Katara was walking back into the apartment after their case with Tarlok. It was late and she knew Sokka was staying at Suki's and Zuko was with Iroh so she would be alone for the night. She reached into her bag to grab for her keys, grumbling at herself as they fell out of her bag. She leaned down, but was met with a sharp pain in her neck. Her vision became blurry. Spirits, she had been injected with something. Katara began to stumble slightly, placing her hands on the wall to steady herself, but it wasn't good enough. She toppled over, succumbing to the drug injected in her veins. Azula had done the math to make sure that the shirshu poison would only render her unconscious and paralysed. That gave her enough time to do what she needed to do which was get Katara out of here.

Azula dragged Katara's limp body into her car and drove off. She knew there was no security cameras anywhere near the building. Azula was smart and cunning. She was always Ten steps ahead of her older brother. That's what he gets for not listening. When the woman woke up, she wouldn't be able to fight back. Azula scanned her body, doing a quick frisk to make sure if Katara woke up she couldn't shoot her. She tugged the pistol out of the holster, making sure she was unarmed.

" don't need this anymore" she mumbled a bit to herself, looking back at Katara's lip body and then closed the door to her car.

Katara slowly came to, placing a hand on her head as she rubbed her temples a bit, letting out a soft grunt of pain. The room was dark, she had no idea where she was. She slowly reached her hand for the gun on her belt and gasped when she realised it wasn't there. " what the hell?" She whispered to herself, continuing to feel around. She didn't have her gun on her belt, but she had the one strapped to her ankle. She was still so disoriented that she couldn't think about anything other than surveying her area.

" good morning princess" Azula flicked on the lights as she stared at her.

Katara gasped. " who are you?"

" My name isn't important. What is important is that you won't be able to stop us anymore"

Katara shakes her head, staring at Azula in confusion. " I don't understand?"

" I know you don't, sweetie" she pursed her lips, talking to her as if she was a toddler.

Katara fingered around her ankle for her pistol and pulled it out, clicking the safety off frantically. She looked up and gasped as Azula kicked the pistol out of her hand. Before katara could gather her bearings, Azula kicked the pistol out of Katara's reach.

Azula circled Katara, a dangerous smirk plastered on her lips. " so you're the little whore my brother is infatuated with?" She mused, moving to inspect her fingernails, unimpressed with Katara. She looked like a commoner, Zuzu could do so much better.

Katara bared her teeth in a snarl, looking down at her pistol that was on the floor. Azula kicked it away in their little spat earlier. " what are you talking about?" She spluttered, looking at her.

" Ka-tar-ah. Right?"

Katara rolled her eyes, but nodded.

" how do you know my name?" She asked

" I know everything my brother is involved in. I admit he was slippery for a while. After father burned his face, we thought he died. Zhao was supposed to kill him after that.. Zuzu was always so weak.. but it turns out he didn't and I had to send Mai to dispose of Zhao before father dearest found out that his disgraced son was still alive."

" you're fucking crazy!" Katara yelled

Azula laughed loudly, shaking her head

" and you're pathetic."

Azula grabbed Katara by the neck, then slammed her head against the wall as roughly as possible.

Katara felt her body explode with pain as she stumbled back, trying to fight against Azula but it was clear that whatever Azula had done to her was prohibiting her from being able to fight back properly.

" shame. You would've been a good opponent." She purred

" what did you do to me?" Katara spat, spitting blood in Azula's face

Azula hissed in anger, wiping it off of her pale cheeks " why you little-" she took a deep breath after a second. Her orders were not to kill the stupid brat. She couldn't kill Katara.

Katara then kicked her leg out, kicking Azula in the stomach. Azula grabbed onto Katara's leg and pulled her down with them. As soon as she had gotten a hold on Katara she twisted her leg, breaking it in two different places.

Katara shrieked in shock and pain, gripping Azula's wrists, tugging them off of her leg and then on top of her

The pair rolled onto the ground. Azula got the upper hand once more, straddling Katara.

Katara began to struggle against Azula, grabbing a piece of metal next to her and slamming it into Azula's head

Azula fall off of Katara. Katara began to get back to her feet, but when she turned around she was met face to face with a pistol. Azula was gonna shoot her with her own weapon. Katara suddenly felt a rush of adrenaline and anger as she then reached towards the gun, grabbing onto Azula's wrist to move the gun away from her. She slid the magazine with her thumb, making it fall to the ground and in one more swift motion she slid the lock back on the gun to unload the round that was in the gun chamber. The gun was unloaded. No use for it anymore.

Azula then grabbed onto her other wrist, turning and slamming the pistol against Katara's cheek. Katara grunted and fell backwards, kicking her leg out again, only to be met with Azula's talon-like claws digging into her broken leg. She yelped in pain, then lost balance, toppling over with Azula once more. She let out a grunt as she fell to the ground, climbing on top of Azula. She reared her fist back, ready to punch Azula in the face.

Katara was winning and it felt good to be able to kick Azula's ass. That's what she deserved for kidnapping an agent. She felt so powerful.

Suddenly, she felt dizzy and slumped to the ground, passed out.

Ty Lee stood behind Katara with a small smirk on her lips. She had jabbed the right pressure points to render Katara powerless.

" remember. We can't kill her" Ty Lee reminded Azula.

Azula hissed in frustration and shoved Katara off of her. Everything was supposed to go perfectly, and it didn't. Perfect. Precise. If Li and Lo saw her now, they would berate her until the end of times

" sloppy" she hissed to herself, then began to help Ty Lee chain Katara up.

Katara slowly regained consciousness, feeling her body ache. She didn't know where she was and it was terrifying. Her arms were bound in chains and she was elevated slightly. Her feet were on the ground, but only barely. She could feel her deltoid muscles screaming with every strain. Katara began to wiggle a bit, desperately trying to hide her cries of pain.

" she's awake" a voice finally said.

Katara bared her teeth, raising her head in the direction of the voice. Mai sauntered close to Katara, placing a cool blade against her cheek..

" Water Tribe. Huh." She mused

Katara hissed in frustration as Mai dug the blade into her cheek.

A small stream of blood poured down her cheek.

" what do you want with me?"

" we want to get you out of the way. You're a distraction"

" what are you talking about?" Katara gasped out.

Azula didn't answer her, but grabbed onto a water hose, signalling Ty Lee to turn the water on.

Mai grabbed Katara by her hair. Katara hissed in frustration, but held her head high as she looked at Azula and Ty Lee

" if you cooperate this will be a little less painful" Azula purred, getting close to Katara's face.

" I don't know what you're talking about!"

Azula sighed, them motioned for Mai and Ty Lee to leave. The pair obeyed and left the room. Azula got close to Katara once more, then blasted the water in her face. The water was excruciatingly hot.

" I'm going to go easy on you for now."

" well don't" she spat some of the water out of her mouth, coughing loudly.

" you'd rather me subject you to undergo waterboarding then?" Azula raises a perfectly arched eyebrow

Katara glared.

Azula took this as an answer and dropped the hose.

" why are you telling me what you're gonna do to me?"

" because it's amusing to see your eyes light up with fear" Azula mused, loosening the chains slightly. She walked behind katara and kicked her to her knees, then wrapped a chain tightly around her neck. Azula then knelt down to look at Katara as she wrapped the ends of the chains around her wrist

" crawl like the filth you are." Azula smirked, practically dragging Katara over to a large basin.

Katara gagged a bit at the feeling of the chains around her neck. The only things they were free were her feet, but she couldn't struggle to them. Whatever Ty Lee did to her made all of her limbs feel like jelly.

Azula grabbed Katara by the base of her hair, then shoved her head into the basin, keeping her submerged for a few seconds before tugging Katara back up.

Katara choked on air, spluttering frantically as she caught her breath

" don't worry. This won't be how you die" Azula hummed, repeating the motion of shoving her head in the water a few more times before she stopped.

" I'm disappointed. I thought you were supposed to like water?" Azula questioned.

Katara coughed so hard she vomited on the floor. Azula loosened her grip on her hair and shoved Katara to the ground.

" I do like water, just not when my head is shoved it in involuntarily and repeatedly "

" feisty. Now I see why Zuzu likes you." she mused.

Katara felt dizzier then before. She rolled over onto her back, not caring that she had been thrown down in her own puddle of vomit. She was just grateful for the sweet air in her lungs. It was too much for her. Her eyes rolled back and she slumped over, passing out once more. Azula grabbed onto the chains that were wrapped around Katara's wrists and began to drag her back away from the water. She then suspended Katara up again, staring at her limp body

" thank the spirits. Watching her get wet was getting boring" Mai sighed, playing with one of her knives.

" what do you suggest we do then?"

" why don't I use her for target practice?" Mai suggests

Azula grinned. " I'd like that" she hummed a bit and began to lower Katara's chains again to try and get Katara's feet on the ground.

Mai smirked, inching forward, drawing her arm back as she slid her finger against the cool metal of the knife.

" can I do it, please Azula? You had your fun I want some."

" go ahead, Mai." Azula nods.

Mai grinned again, then chucked the knife at Katara. It whizzed past the side of her head, slicing it slightly as it landed in the wooden panel behind them with a loud ' thunk'

Azula raised an eyebrow, but Mai continued to purposely miss hitting Katara since she was still unconscious. After a few more minutes, katara lifts her head, feeling blood pour down into her face. She grimaced and struggled once more.

" wakey-wakey" Mai said boredly.

" what are you doing! " Katara asked weakly, hissing in frustration.

" well, I was bored" Mai shrugs

" so you're using me for target practice? You must really suck if you need a human subject" she retorts, rolling her eyes

Mai grits her teeth and then launched the knife at Katara again. It lodged itself in her upper thigh and Katara let out a shriek of pain, rocking herself back and fourth, struggling desperately against the chains as she wailed

" think I suck now?"

Katara bit back another retort, staring at Mai. Her bottom lip trembled, but she refused to cry. She was exhausted and hurting more than she had ever hurt in her entire life.

" I'm done here" Mai said coldly, turning and leaving.

Katara slumped over once more, tears leaking down her cheeks. She closed her eyes and desperately tried to keep herself calm. She felt someone inject her with something in the juncture between her neck and shoulder. She couldn't even protest to that. All she felt afterwords was hot, searing pain and she scented the smell of burning flesh. She knew she was the one burning, but the injections had drugged her up so badly her reaction times were slow. Too slow. Her mind began to wonder to Zuko and her brother. Would they be too slow too?

" help" she rasped.

There was no reply. No one to help.