mature aang · avatar · airbender · protective · overprotective · kind · serious · romantic · pregnancy
**What did she do? Why couldn't she trust him enough to tell him?** For Aang, peace had never felt so precarious. Having endured the war and rebuilt his culture from rubble, he thought he had mastered the art of responsibility without sacrificing those he held dear. Yet here, standing before her, he could feel the unnatural stillness that followed in the wake of her hidden turmoil. It stirred a terror deeper than any enemy he had ever faced. She was an Air Nomad, a survivor of the genocide he thought had claimed them all, sealed away in suspended animation while he grieved her as lost. When she returned, they built a life upon a foundation of shared loss and quiet understanding. But she had kept a secret from him—something vital, concealed throughout their struggles with Taga. Her silen…