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Recap:
Sokka hugged his sister tightly "Great Fight Sis!" he said.
"I'll say" A voice said.
Katara froze shutting her eyes tightly before turning around to see Zuko standing there with his arms crossed.
Toph leaned over to Aang "Awkward!"
Katara smiled sheepishly "Hey Babe." She said biting her lip.
An Hour Earlier:
Zuko put his other arm through his jacket as he opened the door to reveal his mother standing there with a smile on her face. "Mom?" he asked in disbelief.
She smiled "Well are you going to invite your mother in?" she asked.
He opened the door wider and grinned "What are you doing here? If I had known you were going to come I would have cleaned up a little." He said looking around his slightly messy apartment.
Ursa waved a hand "It's fine son , I just came to visit my grandson, who I haven't seen in months." She said crossing her arms.
Zuko sighed and rubbed his neck "Sorry mom, things have been crazy around here."
She gave him a soft smile and put a hand on his shoulder "I'm proud of you Zuko, you've managed to take care of your son on your own, without Mai." She said Mai's name as if it was a bad taste in her mouth.
Zuko rose an eyebrow and Ursa shrugged "I may have allowed her to marry you but that does not mean that I liked her.
He chuckled and pulled his mother in for a hug "Its nice seeing you mom." He said.
She pulled away "Now where is my grandson? I've been dying to spend some time with him."
Zuko led her into the living room where Lu Ten sat on the carpet floor playing with some of his toys. Ursa smiled and looked at Zuko "He looks just like you."
She walked over to Lu Ten who looked up from his toys to glance at the stranger. Ursa sat down and began to play with Lu Ten. "Ta-ta?" Lu Ten asked looking at Zuko.
Zuko shook his head "Ta-ta is home." He said sitting on the opposite side of Lu Ten.
Ursa rose an eyebrow "Ta-ta?"
Zuko gulped loudly "Yes, her name is Katara, she's Lu Ten's babysitter, and well my girlfriend." He said blushing slightly.
"Oh I can't wait to meet her! Why don't you three come to dinner on Friday? It will be nice to have the entire family together." She said.
He looked down "I- I don't know mom we just went started dating I don't know if she is ready to meet the family. Besides Father can be very…judgmental" He said.
Ursa frowned and looked away "You know he asks about Lu Ten a lot."
Zuko looked at his mother in confusion "He does?"
She nodded "Yes, for some reason he's grown a liking to him even though he has only seen him once."
"I didn't know that." He said looking down.
Ursa nodded "Yes, so can you please bring Lu Ten and Katara over for dinner?" she asked.
Zuko was still unsure, he didn't know how his father would take that he's dating someone as lower class as Katara, not that it mattered to him. He hesitantly nodded his head "Okay I'll ask Katara, but I won't make any promises."
"That's all I ask." She said grinning then looked at Zuko's appearance "Were you planning on going somewhere son?"
His eyes widened "Oh crap! I have work, oh Agni, Toph is going to kill me." He said jumping up from his spot then froze in his place "Who is going to watch Lu Ten? Agni why did Katara have to do this today?" he said running his hands through his hair.
Ursa put a hand on his shoulder "I'll watch Lu Ten for you." She said holding the baby on her hip.
Zuko shook his head "It's fine mom, you don't have to." He said but Ursa put a hand up to silence him.
"I insist, besides I need time to spend with my grandson." She said.
Zuko smiled "Thanks mom." He kissed her cheek and Lu Ten's forehead before heading out the door.
As he drove to the warehouse he noticed his phone was abnormally quiet, when he's late Toph tended to blow his phone up with phone calls and texts. He drove around back and headed into the warehouse.
He noticed a fight had started already and decided to watch it, there seemed to be a bigger crowd than usual. Zuko stood next to the ring and saw two figure just about to start their fight.
It was a waterbender and an earthbender, but there was something different about the waterbender, it was female and he had never seen her at the warehouse before. As he got near the ring he heard the two benders speak.
"Well, well, well, look who we have here, The Painted Lady. Hello Katara."
Zuko froze in his place, that was Katara fighting? He watched as she tensed and glared "Jet."
The rules were given out and Katara and this 'Jet' stood still in the ring. He could tell Katara was waiting for him to strike first, which he did. This guy seemed pretty predicable.
Zuko could barely watch as Katara threw ice daggers and barely manage to not get hit by flying rock. He was about to light the place on fire when he saw that douche bag put his arms around her waist.
His breath caught in his throat when he saw the fury in Katara's eyes as she rose a hand up and Jet's eyes widened as his whole body became frozen. She threw him across the stage unconscious.
Next thing he knew he saw the referee raise her arm up and heard the crowd cheering loudly. Part of him was impressed by her and wanted to spar her the next chance they get and the other was completely freaked out and wanted to go make sure she was okay.
He walked around to her side of the ring where he saw his team congratulating her, he frowned as he watched her hug her brother. "Great Fight Sis."
"I'll say." Zuko said crossing his arms.
He saw Katara freeze and slowly turn around to face him with a sheepish smile on her face.
He heard Toph whisper to Aang "Awkward."
"Hey Babe." Katara said biting her lip.
Zuko narrowed his eyes at her and kept his arms crossed "Hey."
Sokka grabbed Toph and Aang's wrists "Well we're going to leave you two love birds alone." They all walked away awkwardly.
Katara took a step closer "Zuko." She started.
"You know you could've told me." He said.
She looked down "I know, I just didn't want to worry you."
He rolled his eyes "Yeah and having me watch you almost get crushed by a rock seems like a great way to keep me from getting worried."
Katara frowned "I'm sorry okay but you know I couldn't say no to this."
Zuko sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose "Your right, I overreacted, but you know you can tell me anything right?"
She nodded "Yeah."
He step closer to her and wrapped his arms around her waist "By the way, you really know how to fight. Maybe we can spar some time, you know if you aren't scared."
Katara pulled away and smirked "Challenge accepted."
He chuckled and put his arms around her shoulder as they walked through the crowd to look for the rest of the gaang.
"Looks like Sparky let you off the hook." Toph said grinning when she felt Zuko and Katara approach.
Katara rolled her eyes while Zuko simply ignored were all sitting at one of the back tables watching the current fight. Zuko and Katara joined them and sat down.
"So what was that thing you did at the end of the fight?" Zuko asked as they went over Katara's fight.
She bit the inside of her cheek and looked down "It was bloodbending."
Aang put a hand on her shoulder reassuringly "It's a dark form a bending." Aang said.
Zuko nodded his head and rubbed Katara's knuckles, he discovered that it was rather soothing to her when he did that. "I really felt bad that I bloodbended Jet." Katara said.
Sokka waved a hand "That jerk deserved it."
Zuko rose an eyebrow "You guys know the Freedom Fighter?"
Toph snorted "Yeah Katara knows him real well." She said earning a punch in the shoulder from Katara.
"Who is he?" he asked curiously looking around the table Sokka and Toph held in their laughs, Aang looked around nervously, and Katara glared at Toph and Sokka.
"He's my ex-boyfriend." Katara said rolling her eyes.
Sokka and Toph started laughing while Aang held in his laughter. "It's not funny!" Katara said.
Toph wiped her eyes "It kinda is, you know how he cheated on you three days after you guys dated then dumped you publicly, then you come and just beat the crap out of him."
Zuko put his arm around Katara's shoulder and she rolled her eyes and ignored her immature friends and turned to Zuko. "So who is taking care of Lu Ten? Isn't your Uncle having Karaoke night?"
He smiled "Well my mom stopped by for a visit and wanted to babysit Lu Ten to spend some time with him."
Katara grinned "When will I get to meet your mother?"
He coughed into a fist "I actually wanted to talk to you about that, she invited us to dinner on Friday, she wants you to meet the whole family."
Sokka, Aang, and Toph all stopped laughing to look at Zuko in shock, their mouths hanging open.
"You mean you're going to see your father and evil sister from hell?" Toph asked causing Aang to elbow her.
Zuko sighed and ran his hand through his hair "Yes Toph I am, my mother wants to meet Katara, and for some odd reason my father wants to see Lu Ten."
Katara put a hand on his shoulder "I would love to meet your family." She said.
Toph snorted "Good luck."
Zuko glared at Toph while Katara smiled "I'm sure I can handle it." She said kissing Zuko's cheek.
Sokka made a disgusted noise "Ew, come on guys no PDA in front of me! I still can't get over the fact my best friend is dating my sister."
Toph punched his shoulder "Get over it Snoozles."
Woo! I had a hard time writing this chapter sorry if it isn't that good.
How many people are excited to see Lu Ten turn Ozai into putty?
Next Chapter: Family Dinner
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