Asami gets a chapter when she gets some depth on the show :) So... eventually. But this just came to my mind like an hour ago and I decided that it had to come before her character development happened. :)

Pema grunted as she got up off of her son's bed. "But Mommy…" he yawned. "I'm not tired yet, I promise." He grabbed on to her sleeve to try and keep her there.

She sighed and sat down on the bed again. Bedtime in this house was a long process. It took a lot of delicate timing and subtle prodding to get her children to even approach the bedroom. But she had at last persuaded her son to get into his pajamas and crawl into his small bed. But she didn't leave at that. She had to wait for him to start nodding off, the only sure sign that he was going to stay in his bed.

Usually she was able to leave and go to her own room around this time, but it was going to be one of those nights that Meelo wouldn't let her go. "I think you're very sleepy actually."

The little boy shook his head on his pillow. "I will never be sleepy." The effect of this was slightly spoiled by another yawn. He scooted in his bed, dragging the pillow over with him until he was right by her side. He reached up a small hand and placed it on his mother's swollen belly.

"Mommy," he said in what could be classified as a whisper for him, although it was nowhere near quiet.

She bent down and kissed him on the forehead, "What is it, baby?"

"Do I still get to be called baby when the new baby comes?" she smiled and bopped him on the nose.

"Of course you do, silly. That's your special name isn't it?"Meelo breathed a sigh of relief and then giggled.

After that he was silent. For a minute she thought her son had drifted off to sleep. She once again struggled to get up so she could push Meelo back to the center of the bed so he wouldn't fall out while he slept, as he tended to do. But then Meelo muttered "Mommy," again and she settled back down on the bed.

"What is it, baby?" she whispered, making sure to keep her voice low and gentle, hoping it lull him to sleep.

"Will you love the new baby more than me?"

Her eyes widened a bit in surprise. "Of course not."

"Oh," he murmured into the pillow. "Even if it's another boy?"

"I'll still love you so very much, baby."

He was quiet again for a few minutes. Pema again decided that she should start to get up. As she struggled to stand her son spoke again. "Even if he's normal like you?"

Pema almost fell off of the bed in shock. She quickly settled down on her bed by him and held him close. She looked down at her son, who was looking back up at her with an expression that almost resembled fear. It hurt more than anything had ever hurt in her life.

"Of course not," she said resolutely. Her son didn't look like he believed her. She bit her lip to keep the tears that were gathering at bay. She finally stood up and pushed her son over to the edge of the bed. She then clambered into the bed as gracefully as she could manage.

She pulled her son over to her and he curled up against her. He hadn't let her cuddle with him for years, as he was at five, as he so boldly told her one day, much too old for such things. But tonight he pressed right up against her and she held him.

"Baby, I would love you so very, very much, no matter what you are." She kissed him on the top of the head. "You're my special little boy, okay?" She didn't keep talking until she felt him nod against her. "Nothing you are and nothing you become and no one who comes along is ever going to make me not love you as much as I do."

"Okay, mommy," he whispered. He didn't say anything and she realized that he son had finally gone to sleep that night. But she didn't move to get up.

When Tenzin came in later to see what on earth the little terror that he called son was doing to his poor mother he was a bit surprised to see his wife sleeping peacefully by their son. He gave a small smile, it would appear that he was on his own for the night. He pulled the blanket that Meelo at some point in the bedtime struggle must've thrown away up onto the bed and over the pair. He then bent down and kissed his son and wife on the forehead. "Good night, you two," he murmured as he left them in peace.