Chapter 25 When Your Gone
Katara pov
They had been gone for two days and I felt the strain on my heart. I was worried, I wanted Sokka and Zuko home with the rest of us. I busied myself with daily chores to make the days go by faster. Aang, Haru, and Toph yelled at me to sit and rest so I would not stress the baby, but I was too anxious to sit. On the third day they were gone, I busied myself with cleaning all our dishes. Toph had taken Aang out to practice his earth bending, and Haru was keeping the Duke and Teo out of my hair. I had not thought of where Jet might be until he walk up to me and started speaking.
"Why do you want to have that fire bender's baby so bad?" He asked annoyance in his voice
"Because I love him Jet, and having his baby makes me happy. As my friend, my happiness should be important to you than a grudge you've been holding since you were a child" I said picking up the big cooking pot and scrubbing it with soap.
"When I came looking for you guys, I was hoping we could have a second chance, never did I think you would be pregnant with a fire bender's baby." He said fire bender like it was a curse, "Katara, do you realize your baby could be a fire bender"
"Yes I do Jet, and I also realize my baby will be in line for the throne behind Zuko." I growled, my hormones making me annoyed.
"Katara, this baby could kill you remember" Jet growled back, "You and I both know if you go into labor, you aren't going to walk out."
"The chances of that happening are very low, and even so I am willing to do that for my child" I stated, matter-of-factly.
"Katara, please get rid of it, than you can get pregnant by someone else and have all the babies you want" Jet said sitting beside me
"Enough Jet" I stood up over him, "I love my baby, it's the best parts of Zuko and me all in one, I would never destroy that."
"It's just a baby Katara, a baby of the fire nation, it's a killer. You can kill it and get pregnant again later. If you wanna be pregnant so bad, I will kill it and get you pregnant myself" Jet yelled standing again, he grabbed my wrist and I felt very frightened.
"No Jet, let me go" I pulled violently to get away , I saw a crazed look in his eye.
"I tried talking you into this but apparently I have to take matters into my own hands" He said pulling a knife out of his boot. Opening the handle he pulled out a vial containing a metallic substance. He was serious, he was going to take my baby from me. "You will thank me for this later, Katara"
Bending the soapy water out of the cooking pot, I knocked the vial out of his hand. I dove to catch it, only for him push me out of the way and catch it with ease. I landed on my back and curled around my abdomen to protect the baby. Restraining my wrists over my head he pinned my body with his larger one, "Open up Katara, this is for your own good" He said in a growl, the vial was dangerously close to my mouth, tears raced down my face, I could not fight him. My only thought was help.
He opened my mouth with a lot of struggling, and the liquid was pour into my mouth. It was bitter, and the liquid burned as it went down. I felt it traveling through my veins. There was only one way for me to save my baby. Knocking Jet away from me, I grabbed for the knife he had discarded on the floor. Slitting my wrist, I blood bent the bad blood up and out of my veins. All my energy and strength was focused on locating the bad blood and pulling it out of my body. I did not know if any reached the baby yet, all I knew was I had to get it out. There was a lot of it, I knew that but I had to get it all out. Jet watched me in awe, I used my energy to freeze the discarded blood into a dagger and sent it into his arm pinning him to the floor, blood escaping his arm.
Than as I went to bend out the last bit, I fell to the floor on my back I had no more energy no more strength. Before everything fell black, I saw a beautiful golden dragon made of flames running my way, the golden eyes of the beast were so familiar. I blacked out with "Zuko" written all over my lips.
ZUKO POV
"KATARA!" I yelled pulling her unconscious form to my chest, "KATARA!" Sokka and Chief Hakoda sat beside me, the tears in their eyes. The rest of the gang came running after they heard my cries. Aang had Toph in his arms, and Haru had the Dukes face hidden in his chest so he would not see all the blood. Teo stared at Jet's now unconscious form with large frightened eyes.
"Toph feel for Katara's heart beat" Sokka yelled to the blind girl, I just buried my face in Katara's hair.
"Sweetness is alive, but barely. I just can't feel the baby. We need to get her to the healer and fast." She yelled bending a ramp up to Appa as we all piled on. I wanted to leave Jet to die, but Aang being the monk brought him to. The healer was just going to heal him, only for me to kill him.
I did not need to worry about that now, I needed to make sure Katara and my child were safe.