A/N: Okay here is chapter 2! Hope you enjoy! bare with me, as the chapter go on they will get better. read and review :)
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Chapter 2
Katara and Zuko sat in the palace's courtyard. Katara needed to do another healing session on Zuko but they wanted to be outside to wait for their friends. They sat near the turtle-duck pond. Katara working silently, losing herself in her thoughts.
What if something happened to them? How were they planning on taking down an entire fleet?
And Aang…. Where was he now? Was he alright? Did he come back and face the Firelord? And if he did, did he win?
"Katara…" said Zuko, pulling her out of her thoughts.
She stopped what she was doing.
"Oh god, am I hurting you Zuko? I'm sorry. I'm not doing a good job. I should be paying attention better. There's just so much on my mind and…"
He put his hand on her arm, cutting her off.
"He's going to come back Katara."
Of course he knew exactly what she was thinking about.
"You said it yourself," he continued "'He has to.'" Quoting her from earlier that day.
"I know," she said "but, I'm still worried. What if he gets really injured again and I'm not there this time to help him, not that I have any spirit water left but I don't know if I could bare…" tears started falling down her face.
Zuko struggled but forced himself to sit up. He placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Katara, he is going to be fine. I trust and believe in him. I know he is strong enough and will not fail. It is because of you that I know that he is going to come back. The way he looks at you everyday, I know he has the motive to keep going and keep fighting. He has something worth coming back for," he said. She looked up at him, her tears starting to slow down. "And I know that you feel the same for him. Though you may not be realize it yourself or your hiding the truth deep within, I can still see it. You are going to have the chance to tell him. I know it."
Katara had stopped crying and wiped her tears away, revealing her slightly pink cheeks. She simply nodded.
"Thank you Zuko. I really needed that."
"Your welcome," he said and gave a small smile.
"I should probably finish healing you."
"That would be nice," he laughed.
She laughed with him.
He's right. Aang is going to come back. And when he does… I'm going to tell him the truth. Because the truth of the matter is… I was in love him. I needed him beside me. A world without Aang in it wouldn't be much of a world worth being in. He changed my life and made it that much better. Everything that we had been through together, he needed to know how I felt. The war was over, we won. I know I had told him on Ember Island that I was confused. It was the truth. At the time we were still at war. What if something had happened to him? I couldn't have bared it if I had let myself give into my feelings just for him to be taken away from me. Yeah it was probably selfish of me to think that. But he needed to be focused. He needed not to think about me. It wasn't about what I wanted or what he wanted. The world needed him more. The world was more important than my feelings. I just hope now, that his feelings haven't changed.