Author's Note: Woo! This story officially made it to the double digits! I'm so excited at how far this story has come. Only a couple of months ago I never thought I'd ever have the dedication to write an actual story, and now here I am! Writing for awesome people like my viewers who actually like what I have to say! Thanks for anyone who made it this far, and a special thanks to anyone out there who has been with this story from the beginning! If you have, let me know in a review so I can give you credit!

Okay, I'm very happy with all the reviews! Here it goes:

readandblackbeads: Is this a new reader? Anyway, thanks! I appreciate it! I always thought it would be cool to get some insight on one of the characters thoughts! Glad you enjoy!

avatargurl61782: Another new reader? Okay, glad you like!

Stargirlrox-hearts-avatar: Yes, it's sad how much Aang is going through!

oshnsoa shnedashn kuineplgi: Thanks! I thought I might want to put an extra pizazz into the story to keep it from getting boring!

imotel: Yup, because you know you like it! Exactly! Even if it already comes with characters, we're in control of the plot! And it's still writing! I'm even thinking of maybe signing up for so I can tell my own stories. I have a few of those as well... Yes! Textbook reading and fan fiction reading does count! I have only a couple stories alerted... and most of them have pretty much stopped... but I read a lot of other stuff on , too! I'm just extremely picky... Ha ha! Yes!

TTAvatarfan: YAY! XD Yes! It would be epic! rofl :3 Yes!

KiaMuse209: Ha ha, sorry! I scared you? Ha! Thanks! I'm glad my writing was able to satisfy you in your time of need! Thanks so much! I like being a genius! Cool! I taught someone something! unaligned: adj. Nonaligned. WOW! dictionary .com is soo helpful! Not. Okay, aligned means in place, so unaligned means out of place. Some people say that the energy in your body needs to stay aligned to create balance. If it gets unaligned, then you become sick. Therefore, Aang's energy (also known as chi, and the fifth element, which would explain the Avatar State. The Avatar State is like the fifth element pretty much.) was unaligned, causing his sickness, and his infection.

mangafangirl: Thanks! 'As always'. I like that!

Dear Diary,

I guess now that times have cooled down a bit here, I can tell you Pipsqueak's story.

Well, Pipsqueak and The Duke were strolling along their new territory. They had just came into the island after being rejected by the rest of the Freedom Fighters. They dumped them off on the remote island.

Anyway, it seemed the island wasn't as remote as they thought. It was occupied by a commanding Fire Nation Ship, with three officers and five soldiers defending their new found territory.

Well, figures Pipsqueak and The Due still had some fighting blood in them. What can I say? Once a Freedom Fighter, always a Freedom Fighter. That's what I told myself when I saw Jet, and look what happened to him! I don't think I'm going to play that card again.

Anyways, they realized that the soldiers there were thieves. They were stealing the poor people's food there so that they could dine luxuriously for no price at all! They were pushing and ordering the small earth village around, and Pipsqueak and The Duke didn't like it one bit!

They plotted one night how to rid the village of the horrid Fire Nation. The next day, their plan was put to action.

It was quite an epic story. They short of re-played the dam scenario, except at a much lower scale. Their story was full of much action, and seemed to get every body's mind off the looming horror of Aang's life at risk. Everyone's but mine, that is.

Okay, that's enough for now. Maybe I'll get more into detail later, but there are more important details to discuss. I don't want to get too off topic about Aang. He's still the most important thing on my mind right now! He'll probably always be the most important thing on my mind...

Aang scared me out of my mind, today. He started coughing and he wouldn't stop. I was freaking out. I could see the beads of sweat on his forehead, and I could feel the grip of his hand in mine tightening. (Because I always hold his hand.) He was so hot! I mean, as in his temperature. Why would I think he is hot? He's two years younger than me!

Anyway, so he started coughing like mad and his whole body was shaking and his face was scrunched up in the most painful way. Then, the coughing agitated his infected scar and he started arching his back and making pained noises. It was so awful! I started grabbing him by the shoulders and massaging his head (He usually likes that.) and hugging him. He was so close to recovery! He had to just start from the beginning again...

I eventually calmed him down, but not before he lost all of the energy he had stored since his last outburst.

I almost screamed today when I walked into Aang's room. It wasn't because of something terrifying, I just did.

I worded that wrong. I didn't want to scream randomly, I had a reason. It's just that it wasn't supposed to be scary, but it was for me. I'm babbling, but just thinking about it makes me shiver!

Okay, so I almost screamed because when I walked into his room, I found something on Aang's head that wasn't supposed to be there. If you don't get what I mean already, I found a little hair on his head.

I know it sounds weird to be freaking out over hair. It's nothing abnormal, it's just that it is for Aang. He's a monk! He's not supposed to have hair! I guess I've never really thought about Aang actually being capable of growing hair. I knew he needed to shave every week to make sure that his hair wouldn't grow in, but I guess I never really thought about it. It's like Sokka having to shave his mustache. I can't imagine Sokka with a mustache, but he's capable of having one!

Now I know what color hair Aang has. I always thought it might be brown, like mine, but apparently it's not. Aang's hair has only grown out a little, but I can tell that it's black. When I saw that it was coming through pretty much now, I wanted to shave it off. I'm sure a monk wouldn't appreciate hair very much, and it doesn't suit him well. I thought his bald head was pretty cute! (That doesn't mean I like him!) But Dad told us that if Aang woke up, it would be pretty obvious to other fire-nation ships that this ship was captured if they saw a bald, tattooed kid aboard. It would make a good disguise to have the same hair color as most people in the Fire Nation.

I have to say I was pretty mad at Dad for telling me to deprive Aang of his beliefs, but I can't argue that he was wrong. Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for safety. Still, I wish Dad could be more fair...

Sokka, Toph, and I are coping with Aang temporarily out of the gaang. It's not even really a gaang without him, his is the name in it! Without him, were just... the gang.

We talked today about how different things are without Aang. We realized how much he kept us together, another weight to add to his burden. We all ended up blubbering like babies... at least I wasn't the only one...

As usual, I also gave Aang another healing session today. While I was, I was thinking that maybe I wouldn't have to be doing it if I wasn't as stupid as to slack off on them because I was so optimistic that Aang was going to be okay! If I hadn't let my stupid hopefulness get in the way, maybe I'd be talking to Aang instead of struggling to heal him.

I just heard Sokka call me for mealtime. It's important that I attend. Mealtime is like Meeting Time. We discuss what we need to do.

-Katara

Author's Note: Yay for the long-ish chapter! Okay everybody, if you've been with this since the beginning, don't forget to tell me! I have something in plan... -evil plan formulating-

By the way, sorry if there are any errors in the chapter. I am so tired right now because I haven't been getting much sleep lately. (Staying up late doodling.) Who said that!? Anyway, I also have to get up early for school sooo... I'M SO TIRED! DX

Also, sorry if it seemed like I haven't posted a story in awhile! Long story short, I had this story for you all but my stupid computor randomly deleted it! I was so mad because it took me days to finish it! Argragh! The computor always has to crash at the worst possible time! Plus, my scanner broke, and that's what I use to post pictures on deviantART (my other site, I'm goldenflames66! Just to let y'all know...) so I got really mad. I have some pretty awesome pictures I wanted to post! Busy week, so sorry guys!

One more lengthy notice before I end this: I don't know if anyone's noticed, probably not, but on my profile I have this really random poll. It was my first poll ever so I kind of got excited and didn't know what to put so I put something random. Feel free to vote on it though! I'd love it if someone did, no matter how stupid the poll is! It would be actually kind of interesting to hear from the results...

Okay, this is long! Peace out, y'all! R&R please!