Well, here's the second chapter! I hope you like it! Thanks for the reviews, but I need more! Thanks you guys for keeping me going!
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender!
I put my car into overdrive as I stomp it to the ground, speeding off down towards my house. Out of the corner of my eye I take a quick glance over the side of the road when my eye caught a glance of a car, off in the distance, flipped over and smoking; Rocking back and forth and on its top. My car nearly flipped over in the process of try to stop. I had no time to waste, I had to hurry. After a moment, I realize that I'm just sitting there. I jump out of the car, racing off as fast as I could towards the flipped over car. I remember the emergency kit I had in the trunk of my car; I turn around and grab it from the truck and then run back to the flipped car. Inside the kit was a crowbar, a knife, some gauze, Band-Aids, a flashlight with extra battery, a spare cell phone, and some rubbing alcohol.
When I reach the car window, I see blood and a brown haired girl hanging upside down with her legs pinned under the dash board. Then I realize who this brown haired girl is. It's the girl seventh period, the new girl. Katara! Her windows are rolled up. I stand back with the crowbar, getting ready to smash the window, when her eyes flutter open.
Her face turns into panic when she sees where's she's at. "I need you to stay still! I'm going to get you out of here!" I call, though the closed window. I see her nod. "I need you to shield your face! I'm going to try to break the window! Okay?" She nods once more. I pull my arms back and strike the window with the end of the crowbar.
The window smashes with a loud shatter. "Help me! My legs are smashed." She cries.
"I know. I'm going to get you out. I promise." I look around for something to help her out. I think for a split second for a way to get her legs out; The end of the crowbar! I jam it in between the dashboard and floor board, pressing all my body weight down on the end of the bar, pulling the metal and the fiberglass of the dash apart. Her legs, covered in blood and scraped up, her skin pulling apart. "Did your airbag deploy?" The blood is rushing to her head too fast.
She shakes her head. I pull the flashlight out of the tool case and shine it through the hole where her feet still are stuck. I see blood dripping from her ankles. I knew this couldn't be good. I reach my hand inside to her feet, trying to maneuver them out. I grab the cell phone and dial 911. I try to stay calm while on the phone. I tell them my name and location and where I'm at. I pull her feet out with my hands, carefully I unbuckle her seatbelt and pull her down, making sure that she was not stuck anywhere else. I pull lightly on her arms, she responses with a scream. I get her down and set her on the ground next to me so I can tend to her.
I pull my jacket off and sling it around her shoulders. She smiles at me with a gratefulness grin. I give her my crooked smile and tend to her legs."My legs! Their burning!" She cries. I pull out the gauze and rip it apart and wrap the piece around her cuts.
"Okay, Okay." I say, trying to keep my cool. This girl has taken enough pain and I won't let her take any more. Her eyes slowly start to close. "Katara! No!" I say, patting her cheek. "Stay with me! The ambulance is on its way! I need you to stay with me!" I hear the sirens from the ambulance about a mile or so down the road.
Her eyes open then close again.
"Don't you dare die on me! Keep your eyes open, stay with me." I hear the ambulance's sirens in the distance. "Stay with me, Katara." I see the red and blue lights come towards me. "Stay with me."
The ambulance pulls up behind my car and two men race out and around to the back. A woman comes out of the back with the gurney. They run over towards us. "I'll meet you at the hospital." I whisper in her, knowing she probably couldn't hear me.
"What Happened?" One of them asks me.
"Her car slid on some ice on the road and she flipped. Her legs got pinned." I told them. We all three left her up onto it and into the ambulance. I get up into the ambulance with them, forgetting all about my car. They shock her with a defibrillator, hoping to get a pulse. "Stay clear!" One says, pushing me back away.
I cringe as I see her body left up from the shock. I close my eyes and pray that she makes it. I know I don't know here that well, but I still need her to make it. I wouldn't be able to live with myself, knowing it was my fault. "I got a pulse!" The other one calls. I stand there, with my heart missing every other beat, and watch them, as they work. They get her into the ambulance and shut the door.
I run to my car, rev up the engine, and speed off behind them. My thought wonder as I drive; Will she make it? What if she doesn't? I won't be able to live with myself. We aren't too far from the hospital, which makes me feel very thankful. They pull into the ambulance entrance, I find a parking spot not too far away. I jump out, and run for the door, meeting them inside.
"Katara!" I yell as I get cut off by two doctors holding me back as she gets pulled into another room. "You have to help her!" I yell.
"Sir, please just sit down and be patience." He leads me to a chair. "We will do the best that we can." He says. How can they do this to me? How? I was fuming. Felt like I was going to start blowing smoke from my ears. I know that she's in good hands, so I try to calm myself with a mountain dew from the nearest machine. I
"Where is she!? Where's my daughter?!" A man, that has a skin tone close to Katara's mocha skin and blue eyes, comes rushing in, yelling at all the nurses.
"Dad, Settle down. She's probable perfectly fine." A younger version of the man, says, trying to settle his nerves, comes in behind him.
"Sir, Are you Katara Mizu's father?" I ask, getting up. This man sure does have a right to know what is going on with Katara if he is her father.
"Depends who's asking." He says, getting up in my face. I try not to feel intimidated as he gets eye to eye, nose to nose with me.
I back up a step. "My name is Zuko Agni, and your daughter was in a car accident. I found her and I brought her here.I know you don't know who I am and I understand what you are getting at for being a father. She is in good hands here." I say, bowing my head.
"Thank you. For bring my sister here." The boy says, holding at his hand for me to shake. "I'm is my father, Hakoda, We just moved here from Hawaii." I shake it with an unstable grip.
"I actually met Katara in my 7th period today." I tell him as we all take a seat. After about an hour and a half of waiting, the doctor comes out.
"Mr. Mizu?" We stand up as the doctor approaches us. "Katara is in a stable condition, but she will need time to heal up. You can see her if you'd like." We followed him to the elevator and down the hall to the room that Katara was in.
"Dad! Sokka!" Katara's face filled up with excitement to see the two of them. I walked in behind them. Her eyes met mine. "You're the man who saved me."
I bow my head and walk over to the side of the bed behind Sokka. "I'm glad you're okay."
"Thank you. For saving me. I probably wouldn't be alive if it weren't for you. I owe you my life." She said, bowing her head.
"You being alive is all the thanks I need." I tell her.
She blushes and looks at her father. "When can I come home?"
"I don't know sweetie. I will find out." Hakoda walks over and takes her hand.
"Dad, I am so sorry about the car. I didn't mean to. There was ice all over the road and I couldn't control it." She had tears rolling down her eyes as she told her father how sorry she was.
"Katara, please, it's okay. I am just happy that you are alive and well. This young man saved me a lot of heartbreak. The car can be replaced. You cannot." He kissed her forehead and wiped her tears away. It made me miss my mother. "We need to get the stuff out of the car anyways."
"I'll go get it dad. Where is it?"
"I can show you." I stand from the chair I was sitting in. "If you'd like." I add.
"That'd be great." He nods his head.
"Wait," Katara says as I put my jacket back on. "Will I see you again?"
"I almost guarantee you will. I'll see you tomorrow at the latest." I promise her."I gotta make sure you are still okay, anyways." I wink, hoping her father did not see that. Sokka and I walk down the hallway and into the elevator.
Well, Tell me what you thought! I need reviews to keep me going! I really do appreciate the people who have written to me and told me about the first chapter. So I need more. I know you guys are reading it. So I need to know what you thought! Thanks guys!