DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR.
Firegurl107: I would NEVER let her die! After all, she and I are the same people, and if I let her die, wouldn't that be suicide?
FyreFlower: glad u like the story. here's the next chapter. y does chapter 21 make u so mad?
In 2day's chapter: Christmas break is over, and Kellie, Zuko, and Aaron all go back to school. Rumors fly about on Kellie and Zuko's relationship, while Zuko relives a nightmare…
Chapter 22: Shadow of the Grim Reaper
When it was time for Kellie's breakfast, the nurse, who had been told not to expect Kellie alive, ran out of the room screaming.
"THE GIRL! SHE'S BACK FROM THE DEAD!" Kellie and Zuko could hear her as she ran up the stairs. Kellie turned to him.
"Sooo, I'm taking it I wasn't suppose to make it?" Zuko grinned.
"Apparently, ya, you weren't suppose to make it."
After that, Kellie had one hell of a time trying to get out of the hospital. Doctors were trying to do tests on her.
"She shouldn't have made it! That's WAY too much poison for a body of her size to handle!" Kellie rolled her eyes at the doctor's comment. She looked over at Zuko.
Sometimes, all you need is the heat and love of a firebender.
It went like this all the way through New Years. Kellie made the world's biggest fuss about not being released so she could do the New Years Day hill hike.
"They're all bitches." She muttered as she watched TV.
Plus, Zuko never left. Every time he tried, as he passed that mirror, he would see the Grim Reaper waiting.
"Zuko? Is there something wrong? You've been like this all week." Zuko looked at Kellie. Her eyes were full of concern.
I guess that night changed her. And all for the better.
"Uh, yah Kellie. I'm fine."
One morning, when Kellie woke up, Zuko wasn't resting his head on her bed. This was a surprise. And the other bed was filled.
"Good morning!" Kellie's new roommate greeted cheerfully. It was a woman, who looked to be in her 60s.
"Uh, good morning." Then Kellie noticed the woman was watching a show, and just not any show, Avatar.
"You watch Avatar?" Kellie asked. The woman nodded.
"Yes. My granddaughter watched it. Stopped a few years ago. Now only I watch it."
"Why do you watch it?" The woman grinned.
"Zuko's cute. Don't you think?" Kellie looked at the screen. It was episode 3.
"Now I do, didn't a while ago." The woman looked at her puzzled.
"Why didn't you?" Kellie tried to think back. But the reason was gone, gone with her room of ice and stone.
"I don't remember."
Finally, the doctors decided to let Kellie leave. (much thanks to her parents, who threatened to take it to court, if they didn't let their child out.)
And, it was the Sunday before Zuko and Kellie had to go back to school. Aaron would be staying the night one more night.
Zuko and Kellie enjoyed a brisk walk to school in nothing but jeans and a t- and sweatshirt and boots. Since they were firebenders, they could produce their own heat. Not need the warmth of a heavy jacket.
When they got to the high school, Kellie immediately was pulled away by her friends, while Zuko got pulled away by the skaters.
"Kellie!" And her friends pulled her into a big hug.
"Hey, Zuko, my man, how's it going?" And Zuko got a good thump on the back.
"We heard about you and Zuko!" Jamie squealed.
"What about me and Zuko?"
"Congrats, Zuko! You're one of us!" Kamron yelled with a grin.
"What are you talking about?"
"We heard about how you got bit by a black widow, Zuko got you to the hospital, and when you got better, made out with you!" Cheyenne jumped up and down.
"WHAT!"
"Oh, come on, Zuko. We heard all about how you let a black widow bite Kellie over there, then when she got better, made out with her!" Pat said.
"WHERE'D YOU HEAR THIS!"
"I never made out with him! I don't like him like that!" Kellie's friends all looked at each other.
"So, you like him?" Kellie flushed with realization.
"Uh, maybe a little."
"I NEVER LET HER GIT BIT! I CARE WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT HER TO TAKE SUCH A RISK!" Kamron and his friends all looked at each other with grins.
"So, you're saying you WOULD take a risk to make out with her? Even if it's little?"
"No."
"Oh my God! You like him! You like him!" Kellie backed away slowly. Her friends, yet again, were scaring her.
"Are you sure, about that?" Pat asked with a grin.
"Yes." And Zuko back away slowly. These guys, were nuts.
Zuko backed away till they bumped into each other. They breathed sighs of relief.
"My friends scare me way too often."
"Those guys are freaks of nature." The bell rang. Teenagers began to rush to their classes. As Zuko passed a group of girls, a horror struck.
One of them was Whitney, but what she wore scared him more.
She had on baggy, black pants, a giant black sweat shirt and hood, and her gloves made her hands looked skeletal.
She looked just like the Grim Reaper.
Dun dun DUUUUUNNNN!
Hehe.
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