Epilogue

Zuko and Katara sat side-by-side on Appa's head as they flew out from the village, having left Ketson and the rest of the Fire Hawks behind them several hours ago. Zuko had his arm around Katara's shoulders and she rested her head on his shoulder while holding the reins to steer Appa back to the island where the others were waiting. They had been gone for nearly three days now and Katara was hoping Sokka wouldn't be too worried. But before they returned, Katara knew that she had one more matter to settle.

"Hey, Zuko?" she looked toward him in the half- darkness, not really sure what she was going to say. The moon had set a long time ago, and the sun was just beginning to peek over the horizon on their right.

"Yeah?" Zuko looked back at her, his golden eyes shining in the morning sunlight

"Well, it's just, there's kind of a war going on right now…"

He smiled. "Yeah, I noticed a little while ago, but wasn't sure if you had caught on yet."

She rolled her eyes. "That wasn't what I was getting at. I just mean that I feel like there's too much going on right now for us to…start anything."

Zuko nodded. "I was beginning to think the same thing," he said. Then he looked down and away from Katara, looking out over the water. "Besides, I'm not exactly sure how Sokka's going to react."

Katara broke down laughing, she had been wondering when he would think of that particular little tidbit. "Yes, there is always that, but I'm also a bit worried about Toph. Aang and Sokka are fairly dense and probably won't notice anything so long as we don't mention it, but Toph sees better than most people, for a blind girl. But with everything else, the battle preparations and Aang's training, I think it would be better for us to wait until after Sozin's Comet has come and gone before mentioning this to anyone. That way, maybe we'll both be able to focus better on the upcoming battle and not on each other."

Zuko sighed and leaned back into Appa, placing his hands behind his head. "You're right, of course." They sat in silence for a little while longer simply watching the sunrise over the water, then Zuko said, "Dang it, I'm going to have to face your father after the war too, aren't I?"

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Well, that's the end. I uploaded the last 3 chapters & the epilogue all in one cuz I kinda forgot about this a lot in the beginning but I had it all written, so I figured why not just put it all up cuz some people were gettin kinda frustrated with me, not that I can blame them.

Wow, that was a really long run-on sentence & I'm kind of ashamed since I'm an English student. I'm still kinda proud of my rambling skillz, tho. Haha

Aaaaannnyyway, I won't waste any more of your time. Even though It's done, review please, & let me know what you liked & didn't like so I can know what to do for my other writing. =]

more of my writing (mostly poetry) can be found at dotpking .word press .com

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