A/N: Sorry for the lag!

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Aang peaked up from the his hiding place below the dirt of the shed (he wasn't really sure what to call it, it housed gardening equipment but was capable of also housing Appa and had hay). Appa growled softly but there was no sign of other life in the building. He let out a deep breath before propelling himself out of the ground in a manner that would make Toph proud.

He'd tell her he did if he wasn't so angry with her. He was thoroughly convinced she'd somehow schemed to have them married and to have her parents (both of them! At the same time!) try to give him the talk. While Poppy had tried to use as many euphemisms as possible Lao had dropped that entirely and began explaining in detail what would happen. His reasoning was the young Avatar would have to explain everything to his blind wife. Aang had fled with a plea that Appa had appeared sick and needed tending to.

Then he'd done the very adult thing which was hide.

Coast clear, however, he was going to find his earthbending sifu and give her a piece of his mind. First of all she had to have planned this...somehow. He wasn't really sure how but she was enough of a mastermind to do this. Second they had to help Zuko and Katara out and he really didn't think this little stunt was for their benefit.

A quick airblast through her window later he was marching up to her bed where she was absent mindly picking her toes. "What did you do?"

"Aw Twinkletoes, is that anyway to talk to your wife on your wedding night?" She cooed sweetly.

He snorted. "Yeah sure. Now tell me your stupid plan or I'll go get your parents and insist that they also describe everything about what married couples do in detail to you too."

"Ha my mother already tried."

"Then I'll tell them you're adopting my vegetarian diet and to never ever give you meat again even if you beg for it."

Toph swung her feet over the side of her bed. "Hmm, I don't think you're lying but I will say that's a nice threat for an airbender."

"Just tell me why you did it!"

"I didn't do anything! You heard me at dinner, its a simple mistake and we'll fix it soon. I just," she trailed off and looked away.

"You just what?"

"See I wonder what my parents are going to do about this," she explained. "I'm sure they're excited their little blind daughter married someone so important as the Avatar."

"Uh, well, yeah, I guess but what does that have to do with the situation?" Aang asked.

"Remember how June sent out all those letters about Katara and Zuko?" Aang nodded. There was another moment of silence before "I'm going to guess you nodded but just think about that but ten times worse."

"Uh how is it worse?"

Toph sighed. "I always have to explain everything to you, Airhead. A Beifong just married the Avatar. If there's one thing my parents love is their name and any recognition they can get from it. They weren't expecting anything from me and now look what I've done. They're going to be telling everyone!"

Aang gulped. "Heh, how bad can it be?" He asked hopefully.

"I'm sure only about half the Earth Kingdom knows right now and there's already a date for the party."

"How do we get out of it?"

Toph flopped back on the bed. "That's the thing: we can't. Either we leave now and news will follow us and I'm sure my dad will send someone to look for me again and we all know how that turned out-"

"You learned metalbending."

"Not the point. But we'll have to hide and Appa doesn't hide well. Or we can stay here and go through with the party and let everyone thing that we're married. Or…" she trailed off.

"Or what!?"

"Or we wait here, let my parents think we're happy together and then run off right before the party. They'll spin it as us eloping or some romantic crap like that and we can announce later it was all a misunderstanding."

"Why would we do that?"

"Because we were just given an amazing opportunity. Do you know that the only marriage that would be talked about more than the Pouty Lord's is yours? We'll just have to insist the party is before the full moon and then hightail it out of here."

Aang looked at his friend carefully. While she didn't actually say she planned this whole thing it felt like she did. However it might work out for the best, especially if people forget that Zuko got married and then when he's not anymore it won't be such a big deal. "Fine what do you need me to do?"

She smiled. "Nothing unless I tell you to. Now get out of my room, we'll tell my parents some story about how we want to wait until we have a party to actually feel married."

As Aang left Toph smiled. Now she and Aang were stuck here for awhile. While she couldn't control Sokka she at least hoped he was stranded in the South Pole. Then maybe Zuko and Katara would stop being idiots and realize they liked each other as they remained safely together in the Fire Nation.

Katara stared at Zuko. She hadn't slept much since she'd been woke up by his dream; now she was studying his peaceful face in the dim early morning light. He wasn't bad looking, she admitted to herself.

Oh stop it, a nagging voice said in her head, you think he's amazing looking. She ignored that voice.

As she watched him sleep she thought about waking up to this for the rest of her life. It might not be too bad, she mused. She glanced around the room; she'd have to add some personal touches to the place though.

Thinking about living here forever now? What happened to being positive that in three months you'd be out of here? the nagging voice asked. Over tired pessimistic thoughts about this whole thing not working was what had her considering what best to do with the room.

She brushed his hair to the side a little, thinking it looked nice like that. Just nice, she told herself. The voice humphed as Zuko's eyes shot open.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up," she apologized softly.

"It's fine, I'm a light sleeper," he said.

"Really?"

"Force of habit." She raised an eyebrow. "I had to learn when I was on my ship and then all those assassination attempts just re enforced the habit."

She lightly punched his arm. "That's for not telling all of us about that sooner, by the way." He grumbled. "Do you want to talk about your dream?"

"No," he said as he rolled away from her on to his left side.

"It always helps to talk about bad dreams."

"No it doesn't."

"Yes it does. When I started having them after my mom died I didn't want to go to bed for weeks. Then Sokka finally made me talk about it because he didn't like seeing me look so tired all the time. We still ended up arguing before I said anything but it helped. He told me about the nightmares he had and I didn't feel so bad."

"You sound like Aang."

"Talk and I'll let that comment slide."

"I've already told you what happened. It's just the same thing over and over."

"Fine then why don't you tell me everything that's going to happen at the announcement tomorrow and then what I should be expected to do as your wife."

He sat up and looked at her. "Why?"

"Its best to start out your day positively and if you're not going to talk about your nightmare then we can talk about this instead."

"Isn't my mother supposed to be talking to you about this?"

She rolled her eyes. "Yes but she also brings up babies every time and you won't so spill."

"This could take all day."

"Well then just the short version-"

"No it's fine."

She raised an eyebrow. "What about the paperwork you always complain about?"

He shrugged. "No one's expecting me to do any today or tomorrow, or so I was told yesterday. I'll explain everything and give you a tour that's better than the one you got after the comet."

"So you won't be complaining about how much your wound hurts during it? That was half the fun!"

He smirked. "There's the Katara I know."

"Zuko didn't show up for lunch today," Ursa said in greeting as she walked into Iroh's sitting room that afternoon.

"I know," he said calmly and indicated for her to sit down, a cup of tea waiting for her.

"I sent a note after he wasn't at breakfast and nothing. Is he avoiding me?"

"No, he's been spending the day with Katara." Tea shot out of Ursa's mouth at Iroh's words.

"Sorry," she apologized as he wiped the tea from his face. "How do you even know that?"

"He had breakfast and lunch delivered to their room and if you look out the window you can see them walking in the garden."

Ursa looked and sure enough the two were walking, Zuko explaining something and Katara laughing. "Well I guess they don't need our help."

"Oh no they do. It's just one day, they have months where they can still talk each other or themselves out of this."

"I'm glad we're working together on this."

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