A/N: Hey so this is my first Fanfic please don't hate, but I would like constructive criticism. I want to know what you think, what I should add, what I should take away, etc. Let me know what you want to see in this story except for lemons.

ATLA does not belong to me it goes to Nick and the show's creators, which are geniouses i might add ;)

Enjoy! ^_^

"NOOOOO!!!" Zuko screamed as he awoke from the nightmare. He looked around his red, black and gold accented room as images of what he had just seen ran through his head. His lungs seemed to burn with the fast intake of air. His heart even seemed like it would burst from his chest. Take deep breaths. Breath. Be still. He took breaths of cool air and tried to slow his racing heart as well as push away the unwanted scenes.

Once his heart resumed a safer speed, he realized how hot he was. Sweat dripped from every pore on his body, drenching the sheets he laid in. He tossed back the covers and got out of his big emperor-sized bed and walked toward his personal balcony that looked over a courtyard garden.

Katara, he thought as he remembered his dream. Katara, the amazingly strong waterbender, lying crumpled in front of his father's feet, her hands bound behind her back, her face a mask of pain and terror. She was at the mercy of a mad man, a mad man who wouldn't bestow any kind of mercy. He saw her ripped and tattered Water Tribe clothes; the material was torn in places which showed battered and bruised skin and in some cases blood.

At seeing her pain stricken face and mangled body, Zuko's anger raged. He took a fighting stance as fire flew up and down his arms in a wild frenzy.

Ozai snapped his fingers and many of the Dai-Li appeared and stood ready behind him. Zuko looked at the hundreds of Dai-Li fighters, knowing there was no way to save them both. He looked into those blue eyes that seemed to call to him and saw her pleading tears. He saw the despair evident like a cloud of mist. He took that despair and changed it to fire his determination. He would save her, even if it would kill him.

He spread his legs apart in a fighting stance, forced his arms out and was prepared to fight an already lost battle. He looked into his father's eyes and saw his mad, crazy personality draw back suddenly at his son's blazing eyes.

Zuko let out a war cry of sorts and ran toward his father at full speed ready to burn him to a crisp. A cruel smirk came to Ozai's lips, and before Zuko could reach him, he tugged Katara up by the rope binding her hands, using her as a shield. Zuko saw exactly what his father intended for him to do and so he stopped at the sudden jerk of Katara's body. Zuko stood in front of his father, vulnerable to his very soul.

Ozai's smirk grew into a full-out evil smile of triumph. "Either kill her or watch her be killed. Either you have honor or you don't." Zuko's heart felt like it was about to shatter in a thousand pieces as he watched his father bring a flat hand up to her neck like you would a gun and in that moment he knew exactly how his father would execute her. The painful death of burning your throat.

Zuko couldn't move, couldn't do anything except look at Katara through his tears. "Zuko." She whimpered. And then he saw it, the fast reflexes of a man about to emit flame. "NOOOOO!!!!"

Again his body was drenched in sweat at the re-living of his own nightmare. Why had he seen her of all people in his dreams? He hadn't really heard from her in about a year. The last time he did, he remembered seeing Aang hold her hand in a very familiar kind of way. It rankled him, his seeing them together. It was just weird an, all-powerful avatar and a peasant. Who could have thought of that pairing?

He didn't want to think of any of this anymore. He just wished he could sleep; however, the fear of seeing the whole thing on replay again scared all his bending out of him. Katara, I truly hope you are alright wherever you are.

A/N: I know this is super, super short but this is the preface. I have part of the 2nd chapter written but not all of it. Please keep looking out for it. and I would love, love, love your reviews so please just type out a quick one. I just wanted to know how you liked it. :) thanks!