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Well, this is a story that contains mostly just the sexual tension between our favorite Firebending Prince and the sweet Water Tribe Girl, but it also contains the gentle side of Zuko and Katara's enending trust and care for anyone no matter who they are. Well, I hope you like it and please comment, but no flames please!
Summary: Katara has found herself in some tough situations before, but when she finds herself alone with Prince Zuko, it might be more then she can handle.
As Always:
"Talking"
'Thinking'
(Author's Notes, Change of Point of View, Flashbacks, Endings and Beginnings of Chapters)
(On With The Story!)
Katara walked alongside her brother and her friend, Aang after they got off of Appa's back after a long 5-day flight. "This likes a good place to camp." Sokka said as he placed down the heavy items on his back.
"Great!" Aang said in his normal cheery voice as he plopped the items on his back to the grass. Katara sighed gently as she sat down and started to unpack the tent and their sleeping bags as Momo jumped off her shoulder.
"Well, "I'm going to collect some food for dinner." Sokka said as he started toward the woods. Katara sighed once again knowing that the only thing he would ever find was very few berries that were usually poisonous and nuts that turned out to be rocks.
"I'll stay here and start a fire." Aang announced as he grabbed a few large branches that lay by the trunk of a nearby tree. After Aang began to strenuously rub sticks together trying to get a fire started, he put the sticks down and looked over at Katara who was unpacking a few more items for the night.
Aang blushed and turned his head when she glanced his way feeling his eyes gazing at her. He had liked her from the first time she met him. He knew she didn't really know that he felt that way, but he hoped that he would someday tell her and she would completely feel the same. "Aang, is something wrong?" Katara asked as she stood to her feet and approached the young Avatar.
"Nothing Katara. Well, I'm going to go find Sokka to help him find a more suitable dinner." Aang said before running off into the woods before Katara could notice the dark red developing on his pale cheeks.
Katara just shrugged her shoulders before bending down and lifting the canteen off the ground and walking off to try and find a river or stream to fill it up. Katara found a spring to her surprise and smiled before unscrewing the top of the canteen and lowering it into the cold water and allowing the water to enter it until it was full.
Katara screwed the top shut as she looked around noticing how late it was already getting. She started her way back to the campsite and told herself that she would practice some waterbending tonight. She had been getting a little rusty from not being able to waterbend in a few days because of the long time they were on Appa's back. She felt the scroll tightly secured in her pocket.
After she made it back to the campsite, Sokka and Aang were looking through their bag of collected food and groaning as they kept throwing out rocks. Katara sighed deeply as she rolled her eyes as she approached the two. "There's nothing to eat, is there?" Katara asked as she heard her stomach gently growl.
"It's Aang's fault! He wouldn't let me eat that monkey I almost caught!" Sokka grumbled.
"That monkey wouldn't have tasted good anyway." Aang defended. Sokka just continued to have a pity party as he crossed his arms and began to mope.
"Well, we need to find something to eat." Katara said as she sat down on the cool ground.
"It's getting late anyway and besides, there's a town not to far from here so we'll just leave early and go get some breakfast and restock on supplies." Aang decided before walking over to Appa's tail and gently laying down on the soft white fur.
"That's fine with me." Katara said before laying out her sleeping bag and lying on top of it. "Goodnight, Sokka. Goodnight, Aang."
"Goodnight." Aang replied as he closed his eyes. Sokka just grumbled.
After 20 minutes, Katara was awoken by Sokka's constant loud snoring. "Sokka…" Katara moaned sleeping as she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. "Sokka!" Katara said a little louder, but he wouldn't stop. "Oh well. Might as well go try and practice my waterbending…" Katara said reluctantly to no one in particular before standing to her feet.
After she got to the spring she found earlier, she heard soft footsteps only about 20 feet away. Katara stood still for a few seconds wondering if it was one of her other traveling companions. "Hello?" Katara said gently into the direction of the footsteps. She heard then stop a second later and wasn't scared, but just curious.
"Sokka, is that you?" she asked as she started to walk in the direction she heard it coming from. "You better not be trying to scare me. I swear, I'll hurt you if you are."
Katara cleared the brush and seen Prince Zuko sitting on the grass. Katara gasped lightly before she tried to quietly run back to tell the others they had to leave, but accidentally tripped on a vine growing from the ground and landed with a hard thud. Zuko's head turned her way and he furrowed his eyebrows when his vision adjusted to the darkness of the night and a picture of the waterbender became clear.
Zuko quickly stood to his feet and approached her with flames already appearing in his hands. Katara gasped as she tried to free herself from the vine, but it got caught in her footwear and she couldn't move. Katara seen the Firebender and knew she had to do something to defend herself. "Where's the Avatar?" Zuko asked in a harsh voice as Katara cowered.
"Why should I tell you?" Katara growled back knowing she was scared but she sure as hell let know Zuko she was.
"Because if you don't…" Zuko said in a whisper as he knelt down and began burning off her clothes.
"Stop that!" Katara hissed as she tried to kick him with her other foot, but he easily caught it before it hit him.
"Tell me where the Avatar is and I won't hurt you." Zuko replied as he smirked.
"I'm never going to tell you! Let my leg go!" Katara shouted as she tried to free her leg from his strong grasp. Katara gazed up angrily into the Prince's golden eyes as she still tried hard to release her leg.
"You can try all you want, girl, but you're not getting out of here so easily…" Zuko whispered in a softer voice as he lowered his head closer to her and began kissing her neck.
"Stop that!" Katara shouted as she tried to bite him but in the position he was holding her down in was making it impossible.
"Tell me and I will…" Zuko said breathily in her ear. Katara started breathing heavily as she felt Zuko's gently breath tingling the hairs on her neck. She felt his petal soft lips gently nipping softly at her dark skin as she tried her hardest not to like it.
"Please stop!" Katara shouted as she felt his soft breath began to felt amazing. She kept trying to tell herself that Zuko was a jerk, her enemy, and she hated him. I mean, of course the guy was hot and everything. He had amazing muscles and a great physique but was a total hotheaded bastard!
"Tell me what I want to hear and I won't rip of your clothes…" Zuko said as he laid his hand over her clothed breast and Katara gasped at his action.
"Stop it, you pervert!" Katara shouted as she tried to wriggle from his tight grasp.
"Wow, you're a feisty one, aren't you? Huh? …Katara…" Zuko said being sure to whisper her name in her ear with a deep sensual voice.
"Don't…" she whispered as she felt herself fighting him off less and less.
(To Be Continued…)