DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN, NOR HAVE I EVER OWNED ATLA. I DO NOT OWN, NOR HAVE I EVER OWNED THE CHARACTERS IN ATLA. I DO NOT OWN, NOR HAVE I EVER OWNED NICKELODEON. HAVE NO AFFILIATION, NOR HAVE I EVER HAD ANY AFFILIATION WITH THE WRITERS OR ANIMATORS OF ATLA. I HAVE NO AFFILIATION, NOR HAVE I EVER HAD ANY AFFILIATION WITH NICKELODEON.
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.
Please R&R
Chapter 54
Katara has kept Kya and Sapphire's bassinets in her room. They wake up almost every 2 hours hungry and in need of a diaper changes. Aang wakes up with her, he would change one's diaper while she feeds the other. Last night as she was getting ready for bed Aang had told her that he will be working from home for a while. He had said it was because twins weren't easy, but that was one of the reasons she now had 4 girls AND a young woman helping her. Katara knew he just wants to stay with his family, but why should she deny him that honor, so she just went with it.
When Jade showed up, Katara was already in the kitchen making Hot cereal and was browning sliced bread. "Good morning, Jade" Katara said from the kitchen as she heard Jade enter their home. "How are you this morning?"
Jade smiled, "Very well, Thank you."
"You're not going to drift away from me again today are you?" Katara joked. "I'll tell you about Haru after breakfast, have you eaten yet?"
"Oh, not yet Lady Katara." Jade said honestly.
"OK, I'll make enough for you to eat with us." Katara said.
"You are such a kind-heated, wonderful woman Lady Katara, I see why Avatar Aang loves you so much." Jade told Katara.
Katara started to laugh. "No, with him it was love at first sight. Don't let him fool you. Yes he loves EVERYTHING about me, that came later, but it was love at first sight... he started flirting the moment he opened his eyes, literally... and hasn't stopped since."
"Good Morning, Lovely Ladies!" Aang said as he came out of his office. "Is the tea ready?"
Jade blushed a bright red.
"Almost... Look at what you just did! You went and turned her bright red." Katara laughed.
"So Sorry." he said laughing. "I was just complementing you both."
Katara was laughing more. "He once told me he'd rather kiss me then die... then said it was a compliment."
"Wow, he'd rather kiss you than die?! That's not much of a complement." Jade laughed. "When did he say that?"
"We were in The Cave of Two Lovers... The Legend said that Love would light the way. We were separated from the others, it was just Aang, Appa, and myself. Our torch was going out and I suggested we kiss and he said he'd rather kiss me than die."
"When did that happen?" Jade asked, she loved hearing their stories.
"It was when we were going back to Omashu for Aang to learn Earthbending from his friend King Bumi."
"That was before Toph joined your group, wasn't it?" Jade asked.
"Yes before Toph." Katara said.
"Can I ask? Did you kiss?" Jade asked.
"Oh..." Katara said blushing bright red.
"Yes." Aang answered for her.
"Tea is done!" Katara said changing the subject. "Here sweetie, now go back to your office before you embarrass me more." She handed him his cup of tea, and pushed him out of the kitchen.
"Love you!" he said grinning from ear to ear at how red his wife had just turned.
"You two are so cute." Jade said.
"Hi Mommy!" Gyatso came running to Katara.
"Good Morning, Little One." Katara said picking him up and hugging him tightly.
Jade took Gyatso into his room and changed his diaper and clothes as Katara finished making breakfast.
"Breakfast is done, Aang." Katara said popping her head into his office.
"So now I'm allowed to be out there?" He laughed at his wife.
"That was a sensitive subject for me." She said blushing again.
"FOR YOU!? You confused the hell out of me!" He said.
"I know sweetie, I'm sorry." She said going over to him and kissing him. "I was confused too, I didn't know what I was feeling, I didn't know how you felt... I love you, and I love everything about you!"
"I love you too." He told her.
"When I did finally know what I felt, I was too afraid something bad was going to happen during those last few months of the war..." she laughed a little, "It's kind of funny, Once I FULLY gave myself to you, then something bad happened... Just our luck."
He smirked... "And we have Gyatso because of that... OK, let's go eat, My Love."
They walked into the dining area Jade already had a bowl of Hot cereal for herself and was helping Gyatso with his own bowl.
"Thank You Jade." Katara said.
"Good Morning, Little One!" Aang said
"Hi Daddy!" Gyatso said happily.
"So, Jade, when do you want to talk about Haru?" Katara asked her.
"Oh, um... Yeah now is a good time." She blushed again.
"He was one of Katara's admirers." Aang said.
"One? How many did she have?"
"Less admirers than he had!" Katara said.
"Huh?" He said
"You had 2 Fan Club Chapters, Mang, Koko, Song, On Ji, everywhere we go we see them." Katara said. "I only had 3."
Jade blushed, she had been one of those admirers.
"Look what you did, Katara, you brought up the fan club she was in." He said laughing.
"My 3 admirers where Aang, Haru, and Jet." Katara said. "That's the order I meet them in too."
"Look at you two," Jade giggled "You are a cute little family, arguing over who had more admirers. I Love spending time with you."
Katara and Aang laughed at themselves, Jade was right. "Jade, I honestly do love spending time with you, too. You are more of a friend than anything." Katara said.
"OK, Back to Haru. He is an Earthbender he is about Katara's age, I think... He was arrested by the Fire Nation for Earthbending. He rescued an old man from a mine collapse then the old man turned him in as an Earthbender we helped break him, his dad, and a bunch other Earthbenders break out of prison. He and his dad helped with The Invasion on the day of black sun..." Aang was telling Jade.
"He was one of the kids we brought with us to the Western Air Temple when The Fire Nation Blew up our submarines." Katara finished. "Would you like me to write him for you?"
"I could always send him a summons saying I need the help of an Earthbender with some renovations." Aang had an impish grin on his face.
"Oh No... He is going to do it... I can see it on his face." Katara said.
"No, Avatar Aang! Don't do it, please!" Jade said turning red.
"Don't bother arguing... He's going to do it... he has his playful mind set on it already. You can already see his devious mind working on it." Katara said.
He had an evil grin on his face. "Excuse me Lovely Ladies, I have a couple of letters to write." He was in his office with the door closed in a matter of seconds.
"Great, we have The Avatar playing matchmaker!" Katara laughed.
"Why is he doing it?" Jade asked.
"Because he likes you. You are officially one of Aang's friends, Congratulations!" Katara sighed.
"Really? His friend?" she asked.
"Yep, watch I'll get him out here you call him 'Avatar Aang' see what he says." Katara said.
"Aang, Can you come here please?" Katara hollered to him.
He came out of his office with 2 sealed letters in his hands. "Yeah?" he asked.
"Avatar Aang..." Jade started
"Just Aang, Please."
"See, I told you." Katara said laughing.
"What did you tell her?" Aang said.
"I told her you were writing to Haru, because you thought of her as a friend, she didn't believe me..."
"I do like her, she is a wonderful smart young woman, and you get along so well with her. I think you found your best friend here, and she gets to spend all day with you, helping you. So..." Aang chuckles, "her job here isn't really even a job, it's just hanging out all day with you, mostly."
"Wow Aang, you sure know how to make work fun." Jade bravely dropped the 'Avatar' part of his name testing how it felt.
"Thank You, Jade, for addressing as a friend." He smiled.
There was a knock at the door. "That's the other girls!" Katara said.
Jade opened the door for them. "Good Morning!" Jade said to them.
"Okay, I'm going to go send these off." Aang said.
"No, Please Aang, you are making me nervous." Jade said.
The other girls looked at Jade in shock, they couldn't believe Jade had addressed Avatar Aang so informally.
"Yes, Jade, I'm sending them off, It will be good for you." Aang he laughed as he told her. "He's a great guy, you'll like him."
"You will." Katara said.
Aang walked out and closed the door behind him.
"Katara, why is he playing matchmaker?" Jade asked her.
"Because you are his friend... and he wants his friends to be as happy as he is." Katara giggled.
"What is Avatar Aang Doing?" Blossom asked.
"He is bringing a friend here to meet Jade. He hopes that they get a chance to get to know each other." Katara told the other girls.
"Jade that is exciting, I hope you like him." Lilly said.
Sapphire started to fuss which made Kya get fussy.
"Jade can you Hold Kya while I feed Sapphire first, Please?" Katara took Sapphire into her room and Jade followed with Kya.
Katara hummed to her baby girls as they nursed. They are still so little that they filled their tiny tummies in just 10 minutes each.
Aang got back an hour later. "Hello Lovely Ladies." He said to them all, bringing on blushing. Jade was starting to accept the complement, he was just being nice, but the younger girls still blushed.
"What took so long?" Katara asked him.
"Did you forget, they want to have a feast tonight in honor of the birth of our two beautiful daughters? Oh, Jade they are going to have a dance as part of it, like you suggested." He said to them.
"OK now give me my beautiful daughters." He said seeing their eyes open. "Daddy wants to see them."
Jade handed Aang Kya and Katara put Sapphire in his other arm. He stared at them smiling and talking to them. "They are so small" he said to Katara. "I love them so much."
"When will we find out if they are benders or not?" Katara asked.
"I don't know." Aang said. "When did you find out Gyatso was an Airbender?"
"Before I knew we were pregnant." She Laughed "He started sneezing hard at 2 months old."
"They will be 2 months old in about a week." Aang said.
"Yeah but that doesn't mean they will start then. I'll ask my dad when he and my mom found out I was a Waterbender. May I use your office to write him a letter?" Katara asked him.
"Of course you can, it's your house, too." Aang told her staring back down at his beautiful daughters as they sucked at their little fists.
"But it's your office." Katara went into his office and quickly wrote out a letter to her father and sealed it with Aang's yellow wax and Seal press thingy. The Seal press was the Air Nomad symbol, it made the letter look pretty.
"Jasmine and Lilly can you run this down to where the letters go out at. I honestly have no clue where it goes out at." Katara said.
They all went down to the feast together. Jade sat next to Katara and held Gyatso. Aang stood up and had Katara stand with him, "Lady Katara and I want to thank you all for this bountiful feast in Honor of our New Twin Daughters Kya and Sapphire They were born Beautiful and healthy. We are here so that you all get a chance to see them. There is also going to be dancing after we eat. Please see the babies and have fun dancing. Thank You. They sat back down and everyone clapped then started eating. There was a huge line to see the babies. Rose and Blossom held Kya and Sapphire while Aang and Katara danced, and again their dancing was so great that they became the center of attention.
"Avatar Aang is quick and light on his feet and Lady Katara is graceful and acrobatic!" Rose said to Blossom.
