Chapter 3

Will you be my fire queen? Or...

It was later in the evening, Mai had left the palace, Aang, Toph, and Sokka had gone to Kyoshi Island to see Sukki and the other's, it was just Zuko, and Katara alone in the palace...well and 5,000 some guards but they were forbidden to be anywhere NEAR Zuko's room at the moment, he wanted the night to be PERFECT he'd somehow managed the skills to cook a halfway decent meal of assorted kinds of sushi and fish and some assorted drinks suddenly he heard a light tap on his door, he knew without answering that it was Katara, "Do..." he smacked his forehead open the door FOR her idiot! He thought to himself so he went and opened the door, and his jaw hit the floor just a little bit, Katara gave him a sideways glance, one eyebrow rose, "Is..Something wrong?" "NO!" Zuko replied quickly "I'm just so accustomed to seeing you in your water tribe robes, but that fire nation dress looks...AMAZING on you, uh NOT that you weren't gorgeous before but uh.." Katara laughed "Zuko calm down!" he stood there, just soaking in her view for a few moments, he reached for her cheeks but Katara lowered his hands "What about Mai?" she said a little dismayed "I ummm, I broke up with her" Katara's eyes widened "You did WHAT? But what? How? did she find out?" he smiled "No, I dismissed her myself, she doesn't get me the way you do Katara, she doesn't care the way that you do, Katara, I know we already kinda kissed and admitted that we loved each other, but I wanted to do this the right way, so I let Mai know what was going on, and I dumped her, but anyway more about that later" he took her hand and led her to the ground table seated with two cushions "Dinner's getting cold" "WOW!, Zuko you did all this...for me?" "yea" he replied "no-ones, ever done anything like this for me before, thank you" they sat and ate their beautiful dinner laughing, joking, and talking about everything, that had happened during the many chases they'd had with Zuko before the war ended, the way he changed each and every passing season from bad, to good, the day he joined the group. Until finally all the food was gone they stood up and brushed the crumbs from their outfits after which Zuko took one of Katara's hands, knelt to the ground on one knee, pulled out a beautiful gold ring with the fire nation symbol affixed to the center and proceeded to end the beautiful night "Katara, when I said I wanted to let Mai go, and do this right, it was for this purpose" he paused a second looked up at Katara with tears in her eyes and proceeded "Katara, will you stay with me forever as a permanent residence to this palace, and be my fire queen?" a few short moments passed as more tears dripped from Katara's chin she took a ragged breath "YES!" she threw her arms around Zuko's neck and cried into his shoulder "yes! I will be your wife! I love you Zuko! I told you I love you, I ALWAYS will! But.." she stopped short and stood up "I cannot be your fire queen, Zuko this is wrong, I'm not..." "I KNOW you're not a fire bender or part of the fire nation, I don't care about that Katara, I don't care about what my father would think, I've stopped caring about that a long time ago, I want you as this nations queen, and my wife, I love you Katara, that's all I care about, please" she smiled at him, tears in her eyes kissed him and replied back "yes, I will be your fire queen...well technically" they laughed and Zuko slipped the ring on Katara's middle finger they continued to talk and laugh as the rest of the night passed

The next morning Katara was awake first, she noticed she was lying in Zuko's giant canopy bed, she had her back towards Zuko, Zuko's arm wrapped lovingly and protectively around Katara's waist, she smiled, and then she heard a familiar roaring and sat up fast "Appa!" Zuko stirred a little and sat up, "Sounds like the rest of the gang is back from their trip"

They went down to the main hall Aang, Toph and Sokka had returned from Kyoshi island, noticing that Sukki had come back with them "Welcome back friends!" Zuko exclaimed "It's so good to see you guys again! Did you have a good trip" Katara asked "We sure did!" Aang replied "So...what have you two been up too this whole time" Toph questioned. Zuko and Katara looked at each other and grinned.

TO BE CONTINUED

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