trans_9 | Meeting up with Aang

She knew she didn't look her best. After her training session with Kang and Ronan, she sported several bruises, a fading black eye and had a few bruised ribs that she had chosen to heal on its own. Once she got the message from Aang though, everything had changed- for a start the aggravating haze and lack of memories she'd had for the past few weeks seemed to fill up a little and she remembered EVERYTHING: the months preparing for the Nightmare King, the talking with other people of the crew who lent a hand, Aang getting shot, Aang healing, visiting Griff...and of course her particularly intimate encounter with Aang that had left the two of them hosed down via Stacy. All of those feelings were nothing to the fact that he was HERE, that she remembered he'd been trying to protect her and the rest of the crew.

She was quietly furious with Stacy of course: why had Stacy blocked her memory in the first place only to bring it back now? It wasn't a fully concentrated anger though: she was all too happy that she could finally see him, that he'd come back after all. So she tore down the hallways of the ship to get to him, to find the Sensorium that housed the one person that had always been missing that she had desperately hoped she would see here, despite that quiet despair of knowing he might never appear. It was gone now.

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When she reaches the Sensorium, she'll find Appa there, grazing in the background and Aang sitting in a lotus position, expression placid, eyes closed.

Sokka makes his entrance only after Katara has arrived, scrambling into the room after her.

"Hey! Aang!" He has a huge grin on his face, of course. He's missed his bro.

She had to admit that she was overwhelmed with emotion right now. The past few months. they'd been a kind of quiet torture. The day where something had gone missing from her mind and she hadn't known what that was had scared her, and so after that, she had done her best to stay in positive spirits: she'd hung out with friends, she'd trained, she'd done anything that she could to make sure that hole she felt of missing him was gone. The thing was, she knew that as she missed him, that most of the things that had happened had been erased: she'd believed they never saw Aang, and she had been missing him for months. But the moment the message came, all of it came back, and seeing him now took every discipline she'd ever learned not to throw herself at him in a hug, telling him how much she'd missed him, how happy she was that he was here.

But even Katara had understood that meditating, especially for Aang, required some concentration. So when she saw him, she took a huge breath, walking over to Appa and petting him on the nose. "Hi Appa!" she said, giving the enormous flying bison a hug. "I really missed you!"

When she heard her brother come in and immediately greet Aang, she almost had half a mind to admonish him for breaking Aang's concentration: but if it woke him, she wasn't going to complain. She felt like she hadn't seen her brother in a long time either.

So she walked over towards Aang, stilling her dueling emotions.

"Sokka, you heard too!"

The monk blinks one eye open.

"I don't think...we really got a chance to all hug properly before."

Since he'd been freaking out. His time running mazes, oddly, had actually done him good, because it'd given him time alone to think.

Sokka doesn't even bother to respond in words. He grabs Katara by the arm and drags her over to Aang, then wraps them both in his arms in a giant seal-bear hug. He can't speak. He doesn't want to. His family (what little of it there is) is back together again and there's such emotion that he can't even describe.

"You're okay. You're okay. You're back and it's gonna be okay now, really. We're back together." He sniffles quietly. Those aren't tears. And even if they were they would be manly tears of manliness.

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Katara didn't need to be dragged, but she let Sokka do it anyway. Truthfully, while having people on the ship that were her friends had been great, having her actual family from home was something that even she couldn't fully describe without tears. She joined in on the hug, and though she knew she wanted to give Aang her own hug later, this familial one would still do.

"I...I feel like I almost forgot you Aang," Katara said. "I'm sure the others were feeling the same way, or Zuko and Toph would be here by now. We all really missed you, and now you;re here and we remember everything: I'm SO glad you're back!"

Yeah, the crying stars up again. There is so much hugging.

"What's really great is I feel better now, too. I had a lot of time to think."

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"Yeah. I missed you too." He wipes at his eyes futilely.

"And thinking is good. What were you thinking about?" Way to ask an open-ended question. Could be good, bad. Sokka doesn't know.

Katara and Sokka were now having the same problem: every time she wiped her eyes, no tears sprung up seeing Aang with them. She had hoped that all of them would be reunited again, and now that they were words couldn't express the joy she was feeling now.

"Yeah, what?" Katara asked, echoing Sokka's sentiments. Would definitely explain why he'd been meditating in the Sensorium.

"About the future," he says to them both. "Because I realized if I could survive that, if everyone the ship could work together to fight something as horrible as the Nightmare King, we have a chance of ending this war and bringing back our worlds."

He wipes at his eyes with the sleeve of his robes.

"It made it easier to let the past go, thinking of the future."

He's back, guys. He's even had time to work through the angst.

"We'll do it. Together." Sokka smiles.

"We always do, don't we? We're here for you, same as always. I know that we can win this, no matter how long it takes."

Katara was glad to hear Aang's optimism, and the way he said let her know he had given it a lot of thought: it wasn't something that came to him lightly. At the same time, she had also been amongst and talked to the crew a lot: she knew that keeping themselves idealistic was only a part of the solution. If Aang was going to help try and bring the crew together, he'd have to have an idea of the kind of people he was dealing with, and what they had been through. She was sure she and Sokka could help there.

"It will take awhile, and we may even have to start getting another forum running when we can," Katara said. "I've talked with a few people on the ship: they're all very different, and they all have different ideas about the Ohm and Stacy. A lot of what we have to do starts with trust: we have to get the people on this ship to unify, knowing that without each other's good faith, we can be torn apart. If the ship needs anything right now Aang, its you and your experience with the Ohm."

She took his hand, smiling. "I know you can do it. You did it before."

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