AN:Welcome and sorry for late update, well it's not late since I update at random ALL the time so no fret.
Anyway, here you go!(I didn't know Haru's mother's name so I went with Delma which means noble protector in german)
Warning: An attempt of rape in this chapter, nothing graphic though.
It was at a young hour, Zuko opens his eyes- well as much as his damaged eye can open.
He takes in the vitality beating through his veins from the sun,
Zuko then sits up and checks out the room.
Zuko and Katara are staying at the Inn, the one that Haru and his mother Delma possessed.
They had gotten a free room in light of the fact that Katara had guaranteed free labor on their part, which Zuko refused to do.
Expressing he was a prince which entitled him no work as a laborer.
Zuko recollected the scene, as he snatched some additional garments Haru had given him, He then heads to the shower.
"I guarantee we will work for our stay,please?"Katara pleaded.
Haru looked to his mom, which she then gave a gesture back.
"Okay, you can stay, BUT, I need you folks up at the crack of dawn to help us venture to the marketplace and set up our food stand,"
Haru responded in place of his mother.
"Wait,hold on a moment, before we concur I have to converse with my friend."Zuko constrained his outrage down as he strolled up to katara.
Haru peered toward him for a decent moment yet didn't let out the slightest peep.
Zuko snatched katara by her arm and pulled her over sufficiently enough away Haru and his mom couldn't hear them.
"What do you think you're doing!"Zuko fumed with anger,his confront giving ceaselessly how irate he was.
"Getting us a free room,what are YOU doing!" "Can't you see this is a decent arrangement!" Katara reacted.
"I, crown prince Zuko, will NOT lower myself to the grounds of a peasant!"
"Well news flash Zuko, you're NOT a prince here, you're just as low as I am!"Katara shouted.
"Don't you dare insult me with a comparison to a barbarian like you!"
Katara's face held outrage, stun, and another established appall for the prince and his kin.
But then a striking thought pops into katara's head and that dark sickly sweetness side of katara had shown once before had returned.
"Well, If this 'barbarian' were to some way or another slip-up and reveal that you were the 'crown prince Zuko of Ozai', what do you think they do to you?"
Katara asked with a sickly sweet voice and a dark smile on her face.
"Are you threatening me!" Zuko asked with outrage, yet katara didn't answer she only proceeded with her tirade.
"On the off chance that people discover, you're Ozai"s son, they will want to execute you!"
"Think of all the pain and torment you'll endure, So I suggest you approach me with respect cause you're on my playing field at this moment, Not yours."
"So, it's to your Greatest interest you oblige to this or it will be your head not mine!"Katara wrapped up.
What Katara said had stunned him, shocked him to the core, but what she said was right if people found out,
He would most certainly die. "Now,we should go, it's getting dark."Was the last thing Katara said to him before she strolled off towards the Inn.
Which drives us to where we are now, Katara lays on the singles bed alongside the one Zuko was using."
Zuko looks at katara's face, she seems to sleep so peacefully, Zuko was envious,
Zuko always has nightmares, that is why sleep always evades him or why he generally keeps away from rest.
But Zuko didn't have time to dwell on that, he shakes katara conscious. "Come on, Get UP Peasant, I DON'T have time for this."
"Alright, I'm getting up, stop your whimpering you big baby" Katara yawns as she awakens escaping her spot on the bed.
She then leaves to the restroom to get spruced up and changed.
Later, After katara had gotten spruced up and dressed, Katara and Zuko was then prepared for a day's work.
"Move these containers, and don't break ANYTHING!"Haru disclosed to Zuko, who for hell's sake continue breaking the crates when he put them down.
Zuko was confounded, he was prepared to lose his temper and snap at Haru, but he didn't want to bring about getting katara angry.
On the off chance that he would get on her bad side,she would then turn him over to these people.
So, he did his best to follow along with this for he didn't want to bring upon the water bender's wrath.
As Zuko was going to move two more boxes to the stand in the marketplace.
He then heard a young lady scream, it seemed like it came from the alleyway next to the Inn.
Zuko pursued the sound of the screaming woman.
"Please Help Me!" "Somebody Help Me!" "Quiet Down bitch!"He heard a blunt male voice shout and after that he heard a smacking sound.
Zuko went to check it out when he arrived what he saw appalled him to the core.
A young earth kingdom girl- who looked no older than 15, was pushed up against the wall.
Her dressed tore up with a fire nation soldier- who seemed to be in his mid-twenties, had forcefully pushed himself between her legs.
"Stop, please don't do this" "I said SHUT UP bitch, or do you want me to burn your throat, cause I'll gladly do it"
The young lady quiets down to barely a whisper after the fire nation man said that.
For the first time in Zuko's life, he was disgusted with his kin and he promised he take care of things like this when he was fire lord.
Zuko squandered no time and got the man by the back of his throat and hammered his head into the wall.
Hitting him with enough constraint to knock him out yet not murder him.
Zuko truly wanted to execute this filth right here, right now, he hated people like him, Hated men with no honor.
But it would attract an excessive amount of attention to this area which he didn't need right now.
"Are you going to be alright?" Zuko asked the obviously shaken up young lady.
When the silence became too strong Zuko introduce himself.
"Hello, I'm Lee, What's your name?" Zuko asked the young lady, Zuko was prepared to surrender conversing with her when she finally spoke.
"I don't know whether I'll be alright, yet my name is Song"Song reacted with tears in her eyes.
Zuko not knowing what he should do in this situation made her an offer."Um, Here let me take you to the Inn I'm staying at."
Zuko saw Song falter at the offer, but then she soon accepted.
Zuko then began to lead her to the route of the Inn.