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“You are with child, Aang.”
Aang stared at Roku with wide eyes before busting out laughing. He waved his hand dismissively at the spirit of his past life.
“T-that’s a funny one, Roku!” Aang laughed, shaking his head with a nervous grin. “I can’t be pregnant! I’d know!” Aang said, leaning back, his hands resting clasped with his legs crossed. Roku stared at him with a serious look that began making Aang nervous. “. . .I’d know. . .r-right?” The young Airbender repeated, a hand going to his mouth as he bit on his index finger.
“Aang, I wouldn’t be here if not.” Roku states, giving him a firm look. Aang huffed and crossed his arms.
“There could be a million reasons you could be here, Roku!” Aang retaliated, furrowing his brows together as he frowned. He wasn’t expecting this, not one bit.
“Aang.” Roku warns sternly, Aang groans and puts his face into his hands.
“Monkey feathers. . .you are serious. . .” the young Avatar groaned, pulling his bottom eyelids down with his hands “. . .Thanks for the warning. . .I guess. . .” Aang mumbled, resting his head on his fist. Instead of sleep, he’s getting told he’s pregnant. Great, that's just what he wanted to hear with all this other stress on his shoulders.
“Kyoshi wanted to tell you but. . .she wouldn’t have been as gentle.” Roku says, stroking his beard “I just thought with how things are right now. . .you’d need a heads up.” Aang rubbed his forehead as he sighed, looking down “You still have a war to end, you know.” Roku added calmly, looking at him.
“I know that, Roku.” Aang says quietly, looking up at him and biting his lip “So- You’re sure I’m gonna have a baby?” he asked quietly, Roku nodded once. Aang winced.
“Oh, Spirits. . .” Aang groaned, looking at him “How- how am I meant to fight the Firelord pregnant?! How- how do I tell my friends? How do I- oh, Spider-bat! How do I tell Zuko?!” Aang says, getting more panicked by the second, Roku sighed as he watched the young Airbender who already had so much on his shoulders having to deal with this on top of that.
“Aang, you need to relax.” Roku says calmly “You’ll figure this out-” Roku tries to add, wanting to comfort him but Aang shakes his head.
“No! no! I don’t want hear this! I don’t believe it! I don’t- I- l-leave me alone! I just- I wanna be left alone!” He says, his eyes tearing up, Roku frowns and reaches out just for his hand to be swatted away from him “No! just- leave me alone! I just- I need time to process this. . .please. . .” He says quietly, looking at him. Roku nodded in understanding.
“I understand. . .I’m here if you need to talk. . .” he says quietly, Aang nodded and sighed.
“Thanks, Roku. . .” Aang says, closing his eyes.
Aang opened his eyes, laying on his sleeping bag, he slowly sat up and looked around at the others. Everyone is still asleep in the pitch black. He sits there, his lip quivering as he tries to process everything, he takes a deep and shaky breath as tears well up in his eyes and his hands begin shaking. He bites down on his fingers to make sure he makes no noise. He stood up and quietly made his way away from the group as he stared at the ground, sniffling and struggling to hold back his tears. His breathing hitched and he gasped quietly, his other hand moving down to his stomach as he placed his hand on it, clutching tightly against his stomach which had a small, tiny bump.
He didn’t think much about his bump beforehand, he thought he was just gaining a little weight. . How could he be so stupid? Why didn’t he think of the consequences of his actions before fucking up this bad?
Aang nervously laid on the stone bed underneath Zuko who was slightly raised above him, resting on his elbow as his other hand rubbed Aang’s cheek, he gave him a small smile.
“I’m sorta- nervous.” Aang says nervously, his hands stiff at his side. Zuko chuckled quietly as he smiled fondly.
“Don’t be.” Zuko responded, shifting a little to stable himself “Just relax. . .” Zuko says before leaning down to kiss his lips “Here. . .” Zuko says, guiding Aang’s arms around his neck. Aang chuckled as he put his arms around his neck loosely and shifted underneath him a little.
“A-alright.” He says quietly, his cheeks rosy pink. He swallowed hard as he looked up at him “I trust you.” Aang says, resting his head down as Zuko leans down and begins trailing kisses down his neck, He closes his eyes as he relaxes into the new yet welcoming sensation.
The next morning, when everyone woke up they began to go about their morning routine. Zuko walked to the fountain section of the Western Air Temple while looking confused.
“Hey. . .has anyone seen Aang? He didn’t show up for our lesson this morning.” Zuko says, rubbing the back of his head as he looks around, Katara raises a brow but turns her head away to finish serving breakfast.
“We thought he was with you?” Sokka says, raising a brow as he takes a bowl of food off Katara, Katara fills another bowl, handing it to Toph before serving the others. Zuko gets a bad feeling, he groans and shakes his head.
“Where could he have gone? He always meets me at a particular spot. . .” Zuko mumbled, not wanting to admit Aang normally meets him in his room before practice to cuddle or. . .well, sometimes a bit more.
“Maybe he went somewhere else, where does he normally meet you?” Sokka asked, raising a brow as he took a bite of his food. Zuko snapped his head around, his cheeks tinted red.
“O-On the uh- ledge. . .other side- of the uh- temple.” Zuko says, stuttering over his words anxiously. Sokka blinked at him and then shrugged as he turned his attention to something he considered something more important, his breakfast.
Katara gives him a suspicious look before turning her attention to her own food. Zuko turned away and began walking off to find Aang, once he was out of sight, Toph pipes up.
“He’s lying.” Toph says, chewing her food as everyone looks at her, Katara scoffed.
“Yeah, I know.” Katara snarled quietly, watching Zuko disappear into the distance.
Aang sat on the edge of the Western Air Temple, kicking his legs back and forth, stroking Momo who was sitting in his lap. His eyes were blank as he just stared off into the distance.
“You alright?” Aang snapped out of his daze and turned around to see Zuko, standing there with a look of worry on his face even if he attempted to conceal it.
“. . .Yeah.” Aang says quietly, looking away from him as he stares off into the distance once more. Zuko narrowed his eyes before sitting down beside him.
“You’re lying.” Zuko says firmly, narrowing his eyes at him. Aang shook his head and turned his head away from him fully which irritated the disgraced Prince “Hey, look at me.” Zuko says firmly but in a levelled voice. He’s not good with relationships, he never was and Aang continuing to ignore him makes it worse.
Zuko stared at him intensely for a few more moments before he snapped, he grabbed Aang by the chin and forced him to look at him. He didn’t grab him hard enough to hurt him, just firm enough to turn him to him.
“I said, look at me.” Zuko growled, gritting his teeth “What did I do? Why are you mad at me!” He asked loudly, his voice getting louder.
“Zuko. . .” Aang muttered quietly, pushing Zuko’s hand away but Zuko grabbed his face again but with both hands this time and tilted his head up to look at him.
“Don’t give me that, tell me what’s wrong, I’m worried about you.” Zuko says as he pulls Aang’s face towards him. Aang looked up at him, biting his bottom lip as he tried to hold tears back. Zuko examined Aang’s face and noticed how watery his eyes were “What’s wrong, what happened, tell me” Zuko says, looking at him.
Aang just snaps, tears rolling down his face as he begins sniffling and choking back tears. Zuko tensed up, he hadn’t seen Aang cry before so this was all new to him.
“L-last night- Roku just- he came to me and- and- and he told me that- that- that-” Aang finally broke, mumbling over his words not knowing how to get the words out, Zuko gripped his face softly as he attempted to wipe away the onslaught of tears flowing down his lover’s face.
“Hey- hey- hey, hey, hey, relax- what are you trying to tell me?” Zuko blurted out nervously, he looked at him with nervous eyes as Aang looked up and coughed through his sobs.
“He- he told me that-” the smaller males cried through coughs, Zuko tensed up as he watched Aang begin to panic “T-that I-” he sobbed, sniffling, snot running down his nose.
“Aang, calm down- I c-can’t understand yo-” Aang cuts Zuko off before Zuko can finish his sentence.
“I’m pregnant!” He cried out, shouting at Zuko as he pulled away. Zuko sits there, stunned into silence. Aang Airbends himself up to his feet and begins pacing around.
“W-what?” Zuko says, his eyes wide, he looked at Aang again, looking him up and down and narrowing his eyes.
“I’m pregnant, Roku told me!” Aang repeated, looking at Zuko who was now scrambling to his feet. Zuko stood there, his mouth slightly agape.
“You mean. . .I got you. . . .” Zuko mumbled, Aang groaned and threw his head back.
“Yes! You got me pregnant, Zuko! Who else!?” Aang says, throwing his hands into the air before looking at him, breathing heavily “You’re the only guy- spirits, the only person I’ve done anything with, let alone the only person I’ve been with! Sure, I’ve kissed Katara-” Aang blurted out but stopped himself, he didn’t realize he said that due to his heightened emotions. Zuko narrowed his eyes.
“You’ve kissed Katara?” He snarled, clenching his fists. Aang rolled his eyes.
“It was ages ago! Way before you became- good or like- joined us!” Aang retaliated “Don’t start getting these ‘cheating’ ideas in your head.” Aang warned in annoyance “I’m pregnant, for crying out loud! And I have to fight your stupid father before the comet comes! What if something happens to the baby or- or!-” Zuko’s eyes softened, he walked over to him and grabbed him by the hands, holding them tightly.
“. . .We’ll figure this out. I just- I’m sorry.” Zuko says, rubbing his fingers back and forth across Aang’s tattooed hands. Aang sighed and rested his head against the tall Firebender’s chest.
“. . .You know this means we have to tell the others we’re dating, right?” Aang says, looking up at him, Zuko groans and closed his eyes.
“. . .fuck.” He cursed under his breath as he pulled away “Do we really have to? Katara hates my guts” Zuko groaned, moving away to sit on the ground, elbows resting on his knees. Aang looked down at him before sighing. Aang creates a small gust of Air to make his Airbending staff come off the ground and he catches it in his hand.
“. . .Zuko, we have to tell them.” Aang says, his staff on the ground as he gripped it firmly. Zuko pinches the bridge of his nose.
“Are you going to tell them you’re pregnant too?” Zuko asked begrudgingly, Aang tensed up, now holding the staff with both hands.
“I. . . uhh-” Aang bites his bottom lip, rocking back and forth on his heels “I’m- I’m just- I only found out. . .” Aang says, looking away from him “We- we don’t have to say anything right away but- I sorta got to think about how I’m gonna fight the Firelord now.” Aang says, sighing. Zuko paused and stared at him with a confused look.
“What do you mean?” Zuko asked bluntly, narrowing his eyes. Aang looked back at him, he sits on one of the broken pillars.
“. . .If. . .I’m pregnant. . .and- I have to fight the Firelord. . .what if- something happens to the baby?” Aang states, looking at him worried. Zuko stared at him, before scoffing.
“For fuck sakes. . .” He groaned, rubbing his forehead again “We’re really. . .really deep in this shit, huh?” he says, looking at Aang again. Aang nodded slowly as he frowned as he watched Zuko lay down flat on the ground. Aang walked towards him and used his Airbending to sit himself down beside him slowly before he put his staff beside him, putting a hand on Zuko’s chest and curling into him as he sighed, resting his head on his shoulder.
Momo scattered over to them and snuggled himself between the two lovers and rested his little head against Aang’s chin and Zuko’s shoulder blade.
“We’ll figure it out” Aang says quietly, kissing Zuko’s cheek. Zuko gives him a small smile as He strokes Momo’s head before turning his head to him, leaning in and kissing Aang on the lips.
Aang kisses back, holding the kiss for a few moments, Zuko moves his hand to Aang’s cheek to deepen the kiss, slipping his tongue into Aang’s mouth which makes him chuckle and pull away.
“What?” Zuko asked, giving him a small smile, Aang rolled his eyes with a smirk.
“You know what you did.” Aang warned playfully before resting his forehead against him, Zuko smiled fondly and closed his eyes, but Aang’s smile faded as he closed his eyes. Spirits, give him strength cause he can’t do this.