Locked In

AN: How are you all today! Darn it! My Thanksgiving break is almost over! Oh well, sorry for the lack of consistent updates, but I'm back and ready to type! Here's the new chapter!

Katara had been hanging there for a while now, and she was getting quite bored and uncomfortable. By now she had pushed the wad of material out of her mouth with her tongue, and was shouting, "HARU! AANG! SOKKA! HARU! AANG! SOKKA! HARU…AANG…SOKKA…AANG…SOKKA ...Zuko!" she almost whispered the last part, and she started crying, thinking to herself, Why did I ever have to go to THAT stand for clothes? If I hadn't, I wouldn't be here right now, Aang, Sokka, and I would be nearing the North Pole, and Haru wouldn't be …wherever he is right now, which I doubt is safe at home!

Then she glimpsed a figure in the distance that was moving quickly toward her—Oh great. Jet.

Haru had never been more BORED in his entire life than as he sat in the cell, playing with a pebble with his Earthbending. There LITERALLY wasn't anything to do here! The guards weren't making him work, or even do anything. He had just sat here for about a day, trying to think of some way to escape, though no brain blast had occurred yet.

He hated the Fire Nation—they destroyed families, people, towns, spirits, and wouldn't care a stinkin' bit! This wasn't even like when he had been on the rig with all the other courageous Earthbenders, who had rebelled against the Fire Nation. (Quickie: Haru will be there for a pretty long time, so I'm not going to keep going back to him with the risk of boring people to death!)

"Did you hear that?" Aang said looking frightened, "It sounded like KATARA!"

"Nah, it was probably just the wind, and you don't see Zuko's ship around, do you?" Sokka replied, while sitting back against the saddle, his legs stretched out in the laziest fashion.

"Okay, I guess." Aang answered as they continued on past the spot where Katara was really on. (Stupid Sokka!)

Jet walked up to Katara, smirking, tied her legs together again. Then he untied her hands. Katara fell for a second, losing her balance, but Jet caught her roughly around her waist as she was about to tumble down to the fifty—feet—away ground. He pulled her back up, and smiling a dirty smile, pressed his dirty lips over hers.

Katara almost screamed—Why do I have to be so attractive?—and tried to pull away, but Jet's grip on her was too tight. She stood helplessly there, being kissed by one of her worst enemies.

…

Jet had taken Katara to his room, locking them in together.

"Make one noise, and I'll slit your throat." Jet said slyly.

Katara whimpered, backing into the corner. Now that her arms and legs were untied, she had a better defense, but it still wouldn't be good enough to knock Jet unconscious, steal the keys, unlock the door, and run away.

Jet walked closer to her, that dirty smile still playing across his mouth, but just as he was about to reach her, there was a pounding on the door, and a voice shouting, "Jet! We've got a problem, and we need your help!"

Jet grimaced, but walked over to the door. "Be right there!" he said, waiting a minute for the person to leave. He walked back over to her, hissing in her ear, while just inches away from her face, "Don't think you've gotten off easy. I'll be back, and I'll have my revenge, you'll just have to wait. Stay here, or else."

Katara was pinned against the wall, and her eyes widened when she saw Jet pull out the assassin's knife again, looking at her daringly.

But without harming her, he walked back over to the door, unlocking it for himself, and then locking it again.

Katara walked over to the bed, and sat down, waiting for the unexpected. What if Sokka and Aang have already been captured by Prince Zuko because they thought that's where I was? What am I going to do? Jet seems like he's going to kill, or at least…not gonna think of that.

She was really mad at how everyone was treating her like a piece of property. Katara stood up, and walked over to the door, trying to open it. When she couldn't, she tried to break it down by stepping back and doing a strong side kick that normally would make someone keel over. Thought the door hardly shook, and it stayed firmly in place—closed and locked.

"Ughh!" Katara shouted, going around the room, and kicking everything she could reach. She accidentally hit a dresser/shelf, and a drawer tumbled out.

"Ahh!" Katara shrieked, as the heavy drawer hit the floor where her foot had been a second ago, and it opened, spilling out its contents everywhere.

Katara investigated what had fallen out. There was a knife, lots of plain parchment, some papers with stuff on them, maps, and some wanted posters. Katara flipped through the wanted posters curiously. The first one was for Aang, or as it said—"The Avatar"—the second had something about a "Blue Spirit", and then there were several more random posters for Fire Nation people, that looked like Jet had made them himself. Katara flipped through a few more, and at the end, she found two posters that were stunningly familiar, also made by Jet.

It was a picture of HER—and SOKKA!

Sokka's picture looked like a stick figure gone fat. His description stated, "Southern Water Tribe peasant, fat, ugly, blue traveling clothes, and friend of the Avatar. No bending skill."

Katara scoffed at it, and then took a closer look at her lovely poster. Her picture was overall mildly accurate, but with a few body parts noticeably oversized. Her description said that she as also a "Southern Water Tribe peasant and a friend of the Avatar, with world traveling type clothes" but also offered that she was a waterbender and attractive. Katara grimaced and crumpled up the papers, stuffing it back into the drawer, and the drawer back into the dresser/shelf.

She walked around the room some more, but realized something.
I could use the knife to pick the lock on the door! Smiling at her own brilliance, Katara opened the drawer again, pulling out the knife and walking over to the door.

Just as she was about to open the door, though, it swung open to reveal a newly familiar person!

AN: OOH! Who's the mystery person? Will Katara ever escape? What will happen to Aang, Sokka, and Haru? Next time on…Bait or Mate!

And since nobody got the riddle, I'll tell you the answer, and if you still don't get it, too bad for you!

Firstly, the question asks about in the here and at the now, which is the present! A says "in the beforehand of the future", so you go to the future, and before that is the present! So A is the right answer. B says the "past's present's future's past". The past's present is the past, the future of that is the present, and the past of THAT is the past! So B is incorrect! Answer choice C says the "future of the past's present and after that" says simply the past's present's future's future (Yes, I know—right. Simply.) The past's present is once again the past, then two futures after that is the future! So C is also incorrect!

Haha! That was very amusing; especially the reviews from i-luv-inyasha1012, Boylessgirl52941 SleepingDragon13 that said they all didn't really have a clue! At least they were brave enough to say that, because most everyone else didn't say anything because they were so lost. Just kidding! Thanks for all your reviews!