Happy Holidays everyone!

I know some of you that read You Found Me are wondering where the next chapter is, but at the moment I'm having some issues with the new chapter. So it might not be up for a while, but I have written this story to make it up to you guys!

All you need to know for this story is that it's set in the Avatar universe, but without the war.

The ages for this story are as followed;

Katara:24

Aang:25

Zuko:27

Mai:24

Sokka:26

Suki:25

Toph:24

Oh and it's in Katara's POV.

Disclaimer: I own nothing!

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My whole marriage has always been focused on my husband and only my husband. I don't love him and I don't believe I every have, but this marriage is about him and only him. I am twenty-four years old and have been married to my twenty-seven year old husband for four years. I was born and raised in the Southern Water tribe and mastered waterbending at the young age of fourteen. I don't live in the water tribe however and I haven't seen or talked to my family in years. It's not that I don't love them and miss them terribly it's because my life is supposed to revolve around my husband. I don't like this way of thinking, but when you live in the Fire Nation you have no choice, especially when you're the Fire Lady herself.

"Lady Katara lunch is ready," One of the servants told me with a bow as she walked into the room I share with him.

"Thank you," I replied as I turned away from the window and smiled meekly at her.

I followed her out of the room as she led me through the many hallways of the palace towards the dining room. I remember the times when I would cook for my family and we would all sit around and joke with each other like a happy family should. Here in the palace it's usually just me since Zuko takes his lunch in his quarters and we don't have any children. That's another problem with my marriage. Zuko seemed happy in the beginning as we tried to have children, but as soon as we found out that I couldn't give him the son or daughter he always wanted we stopped trying all together. It didn't matter to me since making love to him never felt right in the first place.

"Where is my husband?" I asked as we arrived at the dining room.

"He is in his study with Lady Mai," the servant said.

"Oh, I see," I replied.

The servants all know that my husband is having an affair with Mai and all of them are to afraid to tell me. All except this one servant whose name I wish I could remember. This servant never lied to me per say, but she didn't exactly tell the whole truth. For example, she tells me he's with Mai, but doesn't tell me what their doing. I'm grateful that she at least tells me some of the truth instead of lying to me completely like these other cowards. I don't know what got into to me, but that day I decided that enough was enough. I stormed out of the dining room and through the halls until I came upon his study. I heard some movement and thought about turning back, but decided against it and stormed into the room.

There it was before my eyes, my husband or soon to be ex-husband was sitting on his desk with Lady Mai in his lap. They were kissing and not to innocently. His hand was on her thigh and moving upwards into the slit of her dress. As soon as my presence was known Zuko practically threw Mai off of him. I heard him say something like 'it's not what it looks like', but I ignored it completely as I walked up to him and slapped him hard across the face.

"That's for wasting four years of my life," I told him and then turned around to walk out the door and out of his life forever until he stopped me by grabbing my wrist.

"You can leave, but you will not treat me that way," he said as his grip on my wrist started to heat up.

"Please, don't," I pleaded as tears fell down my face from the excruciating pain in my wrist.

"Zuko just let her be," Mai said as she pulled Zuko's grip away.

I fell to the ground and held my wrist as the tears poured down my face. As happy as I was to be free of that awful place, I wanted nothing more than to stay there for a little while longer, only to make him feel the pain I felt for all these years being forced to become the perfect wife. I decided against it as I got up from the floor and walked out of the door, slamming it behind me. I made it back to our room and bent water from a vase of flowers to heal the burns on my wrist. I then found a bag and hurriedly packed my things until a knock at the door stopped me in my tracks. My heart beat quickened as I turned towards the door and waited anxiously while the door knob twisted. I sighed in relief as that same servant walked in and shut the door behind her.

"I saw what happened. Are you going to be alright?" She asked while helping me pack my things.

"I'll be fine. I just need to get out of here," I told her while getting the remainder of my clothes and putting a cloak on.

"Where will you be needing to go?"

"The South Pole," I said as I grabbed my bag.

"There is a boat leaving port in twenty minutes that will be headed to Kyoshi Island. From there you're on your own," she stated while handing me a bag of gold pieces and shooing me out of the room.

"Thank you," I told her as I turned around and hugged her tight.

"You're welcome. Now go!" She stated as she pushed me out the door.

I moved as fast as I could through the halls of the palace before I finally reached the palace doors. I pushed them open before realizing that I was still considered the Fire Lady. I yanked my hair piece out and threw it to the ground before running out into the pouring rain. I pulled my hood up and ran as fast as I could to the docks so I could catch the boat. I didn't know if my family would except me back and I wouldn't blame them after all that I have done over the past few years, but I had no where else to go. As soon as I reached the docks I snuck onto the boat with a few other passengers and tried my best to blend in and go unnoticed by the crowd.

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That's it for the first chapter. The good thing about this story is that the first 12 chapters are already finished so I will be updating regularly for once! Review please and I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, and all that jazz! Oh, and a Happy New Year!