Katara looks around, as she struggles to sit up. She noticed clanging, and the lack of arm movement. She takes in her surroundings, everything a little blurry. The sound of running water meets her ears, as she glances up at a stone fountain, and something walking up to her, draped in red cloth.
"Zuko, what's going on? Why am I chained up?" Katara asked the Fire Lord.
"Because you are helpless, water tribe peasantry. You are the only one I shall keep." He replies hastily.
"What do you mean keep? Where's Sokka? Where's Aang?" She replied, starting to worry.
"Your bother, excuse me, brother, was sent off to a fire nation work factory, along with his shriveling brat of a girlfriend and that little blind earthbender."
"What? Why? Wait, what about Aang?"
"My dearest Katara, your Avatar no longer disgraces our world."
Katara looks at the ground with a blank look on her face. "Why Zuko? Why is Aang dead? And why are our friends at a factory?"
"Because that was the plan. I am the Phoenix King now." Zuko replied in false glory.
"It was all a lie! You joined us, knowing we would defeat your father, and then when we did you turned around and stabbed us in the back!" Katara screamed as she looked up at Zuko with more rage and fury than ever before.
"Do you see that water next to you? Hurts doesn't it? To be so close, yet so far? You can't bend at me because you're chained up. That's how I felt all that time when I joined you. I was so close to my goal, yet too far for comfort. You feel my pain."
Katara falls back down, wriggling, trying to break free from her bonds. She tries to fling herself up to free her hands, but ends up on the cold, hard cement.
"It's no use. You're here until I let you free. I'll leave you to be next to your element; so close, yet so far." Zuko said, cackling as he walked away.