a/n: I don't own Avatar the Last Airbender! Anyway, this is my first time actually doing all the Zutara Week themes. Serendipity is the first theme and while the way I did it is kind of obvious it still fits and it works for the next one.

Serendipity:
Discovering something nice while in search of something else

"That's the girl Zuko kissed," Mai said, anger and resentment underlying her usual blank tone.

Azula grinned. ""She can't remember a thing. The spirit in the Crystal Catacombs of Ba Sing Se took our strength in order to heal the avatar's body, you saw what it did to Zuko, Iroh, and me, three strong firebenders. Imagine what it must have done to a single waterbender. Not to mention we escaped before the spirit finished healing the kid. The poor thing," Azula finished sarcastically, putting an arm around the girl's shoulder.

Mai took in the darker girl's blank blue eyes and disheveled brown hair. She waved her hand in front of the girl's face, but she showed no reaction. "Is she even there?" she asked.

"No," Azula said in an almost convincingly sad tone. Then chipperly added, "She cantake orders though, she's like a well-trained dog, watch. Katara, go get me a glass of water, I'm thirsty."

KataraAnger glimmered in Mai's eyes for a split second as Zuko's voice floated into her mind. One night and he'd become more concerned with her welfare than his own. She watched Katara as she murmured, "Yes, Lady Azula" and left the room. Mai narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "Why did you bring her here, Azula?"

"Please. Why do you always suspect me? She's like a well-trained dog, but what if she recovers her memory? Or if Zuko sees her? I can't trust them. I cantrust you."

"To do what?"

"Watch her for me. If she shows any sign of her memory returning, have your uncle throw her in jail."

Mai watched Katara walk in and hold a glass of water out to Azula."And if she never recovers?"

"Her bending will. I'm sure of it."

Mai said nothing but watched Katara, on Azula's orders, struggle to bend even the smallest amount of water from the glass. After a few seconds , Azula got bored and sighed, "Oh, come on, Mai. You could own the bitch who tried to take zuko from you. Think of it as irony, poetic justice, a gift..."

"A gift?"

"Of course, a present from me to you as thanks for being such a trustworthy friend."

Mai sighed, "Fine."

"Great," Azula smiled. "Katara, you are now Mai's personal assistant." Mai watched shocked as Azula hugged Katara, "See? I told you I'd find you a job that will let you reach me no matter what."

"Yes, my lady." Katara said as, for the first time since entering Mai's room she showed emotion by smiling warmly and hugging Azula back.

2 MONTHS LATER
"Sorry, I like Mai."

Azula screamed angrily as the words replayed in her , her boyfriend of four months had used those exact words to dump her.

He dumpedher, for Mai!

Dumped her!The nerve! Angrily, Azula stomped towards Mai's bedroom. As she neared it, however, Katara ran out of the room looking terrified.

"Stop," Azula ordered.

"Lady Azula!" Katara exclaimed.

"What's going on?"

""I don't know. Mistress Mai was gone yesterday and only returned late this morning, but when she came back she was furious! She threatened to torture me if I didn't leave immediately."

"That's the girl Zuko kissed" Azula remembered Mai's words upon first seeing Katara two months ago and, unseen by Katara, smirked, Perfect.

"You know how stoic Mai is, Katara. When she shows emotions it's inevitably extreme."

After playing the role a caring friend to the clueless Katara, Azula went to comfort Mai, plotting all the way.

"I went all the way with Zuko after the party last night and this morning, when I got up, you know what he said?! 'Katara, don't leave yet.' He was dreaming about Katara!Almost a year since they spent a night together and after sex with me, he dreams about Katara!"

LATE THAT NIGHT
"You really should apologize to Mai, you know."Azula had said and so here he was, at the secret door to a hidden passage that led to his angry girlfriend's room. Zuko sighed before knocking twice on the door. One of Mai's servants opened the door.

"That waterbending girl?! You spent less than a day with her, but after our first night together a year later you dream of her?!"

"Her eyes,"Zuko had almost said before reminding himself that if probably wasn't a good excuse.

It was, however, a good excuse for why he was suddenly paralyzed. "K-K-Katara?"

The brown-haired girl in the uniform of all of Mai's household's servants closed and opened her startling blue eyes in a confused blink.

Zuko chastised himself both for imagining things but also for doubting it was Katara when she replied, "Prince Zuko?