Starting in Katara P.O.V.

I search through all of my personal belongings, every pouch and pile of clothes I spot but I can't find my necklace. It's a mystery how I keep losing such an important relic of my mother. Today is just like any other day in the Fire Nation, four years after Aang, the Avatar, defeated Firelord Ozai. Many things have changed including myself. I now teach at a school for stray waterbenders in a small area of town, and am now a well-known character to this wonderful palace.

The reason I now live in a palace? I'm girlfriend to the almighty Fire Lord Zuko.

After we found the man who killed my mother Kaya, I said I forgave him. I never said I trusted him completely in the statement, "I've changed. I'm good now." But after he helped defeat his own father, helped defeat the evil that was poisining the world, I trusted him with my life. I still remember the grin on his face when he turned around from the burnt and crumbling palace to look at me, just after his sister and father were finally killed. My only regret was not smiling back.

He later told me why he cared so much about what I thought about him, because he didn't want me to hate him. Zuko said I was the most important person he cared about, and I couldn't believe my words but my lips somehow moved to tell him the same thing. That was the day my first kiss.

Now I'm in my room searching through my belongings to find the necklace I hold so dear to me, without any sign of finding it. I sigh and lean down on my bed resting my head on the pillow that bears the Fire Nation symbol, resigning my search in defeat. It was gone, and I lost all I had left of my mother.

Just as I was about to close my eyes and try to get some sleep, someone taps on my door. "Come in." I yell.

Zuko P.O.V.



I turn the golden doorknob to see my beautiful lover Katara of the Southern Water Tribe in a firenation dress, bearing a miserable expression. When I enter, she gives me a sad smile and croaks out the words, "It's missing again."

I already knew what she was talking about, the necklace that once belonged to her precious mother. How is it possible for her to not keep it tied to her neck all the time?

I walk forward and lay onto the bed with her, stroking her hair softly while she closes her eyes and intertwines her fingers with mine. I hold a necklace in front of her face, and she senses it immediately. Snapping her eyes open she smiles but it quickly dissapears in dissapointment. "Zuko…" my name rolls of her tounge in a smooth and reassuring way. "That's not my mother's necklace…it has a different stone." I nod my head and smile to Katara, and her face is now confused.

"Water tribe people give eachother necklaces when they're proposing, right?"

Fin.