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"Katara his future wife has been found guilty of his murder," Iroh continued sadly.
The whole room suddenly went into an uproar. There was people defending Katara and people accusing her. Sokka couldn't believe what had happened. He had killed someone and his sister was framed for it.
Sokka stood and yelled out "Katara is innocent and I have proof."
The entire room suddenly became quiet.
"How so," Ozai asked coldly.
Sokka stood there gathering up the strength to confess his deed, and no one noticed that Iroh had silently slipped out of the room.
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"Miss Katara I have come to let you know that Zuko's death was staged. We both though that it might draw out the guilty one; there was no intention of you getting caught up in this," Iroh explained through bars on her prison door.
"Thank you," Katara sighed with relief. Than her curiosity got the best of her. "Do you know about Princess Ursa, and who wrote her love letters."
"Princess Ursa is the wife of Fire Lord Ozai," Iroh explained.
"You were the one who wrote her letters," Katara said in shock. "You had an affair with Zuko's mother."
"Well you wouldn't call it an affair exactly. When she was married we didn't do anything together," Iroh corrected.
"How far did this go?" Katara asked coldly.
"We didn't do anything together until we found out that Ozai that my brother had supposedly died in a rockslide incident. That was obviously false information." Iroh said.
"How far did it go?" Katara repeated.
"Far enough for Zuko to be my son," Iroh answered softly.
That made Katara Shut her mouth. Then her jaw dropped.
"It is not as you think. Ursa and I wed secretly. Then once we found out that my brother was alive we had to separate for the sake of Zuko, and we had to let Ozai think he was the father. Zuko would have been killed at birth if anyone had known," Iroh explained franticly.
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Sokka had just told the entire story to the assembly of representatives.
"It wasn't on purpose. I didn't want to kill anyone," Sokka pleaded.
"Needless to say you did kill someone," Ozai said coldly.
"No he didn't!" Iroh announced cheerfully.
"Huh?" Sokka said in a confused way.
"What?" Ozi asked in the same tone.
"This was all staged to find the perpetrator. Zuko is alive and he finally recovered from what had put his life in danger," Iroh said with a smile.
Everyone in the room looked dumbstruck. Right down to the servants.
"You are a very cruel man," Sokka said to Iroh.
"You will think differently now that you know that no charges will be pressed against you," Iroh told him
Fire Lord Ozai's jaw practically hit the floor. Sokka thought that he was dreaming.
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Later in Ursa's garden Sokka ran up to Iroh.
"Thanks for getting me bailing me out of that situation," Sokka said.
"It was Zuko who wanted to let you go, or he was the one who suggested it," Iroh told him.
"You're kidding. Right?" Katara said. She had been listening in on the whole conversation.
"Well on the condition that the person wasn't trying to kill him," Iroh added. "If he was then Zuko would as he so colorfully put it 'beat the snot out of the jerk'."
"I was trying to give him a bad case of hives," Sokka confessed.
"Then I cannot promise you anything," Iroh told him.
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See the happy. Now take back your curses FireNutZuko. Though they did have their place. This was a longer chapter than usual. Thanks to Cathy for her review. Thank you to Dragon Jadefire for her review as well.
A special thanks to those who didn't feel the need to insult me for the mistake of being a once upon a time Kataanger, I know that the shipping wars are pretty fierce.
