Chapter 6 Back from the spirit world

A/N : Here is chapter 6 like I promised 1 review is one chapter posted I am two days late but I couldn't post sooner sorry

Since I had 2 reviews for last chapter 1 more review for this one and I will post another chapter and 3 more for 2 chapters

Same goal as last chapter 15 reviews (13 now) before the time travel chapter (in 2 or 3 chapters I'm not sure yet) and I will post every day or every two day a chapter to conclude this first book

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Aang went to bed with Katara not realizing where they were. Katara had obviously understood by now that he had no idea where he was since he said nothing about it, she was happy that he didn't realize that they were in the Southern Air Temple but she also remembered how he always avoided the subject when she proposed him to come and deal with the temples and especially this one where all his friends were. She knew that in the morning it was not going to be easy.

And when the morning came he was still tense from last night "You slept in my bed ?" she knew what Aang was going to say before he even said it. It was not the first time they shared a bed for a night but it was the first time when he thought that he could kill her. She decided to cut him before he could even say anything else "Yes I did you needed me to sleep last night we both know that we sleep better with each other close than separated. And see" as she said that she took on his hand to put her hand on his face "I'm still here alive and well you did nothing to me and you won't do anything to me ever I know you Aang and I know you probably better than yourself." she was stroking his cheek wiping a few tears that were starting to appear

They watched each other for two minutes in a total silence before Katara was firmly embraced, Aang took her in his arms to be sure that she was still here alive and that he did nothing to her and then he started sobbing "I'm so sorry Katara, I'm so sorry, I completely broken, fear is dictating my every move I'm so afraid of losing you. I can't live without you. I would do anything to be just at your side once again, but I wouldn't allow myself to if I did anything to you. I can't be without you"

"I know My Love I know" the fact that she was using 'My Love' and not 'Sweetie' like they used to was really important for both of them he used it many times in the start of their relation when she was completely down many times at the fact that she was a bloodbender and now ironically it was her that was using it when she would have loved to hear it from him after what happened the night before

"You know that I couldn't live without you either but…" she was cut by Aang who was not realizing that she had begun talking "I wouldn't allow myself to live at all if I did anything to you" he said that as if it was a thought that he said out loud without even realizing it

"Aang !" Katara shouted "I don't want talking like that" she was beginning to cry herself "Please look at me and tell that you didn't said what I think you just said" at the end she was soothing like she always was

"I said it Katara and I mean it" he said while breaking from the embrace and watching her "a life without you is a life that is not worth living, and a life where I would have to know that I killed you is not even worth to be remembered."

Katara was now sobbing "How can you say that ? I know that you love me but please don't do this for me I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I knew that you did that or even if I know that you could do that anytime so please don't do this for me"

Aang didn't bothered to respond he had to try one last thing to be sure it was her, he had to be sure so he kissed her but not only did he kiss her but when he realized that it was really her, he started crying and he maintain the kiss he didn't wanted to taste her he didn't wanted to deepen the kiss he wanted to maintain the kiss as as he could helping them with his airbending he kissed her like he was going to die tomorrow or like he didn't see her a thousand years.

It was after 10 minutes of kiss and help with airbending that Aang couldn't do it all so he pulled away "It's been so long I wanted to do that only that" he said while crying and as if the latest subject didn't exist anymore

Katara was confused, they kissed before and apart from the duration of the kiss it hadn't anything particular "What do you mean ? we kissed before"

"It's been too long since we last kissed" he only stated like it was obvious

"What do you mean ? You were gone only for half a day and even less"

At that moment Aang realized, he realized that it was obvious she was as young as she was when he asked her to marry him she was as young as she was in the tortures he wasn't sure if he wanted to talk about it but he had to make her understand his position so he decided to tell her the truth "I wasn't gone for a day I was gone for at least a hundred years every year he tried to make look like the villain the one who killed my people he tried every year the first day of the year that's how I know that I was gone for this long. I never lost faith in you. I tried as hard as I could to not lose you and every year it was harder. It's been a hundred years since I have seen you not full of blood from your tortures or not in a position where you kill my people. You can understand that I can't do this again, I nearly lost faith in you and if I was sent here maybe it's because I have and I don't know it yet, if I was sent here maybe it is to kill you against my will and achieve their work on me : to broke me"

Katara was dumbfounded. She hadn't realized that he was gone for this long. She hadn't even realized that the spirit world could have time that passed differently. She was so shocked that she didn't realize that tears were coming out of her eyes "I…" she didn't even knew what to say she was crying, crying for him, crying against her, she realized that it was her fault if he was gone this long that if she knew how to meditate if she knew how to make the connection between them work she could have saved him before and maybe he wouldn't have had this horrible experience. "I'm so sorry Aang" she said while taking him into an strong embrace and sobbing on his chest

"Sorry for what ?" he was tense as if she would have revealed a hard secret, as if she would have told him that she was dead and it was all in his mind

"Sorry for failing you, sorry for not rescuing you sooner, sorry that you had to live this horror for a hundred years, sorry that I was not able to connect with you before, sorry that I have not completed our link. Maybe if I had done any of those sooner then maybe you would not have had to live a hundred years of suffering, of torture maybe if…"

Aang was reassured from his previous concerns but shocked that she blamed herself "You can't blame yourself" he said in a hard tone "you cannot know what would have happened if you had done anything differently. You saved me and even if I passed a hundred years in tortures if you are here then everything is great for me" he said again without realizing where they were and before Katara could reveal him he asked her

"I remember a bond between us the spirits always talked about it but I don't remember actually doing it"

"That's because I've done it myself I did all that you said was needed to complete the bond but I think it's not complete" She didn't wanted to talk about her using bloodbending she wasn't sure he remembered it but if he remembered he would probably help her soothe her and as much as she wanted it she wanted first to help him he was the one who needed her and not the other way around.

"But" she said before he could even say something "I think we shouldn't deal with this now we have another thing to deal with"

Her last words made Aang worried : what was she talking about that could be more important than to be with her? He couldn't let her go now that she found him and that he was reunited with her. "What ?" he asked her

It was obvious for her she had to tell him but she didn't had an idea on how to do it without making it worse for him so she decided to simply ask him : "do you know where we are right now ?"

"At home ?" he asked without being sure of where home was because of the years he passed on the spirit world he didn't knew if it was yu dao or what was cranefish town and will soon be republic city thanks to Sokka's initiative

"We are at the Southern Air Temple. It was the closest spiritual place we could go to connect our minds." she said without watching him in the eyes

"The Southern Air Temple ?" he asked as if he didn't realized that it was true

"I need to go" he simply said while going outside he was going upstairs to the rooms. He stopped himself on the door of a room and couldn't move or go anywhere Katara was at his side not saying a word she knew that he needed time for himself now more than ever.

Aang stopped in front of his mentor's, Gyatso, room he began to sob, he then lost control of his legs and fell on his knees he was crying not as hard as when he saw Katara being tortured but this time it was different : the fact that he cried made him lose his breath it had a physical reaction that was impossible in the spirit world. He began to shake, he was losing the control of his body he remembered everything he had to saw Gyatso being killed but his mind went also to Katara he remembered her being tortured, being killed and he remembered when on the first years Sōjōbō made him watch when Gyatso was killed but killed with Katara by Sokka and his friends he remembered it too well he couldn't take those souvenirs out of his mind "I'm sorry, I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough" he said while gasping for breath, "You're dead and it's because of me"

Katara didn't knew but those words were for her also he was broken so broken that he forgot that she was never in any danger, he forgot that she wasn't with them, he knew, he always resisted when the spirits tried to tell him that she killed the airbenders but now without her knowing it he forgot that she was alive and well beside him.

He was now shaking uncontrollably; it was too hard for his mind and body to endure. He was sinking in the metaphorical ocean of his mind, on his emotions.

Katara was so shocked that she didn't knew what to do. She just stood there watching him shake as she was crying. She was hesitant, a part of her wanted to reach for him and take him in her arms but another part was feeling guilty. She wanted to help him but she wanted to help herself too. She didn't knew what to do.

After one or two minutes she didn't realized, she decided to take him in her arms to help him, to appease him, to soothe him.

Aang realized that he wasn't alone, that Katara just took him in her arms while he was shaking and sobbing "Don't leave me Katara. I beg you you're all that I have left, I can't live without you. I have nothing else left please, please don't leave me." It was a subtle and gentle plea. It was nothing like the beautiful love declaration he made a few days earlier. This time it was a supplication, a heart, which had been broken so many times, supplication for help.

Katara decided to say nothing and to accompany him in the rooms she had chosen she decided that the subject of what to do with the Air Nomads corpse could wait a few hours. When they arrived in the room Aang was less broken still crying a little but he wasn't shaking so she decided to talk to him "You know that all our friends are here for us right ?" She already knew his answer but she wanted to help him heal and it certainly wasn't by saying nothing and letting him get away from their friends that she could do it.

"Katara they killed you and tortured you" he responded a little annoyed

"No" she said firmly "those were the spirits"

"With their faces it's hard to not think it's them"

"But you haven't lost faith in me then why did you lose faith in them ?"

"BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED YOU" Aang shouted while crying out loud more than before "the fact that they attacked my people isn't the worst I could forgive them for that but attacking you I can't"

"Listen, My Love, please try to deal with those feelings and please don't shut yourself from your friends do it for me" she asked him

"I will try" he responded "but I can't promise anything"

"That's all I ask you to do" she said

"But" he started again "I don't want them near you, I can try to deal with them if I don't have to worry about you that's all I ask the time we deal with this I don't want you near them"

"Okay I will try to limit my contacts with them but you cannot ask me more they are my friends too"

"Fine" Aang responded a little disappointed and pissed but he knew that he couldn't do anything more

At this same time a few meters away was arriving a royal Airship with a young couple on board

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Here is chapter 6 hope you liked it.

It's a filler chapter for the story but a very important one for the characters I hope that you have understood that

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One question this time

Will Aang succeed in 'reconciling' with his friends ?