A/N: hope you guys are all enjoying this story so far! trying my best to update when i can, (i already wrote this chapter but then it somehow got deleted) but before we get into this chapter, i'd like to mention that this chapter is basically Katara's POV when being kidnapped, since i realized it's been mostly Aang's POV so far. also this chapter might be a bit shorter then the others so i apologize for that.

disclaimer: i do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender, nor any of it's characters (Lin, Cheng and Bai, however, are OCs)

TW: mentions of abuse

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Katara and Aang were peacefully sleeping when they both woke up and jumped out of bed to the sound of glass shattering, they both got in defensive stances and were ready to fight. Aang and Katara scanned the room for any other people, which was somewhat hard since they only had moonlight as their only source of light, Katara saw the broken window and all the glass on the floor. Katara saw Aang quickly shoot what looked like a man down with an air blast after the silhouette had shot what looked like a small arrow at her and Aang, which she noticed he just quickly used his airbending to move out of the way quickly. although she saw Aang had moved out of the way just at the right second to be able to dodge the dart, Katara had not been able paying attention to the dart as she had been paying attention to Aang's movement, thus ending up in her getting hit in the arm with what looked like a dart. Aang looked over to her with a worried look as soon as he had realized what happened, she looked at Aang with sadness in her eyes, knowing what this dart probably had in it poison wise, before she collapsed on the ground unconscious.

although she wasn't conscious, her body felt a sudden warmth around her for a few moments before going cold again, then she went into complete unconsciousness.

after what felt like forever, Katara finally woke up. once she was conscious though, she knew she was in trouble. she could feel her hands tied together, and even her ankles tied together to make it even worse. she could also feel what felt like a blind fold over her eyes along with some cloth in her mouth. she immediately started to panic.

"shit where am i- i was with Aang and then.." she thought to herself before suddenly remembering the recent night, making her quietly start to cry. she usually wouldn't cry that easily, but she knew what she was most likely going to be used for, bait.

she loved dating Aang, and she loved him to death, but one thing that she realized while dating the Avatar is that people would try to kidnap her for bait, bait for the Avatar. everyone in the world basically knew that if you had Katara, Aang would do whatever you said as long as she was safe.

since everyone knew this, there were some people who apparently lived for the idea of the Avatar being under there control, therefore leaving a lot of kidnapping attempts for Katara. which usually Katara had found them easy to fend off, but the attempts still made her boyfriend extremely over-protective. which he got extremely over-protective when some of the kidnapping attempts for her had worked, she was once kidnapped while sleeping and was used to make Aang give her kidnapper all of their money. to which she felt bad seeing how much fear was in his eyes when her kidnapper mentioned hurting her. luckily after Aang gave the kidnapper the money and her kidnapper gave Katara back to Aang, they captured the kidnapper.

Katara immediately snapped out of her thoughts when she heard footsteps from someone, sending a wave of panic over her.

"nice job Bai, you did good. she'll sell for a lot" she heard a man's voice say

"thanks Cheng, it wasn't the easiest job in the world, but once the girl was down it was pretty easy." she heard a different voice say, with it also sounding like a man.

"you should have seen the Avatar's face when she went unconscious, he looked like the world just ended or something. oh and then when i took her basically from his arms he was so upset it was hilarious, you really should have seen it. never thought i'd see the Avatar look so worthless" the man Katara assumed was named Bai said.

making her sad by how he explained Aang's reaction, and suddenly she remembered the warmth she felt when unconscious and assumed that the warmth was from Aang holding her, along with remembering the feeling of when the warmth left and could only assume that was when the man had taken her from Aang's arms.

Katara started heating up with anger and decided she had had enough listening to these two men, she was able to spit out the cloth to start yelling "hey don't you dare talk about my boyfriend like that! also, you will not make any form of profit off of me! if i can't get myself out of this then Aang will! so shut your idiot mouth holes up!" she screamed at them, if she wasn't wearing a blind fold she would've seen them flinch. after Katara has finished yelling a wave of panic washed over her again, she knew she didn't have enough energy to fight, nor to just push them away, she was far too weak.

"you sure you wanna talk like that brat? you've had everything handed over to you, meanwhile the rest of the world has had to work for what we want" the man she assumed was Cheng said, he spoke in a cocky tone. after he spoke, one of the two men kicked her as hard as they could into her ribs, making her let out a quiet yelp from his action, leaving her on the ground has they laughed while they kicked and punched her as hard as they could.

after half an hour of kicking and punching her, the two men decided they were finished with her and left the room, leaving Katara to cry on the ground as bruises started appearing on her skin and some blood was visible. Katara felt helpless as she had no clue where she was, and she couldn't bend.

she ended up silently crying for hours, just whispering one thing to try and comfort her "Aang..", she missed him dearly and just wanted to feel safe and protected in his arms again, for him to whisper his comforting words to her and to kiss her on her forehead like he always did when she was upset. she eventually cried herself to sleep, but before she fell asleep she heard someone reply to her whispers

"i'm coming Katara" she heard him say, she desperately wanted to get up and look around for the young airbender she heard, but sleep overcame her and she feel asleep.

to be continued...