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 written prequels to Together Again, they are part of what I call my TAU (Together Again Universe) here is a list of them along with its Summary
A Second First Date; Aang wants to take Katara out for the perfect date, their first date was so bad Aang want's this one to be perfect… Aang wants to take Katara out for the perfect date, their first date was so bad Aang want's this one to be perfect… You don't always get a second chance.
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; She was ready to travel the world the moment she turned 16. Little did she know, life never goes as expected and that a young Airbending Master just starting out on her own is no exception. Will the winds of change bring her happiness and fulfillment? Or will she only to bed led to sorrow and regret?
I have a new collection of One-shots called Dear Diary: They are Katara's thoughts that take place during the time they traveled the world before the Hundred Year War ended.
Other stories I am currently working on (Together Again Universe are marked as TAU)
A Warrior's Path; Suki wants to be the best warrior she can be and follow in her mother's footsteps. Life comes with so many choices to make, will she always make the right choice? Will life teach her to be the best leader she can be or is there something else in store for her?
Across the Wastelands; (TAU) Aang is sent on a journey by King Bumi… One that only he can take… To search for something very important, except Bumi wouldn't tell him what he needed to find! What will he find?
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Chapter 131
"I want to take you to one of my favorite hiding places that I found growing up here." Aang told her, he was holding her hand guiding her along.
"You mean after living here for a couple years you STILL haven't showed me all of your hiding places?" Katara playfully scolded him.
"I was saving this one, it's kind of special to me." Aang confessed. "It's where I would go when the other boys…" A frown pulled at his face. "They wouldn't let me play games with them, they said because I was the Avatar it wouldn't be fair."
"Oh, Sweetie I'm so sorry." She felt his heartbreak. "How could they treat you that way?"
Aang stopped and smiled down at her. "It's ok… I… I ran away not too long after. Then you found me, you became my friend right away. I was kind of afraid if I told you I was the Avatar you wouldn't let me play either."
"I had so much fun penguin sledding with you." Katara told him. "I had so much fun traveling with you… and falling in love with you."
"Okay we're here." Aang told her.
"Where are we?" Katara asked, she had never came to this spot before, or if she did it was so ordinary that she would overlook it.
They were standing before yet another beautiful waterfall that turned into a knee-deep stream that flowed to the edge of another cliff and falling to another beautiful pond with a meadow full of flowers. It was a beautiful sight but she couldn't see what was so special about this part.
"This is a place I found while exploring on my own." Aang effortlessly parted the waterfall using waterbending, revealing an entry to a cave. "Ladies first."
With a little help, Katara was able to crawl through the short tunnel. A few feet further and she was in a spacious cave with glowing green crystals. Katara smiled and a few tears escaped, it was exactly like The Cave of Two Lovers. Aang came up behind her, "Beautiful, isn't it?"
Without a single word she whirled around and planted a kiss on his lips. "What was that for?" Aang asked her.
"I had to… It… It reminded of the Cave of Two Lovers." She said with a shy smile and pink cheeks.
"Oh!" His smile grew and he blushed a bit too. "Uuummm, I didn't even realize it." He chuckled.
They set up the picnic blanket and he began pulling items out of the basket he had been carrying. All the food looked so delicious, and it was gone in no time.
"Sweetie?" She asked, she was laying on the blanket with her head in his lap, staring up at the crystals with him.
"Yeah?" He answered, looking down into her eyes.
"I'm sorry I've been emotional lately." She told him chewing on her bottom lip.
"It's okay My Love." He smiled down at her. "You have an excuse, you are giving me another child."
"I know but I got over my hair a back in the Fire Nation, I had totally forgotten about it until I saw all the looks people were giving me when we got back home." She told him. "It will grow back."
"You will always be beautiful to me no matter what, My Love. Never forget that." He told her as he softly caressed her cheek. You always have been and you always will be."
"Even when we are all old and wrinkly?" She laughed.
"Even then." He promised.
"I love you." She told him.
"I love you too." He told her.
"I could stay in here forever." Katara sighed as she looked up at her husband's face.
"Maybe we should move, make this our…" Aang paused for a moment mentally counting about all the places that had Avatar homes in them, "fifth home." He laughed.
"Wow, I hadn't even realized we had so many." She told him.
"But here… This temple is our true home." Aang told her.
"Sweetie, when are you going to start teaching Gyatso and Sapphire airbending?" Katara asked him.
"I was going to wait a while like maybe four or five… but they both are picking it up fast I guess I need to start thinking about starting soon." Aang sighed.
"I know you will figure it out, Gyatso already wants to be just like you." Katara told him.
"I'm sorry I wasn't with you when he was born." Aang told her.
"It wasn't your fault, we didn't even know you were still alive." She comforted him. "And you had no idea I was even pregnant… I mean it kind of just happened, but I didn't think of it as a burden, I thought of it as a connection to you, he is part of you."
"And when I first saw him I…" He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled "I thought…"
"I know what you thought you don't have to say it." She told him.
"Yes I do, I need to say it so that I will no longer be ashamed of myself for thinking it." Aang told her. "I thought that I didn't mean as much to you as you did to me… that our love, our act of love… that you just gave it to someone else, and it hurt." His heart broke as he confessed the hurt feelings he had. "But when he airbent… You have no idea how proud I felt, but at the same time I felt such shame for thinking so low of you."
"I forgive you, Sweetie, I did a long time ago." Katara told him.
"Thank you… Thank you for letting me say how I felt… and most of all thank you for forgiving me." He told her.
"Okay, now that that's all been said… We need to think of names." Katara changed the subject to a brighter one.
"Well… we know it's a girl." Aang said.
"I hope she's an airbender, I mean, I'll be happy no matter what… But for you, I hope she's an airbender." Katara told him.
"I don't need another airbender child to be happy, My Love." He told her.
"I know, but you are… were," Katara smiled, "The last of your kind."
"And with your help, I'm not anymore." He told her.
"Which reminds me… We need to get back to them, and I need to start making dinner." She told him as she sat up. They packed everything back up into the basket, then Aang airbent himself to his feet; he held out his hand and helped his beautiful wife up too.
Katara bent the water away from the mouth of the cave, giving them both a dry path leading back to land. The slowly strolled back up to their apartment, saying 'Hello's' and answering 'How are you's'?
"Suki is going to need me soon." Katara told him.
"I know… Before the WLM's were canceled due to the danger we were in in the Fire Nation and they were sent home, all Sokka ever talked about was how happy he was about having another baby boy."
"He does realize she could be having a girl right?" Katara laughed.
"I tried telling him that but he said he was a strong warrior and his sons will be strong warriors too." Aang over acted when he said what her brother had told him. Katara started laughing so hard she had to stop walking and hold onto her swollen abdomen because it hurt when she laughed really hard.
"I wonder if I should tell Suki that only guys can be strong warriors." She hardly managed. "Good thing for him that she's pregnant right now or she would kick his ass for saying that."
"I remember when we first met her." Aang laughed. "He was so sexist."
"Nothing has changed... except now he knows she can kick his ass if she really wants to." Katara said.
"I thought it was funny when I saw him in the Kyoshi Warrior's dress." Aang said.
"I remember that just before that someone tried to show me a thick he had figured out that had to do with a marble." She told him interlacing their fingers.
"You weren't even looking!" He scowled.
"Do I have to tell you the same thing I have to tell Gyatso?" She asked him then continued anyways "Just because I'm not looking straight at you doesn't mean I didn't see it."
"You don't miss much." Aang blushed, he had gone all this time thinking she was never paying attention when he was trying to get her attention or show her something.
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When they got back to their home Katara went into the kitchen to start making dinner, vegetable stew took a little while to cook. She was planning to spend the afternoon playing with her children, and teaching them. She has already started teaching them the basics, their alphabet and how to count; colors and shapes. She tells them stories that had been passed down generation after generation in the Southern Water Tribe about happy spirits and angry ones. She told them of the Ever storm that protects the spirit world entrance from people wishing to do wicked things. She often told them the stories of all the past Avatars.
As Katara was cutting the vegetables, nibbling every once in a while Aang came in. "I've been thinking about what you asked me…"
"I asked you many things, which one?" Katara smiled as she crunched down on a small chunk of baby corn.
"When I should start training Gyatso and Sapphire in airbending. I'm going to run down to the temple library to see what I can find there." He told her.
"Okay sweetie," She went up on her toes to give him a soft kiss, "Dinner won't be done for a few hours. Could you do me a favor and pick up some bread from the kitchen to go with our vegetable stew."
"Anything you want My Love" He told her then left out the kitchen door.
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Aang was getting frustrated, there was nothing written on specifically when they started training the children at the temples. He found lots of information on the mothers leaving their children at the Western Air Temple where guardians would be assigned children and bringing them to the temple that would be their home until their sixteenth birthday. He read books that talked about the grotesque tradition of Air Nomads paring off at the Yangchan festival spending a few months together to breed then going their separate ways once spring came. It made him think about his parents. Just to know their names would be wonderful to him. He wondered how his mother could have just abandoned him to go off on her own, it made no sense to him how they could be like that. Monk Gyatso wasn't his father but he knew that he loved him like a son.
Aang knew his children were very powerful airbenders, and smart… They could already do things that most children couldn't do until they were five or six years old. He really needed advice and the only way he could get that advice would be to talk to another airbender, to Avatar Yangchan.
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When Aang came back home, basket in hand with several loaves of bread and a few deserts Li had specially packed for them. "Perfect timing!" His wife called from the dining room. "Dinner just finished cooking."
"I got the bread, and Li sent up some deserts for us." Aang said as he placed the basket down on the table.
"She is such a sweet young woman." Katara said as she finished setting their table. "Did you find anything that could help us know when they should start training?"
"No, just more on breeding and leaving small children at the Western Air Temple to be given to guardians." He said with a scowl. "It just made me wonder what my parents were like."
"Well, you have me… and we are KEEPING our children." She comforted him. "I'm hungry, let's get the children and get dinner served."
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Aang had been lying awake in bed for what felt like hours, he needed advice. Aang decided to visit the Spirit World, to talk to Yangchan. He climbed out of bed, pulling his pants on and sitting down on his he closed his eyes and concentrated, he drifted away to the sound of his wife's light snoring.
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