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When I woke up, everything around me was pitch black. My head ached badly as well as my stomach, where the lightning of General Zhao had hit me. I sat up.

"Hello?" I asked quietly into the darkness, hoping to have somebody who could tell me, where I was.

"Katara?" I heard someone asking hurriedly and not a second later, the room I was apparently in, lit up revealing the small cell I seemed to share with a familiar firebender.

I held my head. "What happened? Where are we?"

Zuko crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked at the ground. "After the lighting struck you and you blacked out, I had a hard time defending myself AND you. So you'd better be thankful, peasant."

I didn't say anything. I would have been thankful if he would have talked to me in a nicer way and actually got us out of that. It's the effort that counts, at least he tried. A voice echoed in my head.

"Anyway, Zhao's servants showed up and then I was clearly outnumbered. Zhao hit me and dragged me away. And now, here we are in a cell on his ship where he probably actually wanted to store the avatar." The black haired guy concluded.

"Well, thanks for trying." I mumbled but I was honest.

"I don't need your pity, you little water wench!" Zuko exclaimed angrily but I put my hands over his fists.

"I'm not pitying you. Never would, never will. And as long as we're in here together, I'd suggest that we try to get along because we can't escape if we end up killing each other."

Zuko furrowed his eyebrows. "You plan to escape?"

Now I was shocked. "Of course! Did you think you'd just follow along with General Zhao's plan? Did you really want to be handed over to your father and be executed, along with Aang? I either escape or die trying." I looked into Zuko's face and I think I caught a glimpse of a face of Zuko I had never seen before; an awestruck one.

When I pushed his fists down, the pain struck through my stomach again.

"Are you hurt?" Zuko asked sounding bored by the situation but I could see concern in his eyes.

"Yeah, but it's okay. It's going to go away. And once we get out of here, I can heal myself. Are you hurt?"

"Only lightly." He said, "my wrists hurt a d my chest burns but other than that, I guess I'm alright."

I let a breath out I didn't know I was holding. I was used to care about Tue people around me, whether they were friends or not never mattered.

And I had to care about other people a lot with my carefree brother who tended to hurt himself a lot, always exclaiming that he was "just a guy with a boomerang and didn't ask for any of this" and the childish avatar who tended to get hurt lot while playing around or training bending techniques and lastly, our newest addition to the team: Toph.

She wasn't nearly as reckless as the two boys but she still got a lot of bruises and wounds from training.

Also, I was used to care like a mother since my own mother died, killed by the fire nation, and my father was recruited for war leaving my brother and me behind with no idea of whether he was dead or alive. So I had to grow up really fast and didn't only take care of my own brother but also of other children from the tribe who suffered by the same or a similar fate, only smaller than me and Sokka, so they weren't able to take care of themselves, yet.

I felt how my eyes burned and my eyelids were heavy. I didn't know how long I had slept before but I hadn't had restored all my energy, yet.

"Oh, and Zuko? I liked it much better when you actually used my name." I smiled a little before I drifted off to sleep again.

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