So, yeah, here you have it ... Chapter 7. Sorry that my upload have come so irregular, but I just have a lot of school stuff to do. Here in Austria, every High School senior has to write something called VWA, which is basically a 60.000 character long paper that is there to train students how to write a scientific paper and smart guy that I am I chose the worst topic possible, Einsteins theories of relativity. So natuarlly, I tried to avoid it as long as possible and procrastinated so that now i have to write the whole thing in a month.

Anyway, if you like it don't forget to review - if you don't like it and want to tell me how much you don't like it, feel free to do so as well. Now have fun, hopefully.

It was Friday and Sokka, Aang and Katara were sitting together in the living room, watching Amazon prime (yes Amazon prime and not Netflix) on the siblings TV. They were alone in the house since Hakoda had work to do and would then spend the night at his girlfriends house.

"Do you guys want something to drink?" Sokka asked after stuffing a bunch of salted peanuts in his mouth "I know my throat is dry as hell"

"Maybe you shouldn't stuff your mouth with salt all the time" Katara retorted.

"Ahm, yeah, I would like to have some water please"

"Sure thing Aang. And you Katara won't get anything" Sokka said as he turned towards the kitchen. He entered the room and walked up to the counter and pored two glasses of water. As he turned around he saw something on the kitchen table he hadn't seen earlier.

He came closer to get a better look. It looked like a folder. Probably something his father had left from work. He would do that often, taking folders from work home, trying to see if he had overlooked something.

Sokka was about to dismiss it as nonsense as he got a glimpse at the tag the was on the folder. He thought he read the name Trevor and that immediately spaced his interest. He took a closer look at the writing. 'Trevor Morris - Hard Drive files' it said.

Sokka began debating in his mind, as to whether or not to open the file and read what is written inside of it.
But the temptation was to great. He tried not to but opened the folder and what he saw shocked him.

"Katara, Aang, come here I have to show you something" he shouted into the other room "It's important."

"What is it" asked Katara as she, followed by Aang, entered the kitchen"

"I just found that" Sokka began to explain "It looks like something from Dad's work. It says something about hard drive files and when I looked at the first page in it I found this" he opened the folder again.

Katara gasped in wide-eyed shock as she saw the picture of the alley where her mother was found that night. The marks how she was found could be seen on the ground and a lot of blood was on the ground. Just by looking at the amount of red liquid you could see, why it wasn't a open casket funeral.

"Turn the page" Katara demanded. She wanted to know what else was in there. Why would a journalist have pictures of a Crime scene of a local lawyer in it. It was covered enough in the media.

Sokka did as he was told and they found a couple of other photographs and descriptions of homicide scenes.

"So moms murder wasn't a random mugging gone wrong?" Sokka asked still fixed on the report on the table.

"Doesn't look like it" Katara answered in an equally shocked state.

Aang took the folder away from Sokka an looked through the individual case files. "Looks like Trevor Morris was working on a story" he said as he read "It seems like they have all been targeted because they were working on the abductions. And from the looks of the ballistics report, they where all killed by the same shooter, or at least the same gun" Aang concluded and put the folder back down.

After a few minutes Sokka calmed down a bit but Katara was another case. The news had hit her and Aang was worried. Finding out that your mother was specifically targeted by a group of organized criminals because she was standing in there way must really be hard thing.

Katara was still silently sitting on the couch of the living room, every now and then sipping on the tea Aang had made to settle his friends nerves. She looked like she had seen a ghost, her normally tanned skin was pale, almost white even, and she stared wide-eyed against the wall.

"Hey Katara" Aang sat down next to her gently squeezing her shoulder with his hand.

Katara snapped out of her trance at the sound of his voice and looked at him. She saw the worry for her in his eyes and put in great effort to try a small smile but to no avail. It looked just as awkward as it felt to her.

"Do you want to talk about it" Aang suggested as he was standing up, holding out his hand for her. He received a nod and he helped her up so they could go to her room, leaving Sokka, who was watching TV, alone in the living room.

Aang closed the door behind his back and waked over to Katara's bed where he sat down next to her. Seeing her like that, the shock and the sadness, was breaking his heart. Katara was very important to him, almost as much as his father, maybe even more, and all he wanted was to see her happy, see her beautiful smile. But now, nothing of that was there.

They sat there in silence for a few seconds before Katara suddenly burst out into tears. Aang was not really sure how to handle the situation, so he just hugged her tightly and let her sob and cry into his chest. It took only a few seconds before his shirt had tearstains but he didn't really care.

"Why" was all that Katara was able to cry out. It sounded so desperate and helpless that Aang had to fight, not to start crying as well.

He tried to calm her with "It's gonna be ok" but it didn't help.

"No" Katara cried back "Nothing is going to be ok. I had just been able to cope with the fact that my mother was just another random victim of a mugging gone wrong. I was just able to put it behind me and now it is here all over again."

"I know" Aang tried to offer understanding, tried to make her see that he was there for her, what ever she needed.

After what felt like hours of crying, Katara started to calm down again. She released a few more shaky and broken sobs before she freed herself from his grip.

"Sorry about the shirt"

Aang looked down and saw a huge wet stain on the left side of his shirt but he just shrugged it of "It's ok" then he looked at her again. Her eyes were still wet and puffy "how are you?"

"I'll live" she said I between sobs "It was just the reminder. And all the blood on the picture, it was so much. I thought I had found closure and put it behind me, but now I'm not so sure anymore"

"Maybe we should look at it ourselves?" Aang suggested "Maybe seeing the place where it happened will bring you closure. And maybe we can find out something new about the case?"

Katara thought about it for a few minutes. Was it really a good idea to visit a place that had so much hurt inside. But maybe confronting those feelings was a good idea? Finally she agreed with a nod and they told Sokka about their plan.

XxX

"So this is the alley?" Sokka asked as they got out of his car.

"It sure looks like it" Aang said as he compared the real life scene with the picture he took from the folder. They walked in and stared to look around.

It was already hours later as they decided to give up.

"I didn't find anything" Sokka said and only getting the same in return. There was only one thing they hadn't tried and their hopes for it to turn something up has dwindled to next to nothing. "Ok, last thing to try is to move the dumpster away"

They all got to the large metal container, filled to the brim with rubbish. Aang and Katara where on one side pushing while Sokka was on the other, pulling the heavy thing out of the way.

Sokka examined the wall and found a hole with a bullet stuck in it at about hip height "Guy look at this" he said upon his discovery "Maybe the man who killed mom had missed one and someone has put the container in front of the hole and overlooked the bullet?" he suggested.

"Take it with you" Katara said and gave Sokka a small plastic bag where he carefully dropped the evidence into.

"We have to take this to Dad" Katara said as they walked back to Sokka's Car "This might be important"

"What? Are you kidding? This is just a bullet and we don't even know if its from the night mom died. We have to wait and look for other clues before we can go to dad about it. This alone doesn't prove anything" Sokka retorted matter-of-factly.

"I have to agree with Sokka" Aang told her "The bullet alone isn't evidence at all. It might just throw their investigation of.

"Maybe you are right"

XxX

"Sir?" a man, probably in his early to mid 20s peeked inside the office and saw his boss meditating in front of the office chair. There where a few candles lit and the room was filled with a pleasant scent.

"Can't this wait" the meditating boss sneered back, obviously angered that he has been disturbed in his routinely Zen practice "I'm busy"

"I'm sorry to interrupt sir" the younger man said bowing his head "But it is important."

The older man sighed annoyed and opened his eyes. He doused the flames of the candles with his fingers and stood up. He walked to his desk and sat down. "Spit it out"

The young man now entered the room completely and slightly bowed his head in front of his superior. "I am sorry to have to bring you bad news sir" he began "The guy your told to keep and eye on the chiefs kid's have come across a piece of evidence that could be of crucial interest for their case at the alley where you had the chiefs wife killed" the man explained "They have found, behind a dumpster in said alley, a bullet that had not been found by the executor as his did the job. The bullet had been stuck in the wall and so he only found the casings and the bullet in the body but this one was never retrieved. Neither by us, nor by the police. But now they have it and it could be of high danger to our operation."

"What?!" the boss yelled in anger. The veins were clearly visibly pulsating on his forehead. He took a deep breath to get back into his usual stoic calmness and then regarded the messenger "Thank you for the information. I will have to deal with this problem"

"No problem sir"

XxX

Ring, ring, ring.

"Sir? What is it" Ozai said as he picked the phone from his pocket.

"The Chiefs Daughter" the man on the other side of the line said "Deal with her"

Ozai took down something in a notebook and then hung up with a "certainly sir". He walked into his bedroom and opened a drawer of his nightstand. In it there were a bunch of ancient looking telephones.

He picked out one of them and dialed a number. "Jonny, meet me at the Western Dragon diner in 10 minutes. We have a job to discuss" he spoke before the other person could even speak a word.

"Ah, uhm, Of Course" came back out of the phone and after that the call was over.

XxX

"Sup guys?" Toph asked as she met up with Aang, Katara (the two are almost inseparable), Sokka and Suki in the hallway of the school. They were all about to head for lunch. Mai, Zuko, Ty Lee and Azula all had agreed to help out in the library so it was just them.

"Nothing much, we were just discussing if we wanted to do something together after school" Suki answered while he turned to her, his arm casually laying around Sukis shoulders.

"I am for watching a movie" Katara suggested as the started heading for the cafeteria.

"Oh yeah, that would be cool" Aang agreed.

Sokka however was of a different opinion. It was his and Suki's anniversary and he wanted to take her out to dinner "Sorry guys but Suki and I actually can't do anything with you guys because we have something planned" He received a puzzled look from his girlfriend but decided not to elaborate wanting it to stay a secret.

"I can't either. My Stasi parents won't allow me to stay away from home for longer then school because my grandma is visiting" she turned to Aang and Katara "You two can go ahead tho"

Katara looked at Aang "So … I guess its just us" she said smiling shyly at Aang who nodded.

XxX

"So what movie do you want to watch" Aang asked as they were walking down the street in the direction of the local movie theatre. They had met up 10 minutes ago in front of Katara's house.

"I don't know I thought someone else would come up with an idea once I suggested to go to the movies. I thought at least Sokka would come up with something" she admitted sheepishly her face growing slightly warmer.

"No problem" Aang assured as he sensed how uncomfortable and a little embarrassing it was to her "We will come up with something once we are there"

Sure enough just as he finished the sentence they found themselves in front of the building. They walked in and were immediately greeted by the smell of Popcorn, Cola, Nachos and Gummy Bears. The hall was lit up in dim bluish color, to create the right atmosphere (A/N they have it where I life so I included it).

"So? Did you find a movie you want to watch?" Aang asked as they stood there for a few minutes just deciding.

"I think Assassin's Creed sounds interesting" Katara suggested.

"Well I'm kind of skeptical about Videogame movies but I was actually interested in how it turned out so I guess it's ok" Aang agreed "So I get the cards and you the food and the drinks, ok?" Katara nodded and walked away while Aang walked to the ticket booth.

After about 3 minutes they met up at a small bar table where they would wait for the movie to start. Katara gave Aang his Popcorn while he handed her, her ticket.

"So you know Assassin's Creed?" Aang after a while of awkward silence, trying to make conversation.

"Uhm" she scratched her neck sheepishly "Not really, I just heard you and Sokka discuss it once and you told him you liked it so I just thought you would want to watch the movie"

"Ha, no problem, I was actually curious how it would be" Aang laughed "I just hope that, for once, they adapted a Videogame to the big screen and did an actually good job"

That's when he something strange on the other side of the hall.

Aang recognized what it was just in time and pushed Katara to the side, as there was the loud BOOM of a gunshot audible through the whole theatre.

Katara, in shock of what just happened could only hear Aang scream in agony as she was thrown to the ground.

It took a few second for her to realize what just happened and when she did, she immediately looked to Aang who was lying on his back, unconscious with blood coming out from underneath him.

Katara's eyes started to tear up as she saw the boy's motionless form in front of her. Panicking she reached for his neck and was glad that she could at least feel a pulse, so he wasn't lost yet.

Quickly she turned his limp body around and saw a gashing would just right to his spine in his back. Luckily there was no exit wound because then it would have been over for him. But she had a bullet to get out of him.

Without thinking she put two of her fingers inside the wound and pulled out the small metal object.

Then, with all her might, she ripped of a piece of his shirt and stuffed the wound as good as she could.

That was the first time she dared to look away from only to see the witnesses still simply standing there, still frozen in shock "GOD DAMMIT, SOMEONE CALL 911" Katara yelled at the top of her lung and actually someone did.

She heard coughing coming from Aang and she turned him over. To her surprise, he was awake.

Tears started streaming down her face as she looked at his pale face "Please, you can't die" she cried "Not you too"

"Katara" Aang said weakly

"What is it Aang" her own voice barely audible.

"I Love you"

"I love you too" she said and then she saw his eyes close again and he drifted into unconsciousness.

I hope you liked it. Please review. See you next time, which is hopefully sooner then next month but it's going to be difficult. Sorry, hehe.