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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 48

(2nd longest chapter)

Appa was getting ready to land in the main square. The Air Acolytes had sounded the horn and were already coming out to help unload Appa and deliver their belongings to their house. The Air Acolytes were taken by surprise when they saw Sokka and Suki with them.

"We have guest with us, they are Prince Sokka of The Southern Water Tribe and his Wife Princess Suki, Formerly the Leader of The Kyoshi Warriors, founded by Avatar Kyoshi. As you know Prince Sokka is Lady Katara's brother. I would like you to treat them with love and respect, they are family too. Thank Air Acolytes."

"Wow, I've never seen him really be a leader. He... Wow" Suki whispered to Katara.

"Yeah, I know right!" Katara whispered back.

"I just thought of him like a goofy kid, but he is a great leader." Suki told her.

"Yeah, he is awesome as a leader. But there are times we still play." Katara said. "Before we left for our visit with you all, he ran through the temple to find Xing Ying, to tell her we were going for two days." Katara laughed.

"Ran?" Suki asked.

"Yeah, it took him 60 seconds to finder her, tell her we'd be gone for two days than ran back." Katara laughed.

"Daddy fas!" Gyatso said.

"OH! He RAN!" Suki laughed.

"Yeah, RAN... he scared the crap out of a bunch of Air Acolytes." Katara laughed.

"Lady Katara, Princess Suki, Avatar Aang has instructed us to bring your belongings to the apartment next to his and Lady Katara's. If you would follow me." A young woman about 20 years old said.

They waddled behind the young woman. She stopped half way there and turned to them both. "My name is Jade, I've met you before in Ba Sing Se, at the former Avatar Aang Fan Club, Lady Katara. I wanted to ask you something... Two days ago Xing Ying told me she felt... your babies." Jade said.

"Yes she did... I think I know where this is going. Would you like to feel them, too?" Katara asked Jade.

"Yes please. Xing Ying said it was amazing, I wanted to feel too, but I didn't know how to ask you." Jade said.

"OK let me find them." Katara started pushing her fingers in a bit, moving around her belly. She smiled. "Found them! OK give me your hands." Katara pushed Jade's fingers in a bit. "Here is A. It likes to be on this side. It also always starts the fights." Jade could feel its back and head. "And here is B, it's always over here but moves a lot." Jade could feel a back and its booty. "And if you put your hand right here..." Jade felt 2 kicks coming from opposite directions. "You can feel them fighting." Jade looked like she was feeling the cosmic energies come together.

"Oh my, Lady Katara," a tear slid down Jade cheek, "that is the most amazing thing I have ever felt. You and Avatar Aang are truly truly blessed!"

"Thank you, Jade." Katara said.

"Yes, thank you, Jade." Aang said coming up behind Katara.

"I really need to put bells on your shoes, you walk too softly!" Katara said slightly startled.

Jade let out a soft giggle, then recovered quickly. "My apologies Avatar Aang, Lady Katara."

"It's OK Jade, he does that to me at least once a day... he said good thing I'm NOT an Airbender, I'd hit my head on the ceiling when I jump." Katara laughed Jade laughed again.

"OK, you need to sit down so your ankles don't swell up any worse, My Love."

"OK, Sweetie. Jade it was nice to re-meet you," Katara laughed, "we should talk again soon... you know where I live, Please, come visit." she was being steered away by her husband. "PLEASE!" Katara Yelled back as she was walked away.

Jade laughed a little as she watched 'The Avatar' being all lovey and concerned about his sweet wife's ankles. He was being a real person not an icon. It's easy to forget that 'The Avatar' is still just another person too. With a wife, a son, and twins on the way. Just another 19 year old, young man deeply in love with his wife. And what a wonderful wife he had. 'I will definitely take her up on her offer.' Jade thought.

Aang plopped Katara down on their couch, made her put her feet up. He made an ice pack to bring down the swelling and made her a cup of tea. Jade was directing a few Air Acolytes that were carrying some of Aang and Katara's stuff.

"Oh! Aang, give me some of my jerky please." Katara said.

"Do you want a piece or a whole bag?" Aang laughed.

"Maybe you're right, the whole bag would be great." Katara said laughing.

'They truly are just regular people.' Jade thought.

"Mommy up!" Their son said as he ran to the couch and climbed up.

"How about Daddy up?" Aang asked his son. "Mommy needs to rest for a bit, Little One."

"Excuse me, Avatar Aang, Lady Katara... if you need more help around here, I happily offer my services. Back home I was a house maid for a lady and her children in the Middle Ring."

"Aang I think with Jade's help things would definitely be easier on me. What do you think? She could do things that my other girls couldn't. I could even teach her to be a Midwife since I know how to do it. Suki and I will need one." Katara said.

"Anything you want, My Love." Aang told her.

"Maybe with Jade's help I could actually get to putting those bells on your shoes!" Katara started laughing.

'Lady Katara is just another young woman... poking fun at her husband.' Jade giggled.

"Jade would you like to start helping me tomorrow or now?" Katara said, happy to have a girl about her age around.

Jade was astonished "Oh! Umm thank you so much, Lady Katara. I could start now."

Suki had plopped down next to Katara. And put her swollen ankles up too.

"Ice?" Aang asked Suki.

'Oh you're so sweet Aang, thank you! See Sokka you never offered me ice." Suki said.

"We live IN a house made of ICE!" Sokka said.

"I'm just messing with you." Suki said.

Lilly, Jasmine, Rose, and Blossom all came in. They were so happy to see Katara they all hugged her.

"Hello, my girls!" Katara hugged each of them. "We have a new addition... well 2 I guess. This is Suki, my brother's wife. And Jade will be joining us, I'm going to teach her to be a midwife, Suki and I will be in need of one in about 3 months."

"Hello Jade, you will love being with Katara... "

"She doesn't like being called 'lady' she says if you want to call her by title she prefers Master Katara..."

"She is a Master Waterbender..."

"She is Avatar Aang's Waterbending Master..."

"And she can still beat him at Waterbending." The 4 girls rambled on taking over where the last left off.

"You shouldn't say that about Avatar Aang." Jade said.

"It's true." Aang said. "Katara is a far better Waterbender than I am."

"I'm hungry Aang can we go eat?" Katara asked.

"Lady Katara I can take the girls down to the kitchen and bring back baskets of food." Jade said.

"Oh, you're wonderful Jade, why have we not met here sooner, I need a friend my age." Katara said.

They left for the kitchen.

"She was sweet." Suki said.

"She was, I met her once, back in Ba Sing Se, during the Yu Dou crisis. She was one of the Avatar Aang Fan Club girls." Katara told Suki. "Those fan club girls back in Ba Sing Se, most of them, were all smitten or obsessed, not sure which, with Aang. They all had his picture on the front of their dresses" Katara giggled.

"One girl said 'what an honor it is to meet Avatar Aang's first girlfriend' her name is Won-Yee she is here."

"What happened when you and Aang got here after you got married?" Suki asked.

"There was a massive group that questioned my virtue and faithfulness to Aang."

"Oh my, what did they say?" Suki asked.

"First they asked if Gyatso was a Waterbender. Then they came right out and said to Aang that after the explosion I could have been so distraught that gave another man my body."

"Oh that is horrible, you would never." Suki said. "What did Aang say?"

"First he scolded them for thinking that low of me, then he told them that he knew that there was not even a slim chance Gyatso could be anyone else's baby, because Gyatso is an Airbender. They were really ashamed." Katara finished.

"Do you see any of them still?" Suki asked.

"Here and there sometimes, they always look down when they see me." Katara answered.

"No wonder you feel lonely here, that was not right of them to accuse you of such horrible actions." Suki responded.

"That first evening here Jasmine, Lilly, and a couple other girls played with Gyatso while everyone was talking." Katara told Suki

There was a quick knock on the door then Jade and the 4 girls entered carrying baskets full of food. Jade went straight to the table and started setting it. "Where do you keep your dishes, Lady Katara?" She asked.

"Oh you are wonderful, in the cupboards above the sink." Katara answered.

After about 5 minutes the table was set, food in serving platters and in Soup Crocks. "The table is all set for you and your family, Avatar Aang, and Lady Katara." Jade said.

They all went to the table and served themselves. Katara took a couple pieces of jerky and broke them into pieces and dropped them into her bowl of soup.

Jade noticed and looked confused. Katara noticed Jade's look on her face. "I'm not a vegetarian." Katara said. "Aang knows this and is fine with it. He has known this for as long as he has known me." Katara told Jade.

Jade understood her but asked "How long have you known each other?"

Lilly raised he hand, "OH! OH! OH! May I tell her?"

"Yes, Lilly, you may." Katara laughed. The young girls loved the stories.

"What do you know of Avatar Aang's reappearance?" Lilly asked Jade.

"I know that a girl from The Southern Water Tribe and her brother found a 12 year old boy frozen in a bubble. The girl broke the ice bubble open and The Avatar fell out and woke up in her arms." Jade said. She looked at everyone eating at the table. "I don't know much about the Water Tribe Siblings though."

Katara grinned and said "Hi I'm Katara, this is my brother Sokka. I was 14 and my brother was 15. Sokka made me mad and I split an iceberg and a bubble surfaced with a boy that was glowing. I took my brother's club and broke the bubble open. The Avatar, still glowing, took a couple steps than collapsed and I caught him before he hit the hard ice."

"Oh, that is so amazing, Lady Katara I didn't know that you are the ones that found Avatar Aang." Jade said.

"And I've been in love with her ever since." Aang finished the story.

"Yeah, he was one goofy kid, with a huge crush on my sister." Sokka said.

"Now he is my husband and the father of my children." Katara smiled at Aang, "and I wouldn't have it any other way."

"No, now she is my wife and mother of my children." Aang correct her.

'How cute!' Jade thought

"It's kind of funny... The Acolytes all know this stuff about Aang... But Sokka and I never come up... The only time we WEREN'T with Aang was when he was with Guru Pathik and had his weird encounter with a gigantic Lion Turtle." Katara said.

Katara started eating her soup now that the jerky rehydrate.

After dinner they all sat around chatting about old times. Jade thought the stories were amazing, they were just kids and teenagers, travel around the world, saving people. Lady Katara is only 1 year older than Jade. And Avatar Aang, just 1 year younger. "So you are only 19?" Jade asked Aang.

"Yes, no, a bit of both. I was in the bubble for 100 years but I didn't age. So I'm 119 but at the same time I'm only 19. My birthday is coming up in a week, though." Aang explained.

"OK it's getting late, we all should go to bed." Katara said. She had put Gyatso to bed over an hour ago. "Jade, thank you for your company, and your kindness. I will see you in the morning. Goodnight."

"Thank you for kindness." Jade said as she bowed to them. "Goodnight."

Sokka and Suki retired to their apartment they were staying in, next door. Aang and Katara went into their room.

Aang was sitting in his floor pillow meditating while Katara changed into her pajamas and hummed as she brushed her hair. Her humming stopped and he noticed that she had already got into bed and was already asleep. He watched her as she lightly snored. He thank the spirits for her, she is smart, beautiful, strong, powerful, sweet, and so full of love. How blessed he was for her wild spirit, and especially for her temper. If she didn't have that temper he wouldn't be right here right now. He wouldn't be a daddy or a husband. He would still be beneath that huge Iceberg, frozen.

He got up and got ready for bed as well. He laid next to her stroking her silky hair, it smelled exactly as he had remembered, "flowers" he said. He scooted against her and put his hand on her swollen belly and felt his babies moving and kicking. The lives growing within her truly was a miracle, two miracles. Her body was creating life for him, again.

"I love you so much, I will never leave your side again. You and our children are the most important things to me, My Love." He whispered.

She sighed in her sleep then said "love you too"

She drifted back to lightly snoring again. He kissed her head. "Goodnight, My Love."

The next morning Katara woke up to Jade coming in and picking one of the beautiful dresses for Katara to wear for the day. "Good morning Lady Katara. Breakfast is already on the table, Avatar Aang has already changed and dressed Gyatso. Prince Sokka and Princess Suki have just arrived for breakfast." Jade laid the dress over her dressing table's chair and helped Katara out of bed, then left the room. As she closed the door Katara could hear her say, "Lady Katara will be joining us shortly."

Katara dressed herself and joined them about 5 minutes later.

"What would you like to do today, Suki?" Katara asked.

"I'm not sure. Let's think about it for a bit."

Katara fidgeted with her cup of water without even realizing it. The liquid came up out of the cup hovering over it. It changed from a sphere of water into an ice dagger back into a sphere, and so on.

"Katara, would you like to Waterbend today, not sparingly but Waterbending?" Aang asked her.

She looked up at him. "How did you know that's what I was thinking about?'

He pointed at her cup, she looked at it and was surprised to see that she was bending her cup of water. "Oh, I didn't even know I was doing that."

"How about we take a picnic down to that waterfall with the pond?" He asked "we could do some energy flowing bending."

She smiled at him "That would be nice." She turned to Suki "Suki a picnic sounds great, what do you think?"

"It is beautiful today and a waterfall sounds lovely." Suki said.

Before Katara even had a chance to get up from her seat, Jade, was already organizing the girls. Everything for the picnic was ready except the food, which Jade sent Blossom and Lilly after.

"Wow, Jade, you sure can organize a household." Katara said.

"Thank you, Lady Katara. Back in Ba Sing Se I worked in a household, I was not the one who ran it, but I did learn how to." Jade said.

"You are doing a great job so far." Katara said.

"Katara, do you want me to bring some of you jerky?" Aang asked.

"Yes, please, Sweetie, thank you." Katara said.

"When are you needed in Ba Sing Se, Sweetie?" Katara asked him

"WE are going in 2 weeks. We only have enough room for Jade but not the other 4 girls." Aang said.

"I know, Sweetie." Katara said.

"The girls are back with the baskets." Jade said.

They went down to that beautiful spot where Katara and Aang last spared almost 6 months ago.