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Chapter 115
There was a sharp knock at the door to Aang and Katara's palace suite, followed by a man's voice calling out "Avatar Aang, please open the door. I have an eurgent message from Fire Lord Zuko. He needs to speak to you right now." Aang pulled on his clothes and opened the door. "Fir..." Aang put his finger to his lips, to quiet the guard. Aang left the suite and closed the door behing himself.
"Okay, what is it?" He asked the guard.
"Fire Lord Zuko needs to speak to you again. He is in his office right now." The guard told him.
"Okay thank you, I'll walk over there right now, thank you." Aang told the guard before swiftly walking to Zuko's office.
Aang knocked on the door, he heard Zuko grumble a bit then the shuffeling of his feet across the carpet. The door was yanked open "What!?" His eyes went wide, "Oh, Aang I'm so sorry... I keep getting disturbed. I'm sorry to call you out of your bed but Azula just dropped off some disturbbing news... The New Ozai Society... It's bigger and it goes deeper than we origonaly thought!"
Aang tirdly flopped down on the chair in the room, he sighed. "How bad is it?"
"Well..." Zuko shook his head, "Azula brought me info that they are planning to break into the prison Ozai is in... soon... VERY soon... If they get him they will be hunting you down. Trying to get at you anyway they possibly can. And we don't even know where they are hidding."
Aang shook his head, he knew there was so many ways they could get to him, the Air Temples, the Southern Water Tribe, Toph... well maybe not Toph... "TOPH! We need Toph!"
"Toph? What about Toph?" Zuko asked. "She doesn't need to be protected."
"Not protected... To protect, to help us find out where they are! Who else in the world could have ever found the hidden bunker under your palace? Only Toph and you know it!" Aang was exstatic over this idea. "I'll go get her myself!"
"Oh No! YOU can't go anywhere! If they get you we are all dead and I'm pretty sure you know that already, Aang." Zuko told his best friend. "The whole world would be in trouble if they got you."
"Dammit!" Aang yelled in frusteration. "I can't lock myself up! I have to do something! It's MY JOB... THE AVATAR'S JOB... to keep balance in the world! I can't let the world down again, I've done it too many time already."
"Look, Aang... Stay here spend time with Katara and your children. Protect them while I make sure you are protected." Zuko told him.
Aang leaned forward reasting his head in his hands. "If... If I had just ended him... this wouldn't be happening... I wouldn't have to hide."
"Aang, I could have sentanced him to death just as easily as you could have ended him... maybe easier. This isn't your fault." Zuko tried to reasure him. "I'll send out a company of men first thing in the morning to collect Toph and some of her top students, having her help would make things a bit easier... Nothing gets past her."
"You're telling me!" Aang said remembering back so long ago when she pulled him aside informing him that she knew exactly what he and Katara had done while everyone else went out. "Can I go back to bed now... I'm exhausted...It's been a long day and evening... and I have a wife I left all alone in that big bed in our room" He yawned.
"Yeah, I need to go to bed before I get yelled at by my wife." Zuko said as he got up and opened the door, ushering Aang out. He locked the door behind himself. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight." Aang responded walking back to his room.
Once he was back in their suite he quietly closed the door to thier bedroom then started to get back in bed.
"Where'd you go?" Katara asked as she rolled over to face him.
"I'm sorry My Love, I didn't mean to wake you." He slid next to her and kissed her forehead. "Zuko called me to his office." Aang didn't want to share all the horrible information Zuko had just given him. "He needed to talk to me... He is sending a group of soldiers to bring Toph here... We need her help too."
"Really? We haven't seen her since Kya and Sapphire were born! It will be wonderful to see her again."
"Yeah it will be good to see her again." He told her.
"Aang?" She mumbled
"Yeah, My Love?"
"It's a girl." She said as she cuddled up against him and quickly drifted off to sleep again.
Aang wasn't sure what she ment but he could find out tomorrow, he decided that he was going to take Zuko's advice and spend as much time with his family as he could. He was going to play with his children and make sure Katara fattens up a bit. 'What does she mean it's a girl?' Aang thought to himself, as he drifted off to sleep also.
"Mommy! Daddy! Ake up!" Gyatso said jumping on his parents bed. "Bekfast here!"
"Okay, little one. I'm up, I'm up. Lets let Mommy sleep just a little bit longer, we can wake her up with her breakfast on a tray for her in bed."
"Is Mommy sill sick?" The boy asked.
"Kind of... she needs to rest, and eat lots of food." Aang told him.
"Why?" The small airbender asked.
"Because mommy is going to have another baby." His father answered.
"Baby? Like Kya and Sapphire?" Gyatso looked like he was trying to make out what all this meant.
"A brother or sister." Aang told him.
"It boy or girl?" Gyatso asked.
"It's..." Aang just now realized what Katara had meant last night 'It's a girl.'... "Last night mommy said it's a girl!"
"What her name, Daddy?" The boy was wareing a smile.
"Well, Little one, she doesn't have one yet. We will give her one when she gets here." Aang told him.
"When will her get here?" The miniature Airbender was so smart.
"Not for a while," Aang answered "Do you want to help me get a tray of food for mommy."
"Yeah!" The boy bounced happily as they came out of the bedroom.
"Good Morning Aang!" Jade said as she dished out breakfast to the two small girls.
"Good Morning Jade! I take it you are doing much better now?" Aang asked.
"Oh, I'm back to one hundred percent now!" Jade answered.
"One hundred and thirty persent!" Haru said as he put a hand on her patruding belly.
Jade giggled as she swatted his hand away. "You always want to toutch my belly now."
"I can't help it... My baby..." A smile crept across his face, "Our baby is growing in there... I think it's amazing. I love you so much."
Jade's cheeks turned pink as she smiled at her husband. "I'm excited too!" she told him. Jade turned to Aang, "Where's Katara?"
"I'm letting her sleep some more... Gyatso and I were going to take breakfast in to her in a little bit." Aang said serving food to Gyatso.
"Mommy have a baby girl!" Gyatso said excitedly as he ate his breakfast.
"A girl? How does he know?" Jade asked.
"Katara knows, she told me last night. After I got back from tazlking with Zuko... He had a servent come get me in the middle of the night." Aang said taking a big bite out of a pear. "I don't know how she knows, but she knows."
"What did Fire Lord Zuko want?" Both Jade and Haru asked at the same time.
"Azula brought him some information that he wanted me to know right away... We discust our options and decided we need Toph here, nothing gets passed her." Aang told them.
"Toph, I only met her the once, when Kya and Sapphire where born. She didn't stay very long either." Jade said.
"Toph is... interesting. She's quite bossy actually." Haru said remembering how Toph comanded the earthbenders during the invasion on the fire nation capitol.
Aang statrted laughing really hard. "Bossy is an understatement! You weren't trained by her! She was constantly throwing huge bolders at me... I would change interesting to insane." It felt good to laugh. "She is great though, one of the best friends I have, she's part of my family... and the best earthbending master I could ever have had. Zuko is sending a company to pick her up and bring her here." After Aang finished his breakfast he started loading all kinds of fattening yummies on a tray for Katara's breakfast, he had also made her a steaming pot of tea. "Thank you for feeding the girls, you guys."
"No problem Aang, it's my job." Jade happily said as she started to clean Kya and Sapphire's hands and faces after they finished eating.
"Come on Gyatso, let's go wake Mommy up with her breakfast, now." Aang said as he handed the little boy a napkin and a tea cup to carry in to his mother.
Aang set the tray of food on the night stand then stared at his beautiful wife for a few moments before he brushed her cheek with the back of his fingers. "Good morning My Love it's time to wake up. Gyatso and I brought you breakfast in bed."
She smiled and stretched before opening her eyes. "Aren't my guys sweet to me."
"Bekfast Mommy." Gyatso said before hopping up onto the bed, he handed her the napkin and tea cup he was holding.
His mother wrapped her arms around her sweet little boy and kissed his cheek. "Thank you Little One! I love you. Thank you Aang, I love you with every ounce of my being."
"I owe you everything I could ever give you and more, My Love."He leaned over and kissed her softly, as he pulled back he could see the slight tinge of pinkness on her cheeks, it made him smile. "I have a job to do and I will not let you stop me from doing it."
"Do you need to leave us for a while?" Katara asked him saddly with a pouty face.
"Nope, I am going to fatten you up! I am going to spoil you rotten! I am going to spend all the time I can with you and our three beautiful children." He told her. "Speaking of children... How do you know it's a girl?" He asked as he put his hand on her tummy.I can feel it. When I was taking a bath... I don't know how I did it, but I could feel her... She's healthy, and she is very strong." Katara said as she sat herself up.
"I'm so happy to hear that." Aang smiled. "What kind of bender do you want her to be?"
Katara raised an eyebrow at him. "What kind of bender do YOU want her to be?"
"Honestly... it doesn't matter to me, I'm just happy she is healthy and strong." Aang told her.
"Honestly, I want to give you as many airbenders as I can..." Katara said to him.
"Oh, My Love... I don't want you to be an Airbender dispenser; I hope you know that, I hope that you know that I never EVER expect that from you. Please don't ever think that's what I want." He told her. "I love you and I want you to be happy."
Katara drew in a long breath and let out a soft sigh, "I want you to be happy, and I want you to have as many children as you want." She blushed a bit as she smiled at him. "I want to give you many airbenders, Sweetie, your people were hunted down and slaughtered. I don't want you to be alone in the world."
"I'm not alone! You gave me two beautiful, smart, sweet, airbenders." Aang told her as he set the tray of food on her lap. "Now, for task number one! Time to eat!"
"Time eat!" Their little boy said. They both laughed, he was always trying to be exactly like his Daddy.
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(A/N To my worried reviewer... I am nowhere near done with this story, don't worry I will never abandon it... I just lost access to the internet for a little bit. This story is VERY important to me.)
