Their spirits had finally gone back into their bodies as they woke with a start. Aang and Katara looked at each other for a moment, both thinking the same thing:
They wondered whether or not Sokka and Toph knew that they were gone. They also wondered what their reactions would be when they tell them about what had happened... if they tell them.

"Do you think we should tell them about…us?" Katara asked, knowing that Aang was thinking the same thing.

Aang hesitated before he spoke "Uh... I... I'm not... sure..."

"Let's just see how things go." Katara said with a smile as she stood up, and reached her hand down to help Aang up. He grabbed her hand and pulled himself up next to her, not letting go of her hand. Katara smiled at him. "Well, let's go and see if Toph and Sokka were having so much fun that they didn't even notice the few hours we were gone!" Sarcasm was obviously present in this statement. Aang laughed as she started to guide him out the door.

"Katara, wait," he said quickly just as Katara reached for the doorknob. The Waterbender turned towards Aang.

"What's wrong?" She asked him.

"Well, what about us...?" Aang asked innocently.

"What about us?"

The young Avatar frowned. "Well... you know... us. Our feelings towards each other... what are we gonna do about our feelings now?"

Katara was confused. "What do you mean?"

"I mean... when we're around Sokka and Toph... are we gonna, you know, tell them about us?" Aang asked unsurely. "Because I don't know what Sokka will say, and I don't wanna die! Not before I fight the Fire Lord!" he said, half joking.

Katara laughed. "We will tell them about us, and come on. Sokka's not gonna kill you!"

"And speaking of the Fire Lord," Aang started, barley hearing what Katara had just said, "what'll happen when it comes time to fight him?"

"What do you mean?" Katara asked again.

Aang sighed. A single tear ran down his face. He was never going to admit this to anyone, but he couldn't help but trust Katara. It's not like he was afraid she'd laugh, or think he was a coward or anything. He just didn't want to make her worry, but whom was he kidding? He was only worrying himself. As he was lost deep in thought, he wandered over to the old chair that sat in the room and slumped down in it, putting his face in his palms.

"Aang," Katara walked over to where the Avatar sat and knelt down in front of him. Her voice was very soft, but Aang could detect worry and concern in her voice. "Tell me. Please."

After a few seconds of silence, Aang finally spoke. "Katara, I'm scared." He looked up into her eyes, which started to water just like Aang's. Though it was heartbreaking to see her so sad, he went on. "What if I..." He couldn't bring himself to say the word 'die', so he finished "...don't make it..."

Katara frowned. In all honesty, she too has been thinking about that a lot lately. She would, of course, be devastated if he was killed. After what had happened in Ba Sing Se, she has been even more worried about the young Airbender. Finally, she took Aang's hand into hers, and said, "I know you're scared, and I don't blame you at all, but you've been training for many months for this." She let go of Aang's hands, put one hand on each of his shoulders, and looked right into his eyes. "You're ready, Aang. The world is ready for this war to end. Just know that I have complete faith in you. I know that you will defeat Ozai and get us out of this war alive."

Aang opened his mouth to talk, but no sound came out. For almost a full minute, Aang just sat there, looking for his voice, not breaking eye contact with Katara, whose hands still sat on his shoulders. Finally, Aang seemed to have re-gained the ability to speak. "You have no idea how much that means to me. That's what I needed to hear... and you're the one I wanted to hear it from."

Katara was touched. She wanted to say how much that meant to her, or how that made her feel, but she found that she was, like Aang was moments before, speechless. However, Aang got the message as he continued to stare into her stunningly blue eyes. He grabbed her hands and got back to his feet, taking Katara up with him. Aang gave Katara a kiss on the cheek, and Katara pulled Aang into a hug.

After a minute, they broke apart. "Come on." Katara whispered as she held Aang's hand. "Let's go."

As the two walked back into the living room, they saw Sokka and Toph sitting on the floor, facing each other, each holding some playing cards.

"Got any threes?" Sokka asked as he looked at his cards.

Toph had an evil glare in her sightless eyes. "Look, for the hundredth time, I don't know Sokka!" she cried, throwing down her cards as she got to her feet and walked away.

"Aw man!" Sokka whined more to himself than anybody else as he picked up her cards. "She did have a three!" He mumbled to himself as he picked up the rest of the deck and put them on a side table.

He then stood up and noticed the Avatar and his sister staring at him, trying not to laugh. "Hey guys. Whatcha been up to?" Sokka asked, ignoring their smirks. "You've been gone for hours. What were you two doing?" He glared at them suspiciously.

Aang sighed. "It's a very long story, Sokka. I don't think you wanna hear it..."

"Aang, I've been dying of boredom all day. There's nothing to do here in the house! A long story, possibly one with a little excitement, is what I need!" He led Katara and Aang over to the couch. From the kitchen, Toph walked into the room and sat on the couch, munching on an apple.

"Okay," Katara sighed. "Here's how it goes..." She started the story when she went into Aang's room to see how he was doing, and ended up in the Spirit World.

Aang then told Toph and Sokka how they were wandering around, looking for a way out, and stopped to rest, and he fell asleep.

Then Katara took over. A tear fell from her eye as the young Waterbender told them of how out of the corner of her eye, she saw her mother. She glanced over at her brother who was avoiding her eyes. Their mother had always been a sensitive subject with Katara. Taking a deep breath, Katara continued. She said how her mother had run into the cave they were resting near and how Katara had chased after her. Sokka shook his head at this, knowing that the next part wouldn't be good. She said how she called out for her mother, but someone else answered. It was Koh.

"Who's Koh?" Toph asked her.

"It's a spirit; a horrible monster." Aang answered. "If you show any emotion in front of him, he'd steal your face."

Toph had a terrified look on her face. She didn't know exactly what a face looked like, but she knew that it would be a horrible sight... to see someone, a loved one, without a face. Toph involuntarily shuddered as Katara continued the story. She told them how Koh told her that he used a hallucination of her mother to lure her inside. Toph gasped. Then Katara continued, saying that she took one look at the age-old spirit and screamed... Then everything went black.

Aang now took over, telling them how he had awoken to find Katara missing and he knew where she was, so he walked into the cave looking for her, and when he finally found her, her face was gone. Sokka freaked out at this.

"Well, what happened?" he yelled. "Did you get her face back?!"

Katara gave an exasperated sigh. "No, Sokka. He didn't. What you're seeing, my eyes, nose, and mouth, they're only painted on..." The Waterbender rolled her eyes at her brother's stupidity. Sokka scowled.

Once Aang was sure the siblings have stopped their argument, he continued. He said how Roku had come in, and then left for help. Then, a few minutes later, he had gone into a completely controllable Avatar State and killed Koh, and all of his victims had gotten their faces back, and they found the Hei-Bai spirit and left.

The story was told in about ten minutes, since they left out only the teeniest details. Aang left out the part with Avatar Kuruk and Ummi. He didn't think it would be anything Sokka or Toph would be too interested in. He also purposely left out the kiss he and Katara shared. Sokka didn't need to know about it.

The Airbender got up to get ready for bed when Katara stood up and grabbed his arm, keeping him from walking away. "Aang, why didn't you tell Sokka and Toph about how we…?"

"Shh!" Aang hissed, looking over at the two to make sure they weren't going to be overheard. Toph was now standing up, heading back towards the kitchen to throw away the core of the apple she had been eating, Sokka following right behind her for a before-bed snack.

Once the two had disappeared into the other room, Aang spoke in a very quiet voice. "I told you back in my room Katara; I really don't think this is a good time to tell Sokka about this. I don't wanna be half-beaten when I go and duel the Fire Lord!"

Katara laughed as she pulled herself and Aang back onto the couch they had just stood up from. "Sokka won't kill you, Aang. I'll be sure of that." She kissed him softly on the cheek.

"Yeah, but we're sharing a room. He can kill me in my sleep!" Aang didn't believe Sokka would actually kill him. He was now just saying things to make Katara smile. He loved it when she smiled.

"I'll tell ya what," she whispered into the Avatar's ear, "we'll see if I can't convince Sokka to make a change in roommates. That way, I can keep a close watch on you." She smiled, highly doubting that Sokka would allow that.

As though reading her mind, Aang added, "You really don't think Sokka would allow that, do you?"

Katara shook her head. "Doubt it, though it can't—" She was forced to stop speaking when she saw someone enter the room, though it was just Toph. She just gave the pair a half curious, half suspicious look before saying goodnight, and going into the room she shared with Katara. "As I was saying," Katara continued, "it can't kill to ask Sokka if we could share a room."

Aang shook his head; he thought she was wrong. If Aang were to ask 'big brother Sokka' if he could share a room with his little sister, he would kill him. Though Aang kept his mouth shut about this thought, since it was unlikely that Sokka would really do that. But it's better to be safe than dead!

A couple minutes later, Sokka walked out of the kitchen with some fruits Katara had gotten at the market a few days before. Momo sat happily on Sokka's shoulder, eating a peach.

"Sokka, can we talk to you?" Katara asked him, ignoring the 'don't do it' look Aang was giving her out of Sokka's line of vision.

Sokka didn't answer immediately, since his mouth was filled with half of an orange. After swallowing, and choking a bit, he spoke. "Sure. If it's about the food, don't worry. We still have plenty—"

His sister cut him off. "It's not that, Sokka. It's about... something else... something that had happened a few hours ago... after Aang had saved me from Koh."

Sokka thought that this must be something important, judging by the look the two had on their faces, so he went into the chair that was sitting next to the couch where Aang and Katara were still sitting. He motioned for her to go on.

"Well, after that, Aang and I... we kinda..." Sokka continued to look at them curiously, but when he saw the blush on his little sister's face, he knew what this was about.

"After all this time of traveling together, and after all the times I caught you two staring at each other and flirting, you two have finally admitted your feelings to each other?" he asked with a smile.

Katara and Aang were stunned. They were expecting anything, everything but this. How could Sokka be so cool about all this? "Yeah," Aang said, "how-"

"Oh, come on!" A voice from the corner called out. The three looked over and saw Toph leaning against the wall with her arms folded.

"I'm blind, and even I can see that you two have something for each other! It's about time you two got together! Which reminds me," she turned to Sokka, "I'll take the two silver pieces that you owe me!" Sokka growled as he handed the silver to Toph. "Thank you!" she said brightly as she walked back into her room.

"So... you're okay with this?" Aang asked.

Before Sokka could answer that, however, Katara spoke. "Did you and Toph bet on when we'd get together?"

With the tiniest hint of a blush, Sokka nodded. "I didn't think you'd ever tell each other how you feel, and Toph said that even though Aang is a big wuss," Aang gave Sokka a dirty look, "he would eventually tell you." He nodded at his sister, who rolled her eyes.

"And to answer your question, Aang," Sokka went on, "of course I'm okay with it... just a couple things: I don't want to ever walk in on you two making out, or doing... other things, don't act all lovey-dovey around me, and..." he was now speaking directly to Aang. "If you ever do anything to hurt my sister, I will kill you in your sleep." Aang gave an apprehensive nod, and backed away a little bit. Katara laughed.

"Hey, Sokka," Katara asked, throwing caution to the wind, "do you think it'll be alright if, you know, maybe Aang and I could share a room, and you can be with Toph?"

Instead of answering her, Sokka just laughed. Aang and Katara correctly took that as a no. "Nice try," Sokka said. "Goodnight Katara," he added, still laughing. After a quick goodnight from Aang, Katara walked back into the room she shared with Toph, while Sokka was dragging off Aang to their room.

For the next few hours, Aang lay awake, listening to the not-so-soft snoring of his roommate as he thought about the events that had happened only a few hours ago: The horror he felt when he saw his faceless crush, the satisfaction of having killed Koh, then that one kiss he and Katara shared. With Sokka around, however, Aang didn't think there would be a lot more kissing, but Aang didn't mind. The two still had the rest of their lives ahead- since Aang didn't even think about losing to the Fire Lord- there will be plenty of time for that! They would be together for all eternity; just like Ummi and Kuruk.

The End

Okay. Those who may have read this on Kataang Forever would remember it differently: An even cheesier ending! XD Um, yeah… anyway, I made it less cheesy so… there ya go! Again, I'd like to thank daydream11 for editing this and pointing out some of the mistakes and stuff like that! -Hugs- Anyway, lemme know what you think (without flaming!)