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? (Completed, takes place during Chapter 132)
Embers: (TAU) This story is a spinoff from Together Again. After Mai's death Zuko took his daughter to Ba Sing Se for a vacation; he wanted to get as far from the Fire Nation as he could, leaving nightmares and bad memories behind. One day Zuko took his daughter to the Zoo that Aang had created and that is where he met the beautiful green-eyed, chocolate brown haired beauty Taryn.
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Chapter 138
"Hi!" Katara said as Taryn answered her suite door. "Are you ready to go shopping? The market near her is lovely, they even have a place for us to have tea and snacks."
"Yeah, I'm ready." Taryn was a little nervous, yeah she talked to Katara a few times and seen her at meals but hasn't actually spent any real amount of time with her. Taryn thought Katara was great for finally shutting her mother up about her attitude and the way she's been acting since she found out the Tea Server was in reality the Fire Lord.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." Katara laughed. Taryn cheeks pinked She didn't know Katara could see her nervousness. "We're going to have lots of fun… I'm actually a kind person."
"Yeah, you really do seem like a nice person." Taryn smiled.
"The girls are waiting for us." Katara said as she and Taryn walked to the front door of the palace just inside the building, along with Zuko, Aang and the brand new father Haru.
"I am sending guards with you." Zuko told them as they approached, "Some in uniform and some that look like everyday shoppers."
"I agree with Zuko, you need protection while you're out there." Aang had his arms folded across his chest. "Don't give me any 'I can protect myself, Katara. The New Ozai Society is still out there and they've already caused problems." Katara could tell by the way Aang said the last word that Zuko had not told Taryn everything that happened the last time they were in the Fire Nation.
"Okay, for our safety." Katara decided they were right in wanting to keep the women they love safe. "Now can we go?" She smiled sweetly at the two men.
"Just be safe, My Love." Aang hugged her then knelt in front of her and kissed her growing belly then handed her a pouch of money. "Have fun!"
"Bye Mommy!" Gyatso said to Katara.
"Bye bye!" The Twins told her.
As soon as they were out of earshot of the guys there was a choir of "Aaawwww's" and "How sweet'!"
"I know, I know!" Katara laughed.
"That was just the sweetest thing I've ever seen." Taryn laughed softly.
"I bet your Zuko is just as sweet with you." Katara told her.
Taryn sighed. "Ever since we left Ba Sing Se my mother won't even give us five minutes alone. I just want to be alone with him… Am as right to feel this way? Mom acts like… like I'm five years old and needs to be protected from some sort of criminal."
"Zuko loves you very much." Jade told her. "You can see it when he looks at you."
"Honestly Taryn, I've known him since he was sixteen and I have never seen him as happy as he is with you." Katara told her.
"That can't be totally true what about his wife?" Taryn asked them. "Weren't they happy together? I mean with how Ursa is it seems like they were a happy little family."
"How much has he told you about Mai?" Katara asked.
"Well… Very little really, he always says he doesn't want to talk about it." Taryn frowned and shook her head. "The only thing he has told me about her was that when the Palace was attacked she was killed."
"Did he say how?" Jade asked.
"No, and I don't think I should ask." Taryn told them.
"Oh Look!" Katara exclaimed as they walked passed a bakery. "Those sweet rolls look sssoooo good!" All the girls started laughing.
"Lady Katara loves to eat when she's pregnant." Blossom said.
"Food is ssssooooo good!" Katara laughed. "The baby make me hungry all the time."
"At least we know the baby will be born fat and healthy." Jade said.
"How are yours Jade?" Taryn asked.
"They are so precious, being a mother is such a wonderful blessing from the spirits." Jade answered. "I'm so happy with my husband… It was Katara and Aang that set us up."
"Don't you mean introduced you two?" Taryn asked.
"No!" Katara started to laugh. "They introduced themselves when the literally ran right into each other outside a restaurant."
"I ended up on the ground!" Jade acted like she was angry about it but started to laugh with Katara.
"He's a dear old friend! We fought side by side together." Katara told them.
"You fought?" Taryn asked. "But you're titled… You are a Lady."
"Only through marriage." Katara laughed. "I'm a master waterbender."
"She's Avatar Aang's Waterbending Master!" Blossom told Taryn. "She taught him everything he knows about waterbending.
"You are the Daughter of Chief Hakoda, which makes you Princess Katara." Rose butted in.
"Well Princess Katara had to wash her brother's stinky socks all the time… not pleasant." Katara wrinkled her nose. "Okay girls I want to eat!"
"How does she go from stinky socks to eating?" Taryn laughed.
"We have no clue." Blossom said.
"It's the airbenders they burn energy faster making me eat more and more often." Katara told them.
"You already know it's an airbender… How can you tell?" Taryn was so fascinated by the Avatar's wife.
"Avatar Yangchan told Aang when he went on a walk in the spirit world." Katara said it as if it were a normal everyday thing everyone knew about.
When he did what?" Taryn felt so confused, this world was so new to her.
"He can go into what is called The Avatar State… his eyes and tattoos glow blue, while he's like that he can go into the Spirit World and talk to spirits. Whenever he needs advice he often turns to his passed lives… When he was talking to Avatar Yangchan she told him that this baby is an airbender." Katara said with her hand resting on the ball that was her growing baby girl.
"Wow, that's really interesting!" Taryn told her. "This is all new to me… only a few months ago I was a simple girl living in the middle ring of Ba Sing Se… Now… Now look at me I'm here in the Fire Nation about to marry who I thought was a simple widower that lived in the Fire Nation."
"I was just an everyday average girl at the South Pole until I got angry at my brother." Katara told her as they found a table to sit at.
"How did you meet The Avatar?" Taryn asked.
"Call him Aang." Jade laughed. "He doesn't like being addressed so formally by his friends and family."
Katara went on explaining to Taryn how she and Aang had met, fell in love, and married. "That sounds so exciting and wonderful!" Taryn told them. "I've met Azula once, she seems quite a bit off still but she seems to be a lot better now. She scared my mother pretty bad." Taryn started laughing. She shook her head then sipped at her cup of tea.
Katara raised her hand, catching the attention of the tea house worker. "We need more please." Everyone around the table laughed at the look on the employee's face. They had already had two tea goodie trays. "What?"
"I'm so happy to see you Jade." Taryn said. "Jade was my best friend, she worked for my mother for so long. Jade was the only person I got to see and talk to growing up. My mother was too busy grooming us to be perfect brides for rich and powerful men." Taryn let out a laugh. "I hated it and swore I wouldn't Marry anyone in high political places."
"That one backfired big!" Jade laughed. "I just love him so much. I fell in love with Lee…"
"Lee that worked at the Jasmine Dragon?" Katara laughed. "That's how he distresses."
"I just... I never expected that a simple Tea Server could be anything more that that." Taryn told them as the next round of tea and goodies were delivered to their table. "My mother hated him, said I was raised to marry a man better than just 'a tea server' as my mom said it over and over to me. She absolutely hated him."
"I think the feeling might be mutual." Jade laughed. "Your mother is going to get herself in big trouble if she keeps acting like she is."
"She called me a whore!" Katara was still very upset about that.
"I'm sorry…" Taryn shook her head shamefully.
"It's not your fault Taryn." Katara told her.
"I just feel…" Taryn started.
"No, you are fine. I really like you and I's so happy you found love." Katara told her.
"Your mother is atrocious." Jade said. "She has always been like that for as long as I can remember."
"Zuko caught her snooping in places she should not have been in." Taryn told them.
"She's so on her way to getting in big trouble with him." Katara said.
"I know… For some reason she thinks she's going to be allowed to live in the palace after we get married." Taryn said. "I already told her she was going back home… She got mad at me and called me ungrateful."
"Okay girls I'm ready to go shopping!" Katara said raising her hand once more.
"Would you like another tray?" The young woman asked as she came to their table.
"No, no… Do you sell your goodies for people to take with them?" Katara asked.
"Yes we do." The woman told her. "Would you like a basket?"
"I would like two baskets and the check, we're ready to go now." Katara told her. After a few minutes the girl came back with two big baskets and a slip of paper.
"You look kind of familiar… Do I know you?" The woman asked as she set the baskets in front of Katara.
"Well… I'm married to Avatar Aang if that's what you're asking." Katara told her.
"I knew it!" The girl said waving to the other server. "I told you she was Lady Katara!"
"You are amazing!" The other girl said. "We've heard so many stories about how you and your group of friends saved the world as just kids… teens!"
"Thank you so much!" Katara laughed.
"You're so lucky! Avatar Aang is so tall and so handsome now." The girls told her.
"You sound like the Air Acolytes." Katara laughed.
"What are Air Acolytes?" The asked. Jade, Rose, and Blossom all raised their hands excitedly.
"We are! We live in the Air Temples. We live and work and even practice like the Air Nomads did. We don't have to worry about food or housing everything is provided for us." Jade told them. "We only have one Fire Nation Acolyte."
"That sounds so amazing!" The first girl said.
"I barely make enough money to survive in the Capital."
"The Western Air Temple is not too far from here." Jade told them.
"You could go there and become Air Acolytes if you want, everyone is accepted no matter where they're from."
"That really does sound so wonderful." The second girl said.
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After a long day of shopping the girls returned to the palace with several baskets and boxes in the soldier's arms.
"Did you have fun?" Aang asked as he shook his head and laughed at the amount of stuff the girls had bought.
"I needed to get the perfect jewelry for the wedding." Katara justified.
"That looks like a lot more than jewelry." Aang said.
"Well…" Taryn interjected. "Most of it is mine… I wanted to have the proper colored clothes for after the wedding… Since I'm spending the rest of my life here… I thought Zuko would be happy to see me wearing Fire Nation colors and styles."
"I love you already, I would never ask you to change for me." Zuko said as he walked up to her and collected her in his arms. "It doesn't matter to me what you ware." Then taking advantage of Dyna's absence kissed his bride to be.
The girls erupted into a choir of "Aaaaawwwwww" and "How sweet."
"While you were gone I got another letter from Azula." Zuko told them all. "Apparently Azula told the Captain to go full speed because your sisters were driving her crazy… well crazier… They should be here by morning."
"Oh my spirits! So soon!" Taryn suddenly became excited and anxious at the same time.
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