Disclaimer: Kataang-girl14 does not own avatar.

Guess what? My birthday passed, like a week ago.

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Katara was enjoying her sleep in the dark, warm, soft coffin with Aang, but suddenly she heard something knocking. It awoke her from her sleep and she opened her eyes to find that she couldn't see anything at all, but there were warm, strong arms around her.

Aang.

She relaxed into the embrace, but then the knocking started again. She huffed and snuggled farther into Aang's arms. Unfortunately, Aang reached up and opened the coffin.

Katara blinked and shielded her eyes from the sudden light.

Mai, Zuko and Toph were standing around the coffin with irritable faces.

"What's wrong?" Aang asked.

"Well, for one, we spent 10 minutes of our eternity that we'll never get back, knocking on this coffin. Second, Ash is missing," she finished, solemnly.

Katara frowned. "Missing?"

"Yeah, and it's time for you to leave. Your brother is looking for you," Zuko informed her.

Katara sighed and suddenly Aang was out of the coffin and on his feet, helping her out.

"We found Azula on the floor in her room," Mai spoke. "When we asked her if she knew where he was all she said was 'he left'."

"Katara," they heard Sokka calling in the hallway.

They vampires quickly moved out of the coffined room and into the bedroom, taking Mai and Katara with them.

"I want to help," Katara huffed.

"What can another little human do to help us, we've already got one here 24/7," Toph teased.

"Maybe Ash just left. Maybe he didn't like it here," Aang said suddenly.

Then door to the room swung open and Sokka walked into the room. "There you guys are," he said. He walked over to Katara. "Lets go."

Katara nodded and waved goodbye to her friends, silently asking them to keep her informed.

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Katara leaned over her bed and grabbed her cell phone off of the nightstand. Who would be calling her phone at one o'clock in the morning. "Hello," she said, rubbing sleep from her eyes.

"Hey, Katara. I know it's late, but I need someone to complain to because all of the vampires keep telling me the same thing," Mai babbled.

"Wait, what are you talking about?"

Katara could hear Mai take a deep breath from over the phone. "So, I asked Aang to allow me to become a vampire a long time ago-because, you know, he's in charge of this vampire stuff- and he said no!! And I keep trying to talk to him, but it's always the same and now all of them are just teasing me. Every time I ask, they go "he's just going to say no". I've asked him, like 15 times already and it's always no. But I was thinking that maybe you could talk to him and maybe…..soften him up a bit."

Mai stopped and sucked in a large amount of air.

"Alright, first of all, Aang and I aren't boyfriend and girlfriend, so how do I soften him up. Second, maybe it's best if you're not a vampire. And third, how the hell did you just say all of that in one breath," Katara replied.

"Katara, can you just help me out," Mai huffed.

"How do I do that?!"

"I don't know……maybe you can bring it up during a make-out session or two."

"Mai, Aang and I are just friends. I don't really know if he likes me like that yet. He's perfection and I'm just….normal," Katara confided in her friend.

Katara heard Mai sigh in frustration. "You are blind and Aang is shy."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Oh, nothing," Mai teased. Then she suddenly gasped. "Katara, I've got the most brilliant idea ever."

"What now, Mai," Katara laughed.

"If you wanted something really, really badly.." she trailed off.

"Yes," Katara encouraged her to continued. She was generally curious as to what this genius idea of Mai's was.

"Well, if you wanted to be a…vampire, do you think Aang could say no to you."

Katara went speechless.

"Hello?"

"Um, I don't think I will be asking Aang any questions like that. It's one thing to say that you're not afraid of your friends, but becoming what they are is entirely different. I would be perfect on the outside and I might still have the same personality, but I don't think I can kill," Katara finally said.

"Don't tell me you haven't thought about it before."

"I haven't! Mai, they are border-line monsters. I trust them and care about them, but they drink blood and kill innocent people! I understand that they need it to survive, but that doesn't make it right," Katara fumed. "If I didn't feel so connected with them I would be afraid of them!"

"How can you say that? Are you bi-polar or something?" Mai questioned. "Just the other day you were telling them of how much you trust them and how you'd never give up on knowing them because of who they are. You just stepped out of a coffin with your vampire crush! What would Aang or Zuko or Toph say if they heard you right now."

"Mai, you weren't there," Katara whispered.

"I wasn't where?"

"You weren't there when I took someone's life…"

"Katara, what are you talking about," Mai asked.

"Toph tricked me into helping her lure two boys to her so she could rob them of their blood. The image of her sucking the life from an innocent person is still etched into my brain."

"You're lying," Mai accused.

"No, she did."

"Not about that. About being afraid of them and about them being wrong for the way they survive. That's just an excuse you made up. You spent over an hour in a dark coffin with a -so called- border-line monster. You heard me mention turning into a vampire and you realized that if you fell too hard for a vampire, to stay with that vampire you'd have to be one yourself-" Mai stopped, suddenly.

Katara nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard Mai speak in person.

"You're making excuses because you're afraid of becoming one of them," Mai spoke, opening Katara's window from the outside and stepping into the room. "And you should really lock this window."

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AN: Writer's block is not fun………neither is school. R&R