Juliet
By: Iroh's Tea Shoppe Girls
Disclaimer: You know what major change we'd inflict on the series if we owned Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh would be the main character. Too bad Nickelodeon owns it and not us, eh?
"You up yet Katara?" Sokka voice called into his sister's tent. There was no reply. The young warriors stomach sank to his feet as he realized he couldn't even hear his sister breathing.
"Katara? I'm coming in," Sokka said, disquieted by the lack of response on the part of his sister. He saw his sister tucked into her sleeping bag, but something looked wrong. First the warrior's eyes caught sight of the paper, that lie on top of her. Next he realized that her lips were blue. Not only that her chest was not rising and falling with her every breath. Sokka looked away, not wanting to see that his sister was in fact, dead.
"Wake up Katara," the young man said lamely. He grabbed the paper off of her. Maybe it would say something about her not really being dead, and maybe it would be the truth.
"Dear Sokka and Aang,
By now I'm sure I have passed on to the next world. I'm sorry I had to hurt you and take my own life. Sadly, it was the only way. I am ashamed to confess it, but I am no longer the steady ally you both have come to depend on. I have fallen in love with Prince Zuko. Because of that, I did what I could to protect both of you and killed myself. I will not let Aang's mission of saving the world be put in jeopardy by me and my weak-willed emotions.
I am aware that you probably don't understand all this, but let me assure you, this is for the best for everyone.
Love,
Katara"
Sokka cursed the Fire Nation prince every way he knew how. It wasn't enough for that bastard to continually be hunting the Avatar, causing them endless trouble, now the prince had to go and make his sister insane enough to kill herself. Sokka swore to avenge her death on her grave. Part of him couldn't help but wonder why and how Katara fell in love with their enemy to begin with. That was one of many questions that would go unanswered because of his sister's untimely death. One more reason the Water Tribe warrior had to kill Zuko.