"Katara...Um...I think we did something worse then just sex last
night." Zuko muttered, golden eyes wide. Katara raised her eyebrow,
turning toward him.
"Zuko, how the hell can anything be worse then sex right now? What,
could possibly, be worse, then say something like, sex?!?!" Katara
narrowed her eyes toward Zuko, pushing her naked body out of bed. Zuko
squawked in surprise, covering his eyes. He couldn't count how many
times he had imagined Katara naked, but it had never, ever, been like
this. Squeezing his eyes shut he took a deep breath and addressed
Katara.
"Katara. Please, for the Avatars sake, put on some clothes."
"I kind of think the Avatar would like to see me like this..." Katara
pointed out well-known information. Everyone knew Aang practically
worshipped the ground under her feet. "Just thought I'd point that
out. Anyway, you can open your eyes now. I'm decent." Zuko opened his
eyes to see Katara pulling on her lacy underwear under his shirt.
"Katara, that's my shirt!" Zuko whined. She raised left eyebrow.
"You wanted me in clothes, now I'm clothed. Get over it." Zuko rolled
his eyes. She could be so annoying sometimes. She strode over to the
bed, plopped down, and looked at him innocently.
"Now, could you please be so kind to inform me what's worse then sex?"
***
Married. The one word ran through her head. She looked down at the
silver marriage band with designs of leaves wrapped around her finger.
She remembered Zuko telling her about these "wedding rings" that
showed man and wife, telling her that it was said to be hell of a lot
simpler then betrothal necklaces. Katara had thought about wedding
rings and had even seen a few, at Haru's wedding, and a few other
times. There were a few stores around Ba Sing Se that she had seen
that had sold them, because unlike betrothal necklace, they were
required certain skills to make and were expensive. Very expensive.
And now she had one of these very expensive wedding bands wrapped
around the finger beside her pinky that told anyone and everyone who
looked at her hand that she was married. And however saw both her and
Zuko's wedding bands could very well realize that they were married.
How could she be married to Zuko? Everyone knew she and Zuko were only
friends... There had to be something they could do to be unmarried.
"Zuko... Erm... How are we going to tell everyone?" Katara looked to
Zuko with wide eyes, "and, is there a way to become, er, unmarried?"
"We'll figure something out. " Zuko turned over and closed his eyes. "If we can't get-erm-
unmarried, then we tell everyone. That's our plan. One peep to anyone, and that's it. I make your life
miserable."
