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Katara is READY.

She can totally (nearly) waterbend well enough to heal, and she can totally (actually) leave the farm, and every day they wait is a day she's more nervous.

R-E-A-D-Y!

... and therefore, of course, she's sitting in the kitchen practicing bending the spilled water behind the sink and wishing she could eat the cookies Steph made.

The cookies smell delicious.

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Mmmm cookies. He'll just take one f- Wait, no, that's not why he's here.

"Katara?" Sokka is frowning when he enters the kitchen, even with cookie-in-hand, looking around for his sister.

Katara beams at him, a million-watt smile.

Sokka gives her a tired, vaguely annoyed look. "Yeah, okay, but let me ask you something first. Did you tell Suki and Toph they were coming with us?"

Katara nods, smile fading because he's annoyed.

"Of course? Why of course? How is this of course? Where is the of course?!"

Older or not, he will always be her brother.

Katara eyes him dubiously, leaning back on the table and swinging her legs.

CAN'T SHE HAVE FRIENDS NOW? IS THAT IT, HUH?

"So you invite them to help with this without telling your family? I don't even know them, Katara!"

Katara blinks at him.

It's not quite that she's oblivious, it's just that Katara doesn't pay much attention to her brother when she's focused on other people.

Which is all the time.

He's just there - he's always there. Sokka is part of the backdrop of her life.

The backdrop.

Sokka sighs irritably and puts the cookie down to cross his arms over his chest. "Katara, Suki kissed me once almost four years ago and I've spoken to Toph like three times. It would've been nice to know about all this before Suki just informed me that she was coming and there was nothing I could do about it."

It had been so hard not to show her all the training he's learned over the years after that.

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Katara thinks about this, frowning slightly.

Smile!

Sokka stares at her.

She's so-- so-- so Katara. It's comforting and infuriating at the same time.

"Why should they come?" he asks her quietly. "The more people, the more complicated it gets and I don't see why either of them should go with us."

Katara's lip slides out a little.

"You could have told me."

So he could maybe feel less bad about telling Steph it was family-only.

Katara complains, drifting out towards her.

It takes a second for Toph to register she's being spoken to, thanks to an overreliance on bending.

"Great," she mutters. "I'll just go hungry then."

Katara informs her.

"You're dead," Toph points out. "Living people need tasty cookies."

Katara says firmly, grinning.

"That's great for you!" Toph says brightly.

Then, less brightly, "go where?"

Gosh, why does everyone not know this?

"Uh huh, that's why," Toph says. "Where?"

Katara says blithely.

"My Sokka?" Toph says, surprised. "He didn't tell me."

Katara hesitates.

Why didn't she tell the younger Sokka?