OF COURSE I DON'T OWN AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER {JEEZ!}-

Dear Katara,

For the past few years, you and I have been exchanging letters as a regular thing - we're pen pals. But, I don't feel like just a pen pal anymore. I've gotten to know you through these letters and you've gotten to know me; so it's no surprise that now I'm... I'm in love with you. After a while, whenever you wrote the words "haha" in your letters, I could just imagine your light, happy, beautiful laugh, eventually making me laugh too! And now especially after the trade meeting between the Southern Watertribe and Fire Nation, what happened between us, I can't get you out of my head. But not just that: I want to be the one you wake up to every morning to give you a kiss and a hug, I want to be the only man by your side and I want to be a husband worthy of your love...but no. I'm already married, to Mai, and you're already married to Aang; you have a child, I have a child and there's nothing much we can do about it. Oh but Katara if I could go back in the time to just after the 100 year war, I would've chosen love, which was and clearly still is, you. But as I said before, we have families now that we love too much to abandon - but I want you to remember this Katara: I will always, always love you, even from a distance, even with you in another man's arms...Maybe in our next lives, we'll meet once again and be together. Love your Zuko

Katara read the the last line carefully as more tears rushed down her caramel brown face: your Zuko. She still had his heart, and he hers. Closing her eyes, she lay back against the bed frame, letter and hands to her sides; after a few more sobs, tears and sniffles, the mature waterbender plucked up the courage to go to her desk and started writing the letter he deserved back...

In the Fire Nation, a week later...Zuko was at his desk shuffling through papers late at night as the palace was in blissful silence. Taxes, Home renovations, Hunting privileges, To Zuko; that's when he stopped. Now in his hands was a white, neatly folded envelope with the words To Zuko on it...in Katara's handwriting. The Fire Lord immediately ripped the letter out of it's shell, unfolded it, and started reading...

Dear Zuko,

I thought your letter deserved a response, and what I'd like to say is that: I love you too, I'll always love you. You will always be the sun to my moon, the fire to my water, the missing piece in my life - only because we'll obviously still be great friends but, my heart, mind and body want you to be something else in my life that we both know you can't be: my lover. And you are, but from half-way across the world, haha (I hope you heard that!) And you know, if I went back in time as well, I would've chosen you too...Love, your Katara

Zuko sat there in utter silence for at least a minute before his face contorted followed by quiet sobbing. Katara was the only person who could make him let it go, let it all out like this, now and probably forever.

Quite the same for Katara who was doing the exact same in her bedroom of her and Aang's house in the Southern Watertribe.

They loved each other, but couldn't have each other; but in their hearts, they knew that one day, they could love once again.

Well that's that isn't it? Hope you guys liked this fanfic as well - I had a bit of trouble with the ending so don't mind that ahah *coughs* Anyway...

Until next time

DisneyfanaticcalledLakeisha