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Chapter 86

"You knew!" Jade said shocked.

"We helped Haru put everything together... Remember I asked you what would be a nice after dark date would be..." Katara smiled at the blushing young woman. "And It was Aang that went down and lit the lanterns just before you two got there."

"Katara you are my closest friend, you have changed my life... If you hadn't taken me with you to Ba Sing Se I would never had met Haru." Jade had a tear rolling down her cheek again.

"If you hadn't asked to feel Kya and Sapphire when I was pregnant I never would have taken you under my wing." Katara smiled at the young woman. "A tiny curiosity changed your life, not me."

"Ok, but I still have to thank you for making me part of your family." Jade hugged her best friend. "THAT changed my life."

Katara was brushing her hair when Aang got up from his floor pillow. "She cried..."

"What? Who cried? And Why?" Aang was confused.

"Jade cried when he asked her." Katara told him.

"Oh... Good cry or Bad cry?" Aang was a bit nervous, it was a big deal for all of them.

"Good cry!" Katara was beaming.

He picked her up and spun her around. "I'm so happy for them!" He said.

Katara laughed. "I'm so happy for them too!"

"I'm surprised Haru hasn't told me yet..." Aang was interrupted by a knock on their bedroom door. "That's probably Him." Aang laughed as he opened the door.

"I'm not interrupting anything am I?" Haru asked.

"No, I just finished meditation and Katara is just brushing her hair." Aang reassured Haru.

"oh, ok good... Can we talk?" Haru asked.

"I'm going to go talk with Haru, My Love, I'll be back in a little bit." Aang told her.

"Ok, Try not to take hours like you did last time. I'd kind of like to actually be awake still when you come to bed." She pouted.

She hummed as she finished brushing her hair. She thought about how Jade fell in love, she thought about Herself and Aang. About how much she loved him. She was suddenly hit with realization... She KNEW when she realized she first LOVED her husband... Her mind reeled, She hadn't realized she had Loved him so soon! She HAD to tell him, She knew in her heart she HAD to tell him. She got up and and opened her door. "Aang, I NEED to talk to you before we go to sleep, It's VERY important... Ok?"

"Ok, I'll be in in a minuet, My Love." He told her. He turned to Haru. "I'm so happy for both of you... My wife calls, I need to go to her now, we'll talk more in the morning...One more thing, Always remember 'Happy wife, Happy life... Goodnight."

"Goodnight Aang, you have been so much help to me... to us." Haru got up and went into his room.

Aang walked back into his and his wife's bedroom room. "Ok, My Love, I'm here what is so important that you NEED to tell me?" He chuckled, he didn't know what could be so important for her to tell him NOW!

"I've figured it out." Kara told him when he came back into their room.

"What did you figure out, My Love?" He smiled.

"I've Figured out when I started Loving you."

"What? When?!" He was shocked.

"We were in the desert. The hurt I felt for you when Appa was stolen... the hurt I felt for you when we found the person that had stolen him. All I wanted to do was hold you and comfort you." She told him.

"You did hold me and comforted me... You stopped me from hurting all those people. I could have hurt you too." Aang held his wife remembering how hurt he was.

"No, you wouldn't have, I knew you wouldn't." She told him. "I wanted to make it all better, I wanted you to be MY happy little monk again. I couldn't make it better, It hurt that I couldn't make it better." Katara held him like she wanted to when he was hurting inside.

He kissed the top of her head as he held her close to himself. She heard his sniffled once. "Thank You so much, My Love, You have no idea what it means to me to know that."

"I feel silly not realizing how much you liked me... the signs were all there." She laughed at how silly she was.

"I have a silly confession to make..." He turned dark crimson red. "Remember the day before the invasion when I was going crazy..."

"Yeah, you were acting REALLY strange from lack of sleep." She wanted to giggle at how red he was, but she didn't want to make him any more embarrassed than he already was.

"I had a day dream about you... About how I felt about you..."

She knew how long he had been in love with her, she thought it was cute.

"In it I told you how I felt about you..."

She sat quietly smiling at him, she put her hand on his, giving him to courage to continue telling her what he wanted to.

"In it I told you that I loved you then I called you 'My forever girl... then we kissed." He was so red she thought he was going to spontaneously combusted or possibly go into the Avatar state.

She kissed his lips softly. "I will always be your 'Forever Girl' Sweetie. You are too cute, I love you." She reassured him.

"I love you so much... I think that was about as hard for me to admit as us kissing in The Cave of Two Lovers was for you to admit."

"No, I think it was about as hard to admit as telling you about the silly girl that believed with every bit of herself that The Avatar would return and end the war." She turned bright red.

"I love, loving you." He told her.

"I love loving you too Sweetie." She cuddled up aginst him as they lay in their bed. Her head was resting on his shoulder as she yawned then closed her eyes and within minuets she was asleep.

Katara woke up as the sun shown through their bedroom window. She smiled and stretched, Kya and Sapphire had finally slept through the entire night. She could hear them babbling to each other from their cribs. She threw off her blanket and got herself dressed.

"Good morning My beautiful Baby girls!" She said as she walked into their room.

They both gave her huge smiles. "Mamamama"

Aang had felt her get up, he, too, got up and got dressed. He followed her into the Girl's room.

"Good morning Sweetie." She said as she heard the bells coming closer to the door to the nursery. She had been nursing Kya when he opened the door. "I'm so glad I put bells on your boots." She laughed.

"Good morning, My love, good morning my beautiful baby girls." He said as he entered the room.

"Could you please start breakfast while I nurse the girls?" She asked him as he brushed the back of his knuckles along Kya's soft plump golden brown cheek.

"Ok, My Love." Then he kissed the top of the heads of the 3 most important girls in his life.

Katara heard a knock at their door then it opened then closed. "Good Morning!" Jade called.

"Good Morning Jade." Katara called from Kya and Sapphire's room.

Jade knocked on the twins' door than entered. "Good Morning Katara, I feel so happy right now."

"I am so happy for you... I told you, you would like him... now we get to plan a wedding." Katara said. "I didn't get to have a traditional wedding."

"Would you help me?" Jade looked a bit worried at the thought of trying to plan a wedding.

"I said 'WE' didn't I." Katara laughed... "Don't tell me you are having second thoughts right now."

"No, I want to spend the rest of my life with him... That is the one thing I am absolutely positive about." She had a dreamy look in her eyes. "I just don't know where to start with planning a wedding... I don't know what all needs to be done... all that sort of stuff... I am sure about one thing there, I want you by my side, you are the closest thing I have to a family... I don't even know where to start to try and find my father... It's been 10 years since I last saw him."

"Well, We have The Avatar, we have the friendship with just about all the world leaders... I think with all our friends we should be able to find him for you." Katara told her.

When Sapphire finished nursing, the two ladies joined the guys in the Dinning area for breakfast and tea. Gyatso was already eating his fruit that daddy had cut up for breakfast. "Good Morning Little One!" Katara said as she passed Aang Kya and kissed Gyatso on his head.

"Morning Mommy!" He said.

"Sweetie, Jade needs our help..." Katara said.

"What does she need? We can do our best to help her." He said.

"She needs our help to find her Father... She wants to see him... I figure that with 'The Avatar' The Fire Lord, King Bumi, and King Keui... We might just be able to help her find him... I don't think he would have gone to one of the Water tribe." Katara told him.

"Why do you want to find your dad?" Haru asked his bride to be.

"So I can tell him I'm going to be getting married... I would like him to come."

"Where did you last see him? Has he contacted you since? What is his name? What kind of work does he do? I can talk to the other leaders today about him." Aang asked her.

"He left me in Ba Sing Se, with one of his friends... I got a few letters from him a few months after he left... He had found work but said it was not a safe place for a little girl, he had gotten a job as a deck hand... That's the last I heard of him... His friend threw me out on the streets because he wasn't sending anymore money to take care of me, that's what his friend told me... As far as I know, he is somewhere sailing the oceans... His name is Zane." Jade finished.

"Aang! What was the name of that boat Captain that let you work on the boat to pay your way to the Southern Water Tribe for the tournament?!" Katara asked.

"OH my Spirits, I know him... I know where he would be at..." Aang was in shock.

Jade's head came up quickly. "You know where to find my father!"

"Yeah, we talked a lot, he had told me he had to leave his daughter in Ba Sing Se because she would not be safe on a boat full of men... He said he sent money for his friend to take care of her every month for years! He misses you dearly Jade... He told me that if I didn't win the Tournament he had a daughter my age I could marry." He laughed at the last part.

"Oh MY Spirits!" Jade squealed as she jumped up and hugged Aang. "You know where my dad is!"

"His shipping route goes from near Haru's mining village down to The Southern Water Tribe Village then back, he passes right by The Southern Air Temple." Aang told her. "As soon as The World Leadership Meetings are over, I'll go find him and bring him to you."