"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."