The moon was shining down on us. We were all sitting by the fire, as Zuko was making tea.

"No one makes tea like uncle, hopefully I learned some things." Zuko said handing out the small cups. "Hey do you want to hear my uncle's favorite tea joke."

"Yeah."

"Sure."

"I like jokes."

"Well I forgot the rest of it, but the punch line leaf my alone, I'm bushed!" Hey Iroh told me that one. I started laughing. Everyone was staring at me.

"I heard that one before…"

"Hey Zuko, can I talk to you?" Sokka asked when Zuko got to him. Zuko nodded and they both left the room.

Just as they were leaving, so did I. I went into our room.

I sat on the bed, and then I noticed someone in the doorway. I thought it would be Zuko, but I was more than shocked when I saw Katara.

"Hi…" I said skeptically.

"I just want to know. You're the princess of the Northern Water Tribe. What are you doing with some guy from the fire nation?" She spat out the last part.

I chuckled. "That question has been coming up a lot lately. I'm not with some guy from the Fire Nation. I'm with Zuko."

"But he's Fire Nation!" She was getting angry. "He attacked your home! He-"

"No, he didn't. Bad people did, and there are people like that everywhere."

"Forget it." She said storming out the door. This wasn't over.

The next morning I noticed Zuko wasn't by me again. He didn't come to bed last night; I guess he stayed up to help Aang with his fire bending. I better go get them. I walked outside, Aang was there. Zuko wasn't, neither was Sokka… Aang, Toph and Katara were standing by Appa. Katara had a note in her hand.

"What's up guys?"

"Zuko and Sokka said we need meat. They went fishing." Aang explained.

"Wait, Sokka and I just went hunting yesterday…" They all shrugged. I looked at Katara; she was looking at me slightly pissed off. We needed to talk.

"Katara, come here. I want to show you something." She reluctantly followed me into my room. "Now, Zuko doesn't even know I have this, nor does my father or anyone else for that matter. So this stays between us. Okay." She nodded. "I took this from my father before I left." I grabbed my bag from under the bed and pulled out a tightly folded piece of cloth.

"So, you hate the fire nation, and all people in it. No exceptions right? Because they took your mother away from you." She nodded. "Well the Water Tribes did the same thing to me." She looked at me in shock. I unfolded the cloth there was a gold necklace with a sea raven on it.

"It's beautiful."

"Thanks. This was my mother's, they took it away from her when the imprisoned her. My father found out she was Fire Nation so they locked her up, then my father couldn't stand the sight of her, saying he lied to her, betrayed her and stuff like that. My father never told me what they did her but I always assumed the worst. This all happened before I was even a week old. The worst part is I know my father loved my mother. Why would he keep this if he didn't? But he let a blind hatred ruin his life. My mother never did anything, she was innocent, she was just born there." I looked over to Katara, tears were brimming her eyes. "Now, I could hate the whole Water Tribe, or I could hate the person who did this to me. Every tribe had bad people who make bad decisions. Now the Fire Nation does have them in abundance but you can't hate all of them…just think about that." Katara started crying.

"I'm sorry, Kya." She cried in to my shoulder. I tried to calm her down.

"Don't be sorry, you have every right to be angry. But the monster who killed your mother, was just one person. Not a whole nation. Now c'mon let's grab some lunch, I'm starving." As soon as we got up, I immediately clenched my stomach and ran for a waste bin expelling the content of my stomach.

"Kya, are you okay."

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"I'm a healer; I learned when I was in the Northern Water Tribe. Are you sure you don't want me to make sure everything is alright?" I thought about it. I have been sick for a while, maybe I should get it checked out, though it's probably just a virus or something.

"Okay, let's get this over with." I lay down on the bed and lifted my shirt slightly up, just below my chest. She bended some water over my stomach. I won't lie, it did feel really weird.

"Wow this is…amazing." Katara cooed.

"What?" I asked looking up.

"It's like…a tiny heartbeat."

"My stomach had a heart beat?" I asked dumbly.

"No Kya!" Katara said smiling. "You're Pregnant."