Ditching out on your responsibilities is fun. I skipped the last two days of school, and now it's summer! But my best friend is a way for a while so I'm depressed. Oh yeah, You probably want to red the story that I've been meaning to write for the longest time. Oh and for all those people who I asked for help thank you sooooo much for replying. My E-mail was packed for weeks, yep that's just how popular I am. (Reality: no one replied, and I think that you've all died in a freak lawn mower incident.) Anyway on with the story!

People below me are screaming, "Spy," and, "let's skin her!" I can barley hear them though. I'm too focus on Zuko. I can sense him telling me to leave, run, but I can't. I won't leave him, not again.

The bridge begins to rattle underneath me. My eye contact with Zuko breaks for a second as I look up. Two men speedily approach me. I'm not going to run though, I want to be taken to Zuko.

My eyes close as they come closer. I hear my heart beat, in a smooth rhythm. The sound of a child crying comes to me. I open my eyes and as if time slows down I see everything in slow monition. The baby… it's mine. That's right if they catch me there's no way they'll let me keep my child; it's Zuko's. Zuko or my child? Hmm… Well Zuko acts like a child most the time anyway not like there's a real difference. If they catch me all three of us will die though. I place my hand on my stomach, though it's not very big I think I feel it's heart beat. I blink, and time goes back to normal again.

Turning around, tears flow down my cheeks as run away. I'm so sorry Zuko. Using my water bending, I take the ice cubes out of my pocket and change it into the form of a sharp knife. I slice the rope to the bridge after making it across. Whew, that will buy some time. Bending the water back into ice cubes, I lean forward on my knees and take deep breaths.

The two men on the bridge push their arms in a forward monition and create another bridge out of earth. If they can earth bend then why do they even need a bridge? I moan as I keep sprinting forward.

The leafs of the trees seem to be getting darker as I go further in. I look around for another path.; soon the one I'm on will be completely pitch black. A huge branch catches my attention, if I climb around the tree they'll will probably be another path. Foot steps could be heard behind me. Anything is better that this. I leap onto the branch and start making my way to the core of the tree.

Ten minutes of walking go by and I still have yet to reach the core. I'm bond to be getting closer though, soft voices can be heard in front of me. There must be a house in the tree. As I get to the tree I hear a familiar voice, "Report back to Zhao that Zuko is dead."

My heart skipped a beat. Am I really too late… I could hear their conversation in the background but I wasn't listening to it. "Captain, shouldn't we actually…"

"No need," The captain interrupted, "I'll do the handy work myself."

I slip to my knees with my face in my hands. This is all my fault. I've been consumed with to many lies.. For what? To protect something I don't even know if I ever really had? How strong was Zuko and mine's relationship to being with? It was all based on lies. The only things that could ever symbolize a strong relationship between us is this child. And he doesn't know its his. He'll never know….

"There she is!" Lifting my head, I see the two earth benders from before. Escape is futile… I didn't even put up a fight when they came to grab me. They place wood made hand cuffs on my hands. The idiot earth bender decided to use the wood from the thin branch above us, and sure enough, just as he got the hand cuffs on the branch broke making a loud crashing sound.

All the commotion is heard by the people in the tree, so they came out to see what happened. Jet is one of those people. At first he looks piss that someone had interrupt their meeting, but once he realize it is me, he's frown turns into a sick smirk. "Well, well, well Katara my darling, if you wanted to see me that bad then just come to my bedroom instead of sneaking around outside." He came disgustingly close.

"Don't gross me out, Jet. Now, what have you done to Zuko?" I growl. Must remember insult later, Zuko now.

His smirks becomes even bigger as he grabs hold of my face, "Now, why would you want to hang out with a loser like that when you have me right here?"

"Why don't you just tell me where Zuko is and you won't have to stand there asking stupid questions all day." If you insult him he might not tell you where Zuko is. (A/N Reality: I suck at come backs)

"Fine, I'll tell you where he is… for a kiss." Is it possible that I actually saw Jet's smirk grow bigger? But is he out of his mind!

"Will I get to talk to Zuko?" I have to, there's no other way. Maybe comparing this to other things will make me feel better. The Odyssey, Homer had to go threw so many trials to get home. Nope that was probably easier. Romeo and Juliet, they had to die for each other. No, I would rather die. Midsummer Summer's Dream, Puck turns into a donkey. I wonder if he would want to kiss me then still? This is so not working.

"Of course, I'm heartless but not cruel." I could see him trying not to laugh from his own joke. How sad. He leans in closer as I close my eyes tight. I feel his hard lips place again mine. His tongue tries to gain access to my mouth but I keep my lips tightly sealed. Unexpectedly he places his hand on the back of my head and tilts it upward. I gasp enough for him to penetrate my mouth. I try to pull out but he keeps his hand solidly against my head. I can't take this, I open my mouth more letting more of his tongue in the dig my teeth deep into his tongue causing him to pull back immediately. "Well aren't we feisty." He said with a smile like he actually enjoyed it. "Take her to Prince Zuko."

As the guards lead me away I spit out some of the blood I cause from biting Jet. The thought of the kiss made me shudder. He left a foul taste in my mouth. "Here we are." One guard says. I freeze. What am I suppose to say to Zuko? I nod slowly to the guard as he tell me I have five minutes. I swallow a lump in my throat as I enter.

The room was pitch black, no light escape from the cracks of the door. I guess they didn't want him to gain strength from the sun. I see a figure laying on the ground, must be Zuko. I call out to him, "Z- Zuko." It sounds more like a question then anything else.

No reply. "Zuko, please listen to me." I walk over to the figure.

Still no response, "Zuko!" I place my hand on it then scream.

"Stop screaming, wrench!" I look over at the voice and sure enough it is Zuko who took a step out of the corner of the room and lights a small fire with his bending. I look over to the other figure and apparently it was a dead skeleton. "Oh… It's you Katara." He's voice tends to soften.

"Zuko…." I really don't know what to say. "I-"

"Two minutes left!" Yelled the guard. Way to ruin a moment.

"What do you want? To rub it in my face again how good of an actress you are?"

"Zuko you have to know! This… this right here," I grab onto my stomach, "is your.. our child."

He looked at me with cold unfeeling eyes, saying nothing. "Aren't you happy?" I finally ask to break the silence.

"About what?"

The pieces to my world began to shatter. "What do you mean? This is you're child."

"Oh, so now that we're stuck in the enemies' fortress that becomes my child, Katara? Not after everything we've been threw, but just when you need help, then it becomes my child?"

"No… it's not like that.." I try to say.

"Katara! My loyalties have never changed from the day I was exiled. I've been threw so much, and I've learned a lot. I know that things won't change for no reason. That is not my child, nor was it ever. Don't lie to me! Not now or ever!" He grab my hands and pulled me close to him so I am looking directly into his eyes. "I loved you Katara, but I've learned from that mistake. I hope you survive threw this event, Katara. But if you do, I never want to see you're face again as long as I live." He release my hands and walk back into his corner. Not even taking one last glance at me.

The fragile shell of my world… have just been trampled on. Without my shell I am wounded bird left to die. And I shall die without hope, without happiness, and without love.

Zuko POV

Even if that was another act or not.. If she still had any feelings for me that should have broken them. I wish I could believe her, that that is really my child. That I have a heir to become the prince or princess when I take the throne. If only life could be that easy and I could forgive her and we could have a family in fire kingdom. If only…

The door broke down. I slowly turn my attention to the door to see the cause. A rather large man walks in, "Come, you have been summon to face off with the Captain."

The Captain? That's Sokka right? I begin to follow the man without question. If I take this guy down there are too many others here. I would be taken down shortly. Plus Katara might still be around.

The guard led me to an arena. How they built it above the tree, I have no idea. The guard led me the center of the battlefield and told me to wait. It didn't take long for the crowd to start cheering. What's going on? Out of the corner of my eye I see a man I despised. Jet, ever since I met him I've hated him. He was always hitting on Katara, even when I was right there.

"Zuko you need to die for the sake of Oblivion. So I have taken the liberty of decapitating you myself." He starts to walk side ways towards me as he takes out his knives.

I walk side ways in the same monition, making sure we're directly across from each other. "Too bad, I happen to like my head. Besides there's no way I'm losing to a weakling like you."

Jet made the first attack. Leaping forward he used both knives and ended up cutting some of my shirt. Luckily for him he was able to evade most of his attack. Damn, I don't want to fight this guy. I sent a flame out purposely missing Jet but it caused a good defense for the next attack: a swift kick with a hidden blade in his boot.

Jet went on the offensive, he swift, swing, and swung his knives in every direction. But I just dodged them instead of sending counter. "What's wrong, Zuko? Katara make you soft?"

I started to pant as I kept quiet. I'm not soft, I'm still as cold as before.

"So when was the last time you kissed her, Zuko? Because she taste so sweet:"

My eyes started to burn with flames. He kissed my Katara? First Katara lies to me, then she kisses Jet! There's a limit of how low you can go. I started to aim fist of flames directly at him. This caught Jet off guard causing him to trip. I took no hesitation, I ran up to him and launched a fire ball right next to his head leaving a huge burn mark on the field.

"You really are coward. No wonder you were exiled. You're too soft to ever be considered a fire nation prince."

To be cold. This is how I lost Katara, by being cold. With out her, there's nothing else worth losing. I feel a chilled go up my back as I launched a fire ball straight into Jet's face. A deadly scream pierced the ears of many. "You're not worthy enough to die by my hands, so I'll leave you with this scar that shall forever shame you."

With no one to love me, no one is here to warm me from the cold. I will revert back to my former self, back before any of this happened.

"Mister, please stop it! You've won the fight, don't kill him." A young boy said as he starts to pull at my pant leg. This boy will, one day, join this rebel squad and kill fire nation solders.

"Goodbye, little boy." I said in an ice cold voice. I lifted my hand up to the little boy's face. He blinked once before the ashes of his remain blew off into the wind.

Okay, yea really bad chapter but I'm tried it like 3 in the morning. Took me 3 hours. Okay quick rant. I loved the last two episodes of Avatar. Both made me want to cry though. Why was Iroh looking at Toph though, I mean he could have probably dodged the flame if he was paying attention. Anyway no Zutara, I was sad. Maybe next time. Night! PS I haven't read those three books so don't yell at me if the info is wrong. Oh, and this might be one of the last Katara POVs for a while.