A/N: I don't even know where this came from but it was fun to write.
Disclaimer: I don't own
"Katara, wake up," She knew that voice. She hadn't heard it that annoyed in a while though. "Katara get up now!" And suddenly the blankets were gone and all she had to curl up under was the bedsheet.
"No," she told Zuko firmly.
"But, sweetheart, don't you want to enjoy our wedding gift together."
Katara shot up right. "What?!" She blinked a few times as her eyes adjusted to the bright light flooding the dingy room. It wasn't the worse place she'd been, but it had obviously seen better days.
Zuko sat on the edge of the bed and crossed his arms. "Apparently when you said 'oh Zuko just drink from the silly cup' and I did and you did that meant we got married according to Foggy Swamp traditions."
Katara crossed her arms and glared at him. "I didn't know that. I wouldn't have made you do that if I had known. I'm sure this thing has happened before and it's not that big of a deal."
Zuko stood and started muttering to himself about 'stupid waterbenders' and pacing. "Not a big deal. Right, of course this isn't a big deal for you. It is for me and we need this fixed now."
Katara huffed. "Why is it worse for you than it is for me?"
"I don't know, maybe because my marriage to anyone would be of international importance, Fire Lady Katara," he sneered.
She opened and closed her mouth a few times at his words. "First of all any wedding I have would be of international importance too. Secondly you don't have to sound so annoyed about this. We just need to get unmarried and hope no one else knows about it."
He stopped pacing. "Well I know how that's done in the Fire Nation-"
"Please tell me it doesn't involve something dangerous like an Agni Kai."
"No, it's just a simple piece of paper we both sign. Can you even get 'unmarried'" Zuko made little quotes in the air as he said the word, "in the Water Tribe?"
Katara looked at the floor. "You can it's just...not done. You have to prove the marriage wasn't consummated."
"Easy, nothing happened last night."
"And I have to prove that you wouldn't be able to provide for me any any children we could have."
Zuko let out a little puff of fire. "You know I'd be able to provide for you," he said grumpily.
"I know this, you know this, deep down I'm sure Sokka would even vouch for you on this but you're going to have to fail at hunting."
"Is it anything like fishing?" He asked hopefully.
"Uh, kind of? Why?"
He smirked. "I'm terrible at that. The one time Uncle sent me fishing I caught one little fish."
She smiled. "Well that's good and maybe we won't even have to deal with that. Maybe we can just undo this in the Foggy Swamp style and hope that news hasn't traveled. Now go wait in the hall while I get dressed."
"Katara, you slept in your clothes." She flushed. "And we have this wonderful fruit basket."
She scowled at him. "I want tea."
"Fine."
She got up out of bed and checked her hair. She quickly undid her half bun, running her fingers through her hair, before pulling her hair back into the style. A quick tug on her clothes and she was ready to go down to the main hall of the inn they were staying in.
"I can't believe this was the best place we could stay," Zuko complained as they made their way downstairs.
"You mean you didn't plan for us to get caught in that storm and have to stop at the sleazy tavern that we met June in? Zuko, I'm shocked."
"I wasn't the one who insisted that all of us needed to take the Foggy Swamp guys back from the South Pole."
"Well it was on the way back to the Fire Nation and Kyoshi Island," Katara insisted. "Hopefully we can get down there and find Huu or Due or Tho before anyone else is awake or-"
"Well there are the two lovebirds," June called as they entered the main hall. "I know you two were dating and now you're married."
Zuko stomped over to her and leaned over the sitting woman. "You will keep quiet about this and tell no one," he said in his best Fire Lord voice.
"No can do, announcements were sent out last night," she said with a smirk.
"What do you mean they went out last night?" Katara asked as she stalked over to June, hands on her hips.
"Oh the locals all know what you two did. I thought it was hilarious that you'd elope to here of all places but hey, I just find people, not try to understand them."
"I'll give you 100 gold pieces if you go and get every single announcement that was sent out," Zuko said through clenched teeth.
"No can do Prince Pouty. I told you," she took a sip of her tea, "I find people not things. However I will take that money to go find your waterbending friends."
"They left?" Katara asked.
June shrugged. "Apparently a little downpour doesn't bother them. Took off after you two went to bed, though why you were sharing a room if you aren't together…"
Katara felt her face go red and noticed Zuko's matched the color of his shirt. "There were two rooms left and Sokka was complaining about not spending time with Suki so we just let him have the other one."
"And the Avatar and the blind girl?"
"Sleeping with Appa, Toph made an earth tent to keep the rain out," Zuko supplied. "Are they here?"
"Not yet, but I'm going to wait until everyone is here. I'm sure this will be good," she said as she placed her feet on the table. "Oh look, here comes your brother."
Sokka was practically jumping down the stairs. He did skip the last three and landed with a thump, his arms out to steady himself. He marched over to Zuko and grabbed the slightly taller man by the shirt. "You married my sister last night!" Katara watched Zuko swallow hard and saw beads of sweat form on his brow.
"This is going to be a long day," she sighed as she rubbed her forehead.
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