Genre: Drama?

Rating: K+

Summary: In an AU where Zuko has captures Sokka, two teenagers talk about the women in their lives. Set sometime in S1. (BT 0 of 3, RBT 2 of 3)

"Your sister," the prince says behind him.

Sokka turns around, body tense but position casual, trying not to give his nervousness away. "What about her?"

"She's a waterbender. Very powerful. And Azulon wiped out the Southern waterbenders." For a bad liar, Zuko had an excellent poker face.

"Oh yea. Your grandfather." Sokka scowled - which was weird, since it was usually Zuko who did the scowling - and spat, "He's the reason my mother had to die for her."

That got a twitch out of the prince. He looked away, perpetual scowl morphing into something like grief. "My father killed my mother over me."

What -

What -

No. "No."

"Yes." He sighed, that scowl back, but still tainted with heartache. "He was going to kill me. Mom offered herself instead." He leaned against the wall of the ship, looking off into the distance.

What.

"Your family must be pretty messed up," Sokka finally says. All he got was a little hum of acknowledgement. "And what did you want to know about my sister?"

"How she survived. How much training she's had. I need to know what I'm up against."

Sokka turned and narrowed his eyes. "What makes you think I'll tell you anything?" he demanded, though his voice was softer than it would have been normally. Zuko's revelation...

Well. If his father would do something like that to his own wife, then the scar would make a little more sense.

"Nothing. But you are my closest resource. And my only."

"That doesn't mean I'll tell you anything. There's no chance."

"There's a slight chance. Better than what I would have had."

The guy had tried to hunt down the Avatar. He must be really determined. "Fine. I'll tell you this: she's short for the Water Tribes, she can fight, she has braid-thingies in her hair that Gran-Gran wouldn't tell me about, and her name is Katara."

"I know all of that."

"Too bad."

"Never mind," Zuko sighed as he pushed off the wall and walked away.

I managed to get this in by midnight. I promise I'll be better next decade XD