I AM ASHAMED OF MYSELF! DX How could I not have updated in THREE. FRIGGING. MONTHS? *headdesk* It's official. I am a horrible person. BUT LO AND BEHOLD I HAVE RETURNED TO UPDATE! :D

Katara sat in her usual corner hugging her knees to her chest. Her eyes were red as usual because she had cried again. She heard someone knock on her door

"Go away!" she yelled, burying her face in her knees. "Leave me alone!"

"Katara?"

The waterbender looked up in slight surprise; she didn't recognize that voice. She could tell it wasn't a servant because the servants never really said her name without putting a "Miss" in front of it and this voice sounded too young to actually be a soldier

"Who is it?" she called back

"Ty Lee, Mai, and Azula. Can we come in?"

Katara felt that this was suspicious; who were Ty Lee, Mai, and Azula? Where they friends of Zuko or Iroh? Or was this some kind of trick to lower her defenses so that her rapist could attack her again?

At the last thought she put her hands on either side of her head, almost covering her ears as if to keep the thoughts from entering her head through them.

"No! Just go away!"

"Okay that's it..."

"Azula don't-!"

Katara could hear a faint click and the door opened, revealing three girls. One had long brown hair which she had kept up in a braid, big adorable grey eyes, and was wearing pink. One wore black and dark red clothes, black fingerless gloves, and most of her up in two small buns with the rest of her hair over her shoulders. The third girl Katara recognized immediately. She was the one she fought at the South Pole. Katara glared at that girl, fists clenched. The one in pink stepped forward with a hand up.

"Hi," she said, "My name's Ty Lee. This is Mai," she pointed at the one dressed in dark, "And this is Azula." she pointed at the girl Katara had fought.

"Why are you here?" she asked, suspicioun in her tone

"We want to help you." Ty Lee got closer to Katara but she backed closer to the wall. "It's okay, we're not going to hurt you."

"How do I know I can trust you?" Katara demanded, "I don't trust her!" she nodded at Azula

"I don't want to be here anymore than you do peasant!" Azula snarled

"Then get out! All of you get out!" Katara turned her back on the three girls and buried her face in her knees again.

Azula growled quietly and made to go over to Katara and either hurt or threaten her but Mai held her back. Ty Lee got to her knees and sat behind Katara.

"Not helping." she muttered

"Please Katara, let us help you!" Ty Lee reached out to touch Katara's arm but the waterbender jerked it out of her reach

"No one here can help me." she muttered. "You Fire Nation are all the same; heartless, soul less, horrible people. Incapable of feeling anything except anger and lust for power."

"You're wrong. Not everyone in the Fire Nation is like that. In fact, Mai, Azula, and I could be your friends if you wanted us to be."

Katara didn't say anything. She kept her face covered with her back facing the girls. She hoped that maybe if she kept ignoring them they'd go away already.

"We want to find the man who did this to you. Just tell us and everything will be okay."

At these words Katara totally snapped. She turned and shoved Ty Lee away from her. She heard Mai and Azula make noises of protest but she ignored them

"You really think things are just going to get better for me?" she yelled as best she could because she hadn't used her voice properly in a few days and she still was feeling ill, "I've been taken from my home, locked in a freezing cell, got really sick, AND I've had my innocense taken from me by force! I can't even say who it was that did it because he said he'd kill me and have the troops destroy my entire village. Even if he did get caught do you really think that's going to fix everything? I won't be home, I'll still be a prisoner here in this hellhole and I'll have to live with the fact that some monster stole my virginity for the rest of my life! So don't tell me everything is going to be okay! Because it's never EVER going to get any better! SO JUST GET OUT!"

Unable to speak anymore, she turned away from Ty Lee again and cried into her knees. Katara had been wanting to let this out for so many days. After this outburst she expected Ty Lee, Azula, and Mai to leave the room. She heard some movements and the door close and thought they had left. She was surprised to feel someone wrapping their arms around her. She tried to push the person away but heard shushing noises.

"Just let it all out."

Katara huddled close to Ty Lee and cried harder than she had in weeks.

"Were you able to get her to tell you who did this to her?" Iroh asked Azula and Mai when they came to the throne room. Zuko was in his throne.

Azula smirked "She didn't tell me exactly who did it but I was able to figure it out."

"Who did it?" demanded Zuko. He was ready to burn this man to a crisp for what he had done

"It was Admiral Zhao."

Next up: some girl time between Katara and Ty Lee, a trap, confrontation, and a fight