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Who: Korra, Asami, Jinora, Ikki, Aang, Roku, Sokka, Zuko, Toph, and Katara
What: There's a new Avatar in town!
When: July 9th
Where: House Avatar
Summary: Just your average worlds colliding.
Rating: G for "greet?"

So... meanwhile, back at the ranch, there were opportunities for those who have caught their journals to know who's coming, and those who have not caught their journals to be taken by surprise at the new Water Tribe member in the house.

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...mostly, I was worried about you, Aang.

[About what the coming of Korra means.]

And I was thinking about what Asami said about... Amon and Tarrlok. But we'll all have a chance to get together and talk about that later. Still, it's... a difficult thing to think about.

Thanks for that, Katara. I... I did really need someone to talk to. [But he gets lost in the second train of thought.] And it is really difficult. To think that someone would use his own children like that... I don't like to think about those kinds of families. And it makes me afraid to wonder what Zuko and Azula's childhood must have been like. It's horrible to think that people like Ozai and Yakone can't just... treasure their children.

[Her gaze shifts from his to over the river.]

I guess terrible people don't stop being terrible when they become parents.

[That's... the only explanation she has.]

[He briefly follows her gaze but looks back at her.]

If... if that's true, then I hope that means that good people become even better.

That's a nice hope.

[She looks back over at him a bit wryly.]

But it's more likely they just try to do the best they can, and hope for the best.

[Just like we're doing right now.]

Yeah. Hoping's always great, if we can't guess how happy people would be with a family just yet. [He gives a more straightforward smile. Hope at least gets his head on a more positive track, even if Katara seems to be lacking some enthusiasm.]

At least... it sounds like things are okay now, in the future. And Avatar Korra? She's pretty great and funny, right?

I've got my preferences.

[Lightly, she moves to bump his shoulder with hers.]

But yeah, she seems pretty great.

[He finds himself giggling after the shoulder bump, but he quickly straightens his face with a blush as if that didn't happen.]

Y-yeah, I'm glad we agree. And she's South Water Tribe, just like you and Sokka, so that's pretty neat. Not to mention that I'm starting to think she also doesn't really like mornings that much.

[What, did those heathens start their Waterbending practice sessions in the mid-afternoon?!]

[Please, waterbending sessions are best at NIGHT.]

Mornings are evil.

[Sorry. But they are.]

[He sticks his tongue at her. Yeah, yeah, rise with the moon etc.]

But that'd make me an evilbender.

[In any other situation, in any other time, she might be tempted to give in to the random impulse she has to lean her head against his shoulder. She might want to try to explore this... strange feeling of being okay as long as he's here, and okay.

But. Hahahahahahahahaha ha. Not now. Not tonight. Not when every little action had some... future implication.

She settles for a wry smile.]

Just because you're deceived by actually liking dawn doesn't make you evil. Just misinformed.

[Even if they're not as close as they are back home... after everything that's been tearing at him, to be able to just joke around with her is comforting enough.]

That's a relief. I wouldn't want to be the first evil Avatar. Instead, I'm just a misinformed one. They're a lot more common.

[She chuckles warmly at that.

...though the feeling that there are mountains they're avoiding discussing looms a little closer.]

[He accompanies her chuckle with some warm belly laughs to keep said mountains at bay, to escape in their shared laughter. Even if it won't last. He hopes to return from this laughter to find all of their problems magically disappeared.]

[Laughter subsiding, Katara just takes a moment to enjoy this moment. Everyone's safe and relatively at peace. She's sitting by the river in the moonlight with Aang. There are things that she knows she needs to address, but right now, for this moment, she's just going to live in this moment.]

[Aang holds onto this moment as well. This is the same river where Katara had to realize that Aang was Robin and where she believed she was dying. It felt like a karmic voctory, if a temporary one, for them to be laughing there.

At the least, it helped him to realize how far they've come in just a few months. Heputs a hand on her shoulder.]

At least... things are okay right now, we're all okay... right?

[Even if there was still someone here he couldn't help. Even with his energy bending.]

[She feels him put his hand on her shoulder, and she doesn't pull away. In fact, she closes her eyes.]

Yeah. Right now, everyone's all okay.

[He lets that thought fill him. everyone's all okay. He tries to see the future as a fog that he doesn't have to explore yet - both his future back home with his early demise, and the future here where experiments, drafts and new arrivals could threaten their family life.

He keeps himself in the present. He's here. He has a family. Katara's right in front of him and okay.

With these thoughts driving him, improving his mood, he turns the shoulder hold into a hug.]

That's good.

[Well, this is Katara. She's not going to turn down hugs. She's glad he's feeling better, and she lets herself take comfort from that while intending to keep the embrace characteristically brief.]

[We're gonna be apart one day. But we're both here now. He speaks quietly.]

Thanks for all of this, Katara. I'm glad that yo- no, I'm not glad that you're here. But I'm glad that, since you are, that we're both here at the same time.

[Aang holds on tightly, but he's ready to release when Katara is.]

Me too, Aang. [She pulls away then and looks at him a little hesitantly.]

I really did miss you.

[Even if she isn't... where the future says she should be. Where it would be more convenient for her to be. She does care for him so much, it shakes her.]

I know. [Even if he also knows that his being here and the exposure of his future with her has caused her no amount of stress. That's why he feels he has to let her know what a great influence she is.]

You're always so understanding, Katara. Just like that one time back in the cave, you were there for me and took in everything that was bothering me, a-and you're okay with it even if I think I'm wrong or selfish. I don't think I'd be able to last here this long without you. I'm not that strong.

I don't know, Aang. I think you're a lot stronger than you think.

[But on that note:]

...I know everything's been so busy, but - have you had a chance to talk with Roku?

[About the You-Know-What?]

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