🅷🅴🆈 🅻🅾🆅🅴🆁 - 𝖆𝖆𝖓𝖌 𝖝 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖗

chapter three

after getting back to your house, you sighed with both relief and contentment as you closed the door.

your knees buckled from below you, so you slowly slid down the side of the now-closed door and let out another shaky sigh.

water slowly crept their ways into your eyes, tears slipping from their confinement, falling onto your thighs.

quickly pulling yourself together, you wiped your eyes and thighs from any signs of water as you stood, walking over to the couch where your baby lay. you sniffed so your voice would be the same when you began to talk.

gently, you shook your baby awake, whispering for him to wake up. he did, rubbing sleepy eyes and slowly crawling towards you, lifting both arms up as a way to tell you to hold him.

you happily obliged, grabbing under his armpits and hoisting him up to a secure position in your arms as he buried his head into the crook of your neck.

"hey baby," you said softly, grimacing at the scratchy tone of your voice. "you gotta eat. i made some chicken skewers and dumplings tonight." you bent some water to the two of you, moving it towards his hands and cleansing it from dirt and grime before putting the water away.

yuka hummed happily into your neck as you walked over to the dinner table, slowly sliding him off your body and into his chair, making him whine a bit.

you began to hum a tune, making him silent as he focused on the lovely sound of your voice. it hurt your throat but nevertheless, you continued gliding over to the kitchen to grab plates of food for the two of you.

you spun as you approached the table, making him giggle in delight. you placed a plate in front of yuka gracefully and the other in front of your own seat as you ended the song you were humming. yuka used a tiny hand the grasp a skewer, maneuvering the chicken into his mouth and taking a bite.

he squealed in happiness as he chewed, making you smile and chuckle at him. you took a bite of a dumpling, watching as yuka grabbed a dumpling in his other hand, biting into it as well. he took turns in eating the two foods in his hands, dancing in happiness as he ate.

after you both finished dinner, you took yuka to the bathroom where you maneuvered warm water into the tiny bathtub yuka used. you placed him inside, washed him up and put him into his pajamas before he got into bed.

when yuka was finally asleep, you relaxed. going into the kitchen, you grabbed a fresh bowl of water which you used to heal your hoarse throat so you could sing later tomorrow. after testing out your voice, you got ready as well, preparing hot water for your bathtub and slipping into it as your muscles relaxed from the hot water.

baths always gave you a lot of time to think. unfortunately for you, your thoughts ran almost immediately to the avatar, aang. you were so grateful for him not only saving yuka, but saving the world from the terrorism of the old firelords, and putting firelord zuko in command.

the avatar was extremely kind, and funny, and he was good with yuka, and his muscles...

you shook yourself out of it, in pure and utter shock at the thought of thinking about him in that way. sure, you were single, and sure, he was also single, but after yuka's father left, you didn't know if the two of you could ever trust another man again.

besides, the avatar had just come out of a serious nearly 8 year relationship with the best healer in the world, katara. it had been like, what, two or three years since they broke up?

i'm sure that he wouldn't be ready for another commitment, especially one that also included a child, and you weren't even the prettiest (AN OBVIOUS BLATANT LIE AS ALL OF YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL 😍😍), and why were you thinking so much into this?

you sighed, shook it off, and began to cleanse your hair. it was just because you were so shaken up by yuka's disappearance. yes. of course.

you finkshed your bath with (nearly) no thoughts about avatar aang, got ready for bed, and fell asleep.

the only problem?

you dreamt of aang.

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pretty short chap, just wanted to get out asap. lmk if yall want a chap dedicated to the dream bc next chap is in bbg aang's pov 😍🥵🥴

also huge thanks to my bestie for proofreading 😍😍

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