"Oh man! This is getting good!" Suki bounced in her chair.

Katara and Suki were huddled together over the letter. Toph, was lounging by them on a chair, her feet up on Suki's arm rest.

Zuko and Sokka were playing Pai Sho while Aang watched.

Everyone silent as Katara read the story of Sakura and Dakota.

"It sounds like Dakota wants to do Sakura," Toph bit at her fingers.

"Toph!" Katara's face scrunched up.

"What? It does."

"This is a love story! Between people like Zuko and me."

"So that means that you and Zuko want to do each other?" Toph's lips squeezed while trying to hold in the laughter.

"WHAT ARE YOU AND ZUKO DOING?" Sokka stood and glared at Zuko from across the Pai Sho table.

"Toph, shh. Don't be rude," Zuko sighed and looked up a Sokka, "Sit down before you hurt yourself and start thinking too hard."

Sokka, embarrassed, sat with a huff and squished his face into a frown.

"Katara! Come on!" Suki bounced impatiently.

"Okay, okay. Don't have a pig-rooster," She continued.

"-We had long forgotten my promised engagement to Azulon. I was lost between the time of him kissing me and now. We were pressed together on my bed; lost in each other. He smelt so good, like woods and smoke and cinnamon. I loved it, I loved him. I couldn't take my eyes off of him. No I couldn't take my hands off of him. It was like we were glued together. We moved as one as we kissed and hugged and held on tight. Touching places that should be illegal to touch. It probably was, seeing as we weren't married. But hey, our clothes were on. I guess not for long because Dakota's hand was moving toward my sash.

"Kota," Was that my voice? It was so full of passion. Only a whisper.

"Hmm?" He kissed my neck.

"Don't you think we're going a little too far?"

"Do you want to stop?" He immediately pulled away from me.

"No, no, come back." I whimpered and pulled him closer by the front of his shirt.

He smiled and kissed my nose, "You're so beautiful when you blush."

I bit my lip and smiled back, "Thank you, my love." I kissed him then, so very powerful. Then I slowly guided his hand up to my sash, "Please, continue."

He kissed down my jaw and peeled the silky pink fabric away. Making his way down my bounded chest and to my bare flat stomach. There he kissed and felt his way up to the sash of my bindings. That was the moment when we realized that there was no going back. We were going to step off the plank and into the unknown. We would fall together, into the deep abyss of pleasure and love. We knew that we wanted this; wanted each other. So we did. We had each other for that once special moment.

I don't know how long, but we were pasted together under a blanket, probably for only a few minutes. Dakotas arms were wrapped around me very tightly and I was drawing little shapes and circles onto his chest with my fingers. He then gave a small laugh when I brushed a spot on his abdomen.

"Sorry, love, did that tickle?" I brushed the spot again.

He chuckled, "Do that again and I might just have to punish you."

I laughed, "Oh kind sir. What would you do to me?"

"This," He turned me over so I was on my back and brushed his lips over my collar bone.

I sighed, "Oh love. Punish me again." I smiled into his soft brown hair as he kissed his way down my bare chest.

Yes. We were naked, with each other, in my bed.

I sighed when I head a knock at my door, "Miss. You have an hour left with the prisoner."

My eyes widened and I sat up balling the sheets against my bosom, "Kota, no." My eyes started to tear.

"Shh. Shh, my beautiful fire bender. We can see each other again," He smiled at me and whipped a tear away.

He lifted himself up away from the bed and began to dress himself. I watched him move. Watched the curve of his back as he bent down to retrieve his pants and shirt. He turned as soon as he was done tying his bottoms. Letting some of the sun catch his chest and I watched as a little sweat glittered. He placed his shirt on, tucking it in and sat at the edge of the bed to put on his boots. I sighed and stood, taking the sheet with me to retrieve my bindings that were thrown across the room. After I collected my clothing from all around the room I stood in front of a fully clothed Dakota.

Dropping the sheet I placed the clothing in his hands, "Do you know that when I'm royalty I can have people dress me if I desire."

Kota's eyes widened, but he said nothing, all he did was hold on to my silk robe.

"So water bender, will you dress me or not?" My eyebrow shot up and let my lips curve into a sultry smile.

Kota nodded and started to wrap my bindings, every few minutes kissing a piece of skin before wrapping it away from his eyes. When he was done dressing me, I pushed him onto the bed and kissed him.

We lay there for the rest of the time, just in each others embrace.

Until another knock sounded, "Miss, please unlock the door, we must take the prisoner back."

"Yes sir," I said shakily. Taking Kota's hand in mine we walked to the latched door. I kissed him one last time before I opened it. "You may take him." I said to the guards with no emotion. I watched them each take an arm and walk away with my love.-"

"Oh, Katara-"

"Told you he wanted to do her," Toph interrupted Suki's gushing.

"Toph!" Said Suki and Katara, rolling their eyes.

"What?" Toph laughed.

"Katara read!" Sokka yelled from where the Pai Sho table was. Aang had now taken his place, playing against Zuko.

"I'm going, I'm going."

"-It was a day after that they found out. A maid was cleaning my room and found a blood stain on my sheets. She'd told Sozin. The guards came marching in my room with the Fire Lord and his son, Azulon, in tail.

I watched him die.

They seeped poison into his veins. The pain that was etched on his visage killed me. I felt like my soul was being taken with him as he breathed his last breaths. Dakota never took his eyes away from me and mine were never gone from his. I didn't cry. I couldn't. I didn't want to show Sozin and Azulon that it hurt so bad. I did not show them that I was weak. That's what they wanted to see.

Earlier that day when I first heard that they were going to kill him Azulon stepped into my imprisonment. Which was just my bedroom, guards outside my doors and windows. He was the one that told me how Kota would be killed. I asked him if I would be aloud to go and watch.

And Azulon surprised me with saying this, "You do not want to go. It will hurt you very greatly to see him die like that. There will be so much pain coursing through his veins and there will be pain that will be coursing through your heart."

"Please" Was all I said to make him allow me to go.

Then he said another impossible thing, "Would you like to see him before he is put to death?"

I swallowed my pain and nodded.

We walked into the underground cells that were connected to the Fire Palace. We passed many doors that probably held prisoners. We stopped at one door, Azulon produced a key and unlocked it.

"Hurry, you don't have much time," I remember him saying as he pushed me in the cell, locking it behind me.

I ran to him, my love. "Dakota," I whispered as I fell to my knees beside him. I hugged him close to my chest and held on tight.

His eyes found mine and he swallowed as he tried to produce a smile. To his luck he did. I knew he was faking but I couldn't help but smile with him. Then his smile turned into a frown as tears slashed down is cheeks, "I'm sorry," was all he said as he buried his face in my neck.

I rocked him back and forth like I would a child. "Shh, shh," I cooed as I petted his head and sang old Fire Nation lullabies to him.

"I love you, I love you," I would say as he kissed my neck. "I love you so much, you know that?" He still kissed my neck. I wouldn't cry I kept thinking to myself.

It wasn't until I shut my door when Azulon left that I let my tears drown my sorrows. Dakota would be killed. He would be dead, and I along with him, my soul taken away with him as he left this world.

"You will have one day to pack your belongings and leave the Fire Nation. After that if you are still here you will be given the same death as him." Sozin announced to me.

After he stopped breathing they let me go and I watched as Sozin walked out to the room with his guards. Azulon was gone too. I drifted to him, my love. I knew he was dead, his chest wasn't moving and his eyes were closed. I smoothed his hair down and kissed his forehead.

"My love, my Kota. I love you so. Should I just stay and die tomorrow? Or should I go?" I whispered to him.

"He wouldn't want you to die. He would want you to keep on going with your life." A deep familiar voice rang out behind me in the silent room.

"I thought you had left Prince Azulon," I swallowed the tears that threatened to spill over.

"No I stayed. I wanted to wait till my father was gone."

"Oh," Was all I could say.

"Please continue your goodbyes. I will not interrupt." He placed his hands behind his back and stared out he window.

I placed my forehead against his yet again. Kissing his temple. Whispering meaningless words that didn't mean anything, because he was gone, he had left this world, and would not return.

"Say something to him!" Azulon cursed out.

"What do you want me to say? That I'm sorry for having sex with him? Because I'm not. I love him! And you took him away from me. All for this stupid war! Azulon! I thought I knew you! We would play together when we were younger and you changed. You changed into a hateful monster. I've watched you, you seem to hate everything now. And now you want me to say something meaningful to a beautiful great non-selfish man whom I love and will never see again, because I let him touch me and love me like anybody who loved each other would? Azulon, I hate you."

Azulon just stared at me with anger. "Fine. If you don't want to say anything to him then I will just take you back to your room to pack," His hand wrapped around my arm and pulled me away from Dakota's lifeless form.

"No, no," I struggled in his grasp. "No, please, Azu! Please! Let me go! Please!" Now the tears spilled. They wouldn't stop. I dropped my weight onto the floor, Azulon going down with me. "Please, let me say goodbye to him, please."

Azulon let go. When I didn't move he picked me up silently and set me on the bed that Dakota now lay in.

"Kota. Oh, my Kota. Oh, my love. Please come back. I never wanted this to happen. I'd do anything to have you back. I'd give up my fire bending, my name, my soul. My love I need you," I hiccupped and sobbed into his dead never moving chest.

Then I felt a hand on my back. It was very hesitant and very unsure if it wanted to be there or not. And when I didn't protest, it started to rub small circles between my shoulder blades. That made me cry even harder, because I probably looked so pathetic to him; Azulon. The Prince of the Fire Nation. The man I'd cheated on.

I sat up and placed my hand on Kota's cheek, caressing him, my other hand held his and I sang one last song to him. A lullaby to put him to rest.

Leaves from the vine, falling so slow

Like fragile, tiny shells

Drifting in the foam.

Little soldier boy, come marching home,

Brave soldier boy, comes marching home.

-"

I know what you all are thinking...Holy crap she actually posted something worth reading! LMFAO! I love this chapter! It's really sad, but I think I wrote it really well! That's really all I have to say, because frankly I have no excuse! lmao

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