Pirate Love (kataang story)

Family Reunion

Aang and Katara quickly made their way below deck, knowing that they had some questions that needed answering. Although she knew that Aang was really the one with the questions, she also knew that anything he did, she was going to do, too, so it really didn't matter who had the questions or not. Wherever he would go, she would go with him. Even if it meant giving up her mission for him.

As she had confessed to him while he had been... wherever he was, she loved him a great deal, and couldn't imagine her life without him. And although she knew that she wanted to do the world a favor by ridding it of the plague called pirates, Aang meant far too much to her to let him go now, and would gladly give up her pursuit of vengeance to make sure that she stayed at his side.

Not that she had been forced to make this choice yet. She got the feeling that she would have to soon, what with Aang seeing a spirit while they had been dancing in the Crew Mess. If she had to guess what the spirit had been there for, she would likely chalk it up to something to do with him being the Avatar. Despite what little knowledge her grandmother had told her about the Avatar, she still didn't know that much about it.

Whatever it was, it must have been important if Aang needed to talk to Zuko immediately. And knowing that Aang wouldn't be acting this seriously if it wasn't a serious situation, she saw fit to not ask him anything until he was ready to tell her. When he had it figured out, she was sure that he would let her in on what exactly was going on.

She just hoped it wasn't what she thought was happening.

Though she understood well that the world would need its Avatar one day, she had hoped that they would have had time to at least take care of most of the pirates in the world, but from the way he was acting, it didn't seem like it would be so. Granted, she had hunted down many pirates over her years of piracy, but there were still a lot out there that she wanted to make sure were put down.

But, knowing that there wasn't much she could do about it if Aang was being called into his duties, she decided to be content that she would be with him no matter what happened. As long as she was at his side, then she was right where she wanted to be.

Finally reaching the Crew Mess, they looked around and weren't so surprised to find Zuko, Mai, and Iroh all sitting at their usual table. The party was still going, but it was clear that people were quite drunk. Well, except for Toph, Sokka, and the other three. Every other member of the crew looked like they could barely stand.

Sharing a nod of understanding, they quickly made their way over to the table and took a seat in front of the three, taking them all by surprise as they noticed that it was no longer just them.

"What's up with you guys?" Mai asked dully as she leaned back against Zuko, looking as bored as ever as she mindlessly drew circles with her shuriken on the table in front of her.

"We need to talk to Zuko," was Aang's only reply, making all three of the Fire Nation refugees' eyebrows raise as they heard this.

"What do you need to talk to me about?" Zuko asked with a raised brow, his voice sounding uninterested, but the curious gleam in his eye betrayed his true thoughts.

The two were silent for a moment, and as Katara looked at Aang and waited for him to explain, he finally decided that he would probably want all of their input. "I just had a... vision about something. Something that you all might know about," he began, taking their interest immediately as they sat up a little straighter.

"What do you mean, young Avatar?" Iroh asked with a raised brow as he took a sip of his tea and set the cup down.

"Katara told me that you guys were running away from something when she let you guys join the crew. What were you running away from?" he decided to ask, watching as the three people in front of him shared an uneasy look.