REPOST! (Yea, I looked back and found heaps of mistakes and so I've gone through, edited it and now I'm reposting it. So read, my pretties!)
Hello readers! This is my first fic, so be nice. I'm rating it M so be warned. Hope you like it! R&R! Just before you read the story though, Zuko and Katara are two years older than they are in the show. No time has elapsed since the episode, The Waterbending Scroll, but Zuko is now 18 and Katara is 16. You'll understand in a few chapters time.
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. Any original characters, however, I do own.
1. Captured
"Well, well, well, look who we have here; our little thief." The raspy voice came from behind her and she whipped around to see a pirate approaching her.
Katara made a water-whip and sent it at him, but he was ready for it and dodged it and lashed out at her with his club.
It hit her in the gut and she fell backwards, winded.
He raised his club to strike again and the waterbender only just managed to roll out of the way. It smashed into the ground where her head had been with a resounding thud.
Katara kicked the pirate in the knee and he fell over. But he landed on top of her.
She gasped and prayed to the gods that her ribs weren't broken.
"Get off me!" she screamed and threw her arms about, this time creating a big enough water-whip to send him backwards.
She got to her feet and tried to run, but the pirate grabbed her ankles and she tripped and hit her head against a rock.
The waterbender could see nothing but stars and blackness as she tried to get up, but she was too dizzy.
She heard the pirate get up behind her and he started moving towards her.
Oh, great! Now I'm done for!
The pirate grabbed her wrist and forced them together behind her back. But as the pirate reached for the rope to tie her, a fire blast sent him flying backwards.
She felt a familiar pair of hot hands grab her and pull her roughly to her feet.
"C'mon, water scum! Get up!" Prince Zuko yelled at her as she almost fell over again.
He sent another fire blast at the pirate who shrieked in pain. Then, he grabbing Katara's wrist and led her away, into the forest.
They ran together, with Prince Zuko in the lead, for five minutes flat, without slowing down or stopping.
When they finally did come to a halt, they were standing in a clearing.
Both of them lent up against a tree, panting and clutching stitches in their sides.
Once he had caught his breath, Zuko spoke.
"Well, that was fun, wasn't it?" His voice was sly and Katara knew he was up to no good.
She looked at him – his face was a twisted smile and his eyes were alive with confidence.
Then, quick as lightning, the Fire Prince grabbed Katara's arms and pulled them behind her and bound her wrists.
She was too shocked to do anything and although she struggled, she knew she wouldn't be able to get free.
"Now, there's a good prisoner," he leered.
Katara sighed out loud at her own foolishness.
He knows you know where Aang is, of course he's gonna take you prisoner!
Well, I'm not gonna tell him anything! She made a mental promise to herself and her friend.
The Fire Prince began to lead her through the forest and she knew she couldn't get away from him on her own.
Zuko kept a straight face as he lead the water girl through the dark trees, but inside he was having a victorious party.
She knows where the Avatar is, and if she won't tell me I'll use her mother's necklace to threaten her. If she still won't say, then I'll use her as bait. His plan was already perfectly formulated inside his head.
Now I've just gotta get her back to the ship.
Prince Zuko looked at the girl he was pushing forwards and realized he had just saved her from that pirate.
And she hasn't even said thank you!
The waterbender seemed to read his thoughts.
"You just saved me form those pirates," she stopped and turned to face him properly, "I guess I should say thank you… you know, for saving my life."
The Prince considered the girl in front of him for a moment.
"Yea, well, I wouldn't go thanking me too quickly if I were you; I'm about to use you to capture the Avatar," he said.
Katara shrugged.
There was silence for a moment.
"And I don't think they would have killed you," he continued.
Katara looked at him, puzzled.
"They're a bunch of worthless, dishonourable pirates, and you're… well, you're a girl!" he went on, "a fairly attractive one, even if you are a waterbender."
Katara looked shocked.
"You find me attractive?!"
"No! I'm just saying… hey, lots of girls are good looking and you just so happen to be one of them!" he admitted.
She raised an eyebrow at him and he sighed in frustration and turned her to face the direction they were travelling in before continuing to move.
"So, what do you mean by, 'they're pirates and I'm a girl'?" she asked after a while.
"Well, do you know what pirates do to young women when they catch them?" he asked. But he continued before she could answer, "They beat them but they don't kill them. But what they do end up doing to them makes their prisoners whish they were dead."
Katara stopped dead in her tracks and turned to face the Prince again.
"Please don't tell me you mean," Katara swallowed, "they rape us."
Zuko nodded and his prisoner shuddered.
"I, on the other hand, am willing to let you and your brother walk free once I have the Avatar, and I would prefer to let you both keep your innocence," he told her.
"I want to cause as little harm to you, your brother and the Avatar as possible," he said after a while, "the pirates would kill anyone who gets in their way that they don't deem suitable for a sex toy. They would kill your brother, keep you as a sex toy and hurt the Avatar to the point that he is only just alive."
There was silence.
Katara looked up at him and asked, "What are you trying to tell me?"
"I'm trying to tell you that you're lucky I'm the one who caught you and not the pirates. They would have done some really horrible things to you, your brother and your friend… worse than I'm willing to do, anyway."
They stared at each other in silence.
"Ok, I'll admit it, if I had to choose between getting caught by the pirates and getting caught by you, I'm pretty sure I'd choose you," the water girl said.
They started walking again.
"So, I guess, thank you for saving my virginity," she mumbled.
"My pleasure. I'd hate to see an honourable girl be dishonored like that, or even know that it's happened, even if you are the enemy," he said.
They walked on in silence for the next five minutes.
As they walked, Katara caught a glimpse of something moving in the trees.
There was a rustle in the bushes around them and they both stopped.
Holding their breath, they looked around.
There was the rustling again, this time louder.
And more movement in the tree tops.
Both hunter and prisoner looked around wildly, trying to find the source of the noise.
After a moment, everything was still. Not a twig snapped and not a leaf rustled.
They kept their eyes and ears open, willing themselves to find the cause of the previous noise.
Only one noise came after that; the sound of a boomerang rushing through the air.
Both prince and peasant fell to the ground as the object hit their heads.
In her last few seconds of consciousness, Katara saw several pirates emerge from the bushes and the canopies of the trees.
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