Author's Note: Zutara, you feel sooooo gooood.

Disclaimer: Fack, Avatar: the Last Airbender belongs to Bryan and Mike. -_-


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He wasn't allowed inside the hut for the whole day. The shaman from the Northern Water Tribe was called in when Katara had collapsed from a fever. 'Blood-family only.' he had said.

"I'm her husband, dammit! I should be allowed in." he mumbled to himself. Zuko paced in front of the hut. He could hear the shaman speak in low tones to Sokka and Sokka in turn, spoke back.

'But what does that mean?' he could hear him say. The shaman's gruff voice answered him.

'And so when it's - that means - !'

"What, means what?" Zuko strained to hear the shaman's reply, but the hut had gone quiet already. Frustrated, Zuko crossed his arms and sat in the snow. He waited for what seemed an eternity in the cold when he heard something going on in the hut.

"Is Katara awake?" Zuko tried to get her brother's attention.

"I-It's blue! It's blue!" Sokka went out of the hut and grabbed Zuko by the shoulders. "It's blue, the ice is blue!"

"What, what does that mean? Katara's still sick?" Zuko's eyes searched Sokka's face for an answer. "Sokka, what!"

Zuko saw the shaman come out of the hut and immediately turned to him. "Why is the ice blue? What- what does it mean?"

The shaman gave patted his shoulder. "Congratulations on having a future heir, Fire Lord."

Sokka clapped him on the back. "Man, I'm gonna be an uncle."

"Ba...by?" Zuko's eyes rolled back into his head. Sokka quickly gripped him before he could fall into the snow.

"Maybe we should have let him inside the hut."