This is set in the Avatar the Last Airbender show, when Zuko is hunting Aang.

Tatiana (Tati) is an overworked earth bender who gets captured by Prince Zuko because he thinks she's had dealing with the Avatar. Tatiana's village has been having bad luck with rock slides for the past few weeks and she has been called to help with smashed houses and barns at all hours of the day and night. She is being dragged along with the Fire Benders after the Avatar for reasons unknown. Tatiana begins to worry about her village when news of a large rock slide and a band of Fire nation deserters rampaging and ravaging across the Earth nation's lands comes back with the scouts.

Will Zuko let her go in time to save her village and family, or will she be delivered to the Fire Lord for further questioning? Only time will tell... NOT A ZUKO/OC!


"Just a little more Tati!" cried a short small girl to the struggling earth bender. Tatiana could feel beads of sweat developing on her face as she struggled to maintain her pose. The tips of her fingers trembled as she drew them slowly up and over her head, guiding a great boulder off of the roof of a small hut. Her long mud brown hair swinging halfway down her back from her ponytail.

"Come on Tati!" cried the girl as the great boulder came crashing down too the ground ten feet from the crushed remains of the hut. Tatiana gasped as the enormous weight was lifted from her shoulders.

She sighed and sat down hard on the ground, she was beginning to tire from all of the extra work. Her usually shocking green eyes were getting dark circles under them. It wasn't like she was the only earth bender in the village, Shiomi was still young. Only she had three children… and Hisha was too old to climb a boulder much less move it.

"Ani give me drink!" she said to the short girl beside her. Ani thrust a small flask into the tired and dehydrated earth bender's hand. Tatiana drained the flask in three gulps and stood up. Ani turned to greet the tall thin woman coming towards them.

"She's done Aunt Lidda,"Ani said.

"Thank you Tati, here," said Lidda as she handed her a pouch of money.

"I couldn't-" she began.

"Of course you could, I know that not everyone pays you. But we can, and we will. You deserve it. Now go too the market and get something nice for yourself. A girl your age should be flirting with the boys trying to find a husband instead of working for a bunch of free loaders," she said in a dismissive manner that forbade any argument. Tatiana took the purse and said goodbye to Ani.

(Reviews are appreciated!-crouchingbunny)