her, you know you do." She said, almost pleading with me.
I held her hand and squeezed it in comfort when I saw tears come to her eyes.
"I love you Aang and I always will but it is time. Time to see how wonderful and precious a creature our daughter is."
"I love you too Katara but can I forgive Kaya?"
"It's not her fault!" She snarled, and I winced at her anger.
"I know. I am blaming her when I should be blaming myself. I wasn't there."
"No Aang. You wouldn't have been able to save me anyway. Blame me if you must blame someone. I let myself be taken away, and drove a wedge through the two people I love most and who need each other the most." She said. I shook my head, knowing I could never blame her.
"Then wash away your need to blame, like the beach. And stop avoiding the ocean, for you avoid me too. I am the ocean, your ocean. I hope you see me when you look at the amazing waters, but remember our daughter needs to learn how to control herself and her elements. Teach her, embrace the wonderful being that is your daughter. You don't realize how lucky you are! I would give almost anything to be with her, and watch her grow. Give her anything and everything. To hold her, to talk to her, to be a mother. You have the chance to be a father, the father you never had, take it! I must go now Aang. Don't look for me again. I am always there in your heart, memories, thoughts, mind...I am in your daughter and by your side. But don't seek my company. I will see you in years to come."
She pressed my lips to mine for a moment and then pulled away.
"You will always be my waterbender." I told her.
"And you will always be my airbender...Kaya she will always be our little cloudbender. I love you Aang." Then she was gone.
"I love you too Katara...always. And yes I am waiting for someone, you, and I will wait forever."