Avatar: 31 Days: Homeward Bound
Title: Homeward Bound
Day/Theme: September 30: You are my country
Series: Avatar, the Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara (implied Aang/Katara)
Rating: G
A/N: Written before S3 started, but I still think it holds up pretty well.
It wasn’t until after the defeat of the Fire Lord that Katara suddenly realized that not once, never in the entire journey, did she stop and wonder when she’d be able to go home again. Isn’t that the point of most journeys? To get through the journey and return home, exhausted and accomplished and proud?
Sure, she’d enjoyed her time in the North Pole (brawling with Master Pakku notwithstanding), and she’d been happy to travel with the warriors from the Southern Tribe (again, circumstances regarding Aang and her father notwithstanding) but even during those times when she’d been surrounded by what was familiar to her did Katara think that she’d like to stay there and stay that way.
It’s easy to explain away while she was on her journey - after all, her focus was on Aang and on the Fire Lord and on the war - but now the journey is over and she’s technically free to go wherever she wants, and still her heart is not wondering when she’ll see the South Pole again.
Turning her head, she sees Aang sleeping beside her, cocooned safely on one of Appa’s paws, and thinks that maybe the Air Nomads were onto something.