HI! Aloha! Konnichiwa! Hola! Hello! Bonjour! Ok so where were we? Oh yes, Zuko felt sorry for hurting Katara and yada yada yada. So we join our heroine and company once again on Zuko's ship. What fun. So I'll just get to the story. ENJOY!

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Chapter 14

Zuko was sitting in his uncle's room holding an ice pack to his cheek where Katara had slapped him. The ice was quickly melting (hmm...wonder why).

"Wait here I'll fetch some more ice." Iroh said exiting the room. Zuko sat there alone in silence. He was wondering what the sick feeling in the pit of his stomach was. Getting up he left his uncle's room, walking down the hallway leading to Katara's cell. He heard sobbing coming from her room. When he walked in, Katara looked up in surprise.

"What could you possibly want from me now!" she yelled at him. There was something in his eyes, something different. He took a deep breath.

"I am sorry for what I did." he said.

She just looked at him in utter shock. What was he doing?

"And, If you want too, I'd like you to join us once again for dinner." he said not really knowing what he was doing himself. Katara wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I...I..." she stuttered.

"If you don't want to thats fine." he said part of him hoping she'd say yes, and part of him hoping she'd say no.

"No...no, I...I want to." she said shocked at herself. They just continued to look at each other.

"Well then. I'll just go." he said leaving the room.

Katara was shocked at herself. He had almost choked her to death just hours ago! And now she was having dinner with him! What would Aang and Sokka think! Aang. She had let him down. She had let herself once again get captured by Zuko, preventing their escape. She put a hand to her head. What would he think of her now that she was going to eat with him after he had just hurt her! She really needed a rest. She laid down on her small bed for a nap, forcing these thoughts from her as she drifted off to sleep.

Aang:

I'll kill him. I'll kill him for hurting her. How could he do that without any remorse! Aang thought seeing in his eye's mind the horrible things he would do to Zuko. He wondered where she was and if she was ok. He had let her down, he had once again (not purposefully) let Zuko capture Katara again while trying to escape. He was furious with himself. He couldn't imagine what she must be feeling right now. Aang, bored with himself, decided do take a very long sleep to at least temporarily rid himself of these troublesome thoughts.

Katara:

She was being escorted by a guard to the dinning room where she had past eaten with Iroh and Zuko. To be perfectly honest she wasn't really looking forward to eating with Zuko (which I'm sure you can understand why). She didn't even know why she agreed to eat with him. Well, at least Iroh will be there. That thought comforted her, because she didn't want to be alone with him even for a second anymore. But as she entered the dimly lit room, she only saw Zuko sitting at the far end of the table already eating his fish and rice.

"Where's Iroh?" she said trying to act causal.

"He had business to attend to. He won't be joining us." he said not looking up, but looked angry about something.

Without another word she sat down at the opposite end of the table of Zuko and began eating careful not to eat too much because she wanted to take some of it to Sokka and Aang after dinner.

"Can I take some of this to Aang and Sokka?" she said.

"I suppose you could, but only with a guard." he said. He hadn't looked at her the entire time. He was starting to feel sick, but it wasn't the badly cooked fish. Ever since she slapped him, he felt weird around her. And then there was that time when she kissed him. He felt something then too, but tried to ignore it. But now it was somehow different, he couldn't ignore it now, it was too strong. She finished her dinner, rather in a hurry to leave, and left the room carrying a small bundle of food for her friends. She reached Sokka's room first. She asked the guard with her to open the door for her.

"Hi Sokka." she said to him. He was lying his bed half asleep.

"Katara? What are you doing here?" he asked sitting up.

"I have some food for you." she told him sitting down next to him.

"Oh. Hey...how come you aren't in your cell?" he asked.

"Zuko asked me to dinner, and I saved some food for you guys." she told him.

"HE ASKED YOU TO DINNER!" Sokka stood up in surprise.

"I think it was just payment for nearly choking me this earlier." she said waving his anger aside.

"Eat your dinner." she said handing him some bread.

Pouting, he took the bread, sat down and ate. He didn't like the idea of a fire nation prince asking his sister to dinner.

"Ok Sokka thats enough, you've eaten half the food. I still need to take some to Aang." she said taking the bundle out of his arms. He mumbled something, and Katara left the room heading in the direction of Aang's cell with the guard leading the way. He opened the door for her and she entered. Aang was asleep and Katara wasn't surprised.

"Aang...Aang wake up. I brought some food." she said whispering in his ear, and he woke up immediately.

"Katara! I'm so glad to see you! Did Zuko hurt you to badly? Are you in pain?" he asked.

"My neck is a little sore, but I'm fine." she told him reassuringly. She handed him the rest of the food that Sokka so quickly ate.

"Thanks." he said taking the food.

"Your welcome." she said sitting next him and taking a small portion of bread for herself.

"Katara, there's something I've been meaning to tell you." Aang said looking pointedly at the floor. Katara looked at him questioningly.

"I lo-" he began but there was a knock on the door and the guard came in.

"You have to return to your cell now." he said. Katara got up and left the room leaving Aang saying something to himself that Katara couldn't hear. He wanted to tell her, he did, but thing kept interrupting them when he was about to finally admit he loved her. But he knew he would have another chance and until then, he would just have to wait.


Oh please don't be mad at me for making such a short boring chapter! I ran out of ideas so yeah. Next chapter will be longer and better. I personally am very happy about my last chapter. Apparently, a lot of you guys liked Zuko getting slapped, which was kinda funny. But I guess in my story he kinda deserved it. Hee hee. Ok so anyway once I get a hundred reviews I'll do something special for you guys but I'm not sure yet.

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