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I have started writing Prequels, here is a list of them:

A Second First Date; One month after Aang defeated Fire Lord Ozai

Nightmares; A One-Shot Prequel to Together Again. Aang saved the world, he faced Ozai on his own. Everyone kept saying that he was a great hero, that he was so brave. He wore a brave face and acted all the hero they thought he was. But at night in his sleep he was a scared boy, scared for his life as he tried to get away from a psycho Firebender. The Battle came back at night.

Anila's Story; This is another Prequel to Together Again. It's about a Young Female Airbender just starting out in life. She was ready to travel the world as soon as she turns 16. Little does she know, Destiny has a grand purpose for her first child.

I Want to thank my beta readers for their help, advice, and contributions: 116788 (pen name not user ID) and ReverieNishio

*116788 (pen name not user ID) is available to beta read for others, she has 3 slots open right now.

Chapter 31
The Acolytes had prepared a banquet in their honor... to celebrate their arrival, and their wedding... there was MANY, MANY girls not happy about the latter.

The food was awesome. They feed Gyatso a bit of everything on their plated and he loved it all. "Num num num" he chanted as he ate.

A few 12-to-15-year-old Acolyte girls approached Aang and Katara nervously as they were sitting at the center of head table. They bowed to each of them. "Avatar Aang, Lady Katara... could we... May we play with the baby?"

Aang and Katara looked at each other. A smile passed between them. "Yes you may... but there is a couple of things I need to warn you about."

The girls nodded.

"He is an Airbender, hold on to him tight, if he sneezes he can slip out of your hands, he does blow air at people, and if he gets upset... he will cause wind storms." Katara told the girls.

They nodded understanding, and bowed again. Katara handed the Mini-Airbender to the girl in the front. The girls took him to a small grassy area in full view of the baby's parents.

Aang and Katara were taking to some Acolytes. They were talking about all kinds of things. Temple restorations, the greenhouses, Aang's last disappearance. Katara got bored and was watching the girls play with Gyatso. He absolutely loved all the attention. He blew puffs of air, the girls giggled every time he did it, which just made him do it more. After about an hour he started yawning and fussed for a second.

"Aang," she turned to him "I think it is times to go to our quarters."

"Ok, just one minute." He told her.

Gyatso let out a louder fuss.

"Aang, please, now." She pleaded.

"Just one more minute." He said.

"I don't think we have one more minute." She worried.

As if on cue it started to get windy... Gyatso started crying. The louder he cried the windier it got. "Crap!"

The girls got a little scared and brought Gyatso to his parents.

"It's OK now, I have you. We will go have a bath, fill your tummy and put you to bed. I know, I know you are all worn out from all the fun we had today... sssshhhhhh sssshhhhhh sssshhhhhh." She said as she bounced and swayed with him. "Aang, Now, please... I don't want to walk back to the quarters alone I don't want to get lost."

"OK, I'm sorry, I should have listened to you in the first place." He turned to Xing Ying, "we will finish this conversation tomorrow morning."

"Yes Avatar Aang, in the morning." She said.

Aang put his hands out to Gyatso. Gyatso leaned forward for Daddy to take him. Once in Daddy's arms the little boy rested his head on Daddy's broad chest.

They walked back to their quarters quickly, they didn't want to have to walk in a wind storm. "I know you said he was pretty powerful, but I didn't think he was actually that powerful."

"Of course he's powerful, he's the son of The Avatar." Katara had a cocky smirk on her face, confirming the infant's paternity. "Remember Zuko told us that Fire Lord Azulan matched Ursa, granddaughter of Avatar Roku with Prince Ozai. So that their children would be powerful Firebenders." She said to him as they reached the door to their quarters.

"I'm going to give him a warm bath before nursing him. Would you please warm the water while I get him ready for the bath?" She asked him.

"Sure, how warm?"

"Put your forearm in the water, after you heat it, to see if it is too hot or too cold. Thank you Sweetie." She said lifting herself up onto her toes and pecked him then walked away with a smile.

"Are you ready for a nice warm calming bath, Little One?"

"Mamama"

As she bathed the baby she talk to him. "Today was a big day, wasn't it!"

"Aaaaaggggggaaaa" he cooed.

"We rode on Appa."

"Ap ap."

"Yeah, that's right Appa. Did you have fun playing with Daddy?"

"Dadada"

"I love Daddy so much. Do you love Daddy?"

"DadadadaDA!

"Wonderful! He loves you! Daddy told me he saw you in his dreams when he was missing, he told me that he heard you being born."

"Aaaaaggggggaaaa"

Aang was standing on the other side of the door. He was going to meditate but he heard Katara talking to his baby. So he came over to listen better. "Spirits I love that woman so much!" He said quietly to himself. He wiped a tear off of his cheek.

"OK ready? It's time for the floating water to rinse you."

Aang heard the baby laughing most likely at the floating water.

"OK," Katara said, "get the bubble."

*splash* Gyatso laughed more.

"Time to dry off and get your jammies on."

"Mamamama!" Aang felt a gust of air came from under the door.

"We can play with air tomorrow with Daddy, right now is time to fill your belly and go to sleep."

After a minute he heard her start humming to their baby. Aang slid down against the wall next to the door. He closed his eyes just listening. He wiped a few more tears away. After about 30 minutes he heard her get up from the chair in the room. Still humming as she walked to the crib. Aang's eyes stung from tears. How blessed he was to have woken up in this woman's arms almost 8 years ago. She is a strong woman, but at the same time she was so gently. She absolutely loves this baby he had given her with all her heart.

As she turned the door knob she felt a whoosh of air come from under the door. She realized he had probably been listening to her the entire time. She wasn't going to say anything to him about it though. This is all new to him... literally only 3 days now. She wiped a few tears from her cheek before putting on a smile for him.

She pushed the door open "OK, I'm back, his tummy is full and his eyelids heavy." She said happily.

His back was to her. "Is something wrong?" She asked him, concerned.

His hands came up to his face and he wiped it. She knew he must have been crying. He shook his head. Then took in a few breaths, he turned to her, cheek still wet. "I'm so sorry Katara."

"Sorry for what, Sweetie?" Her heart started beating faster. Afraid that he regretted getting her pregnant or regretted marrying her.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry I left you alone for so long. I shouldn't have... if I had just changed my moves he would have gone down and I would have gone back to you right away... we would have been married when..."

"Aang, no 'what ifs' I did that for 3 1/2 months. All it did was make it worse. So many nights I cried so much I had no tears left... Do you want to know what stopped the pain?" She asked him.

He didn't trust himself to speak, so he just nodded.

Pointing to the door to the baby's room "He did! From the very first moment I felt him move within me it was no longer 'what if' it was, and still is 'what IS!' He IS a part of you that I would always have and I fully intend to raise him as an Air Nomad, in the way that his father would be proud of!"

She walked over to him and reached up and wiped a tear from his face. "I love you with all my heart... you are here NOW!... We are married NOW! We are a family NOW! I regretted absolutely nothing."

"I love you too. I thought I was in love with you before... I... I was going to meditate but then I heard you talking... II went to the door to listen... you are such a wonderful mother. As I listen my head felt like it was spinning... like I was falling, I love the feeling of falling. You know that don't you. It feels like... your heart starts pounding, and then you start feeling dizzy from the rush of blood to your head you get a tickling feeling in your stomach... I didn't know I could love anyone as much as I love you... Do you always talk to him like that?"

"Yes, I always have, too. I started talking to him as soon as I felt him move inside me. I had to go find a private spot to talk to him though. Suki helped me hide it for a while, I was living in Sokka and Suki's house, you know how Sokka is about me. When I was 6 months pregnant my father came and told me about a tournament they would be having soon so I had to tell him... that's why they gave me until Gyatso was 9 months old."

"I never would have made it back to you in time if you weren't pregnant!"

"Regret NOTHING! I don't Sweetie, I don't. Would you have ever met me if you didn't try to run away on the day of that storm?"

He looked directly into her beautiful sapphire blue eyes a small smile appeared "No!"

"I remember a lost confused little boy hugging his knees, so sad after finding out he had been frozen in a bubble for 100 years. What was it he said, the one good thing about being frozen for 100 years was what?" She asked him.

"That I got to meet you." He smiled. "Monk Gyatso once told me 'true love comes only once in your lifetime' I guess to find mine I had to be frozen for 100 years."

"You sure know how to sweet talk a girl. Okay now it's our turn to put our jammies on and go to sleep my husband."

Katara was sitting at the dressing table in front of a mirror. She hummed very softly as she brushed her hair.

Aang was meditating, he found that her humming actually made it easier to meditate than in silence. Something about it made him relax better, he felt freer too. Unfortunately the only place his mind wanted to go was under his wife's nightgown. He shifted uncomfortably at the sensation he was experiencing.

She watched him through the mirror as he sat on their bed, legs folded, quietly. He had his shirt off again... he once told her it's easier to meditate with it off... she thinks he just doesn't like to wear one, he never did when he was younger... She sighed at the sight of his well-defined chest and abs.

"I can feel you staring at me again." He had heard her sigh too.

"DAMN IT!" She jumped, "Stop scaring me! I mean no, I was brushing my hair, I'm not even facing you."

"You just jumped about as high as I do when I sneeze! That's what now 3 times today?"

"That's only because you never talked when you meditated before, I didn't expect it." She defended.

"I've never been stared at like a piece of meat when I was meditating before." He laughed. "Your humming actually helps, it's quite calming."

"I know, I have this 9 month old baby that I put to sleep two to three times a day." She said.

"It's not your fault I'm having trouble, it's my own..." he sighed.

"Something on your mind?"

"Yeah..."

"What Sweetie? You can tell me."

"You"

"Yeah, you can tell me."

"I just did." A smile pulling at the corners of his mouth. Anymore of this was going to have him laughing.

"No you didn't!" She sounded a little flustered.

"Yes, I did." The laughter was about ready to burst out of his chest.

"Avatar Aang, you did not tell me what is on your mind!"

He fell backward from his sitting position on the bed laughing hard "Proper names now, Princess Katara of The Southern Water Tribe or is it Lady Katara, Avatar Aang's Wife? I prefer the Lady Katara Avatar Aang's wife, though."

"Okay, okay you win! Okay once more what is on you mind?"

"I answered you, I said YOU are on my mind."

"I don't feel like a princess or a lady."

"But in both cases you are, My Love."

"That is what I was talking about earlier, I'm worried that people will try to make me something I'm not, about you expecting me to be a 'Lady' or a 'Princess'."

"I told you MY Katara is The 'Katara' that helped save the world, she was never afraid of anything or anyone. If she had an opinion you knew it and if you didn't she would gladly tell you, her voice only 10 times louder than her normal tone. My Katara is very motherly... and in the last couple days I've seen... a wonderful mother. That's the only Katara I want."

Katara lifted the covers on her side as best she could with him lying across it, "Move!"

He got a very impish grin "No"

"Move or I'll push you off!" she smiled, ready to start playing again.

"You can't push me off!" He laughed.

"Yes I can!" She crawled to him and started pushing at his side. She got him as far as rolled onto his stomach. "I moved you!"

"Hardly!" he laughed.

She pushed him again pushing as hard as she could. He budged only a bit "aaarrrrgggg! How do you hardly leave a footprint when you walk, (each word come accompanied a shove) if... you... are... so... heavy! *THUNK*

With the last shove he fell off the end of the bed. He landed hard. She crawled to the end of the bed he had just fallen from "Oh my goodness, I'm sorry did I hurt you?!"

He made no sound at all, she thought she had hurt him. A little worried she looked cautiously over the edge. She found him lying on his back in the floor. He was laughing so hard there was no sound, his face bright red. With one long gasp he laughed so loud the flying lemurs in the tree outside their window all got startled, they chittered loudly. He reached up grabbing her hand that was on the edge of the bed, and pulled her off the bed too. She landed right on him. Now she was laughing hard too. They laid like that for a few minutes, laughing at themselves.

There was a knock at the door. Aang lifted Katara off of himself, threw on his outer robe, and answered the door.

A young man was standing in front of Aang. "I'm sorry to disturb you Avatar Aang, but we heard a loud thump and we wanted to make sure everything is okay."

Still laughing "We're fine. I fell off the bed, I'm fine, Master Katara is a Master Healer."

"Master Katara? I've only ever heard her called Lady Katara or Princess Katara, Sir."

"Master Katara is my Waterbending Master. I learned all my Waterbending from her."

"I'm so sorry for disturbing you, Avatar Aang and L... Master Katara. Please excuse me." The boy bowed to Aang then walked quickly away as Aang closed the door.

Her head popped up from the end of the bed. "Ssshhhh we're going to get in trouble." She giggled "they may tell on you to... to... who's in charge here?"

He was laughing at how silly she was being "Did you smuggle Cactus Juice in?"

"Nope, no cactus juice for me I'm nursing. Who's in charge here?" Still giggling.

"You, all-knowing Master Sifu Katara doesn't know who is in charge here!"

"Master Sifu? Isn't that like saying Master twice? Okay, okay, now tell me who is in charge so I know who to be a good girl around?"

"It's far to late for that!" He looked serious, his arms folded as he shook his head at her.

"Xing Ying?" She asked.

"You honestly have no clue who is in charge here?! Wow now you are in trouble." He picked her up and put her back on the bed. He got a huge grin on his face. "The person in charge here wants you to be silly and naughty and happy."

She sat up onto her elbows "YOU! You're in charge here!?"

"I'm in charge of ALL the air temples... the entire Air Nomad culture."

"Wow, I forgot about all that. To me you're just Aang... My Aang. I think it's weird when they call you 'Avatar Aang' I mean I KNOW you are 'The Avatar' but to me you are just my sweet goofy Aang, my true love... my little flirt." She slipped between the sheets and laid her head down on the ultra-soft pillows.

"About that... I'm not so little anymore." He laughed as he took his robes off to sleep. He laid down next to her pulling her against him. He nuzzled her neck, and fell asleep breathing in the wonderful scent of her hair.