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Chapter 9: When they Eavesdrop

Previously:

"I will go get some more." Katara left to go back to the kitchen, but stopped in front one of the rooms. There was a couple of people in the room, and they were having a loud conversation. As she leaned in closer to the door, she realized who was talking.

Iroh and Zuko were talking. It sounded as if Zuko was yelling at Iroh for some reason.

"Uncle, you don't realize how much this means to me. If you could just talk to him. Please?"

That was very odd. Zuko has never said the word 'please' in his entire life. He must really need Iroh to do the thing for him. Katara was shocked, and got more and more, to hear him say that. The more she thought about it, the more it seemed fake. Zuko didn't seem like the kind of person to say please. But he had said it, right in front of her.

"Zuko, if it really makes you that concerned, you should be the one to talk. I think that he'll appreciate it more if you do it. You might even get the answer that you wanted."

"But Uncle! I really want you to do it!"

"Zuko, why?"

"Because, I'm scared. I don't want to do it. PLEASE WILL YOU DO IT?"

"Do what?" Katara said. She had meant to be quiet and just eavesdrop, but she spoke unknowingly. Once the words came out of her mouth, she starting running down the hall. Someone rushed to the door, and once it opened, she ducked into a doorway. Zuko ran out of his library, looked up and down the hall. He shrugged and turned around and re-entered his library. Katara was still gasping for breath, only a mere 50ft away from where Zuko was.

She rushed to the kitchen, her job almost forgotten, and got more food. Enough to feed Sokka for, about two meals. When Suki finally got her food, Katara had gone a different, longer, way, she scarfed it down. Yue and I were staring at her, open mouthed, not believing. That was more than enough food for Yue, me, Aang (if he ate meat), Toph, and Zuko, if we were really hungry.

Uncle came in, hearing me and Yue exclaim loudly. He was wondering what in the world was going on.

"Well, I went and got a whole bunch of food because Suki was really hungry, and she just like ate it all in a couple of minutes!"

"My, my Suki. That's a lot, even for Sokka. I doubt Sokka could even eat that much in one sitting."

Suki looked offended and opened her mouth to defend herself, but then quickly shut it, remembering that Iroh didn't know that Suki was pregnant. She thought about it silently, imagining the argument that she and Katara would have.

While Suki spaced out about that, Yue and Katara were trying to uphold the conversation with Iroh, making sure he didn't look at Suki and ask about her. They were slowly walking away from Suki, towards the hall. Yue had the idea of going to the kitchen or let Iroh lead the way to where ever he wanted to go.

When they were in the hall, a safe way away from Suki's ears, Iroh suddenly asked a question.

"What is wrong with Miss Suki? She seemed fine before, now she's spacing out an everything."

Yue and Katara exchanged glances with each other, desperation in their eyes.

"She is just missing Sokka. My father and him mean a lot to her. It's probably just homesickness." Katara sounded convincing, but she also sounded like she was trying to make herself believe that as well. To her, the idea just seemed illogical. Because she knew the truth, she couldn't see it any other way. Carrying on with the lie she just told was going to be hard.

"I was a worry wart like her once," Yue said, giggling to herself. "It might be hard to think, but those demons in the spirit world made me worry about all you people down here."

"Ah, very interesting. May I speak to Miss Suki by myself? Just making sure that she is all right." Iroh asked. Yue and Katara nodded, and then he went. Though they had happy faces on, they weren't very believable. Once Iroh was out of sight, Katara hit her forehead with her palm.

"What the heck were we thinking? Well, what were you thinking? Homesick? Was that the best thing that you could think of? Really?" Yue was teasing Katara.

"I was thinking about saying something about the unicorn meat that I slipped into her food, but I think Iroh would have thought that we were messing with him." Katara joked right back. "But I don't see how unicorns could do that to her, they are so yummy." Yue started to giggle, then Katara joined in, then they were holding their sides because they were laughing so hard. They started walking down the hall holding their sides, laughing really loudly the entire time.

When they got to the living room, both of them had tears running down their cheeks and were gasping for air. But when they walked in, the stopped suddenly. There Zuko was, talking to Aang, with a serious look on both of their faces. Luckily for the girls, the two boys hadn't heard them come in yet, so they were still oblivious to the fact that they were there.

Dragging a dazed Katara along with her, Yue dashed behind a large couch conveniently placed within ten feet of them. There they had a perfect advantage point, for there was a mirror positioned so that they could see what they boys were doing and could hear them perfectly clearly. It would seem too perfect to you, if you were there, but the girls weren't paying attention to that. There was a heated discussion going on between Zuko and Aang.

Zuko heard laughing in the hall, and said to Aang, "Okay, are you ready?"

"Yeah, but one quick question. Why are we doing this again?"

"Because... We can? I don't know, but it's fun, isn't it?"

"Yeah, I guess. Okay, get into your position. Is the mirror and couch all ready?"

"Yes and yes. Get your serious face on." When Aang put on his serious face, Zuko took a glance at it and started laughing, and Aang joined in. "Okay, maybe do it when I am looking so that I don't laugh like that when the girls are in the room. Man, this is the best idea ever!"

They got into their spots, serious faces and everything. Aang started to say his first part of the script they wrote, when the girls came in. It took all of their strength to not look at the girls, instead, looking at the other boy. Continuing on with the conversation, Zuko was actually looking at a mirror he had put behind Aang's head. It was angled so that he could see behind the couch. He was glad that Yue was in on the plan as well. Katara might have just interrupted their conversation, but they had a trained ninja on their side. Yes, Yue is a ninja.

Iroh and Suki were talking, when they heard Katara and Yue's laughter faded away as they got farther away from them. "Okay," Iroh said. "Do you have the plan memorized?" Suki nodded and got off the bed, where she had hidden all the food that Katara had given her.

AN: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Leaving you guys in suspense is so fun. I love it! And thank you ML7 for reminding me about this story. It totally was not in my mind at all. COOKIE FOR YOU! AND COOKIES FOR ALL WHO REVIEW! MERRY THANKSGIVING!