Hello. Glad everyone like my last chapter. I liked it. I had one reviewer ask why did Zuko bite? Well I don't know. Umm let see probable answer...OH yeah she hurt him, and well an eye for an eye right? But he can't kick her in the gonads. So he wanted to get her back but stay out of the way of the feet and get her hands where she couldn't drown him. That and I just had the picture in my head, and It was kinda sexy so I ran with it. Also It started some teasing from the crew. This is a bad chapter. Zuko makes a decision. You can skip it if you want to though.

Sokka turned and looked back at Aang. He hadn't been the same since Katara had went missing. That happy cheerful twelve year old disposition was gone, replaced by a dark maybe even morbid mood. They had run into a storm and had to land Appa to wait it out. The lost a day and Aang seemed even more tense since then.

"Aang, I think we need to let Appa land, he's flying on three days straight no sleep or food." Aang looked up at Sokka and shrugged. Sokka knew that Aang missed Katara terribly, but so did he. He knew his sister, she coudl make it through anything. Or at least that is what he forced himself to believe. If he lost it Aang would never master the other two elements, and the probably would never find his baby sister.

Sokka steered the giant bison to land right off the shore. Aang slid off and walked over to a tree and said down his back against it. Momo culred up in his lap as if he knew that his friend was unhappy.

"Stay here. I'm going to see if I can find some food." Sokka said heading off into the brush. He didn't think he would ever admit it, but with out Katara he feared that he and Aang would starve to death. They had been eating berries and raw fish. Sokka tried to cook but burned it. They needed to find an Earth Village. Aang had to master Earth before attempting Fire.

Katara felt her anger start to recede. She had done something she had wanted to do but hadn't got the courage up. In an intense emotional overload she had pulled the Prince of the Fire Nation to her. She didn't regret it. She looked back up at Zuko who was staring at her an unreadable look in his eyes. She started to say something but he stood up and walked away from her. That hurt. Now she knew what she had done was wrong, but if he didn't return her feelings why was it that he didn't push back? Was he afraid of her? No that couldn't be it. She looked at the baby and smiled.

"Well At least your mine. " She smiled and stood up. She should be completly drained of energy but her little temper tantrum seemed to revitalize her. She looked out over the peaceful water. She let out a deep sigh. She had taken a woman's life, on purpose no less. Strangly enough, however, that deep gnawing feeling of guilt wasn't there. She didn't kill an innocent woman, the wench had tried to take her child from her. She stopped her thought. That wench? I have been around Zuko to much.

She turned and walked over to Iroh as he came to the deck.

"What happened?" She shook her head. She didn't know how to describe anything to him, she didn' tthink she could really tell him what did happen. Iroh shook his head.

"No, Katara. Not about the woman, I seen all that. With Zuko?" She looked up at him.

"What do you mean? What's wrong?" Iroh looked at her with concern in his eyes. She handed Riyo to him and took off trying to find him.

She found him in his room. He seemed like he was venting.

She walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. He slapped it off and turned anger eyes upon her. She looked at him not knowing what to expect.

"Did I give you permission to do that!" He growled at her. Her jaw dropped and she glared at him.

"What did you just say?" He growled and turned his back to her.

"You heard me wench!" She scoffed and furrowed her brows. She looked down at where his knee was bandaged up. She clamped her mouth shut tight and tapped the back of his knee with her foot, just lightly enough to..

"YEOOWW!" He screamed and grabbed his knee after falling to the floor. He glared up at her.

"I can't believe you!" She yelled. He just glared at her. "I dont' have to ask you permission for anything!" He found his strength and pushed himself up right back into the shorter water bender's face.

"You do. You are my prisoner. You will do as I say." She laughed.

"Yeah right, Funny. First I was your son's nanny, then your guest, now I'm you prisoner! I am not one to follow orders especially from the likes of an selfabosorbed over confident brat like you!" She growled and crossed her arms turning her back to him.

"I've made up my mind. I'm leaving you at the next port. I don't need you anymore." She turned and looked at him. After all of the events that happened over the last couple days and he's going to kick her off the ship and take the child from her. She couldn't take it anymore. She stormed out of the room tears flowing from her eyes. He followed her.

"You think you can take care of Riyo by yourself! Yeah you'd make a great single daddy!" She yelled through her tears. She hit the door to the deck sending it violently back. Zuko, not knowing her intentions, hobbled faster. She felt her heart ripping as she walked past Riyo. She stopped and kissed the baby on the forehead. She laid a hand on Iroh's shoulder and turned back to look at Zuko where he had stopped. She narrowed her eyes, the hurt and complete emotional meltdown flowing down her cheeks in the form of tears. Without warning she ran to the edge and dove into the water.

"KATARA!" Iroh and Zuko yelled in unison. Zuko hopped over to the rail and looked out at the ocean. Katara was thirty fourty feet out when she surface.

"GET YOUR ASS BACK ON THIS SHIP!" Zuko yelled, appalled that she would even considering doing such a thing. She shot a glare back at him and dove back down into the water. Zuko knew she was a powerful waterbender and knew that she could probably make it to the next port with just a flick of her wrist. She surfaced again a little further out.

"DID YOU HEAR ME WOMAN! THAT WAS A DIRECT ORDER!" She shook her head.

"IF YOU WANT ME COME AND GET ME!" She yelled the anger dripping from her voice. She shook her head and began swimming in the opposite direction of the ship. She didn't know where she was going and knew that she would eventually go back to the ship with that good-for-nothin. She couldn't just leave Riyo like that, and a part of her didn't want to leave Zuko. She meant what she had said. He was hers and there wasn't anything anyone, not even herself, could do to change that. She stopped when she heard a splash.

"Prince ZUKO!" She turned back and Iroh was peering over the side of the ship down into the water. She noted that Iroh's yell this time sounded more like a scold then anything else.

Zuko surfaced a few feet from the ship.

"That man!" She growled and began swimming to him. He's hurt. He's weak. He's bleeding and we're in the ocean. How smart can you get? He swam as well. But she made the greatest distance. She got to him and splashed water in his face, nearly drowning him.

"You idiot! You forget we are in shark infested waters." He looked at her for a moment then it dawned on her. He shrugged.

"I'm not worried about the sharks. You can't just un and leave like that?" She glared at him.

"Oh? It's called escaping. I'm a prisoner y'know I do that." She rolled her eyes. He shook his head.

"You're not doing a very good job, you doubled back."

"To save you!"

"You're not doing that either!" She growled. What about this man was so desireable to her? Was it his eyes? Or the way he holds the baby? Or his body maybe? Yeah that had to be it, the body. She looked at him.

"I know that the kiss was unwanted, and I acted out of of, I don't know. But don't you worry it wouldn't happen again." He looked at her. That's not want I wanted. I welcomed the kiss, I want you in my arms. To be mine. But that only complicates the situation. I am still going to capture the avatar. No matter what.

"Have you two forgotten abotu the water!" Iroh yelled. Truth be told they had. Katara looked at him with longing eyes.

"I'll stay. But I want a cell. I'm a prisoner, you should start treating me like one." She didn't really want the cell, but to be in the same room with him would be to much for her. He could take care of Riyo at night and she could attend him during the day. He just looked back to the ship and started swimming. She followed. He would be very tired. He hadn't given him self enough time to heal, and seeing as how he jumped back into the water and swam, he had probably done more damage. But if so, he wasn't showing it.

The got back on deck and Zuko looked over to her. She was pushing her hair out of her face. He looked down and seen the pant leg missing.

"You're going to have to quit tearing your clothes up." He said pushing him self to stand. She glared at him.

"IF you hadn't almost ripped you leg off, I wouldn't have."

"Well If you would have seen the chain before tearing my leg up, you wouldn't have had to!"

She snarled her nose.

"IF you would have let me stay on deck and help, that wave wouldn't have hit so hard!" She got him there. He thought for a moment then he looked back to her.

"If you weren't a woman you could have stayed on deck!" He smiled in victory. Katara turned and looked at him wide eyed.

"Excuse me? There is nothing a man can do a woman can't!" Iroh could see where this was going.

"Ah, children it's time for lunch shall we." Katara glared at Zuko and took Riyo. Zuko shook his head and went down to his room to change.

He had made up his mind. Life with that girl on the ship was beginning to get very complicated. Obviosuly she had feelings for him, and that scared him. He was starting to have feelings for her. He hated it. This feeling he had made him feel so weak! He had to get rid of her. He had to capture the Avatar. He had to regain his right to the throne.

OH what is he gonna do? Well it won't be that bad. Tension gallore next chappi. Smiles And Hugs!