Katara wakes up a few minutes before he does but not wanting to leave the warmth she stays nuzzled into him. She remembers the night before, berates herself for making that ultimatum: she has to tell them. All of them. With a sigh she sits up. Nudges him in the ribs. Waits.

"I'm up, I'm up," he rubs his eye and supports himself on his side with an arm, "Is something wrong?"

"Yes and no. Everyone needs to hear about this," she can't answer the question directly, at least not yet.

"Should we talk about this over breakfast?"

"After would be better.'

Katara finishes first and waits patiently for the others. She looks down at her hands. Tries to figure out what she's going to say. The clack clink of bowls being stacked pulls her from her thoughts.

"Everyone meet back here, I...need to tell you something."

She looks around the room.

"What did you want to tell us?"

"Yeah, what?"

"Hush please. Remember a few days ago when I ran out? Well, something happened..."

"What?"

"Shhh let her tell."

"I was raped," she deadpans.

It's one of the few times the group had ever been completely silent.

Sokka's "What?" quickly broke that.

"And don't you dare call me arnaaluk, anngar, don't you dare!" She glares at him.

"How could this happen?"

"Oh I don't know! Let's ask the people walking by who were so damn desensitized to it they didn't even help me! I saw a little girl-younger than Toph- mouth the words, 'You too?'." She concentrates to not choke on her tears.

"But what will Dad say?" His voice drops to a half-whisper.

"I don't want to think about that."

Ever the sleuth one, "What were you doing?"

"Nothing. I was leaning against a piece of the wall and he... started yelling at me that my family had ruined his life and I was going to pay. I hate him."

"Do you know who did this to you?"

"Of course I know who did this to me! Hahn-"

"I knew I never liked that guy."

"He said you stole Yue from him and without her he was no one. He says our family ruined his life but he had to consider the relations of the Northern and Southern Water Tribes so..."

"So he forced you."

"I talked to Yue about it. Sokka...Hahn accused Gran-Gran of being arnaaluk."

"Is that why she left?"

"I don't know. For now, it's a 60 year old rumor that was started soon after she left. They said Gran-Gran was already pregnant with Aunt Miksa when she got to the Southern Water Tribe."

"I say we go find him and teach him a lesson he'll never forget," Toph schemes.

"I'm way ahead of you," Mai plays with her knives.

"We need to figure out the best way to go about this."

"He's probably still here in the city," Suki deduces.

"And the city is going to give him up."

"How do you mean?"

"We're going to set a bounty on him—if that's all right with you, Katara."

"We'll see."

"Before the Air Temples were separated into male-only and female-only, there was a death penalty for rape. That's the only time anyone was allowed to disobey the rule that all life is sacred."

"In the Fire Nation itself rape is seen as wrong...the soldiers on the other hand...had their own ideas of sharing the greatness of the Fire Nation with the world; the Earth Kingdom at least."

"That's awful."

"It happened."

"That makes it worse," Ty Lee is clearly upset by learning of this.

"On Kyoshi Island it's almost unheard of, with the Kyoshi warriors and all," Suki comments.

Katara turns to her brother, "Sokka, please stop just sitting there shaking your head. I'm still the same Katara. I know the customs of our people say differently, but look at me. Really look at me. I haven't turned into some stupid fiend. I'm not crawling all over everyone. As much as I tried to make myself think this was my fault, I can't do it. It isn't my fault. Why do you look like you still think it's my fault? He did that to me knowing he wouldn't be reprimanded for it by of our culture."

"There's a whole lot of cultural hypocrisy going on here," Zuko shrugs, "Water is the element of change, but the members of the Water Tribes are beholden to old, unspoken customs."

"The same people who refused to teach me to fight with my water bending," a change of thought, "The Northern Water Tribe is worse than the Southern Water Tribe. We had raids and were nearly wiped out. They fended off the Fire Nation for a hundred years. They kept their benders and their customs. We ended up with close to neither of those."

"Maybe Arnook should deal with Hahn instead of us making such a big deal out of all this."

She quickly shoots the suggestion down, "This has been ignored long enough. Someone has to something. I intend to find as many of these…men as I can and really ruin their lives."

"People might take it even more seriously if the Fire Lord is involved."

She smirks at his sly comment. "I need all of you to be involved in this."

A/N: This chapter is dedicated to every woman and girl who has ever found the courage to speak up for themselves or for someone else in regards to rape and violence against women.

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