Aang was woken up by a banging on the house door and Katara pulling on his arm. "Kuzon wake up, some guards from the palace are here." She whispered. His eyes shot open and he looked up. 'Oh no, they are looking for me; I have to avoid them at all costs' he thought to himself. "Kuzon are you ok?" Katara asked.

"No not really" he said looking down.

"Well what's wrong?" she asked sitting down on his bed.

"Katara, I haven't been 100% truthful to you" he said.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"My name isn't really Kuzon. It's Aang, Prince Aang actually." He said.

"W-what?" she said a little bit scared.

"Katara I'm sorry. I didn't want to lie but I had to. I knew they would come looking for me. I was supposed to be married last night. I didn't love the girl though, I couldn't stand her."

"Why- Why did you lie to me, us, you could have trusted us we wouldn't have told anyone." She said standing up and backing away from him.

"Katara, please I'm sorry." He said standing up and coming near her.

"Well, now, now maybe I will tell them. Apparently if you think us commoners can't be trusted, then I'll just go and do what you think we do." She said.

"Katara please! If you tell them, they may just accuse you or your family of kidnapping me" he said grabbing he shoulders. "Do you know the punishments they would give you for that?" he asked. She shook her head. "They would probably make you serve the king or even put you in the dungeons. I don't want that to happen to you" he said looking down to her eyes.

"Wait, why do you care so much?" she said pushing him away from her.

Because, you're special. You're different, I can tell. If you were some other girl you would have probably jumped me by now" he said. She giggled at that last part. "Please, don't tell them, I can't go back to that and you can't be forced to be a servant."

"I won't Ku- Aang" she said. He came up and hugged her. "Thank you" he whispered into her ear.

Sokka opened the door "Hey Kuzon, can you help us with the guards? They won't leave"

"Uh, I don't really think I can" Aang said looking down.

"Why not?"

"Uh I'm still tired and I uh haven't stretched yet." He said rubbing the back of his head.

All of a sudden a guard pushed passed Sokka. "There he is!" the guard said. The guard grabbed Aang. Aang tried to struggle out of the guards grip.

"Let him go!" Katara yelled and tried to help Aang.

"Prince Aang! King Gyatso and Lady Meng have been worried sick! You missed the wedding!" The head guard yelled as he came into the room.

"Whoa? Prince Aang?" Sokka said.

"Yes" the guard said.

"How come we didn't know this?" Sokka said.

"Well I did" Katara said.

"You did?"

"Yeah" she said. A guard came up behind her and grabbed her arms from behind.

"Since you knew his identity and didn't turn him in, you are under arrest." The head guard said.

"No!" Aang said.

Katara looked at Aang. All her trust in him had pretty much disappeared.

"What are you going to do with her?" Sokka demanded.

"She is going to have to be a servant to the king and the prince." A guard said.

Sokka pretty much gave up. "When is she out?" he said weakly. Katara looked horrifyingly at Sokka.

"I'd say six months, maybe even a year."

Sokka walked over to Katara. "We'll wait for you Katara." Sokka said to her. Katara started crying. Sokka gave up on her, he didn't even try to talk her out of trouble, he just, gave up.

"Take them away" the head guard said. The guard holding Katara pushed her to the middle of a group of guards. The guard restraining Aang did the same and pushed him into Katara. They were escorted down the stairs and out of the house surrounded by guards. Aang gently hugged Katara trying to apologize and comfort her at the same time. As soon as they got outside of the house Aang and Katara were pushed into a horse.

"Hey Appa" Aang said weakly to his horse.

"Guards, tie the girl up and make her walk" the head guard said.

"No, I'll let her ride with me" Aang said. Katara looked up into Aang's eyes confused.

"Fine then, but no tricks. We have your horse tied to our horses so you cannot ride away from us" the head guard said.

Aang got up onto his horse and held his hand out to Katara. She cautiously took it and he hauled her up onto the horse. The ride back to the castle was quiet. Aang sat behind Katara with an arm wrapped around her so she wouldn't fall. "I'm sorry this had to happen to you Katara" Aang whispered to her.

"It's not your fault" she said lightly.

"Yes it is, I ran away, I lied to you, they came for me." He said looking away.

"Yeah but I opened my big mouth and got myself arrested." She said a little more sharply.

"I guess its both of our faults huh?" he asked looking down at her smirking.

"I guess so" she said looking down on the horses ears.

"Katara I promise, I wont let them hurt you or torture you. You're important to me."

She looked up "Really?"

"Yeah." He replied blushing a little.

"Well if it counts, you're important to me too" she whispered leaning into him.