AN: Thanks whitexgodess! Another for u...

Aang was falling… falling… falling. The Fire Princess laughed as she saw she had succeeded in striking down the Avatar.

"No!" Katara screamed as she rode a giant wave over to her fallen friend. "Aang…" she called as she reached him and cradled him in her arms.

The world's last hope was dead in her arms.

"No." Katara whimpered in her sleep.

Zuko sleepily blinked, then looked angrily over at Katara. He needed to sleep, yet he couldn't with her whimpering and crying. The Gaang had been traveling around the countryside, hoping to avoid his twisted sister. They had all just crawled off the exhausted monster named Appa and, not even bothering to set up a campsite, slumped together to sleep.

As he irritatingly watched the water-bender, she suddenly woke up with a start. He narrowed his eyes to slits, to appear to be asleep and continued to watch. Katara looked up at the moon, with tears starting to slip silently down her cheeks. Finally, she curled up again and closed her eyes, apparently drifting back to sleep.

"Finally." Prince Zuko groaned to himself and rolled over.

However, it was only a couple seconds later before Katara began to breath unevenly. Glancing over, Zuko saw that the tears hadn't stopped and worse, and in the cold night air, Katara was shivering.

His hard gaze softening, Zuko carefully placed a firm hand on the girl's shoulder and another on her waist. He slowly pulled her over to him, bringing her small body up against his warm chest.

Awakened with the sudden, unexpected warmth, Katara looked up. Realizing that she had woken him up, Katara whispered apologized and tried to pull away from his grip.

Instead of releasing her, Zuko drew her in closer until Katara stopped struggling.

"Katara, it's okay. It was just a dream. Go to sleep." Zuko soothed, running a hand through her silky hair.

Katara lifted her face off of his chest and looked him in the eyes, "No, it wasn't."

"Oh. Well, it's over now. Aang's still alive, we're all fine. Everything will be alright." Zuko said, continuing to stroke her hair.
Katara hesitated just a second before sighing and whispering, "Thanks, Zuko." Before letting her head sink back down to rest on his chest.

"You're welcome, Katara," Zuko replied, closing his eyes, "you're welcome."

With that being said and with Zuko's internal flames keeping them both a toasty warm, the water girl and fire prince fell into a deep, easy sleep.