Avatar: The Last Airbender: Reemergence

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True to Katara's prediction, Aang had gotten better once he woke up. In fact, it was like nothing had happened to him at all. They had gone and said their farewells to Zuko and Mai, who were returning back to the Fire Nation. Aang had then thought it would be a good time to discuss what he, Katara, Sokka, and Suki should do. They didn't have much of a reason to be in Ba Sing Se anymore and they were all ready to finally leave. Eventually, they decided that they would go back to the Southern Watertribe with Hakoda and they would be leaving the day after Aang's birthday. Until then, the group just went about their normal routine and soon enough, the day of Aang's sixteenth birthday had arrived.

Katara had gotten up earlier than him for once so that she could make them both breakfast and so he would be allowed a few extra minutes to sleep. Now, she was carrying two bowls of soup back into their bedroom, careful to be quiet so she wouldn't wake him just yet. She set the two bowls on a nearby nightstand, before climbing back onto the bed, gazing at her still sleeping boyfriend thoughtfully. If all went as planned today, Katara realized he would be her fiance by the time the day was over. She smiled at the thought of that.

He was lying on his back, as he often did when he was about to wake up and Katara decided to give him just a few more minutes before she woke him. For the time being, she decided to just lie down at his side, using one arm to prop her head up while her other hand traced the contours of his face. She was probably doing that longer then she should of, the soup was going to get cold eventually, so eventually she thought that it was time to finally wake him.

"Aang," She said gently, the hand on his face moving down to shake his shoulder, "Aang wake up."

He murmured something that she couldn't quite understand, and she briefly saw his eyes open before they closed again. Determined to wake him, Katara did the one thing that she always knew he would respond to: she kissed him.

Sure enough, a few moments later she felt his lips start to move against hers and she kept the contact for several more second before pulling away, finding his grey eyes staring up at her softly.

"Happy Birthday," she told him, leaning back down to place a light kiss on his forehead.

Aang sighed contentedly as he sat up next to her, smiling, "Well it's off to a good start," he paused, noticing that she was already dressed in her now typical orange and yellow air nomad clothes in contrast to the her usual undergarments she slept in, "How long have you been up?"

"Half an hour maybe," Katara shrugged, reaching over to grab one of the bowls from the nightstand and handing it to him, "I made you breakfast."

Aang gladly took the bowl, feeling quite hungry even though he had just gotten up.

"Thanks Kat," he said, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek, "I love you."

"Love you too," Katara replied, giving one of his hands a gently squeeze before grabbing the other bowl from the nightstand as they both began to eat. They were each sitting shoulder to shoulder with their backs against the back of the bed.

"So..." Aang started, trying to start some sort of conversation, "Is there anything planned for today?"

"Well Sokka and Suki went out," Katara answered him, "That gives us the whole day to ourselves. I bought two tickets for a play that I thought might be interesting. It starts in a couple of hours..."

"A play?" Aang questioned. They hadn't really attended very many plays and the last one was that Ember Island Players, which was a bad experience for him in more ways than one.

"Yeah," Katara said meekly, also suddenly remember the last play they went to...and how she had treated him during it. She was instantly scolding herself mentally. She should have known Aang wouldn't have the biggest fondness for plays, not after the last experience.