Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Katara was an optimist. It was her secret weapon against a life that had thrown far too much strife her way. A child solider forged in the fires of war, she'd never learned how to surrender. No matter how dire the situation, how unproabable victory - or even survival - she simply believed in the inevitability of her success.
Failure was not an option; not with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Naturally, she'd rejected any suggestion that her mission to rescue Zuko would fail. She would succeed because defeat was inconceivable.
Katara had been certain...until now.
Author's Notes: So... long break. Sorry.. Without boring you, health, migraines, blah, blah, sorry I disappeared for a while. Laptop died and took the rest of this story with it so I had to rewrite everything from my notes since my OneDrive backup apparently wasn't backing up properly so I lost it all when el laptop bit the dust. The goal is to have chapter 500 as the final chapter. Thank you everyone who's stuck with this fic so long. It's not abandoned, I promise you.
