#I reallyreallyreallyreally wanna write beekeeper!aang/apiarist!Aang

[the-last-cuddlebender]

Okay but listen

Modern!AU Kataang

Beekeeper!Aang

Aang loves every one of his little bubbly bumble bees

He sells honey and honeycomb and beeswax at the little farmers market under the bridge in the city. It’s held right against the grassy bed of the canal, and the bridge is huge and gives them plenty of shade. It’s like an amphitheater in under there

His stall is 2 aisles across from Katara’s, but they clearly see each other through the gap that was made for the walkway in the aisles between them. 

Sokka runs a food truck and leaves the TV on so the mini-plaza that they made can always watch the game (the “Icedodgers” are Sokka’s favorite team)

Aang’s literally the sweetest thing there

Katara got stung by the love bug and hasn’t recovered.

He was so calm and nice that he rarely ever got stung by his bees, not even those that accidentally followed him to market (he hushed them like little kids, put them in a little net carrier, and took them back home)

He was a quiet man, but he was always moving, even if it was just the slightest bit--the bouncing of his leg, the tapping of his finger, or the little fiddle with a fold of his shirt. If he talked, though, he was anything but quiet...but he was always kind

He was always—always—moving. Always buzzing with energy.

He was graceful but also clumsy. It was a...unique combination. It didn’t hurt him one bit, though. He bounced off like it had meant nothing. (he was literally like the lil bees he so loved...he claimed to have a favorite named Appa)

Katara grows moonpeaches and sells them in the market, but, one year, her trees aren’t doing too hot.

She has a little cry about it after she hits her breaking point, and Aang is helping her in an instant

Long story short, she asks to rent some of his bees to help her trees (that her mother had planted) so that her business doesn’t go under (renting bees in a real thing btw my neighbors do it with their blueberry farm)

Aang does her one better and gives her a full hive, but he has to teach her how to handle and care for them, of course. 

Katara was by no means weak, but even she couldn’t help herself if she was swarmed. 

She hit her head pretty bad when she gets spooked and falls back, but she didn’t want to go to the hospital. The last time she went there with someone, she was the only one to come out. 

Aang helps her get better

Katara has to take some medicine, but a spoonful of sugar isn’t around (honey works just as well, though)

The first time she calls him “honey”, it’s an accident

The second time she doesn’t know she did it until she sees his smile

The third time it’s to wave him down when he’s a little lost trying to find the restaurant she had chosen to have their first date (he had spun in a graceful little circle but also bumped into a pole--clumsy but graceful as always)

The first time he calls her “sweetie”, it’s right before their first kiss

The second doesn’t have a limit, because he called her by the nickname every moment after

...Their businesses both boom in the next season

Because no one had seen moonpeaches so big

And no one had tried honey made from the pollen from moonpeaches. It was almost pinkish in the right light

Kindof like a blush

Like whenever he called her sweetie

Or whenever she called him honey

The end?