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[gemgirl28]

Hey there Gemgirl! I hope your week has been as awesome as you are! So for the prompt and a couple thing. If you are still doing it, can I request, I can’t feel your heart. Zutara? I know that's kind of the cheesy easy one but I really want to see what brilliance you come up with for it. 😁🤩

Awww thank you J-Man! On the whole my weeks been pretty good! I’m slowly but surely adjusting to having my evenings free again 😂

Ohhhhh you know I’m gonna make this super fluffy 💜

I can’t feel your heart

Katara didn't drink often, but when she did, she found she was likely to overdo it. Despite her best intentions to keep to one or two glasses of wine, Katara found herself stumbling through the palace hallways, leaning heavily on Zuko.

"I'm so sorry," she said, not remembering if she'd apologized already. "You shouldn't have to leave your party to take care of me."

Zuko sighed, but he had a fond, soft sort of smile. "How many times do I have to tell you, I like taking care of you." He carefully held her up while opening her door, gently ushering her inside. "Besides, I didn't want to be at that party anyways. Especially not if you were leaving early."

Katara felt her eyes water and took his hands. "I love you so much. Have I told you that today? I'm- I'm the luckiest girl in the world!"

Zuko blushed, gently squeezing her hands. "I love you too, but I'm the lucky one. C'mon, let's get you to bed."

"Will you stay with me?"

"Of course," he quickly said, even as his blush deepened. "Do you need any help changing?"

She stumbled to the wardrobe and grabbed a silky night slip. "Nope! gonna go to the bathroom and change."

By the time she reemerged, Zuko had stripped down to his shorts and was sitting on the edge of the bed. Katara grinned, staring at him.

"What?" He asked.

"I love you so much," she gushed, rushing forward into his arms. "Have I told you that today?"

He chuckled and drew her up onto the bed, tucking her in beside him. "Yes, but I always love hearing it. And I love you too."

"Good," she said, eyes growing heavy as she snuggled up against him, head pressed to his right shoulder. She was nearly asleep when panic seized her, and she bolted upright.

"I can't feel your heart!" She cried, reaching for his chest. "How will I know your okay if I can't feel your heartbeat?!"

Zuko frowned, studying her. "Can you... normally feel my heartbeat?"

"When I lay on you, yes!"

He smiled and took her hand, placing it over his heart. "Feel it now?"

She had to focus, but she did feel his pulse. "Yes."

"Good." He pulled her over him, adjusting her so her head rested over his heart. "Better?"

Like this, she could feel his heart beat, steady and strong beneath her ear. "Yes."

"Good." He kissed the top of her head. "Get some sleep, Katara."

She mumbled something in reply, already drifting off with his heart keeping time in her dreams.

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[gemgirl28]

Hey Gemgirl! So may I request a "is there something i should know?" With Sukka?

J man!! Thank you for the prompt! 💜

I really don't write enough Sukka. Let's start to rectify that.

is there something i should know?

"Sokka!" Suki called out, entering their small home. "We wrapped up practice early! Surp-"

She stopped short at the sight of her boyfriend wearing his oh shit I'm about to get in trouble smile.

"Suki!" He cried, overly bright. "What a lovely surprise! I'm glad you're home early!"

She slowly stepped towards him, eyes quickly surveying their space. Nothing seemed out of place, but Sokka flinched when she took a step towards the bedroom door.

"Sokka, is there something I should know?" She asked, slow and even.

"Nope!" Sokka lied, his eye twitching. Suki raised a single eyebrow, not blinking as she crossed her arms over her chest. He held out an impressive 30 seconds longer before finally cracking.

"Fine! But before you go in there- its not what it looks like."

"You do realize how incriminating that sounds, right?" Suki asked, swiftly crossing the room to brush past him and into their bedroom. She froze again at the sight before her.

A set of her Kyoshi robes were scattered around the room, as if hastily ripped from a body.

"Were you... trying on my robes?"

Sokka opened his mouth, sighed, and wiped his face.

"Yes, but they don't fit like they did when I was fifteen."

"Obviously. Why?"

Sokka blushed, and Suki found herself incredibly intrigued by it.

"I- I was hoping to surprise you for your birthday and do the set of forms you taught me back then. Robes and everything."

"Sokka! That's so thoughtful." She stepped close to him, wrapping her arms around his waist and sweetly kissing his cheek. She pulled back and glared at him. "But if you've torn my robes trying them on, you have to fix them yourself."

He swallowed, nodding. "Understand."

"Good." She kissed him again. "Let's clean this up then."

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[gemgirl28]

Hey there Gemgirl! Could you do one for 3 with Zutara and Sokka? Please and Thank you! Also, I hope you have a safe and good flight! 😁

Hello J-man! Thanks so much for the prompt! (I don't know about a good flight, but I did arrive safely lol thanks so much dear 💜)

Also hahahahahah this is perfect for over-protective big brother Sokka I love it 😂Gonna do a modern AU for this because it's a little easier to make the idea work.

3. “Three’s a party.” “No, three’s a crowd.”

Katara loved her brother. Truly, she did.

But right now she wanted to strangle him.

She and Zuko had dropped at least 10 hints about the fact that they were trying to leave to head to dinner for their date. And each time Sokka came up with a half-baked excuse to keep them at the house. Finally, Katara stood and took Zuko's hand, pulling him from the couch.

"Okay bye Sokka!" Katara called, dragging Zuko down the hall. "Don't wait up!"

"Wait! I'm hungry, I'll come with you!" Sokka said.

"No you won't," Katara said.

"C'mon, it'll be fun! Three's a party!"

"No, three's a crowd," Katara deadpanned. "And I want to go on a date with my boyfriend. Alone."

In the moment that Sokka hesitated, Katara managed to push Zuko out the door and dash to the car. Once inside, Katara clicked her seatbelt in, turning to apologize to Zuko for Sokka's behavior, but finding him already looking at her.

"What?" She softly asked.

"Nothing. Just-" Zuko took her hand and gently pressed his lips to her knuckles. "I think that's the first time you called me your boyfriend in front of someone else."

"Oh. Well," Katara felt her cheeks heat. "I mean, I know we just talked about it, I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable-"

He leaned over to kiss her, cutting her off. "I liked it," he murmured against her lips.

"Good," she said with a grin. "Me too."

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[gemgirl28]

Okay I got inspired by dictatormandi's top 5 questions for you so here are few more. Your top 5 Katara moments? Your top 5 Zuko moments? And of course, your top 5 Zutara moments from the show?

Hello again dear! Ooooh lots of more fun distractions!

Top 5 Katara moments:

1. When she LITERALLY fights the patriarchy and shoots to kill Pakku

2. Her and Toph's spa day in Ba Sing Se (or really anytime she and Toph are bonding).

3. "I can be funny!" *puts Momo on her head*

4. When she and Sokka bond over how she'll never turn her back on people and he'll never turn his back on her.

5. When she ACTUALLY stops the rain.

Top 5 Zuko moments:

1. "Take a bite out of the silver sandwich"

2. THAT FREAKING AWKWARD BUT CUTE DATE WITH JIN

3. It's so cliche but "That's rough buddy" will never not be funny.

4. Theater nerd Zuko "They always butchered Love Amongst the Dragons".

5. "Have you learned your lesson?" "I have. Completely" THE SMIRK.

Top 5 Zutara moments:

1. All of The Southern Raiders. All. Of. It.

2. The scar touching! I thought they were gonna kiss and was so mad when they didn't!

3. "You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun." Like why was it necessary for him to be so damn poetic if they aren't soulmates?

4. When Zuko shoves Aang out of the way to sit beside Katara and then she flirty teases him during EIP.

5. THE WHOLE OF THE AGNI KAI.

[gemgirl28]

Hey there GemGirl. Lol so I've been following that post thread you and Mudbender have been doing about the dunebabies and steambabies learning about how Bad-A all their parents are and the scene of Sokka and Suki's kids also being there and learning about that and I just had to laugh as both they and the steambabies are thinking about how both their dads are complete goofs and softies that they are like "Wha....? How could the have done any of that? They are such dorks?!"

YES. ALL of the men are dorks. All. Of. Them.

Like Sokka, Aang, and Zuko sit around and talk about how cool and amazing and just all around badass their wives are while Suki, Toph, and Katara share embarrassing endearing stories about the dorky things their husbands have done. ESPECIALLY once kids come along.

So needless to say, it's a shock for ALL the kids when they find out their dads are war heroes??? Apparently???

ALSO if the kids aren't all together when they find out, I imagine it's kind of like Santa Claus. So like, as the oldest sibling of three, when I found out Santa/the Easter Bunny/the tooth fairy weren't real, I was sworn to secrecy by my parents and then I was In On It. It also meant I went around for a month asking my friends if they still believed to find out Who Knew and Who Didn't.

So like a bladebaby (Please let it catch on that's the only thing I can think of for Sukka kids) finds out, then at the next peace summit asks the oldest steambaby if they Know what their parents have done and the steambaby is like "YEAH but we can't tell the youngest" so they spend the whole time together comparing notes and just in general still having panics about how amazing their parents/aunts/uncles are.

Until finally all the kids are old enough to have learned about the war in school and they all freak out together.

[gemgirl28]

Hey there GemGirl! This is J_Man from ao3. I have to say I am loving your one shots you've been doing with the "touching" prompts and I decided I'd like to join in on the fun. So can you do one that starts as a 32 and turns into a 29 with Zutara? :) Also I am still knew to actually participating on Tumblr is this how you want us to request the prompts? :\

HELLO DEAR! Welcome to my tumblr, which is basically like my ao3 but less organized lol. And yes this is the best way to do the prompts! 💜 (Thought I had accidentally deleted this turns out I posted it so watch me pull something out of nothing real quick rip to me)

32. caressing the other’s back 29. tickling the other one

Katara sighed, leaning back closer to Zuko's touch. They had taken to having a late lunch in the gardens so they could steal an hour of peace together in the middle of their busy days. After a quick meal they usually sat, feeding the turtleducks or talking about their meetings or just enjoying being together.

Today Zuko sat at the base of the cherry tree, leaning against the trunk. Katara sat between his legs, leaning back so he could massage the tension from her meeting with Minister Chin out of her shoulders.

That is, until his touch become suddenly lighter.

"Mhmmmm," she hummed, her quiet acknowledgment that he was shifting his touch to something less for therapy and more for pleasure. Zuko's fingers traced along her spine, caressing her shoulders, coming down to the sides of her ribs and-

"Zuko!" Katara cried when he suddenly was tickling her sides. "What are you- What- Zuko!" She huffed out, failing to form coherent words, breathless with laughter. One of Zuko's hands tightened on her hip, keeping her in place, while the other kept up its assault of tickles.

After a minute the tickling stopped, and after a minute more Katara caught her breath.

"What was that for?" She said, whirling around to face him. Zuko's cheeks tinged pink, a shy smile tugging at the corners of his lips.

"I just wanted to hear you laugh, that's all," he said, not quite meeting her gaze. Katara grinned as she leaned in to kiss him.

"That's sweet," Katara said, her smile shifting to a smirk, "and perfect so I can do this!"

Katara tickled him, a true feat given the layers of his Fire Lord robes, but he was laughing, his beautiful laugh that she had long fallen in love with.

They were both late to their afternoon meetings, but each showed up with a smile, ready to get through the rest of their day so they could be together again.

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[gemgirl28]

Hey there Gemgirl, so I was re-reading "The one where they get engaged" to help with my ZK week stuff and "24 hours" and it kind of just dawned on me that Haru didn't give up trying to win Katara even after she got engaged to Zuko and tried again on their wedding day so I was just curious in your head cannon does the guy ever move on or does he keep proposing to her every time he sees her? :)

Hello dear!! 💜 Gah I am SO excited to see your zk week stuff! Is it August yet?

But also I still have so much to write let's slow time down mmkay?

Ok so spoilers for Brooklyn 99 are dead ahead so consider this your warning.

That part of 24 Hours was inspired by Teddy constantly proposing to Amy, which he does even after Amy and Jake are married and have a baby on the way. So if we run with "Haru as Teddy" then yes, he does keep proposing to Katara anytime he sees her. And now I kind of want to write Haru proposing to Katara while she's super pregnant with the first steambaby.

But in reality I think Haru ends up doing his best to move on, but for him Katara will always be the one that got away. He's happy enough with whoever he settles down with, but it's never quite the same, you know? Until he bumps into Katara and Zuko years later, and he sees how they look at each other, and he can't deny that they are meant for each other.

[gemgirl28]

Lmao oh that is even better than what I had in my head lol I totally know the whole being Older and having to keep the Santa Claus secret. So making it so the oldest bladebabies and steambabies having to keep it a secret that their parents were/are actually really cool from the younger cousins/siblings is just to perfect. Speaking of the bladebabies in your headcanon how many are there?

So I don't really have any set headcanons about the next gen atla kids because it really depends on the au I'm working in? So like. If I were to talk about one couple struggling to conceive, I'd imagine them having one kid and adopting more. And it also depends on how old they are when they get together, because I imagine they have several years together before they start trying for kids no matter what age they start dating, so like if they get together at 25+ they would probably have 2 kids vs getting together at 16-14 they'd have 2-4.

But I do typically headcanon between 2-4 kids for Zutara, Taang, and Sukka. They just love each other and can't keep their hands off each other and contraceptive tea is only so effective 😉

In the aforementioned headcanon, I'd say 2-3 bladebabies? I usually picture Sukka having one less than Zutara. Idk why but that just feels right for them?