Title: Katara and Men
Summary: Katara has a way with men doesn't she?
Notes: Post Season Two Finale. Katara's POV.
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I seem to have horrible luck with men. It's like I've done something to anger the gods, so they are punishing me. It's not enough I'm helping the Avatar. It's not enough that I'm using my waterbending to help the Avatar, who's helping everyone else. It's not enough that I'm a patient daughter and sister to my father and brother.
Jet. He was charming and yet he deceived me; I was fool. So childish. Yes he lost his family because of the war but there is no excuse for trying to annihilate an entire village of innocent--even if it was to kill Fire Nation soldiers---people. Wen I finally see him again, I doubt him. I knew I had good reason--valid reason to. However that time I was wrong. He redeemed himself, he really was changing for the better but then I lose him. It wasn't fair, he took his second chance hadn't he? He proved himself didn't he?
Zuko. Jerk. He is just like his father and Princess Azula. That entire family---save Zuko's uncle---is twisted. Absolutely cruel and cold hearted. To think I felt sorry for him. I was a fool, buying into his story about his mother. No matter what, he's still a royal member of the Fire Nation. I was fool. Idiot! Though somewhere in my heart I felt he told me the truth. For that small moment in time, I saw a different side of him that I could grow to like. I saw a softer and maybe even kinder side of him that I knew he got from his uncle, or maybe his mother. I really believed that we could be friends. I was wrong and foolish.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
I'm always finding myself burnt.
And this won't happen again. I won't allow it. I can't allow it. This is war and I can't afford to be a trusting fool.
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A/N: This was inspired by Mike and Bryan's interview at ASN and they mentioned Katara's not going to be too trusting next season. Also, I don't know if the gaang knows that Azula is Zuko's sister since it's never said directly, since Iroh called his neice by her title when talking to the gaang in BSS.