Katara tried to keep her lips together. She didn't want Zuko to see that she was cold. She had been stuck with him in this bloody cave for two days now and she had frozen her ass off for both of them.
Stupid Zuko, thought Katara. She began to curse herself in her head for refusing to sit by the fire with him. She guessed she kind of deserved to die now that she thought that Aang and Sokka had surely died in the battle.
It began when Zuko had finy caught them at the North Pole. There had been a tremendous battle and Zuko had been rash to think that he could take on Katara and Aang in their own element. Katara had wounded her hand and had cowardly slipped away to try and relieve the aching pain, but had run into (litery run into) Zuko, who had been whirled across the ice cap and into a sm cave.
"O crap," Katara had accidenty said out loud. She ran as fast as she could, but just managed to get her leg scorched by Zuko. Great, just great Katara, she had thought to herself. Now your best bet is to limp away and cry for Aang again.
Well, then it was Katara's turn to be rash. She had tried to take the water from the ice and whip-lash Zuko in the face and only achieved creating some sort of odd chain reaction that caused an avalanche. Katara didn't know how she didn't get crushed under the pounds of ice, but she could have sworn she felt Zuko's surprisingly gentle hands snatch her out of the way of a huge ice b fing from above.
Now caught in an ice cave with the Prince of Hell, Katara rey started to hate herself. If only she would have sucked it up and fought. If only she would have been strong like her mother would have been. Katara had developed this new habit of comparing herself to her mother.
Katara suddenly felt even colder. She couldn't help from glancing at Zuko's sleeping form next to the fire he had createdfor the two of them, but nooo Katara, you had to be difficult and stubborn. Now fully excepting her fate she lay down on the freezing sheet of ice and closed her eyes hoping to never have to open them again and leave this nightmare behind.
The next time Katara woke she felt a sweet and pleasant warmth over her body. When she opened her eyes she was surruonded by a ring of fire with Zuko putting as much enery as he could into keeping her warm. Katara was stunned. Had he rey used that power on her? And after she had been so cold to him?
When Zuko saw that she was awake and quite warm indeed he sagged and the ring of fire quickly dissolved to one sm fire in a corner. Zuko was so tired from keeping those fires up he collapsed onto Katara. "I'm sorry but I'm rey tired. Could I stay here a while?" Zuko said it in such a sweet and sincere tone. What the hell had gotten into him? Katara rey didn't care she just let him stay there and recooperate. She could have sworn she rey was in heaven, but she didn't know the half of it.