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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 65

Jade

Jade woke up to the sound of the twins crying, 'Time for them to eat AGAIN.' she thought. Jade sluggishly got up and went into the kitchen to warm up two bottles for the baby girls. "No wonder Katara is so warn out. Just 1 night and it's killing me." She said aloud as she yawned.

Haru came out of the room he was sharing with Gyatso. "I heard you talking, do you need any help?" He had seen light coming in under the door.

"I was talking to myself, sorry if I woke you up." Jade yawned "Sure, you can help me feed and change Sapphire and Kya." She yawned again as the water in the pot started to warn the bottles. "I didn't realize how tiring getting up with these babies a couple times a night can be... I understand why Katara is getting so wiped out."

"Yeah, children are so... so... tiring, but awesome at the same time... I love kids..." Haru said.

The bottles were warmed and Haru followed Jade into her room. Jade handed him Sapphire while she changed and fed Kya.

He looked down into Sapphire's sapphire Blue eyes. "Aang and Katara had beautiful little girls." He said.

"Yeah, I delivered them." Jade told him, she was so proud of herself.

"Really? You are a midwife?" He asked her.

"Katara taught me how to do it. It was amazing." Jade told him. "I also helped Katara deliver Suki's baby. Suki and Sokka have a beautiful baby boy, They named him after Sokka and Katara's father Hakoda, Kya is their mother's name. Aang had chosen both of his daughters' names."

"I know we just got together and all, and I really don't know where we are going in our relationship... I really like you, I really really like you. I just want to know where you might see this relationship is going. What do you think?" He asked her.

She could tell he wanted to talk about what they wanted in life, "In life, I want a family, and friends... I want to have as much love as Lady Katara and Avatar Aang have... They are the most awesome people I've ever met!"

Haru laughed "He was one goofy kid! I'm four years older than him."

"Everyone that has known them since he was twelve keep saying he was a goofy kid. I have a hard time thinking of him as a "Goofy Kid."

"Oh he was though." Haru told her. "But in only nine months, he grew up. He went from a goofy twelve year old kid to a strong, powerful, fully realized Avatar. If you told me he was going to defeat the Fire Lord and end the one-hundred year war in nine months from when I met him, I'd have laughed so hard I would cry... But he did... Hard to believe but he did. He mastered the elements faster than any other Avatar... About two to three months each, except for air."

"Aang and Katara said you had a bit of a crush on Katara." Jade told him.

He was blushing right now. "Yeah, but that was a long time ago."

"Don't feel embarrassed, I was one of the co-founders and co-presidents of 'The Avatar Aang fan club, Ba Sing Se chapter.' Me and ALL the girls in the club went around Ba Sing Se with pictures of him on the front of our dresses. Aang and Katara joke about it now."

The two girls fell back to sleep once their tummies were full.

"Jade?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I kiss you?"

"Wha..." Before she could finish his lips where pressed aginst hers... It felt nice, his lips where soft, his goatee and beard tickled her, but she didn't care. Her heart was pounding and her head was spinning. She was dizzy and having a hard time breathing. It was nothing more that a soft kiss but it felt nice. Her first kiss was amazing. Now she was starting to see how just a single kiss could feel so nice. Katara had described exactly how it feels to be kissed.

"Wow... That felt nice!" Jade said with a smile, then kissed him again. Her heart was racing.

After a few seconds He pulled away. "I... I need to go back to bed I have to work on that heeting mall... I mean meeting hall, in the morning. Goodnight" He said as he quickly walked out of her room. When he got to his room he felt different, he had never kissed a girl before. He had also noticed a change in himself, it was different, he had never felt like this before. His dad had given him "The Talk" when he was thirteen, just before his father was arrested by the Fire Nation for being an earthbender, so he knew what was different and he knew why, he just didn't expect it from just a soft kiss, two soft kisses from this beautiful young woman. Haru wanted to talk to Aang in the morning... 'how does just kissing do this... He'd know... He should at least understand... He's married with three babies. That guy is four years younger than me... but... well... obviously knows about the change a man goes through... But why does a little kiss do it?' Haru thought to himself as he climbed back into bed. He closed his eyes, his mind kept replaying what had just happened.

Jade was surprised at the kiss that he gave her... More surprised at herself for kissing him again. 'Katara had talked to me about... well everything I wanted to know about having a family and all, but I need talk to her again. I have so many new questions now, new feelings that are confusing to me... I hope she can talk with me tomorrow.' Jade thought to herself as she laid back down and closed her eyes, her mind also kept replaying what had just happened.

Jade awoke again three hours later from the twin girls cries of hunger and in need of clean diapers. Jade walked into the kitchen to find Katara just bringing in four new bottles. Jade took the two warmest "Katara, can we talk tomorrow, I'm confused about a few things and I was hoping you could help me." Jade said to her.

"Sure, we can talk. We can talk while I feed the twins in the morning, Is that ok?" Katara said to Jade.

"Yeah that would be perfect, we could talk in private while you feed them." Jade said, "Thank You!"

"You're welcome. Ok Goodbye I need to get back to bed before Aang wakes up and goes hunting for me." Katara said as she gave the young woman a hug, "I will always answer your questions, no mater how embarrassing they can be."

Katara had left and Jade fed and changed the twins. Jade felt better about knowing that when Katara comes in the morning they would be able to talk. Jade needed help figuring out what was going on, how she felt, how he acted late last night after they had fed Sapphire and Kya. This was a whole new world for her, when she had had a crush on Aang growing up in Ba Sing Se, she had never felt like this, yeah he was sweet and very dreamy but this feels different to her. Definitely NOT what she had ever felt before or thought about feeling before. She was so confused and really needed to talk to someone about it.

Jade was awoken by the twins crying again, the sun had just barely started to peak above the horizon. Jade went into the kitchen and started to heat up a pot of water to heat up the bottles. She heard a door open. "Good morning Jade." Haru said to her.

She turned and looked at him, she had butterflies in her stomach that went wild the moment she heard his voice. "Good morning." She returned the greeting with a wide smile, a smile that she couldn't hold back if she tried.

"Is this the second time you are up with them?" Haru asked her.

"No, they woke up a few hours ago. I ran into Katara, she was dropping off a few bottles for Sapphire and Kya."

"She is such a wise and wonderful woman, she always puts others ahead of herself. I've never known her to be selfish. A little over protective of Aang, but not selfish." Haru said as he remembered what Katara had inspired him to do. "Taking care of her three babies for a few days does not even compare to what she has done for me."

"Yeah she is wonderful." Jade thought of her best friend and employer. "Ok, I need to get the twins so I can feed them, they are hungry." Jade gave him a small smile with a twinkle in her eye."

"Ok." He said. As Jade went back into her room Haru started heating up water, he grabbed a teapot and put tea leaves into it. Once the pot was steaming he poured a cup for himself and one for Jade. He carried a tray to Jade's open bedroom door and knocked. "Come in." He heard her call from inside of the room. He and found Jade sitting on her bed feeding one of the twins.

"I made tea..." Haru blushed, "Would you like some?"

"Oh, thank you, you are so sweet!" She said with a smile. After the twins were full and sleeping, Haru gave Jade a cup of tea.

"I'm sorry for kissing you last night, you hadn't answered me before I did it... I just really wanted to do it, I am so sorry." He said sadly.

Jade smiled at him, "I liked it." She said to him as she put her hand on his. "I like you!"

"I'm happy Aang and Katara tricked me into coming here, I haven't been this happy in a long time... You make me happy." He told her.

"I'm glad they did too. They kept telling me that I'd like you, that you'd like me." She smiled back at him. "I was so embarrassed when you got here, I didn't know that he went to go get you. Katara only told me he went to go get someone to help him with renovations."

"That was the truth, at least part true." He laughed. "I now understand why he wanted me to come, I asked him why didn't he just get Toph to help him."

They went into the kitchen where Jade sliced the remaining one and one third egg custard tarts that Aang had made for them. Everyone was starting to wake up for the day. Before they knew it seven people were up and moving about. Gyatso was happy to be having the egg custard tart his daddy made for breakfast.

After Haru left to go work on the renovations the twins were starting to fuss again, as if on cue Katara knocked on the door then came in. "Right on time." Katara said as she went to bring her babies into Jade's room with Jade's help.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" Katara asked Jade, once they were seated on Jade's bed.

"Well... Uuummmm... Last night, when I got up to feed Sapphire and Kya, Haru woke up when I was heating the bottles... he helped me feed and change them... Then after their tummies were full and they were back into their bassinets... He asked me if he could kiss me..." Jade's cheeks turned crimson red, "Then before I could answer him he kissed me... it was just a small soft kiss, but it made me tingly and a bit dizzy. Is that normal?" Jade ask Katara.

Katara smiled, "Your first kiss, how sweet. Yes all that is perfectly normal, perfectly wonderful." Katara said.

"Is that how you felt the first time you kissed Aang?" Jade just wanted a reference point to know where to go with all of this.

"A tiny bit, but we were lost and frightened so it was more for survival and not so much about feeling... But the second time... he left me blushing and feeling stunned, dazed, and dizzy..." Katara laughed for a second, "Not a good way to feel as you head off to battle. It did give me courage and when I saw him again It felt like he had just kissed me all over again."

"What do I do now? I am confused, Katara." Jade said to her.

"You are lucky you get to go with your feelings sooner than I did. I was so scared that something bad would happen and I would loose him forever. He's strong and Powerful... but he was just a kid still, he had to face The Fire Lord by himself. I wouldn't let myself fall for him, even though at the same time I already had. I didn't want to hurt inside, so I kept it all inside. After everything was done and over with, I kissed him outside The Jasmine Dragon, it wasn't exactly a soft kiss on the lips either... When Aang had gone missing I was so depresses for about four months, Suki had to bring my food in to the room for me, she had to make me get up and get dressed... But as soon as I felt Gyatso move inside me... I knew I would always have a part of Aang, I would have something that told me how much he loved me. What I'm trying to say is, tell him how you feel, how kissing him made you feel... Ask him how it made him feel. Aang once told me how falling for me actually felt like he was falling..."

"Thank You for talking to me, Katara. If I have anymore questions may I talk to you?"

"Jade... I already told you, No matter what the question I will answer it for you... Have I not? Even the most embarrassing question."

"Thank You Katara." Jade said.

"You're welcome... Now I need to get back home before Aang scolds me for not being selfish." Katara laughed. "Goodbye everyone." And with that Katara disappeared out the front door.