HEAR YE HEAR YE! DISFIGURED WOMAN TO WED THE COURAGEOUSCHEIF!

Ok I'm done. I dunno. It's early. Enjoy!

Just under two miles away a deformed hand reached up and grasp the hand of a corageous young man who didn't have the faintest idea of what kind of shit he had gotten himself into. Haru pulled the girl to sit up. Her body was ashened and black from the dead skin and the stain of the dye. Haru gently pulled back the crispy skin so that the skin left underneath could reform as it was meant to.

Malana grabbed Haru's hair as it hung down near her. She jerked it down hard and looked straight into his eyes.

"We need water! You get it for us, or one of us will hurt you very badly." Haru smiled softly. HE just figured she was delirious from the situation that he had pulled her from. He pryed her hand from his hair and took out his cantine. He held the back of her head, that had once been covered in flowing black silk hair, but was now shrowded in burnt wirey left overs. She drank greedily as one that had been burned should have.

Haru gently set her head back on the ground and smiled at her.

"You are safe now. No one can hurt you anymore." Malana's eyes glinted as something whirled around in her twisted little mind.

This man thinks that I am an innocent.

What a fool

No. What a perfect situation.

What?

I get it.

What!

This man can help us get the perfect revenge that we so much deserve

We get him to fall

And fall hard

Then we swoop in and take full of advantage of it! Your a genius!

I know.

"Ha..haru..please don't leave me." Haru's soft eyes melted as he cupped her hand in his. He shook his head.

"I couldn't never leave someone that was in pain."

"How could the...how could they do this to me..." Malana said and started sobbing, alligator tears treaming down her face. Haru frowned.

"Who did this to you?"

"That evil prince ... Zuko."

"Zuko?" Haru said a little taken aback. Malana nodded and forced herself to cry harder. She brought her hands up to cover her face.

"Yes...he di..didn't want me any m...more!" Malana said in a sobbing scream. She was laying it on thicker then molasses in the winter time, and he was eating it up.

"What do you mean?" Malana sat up wrapping her arms around his neck bawling into his shoulder, geting soot all over him.

"I had his child! He said we were going to get married! He tricked me! He left me after I got pregnant! He said I was used! And that I wasn't worth it! Then after I had my beautiful baby boy, he stole him from me! He accused me of being a mere whore!" Haru listened in contemplation. He thought deeply as she cried.

"By Katara said.."

"That lying little bitch! He is using her! He told her that I was crazy! HE told her that I was a bad mother! She stole my child and tried to kill me!" A little warning sign went up in the back of Haru's brain, but being the kind person he is, he ignored it. There wasn't any way that a person could make this stuff up. Malana smiled as he patted her on the back.

Gotcha.

"Katara?" Sokka ask as his sister came huffing back into the camp. Her face was red as if she had been crying. She didn't answer him when he called out to her a second time. Sokka turned and glared as Zuko came walking through the brush behind her. Sokka ran and tackled Zuko to the ground landing a hard boomerang against Zuko's neck.

"What did you do to my sisiter?" Zuko glared at the boy, trying his best to keep from writhing considering that he still was shirtless and the dirt, along with various other things, was getting into his freshly cleaned wounds. Sokka raised a fist up and ask again only recieving darking and daring eyes as an answer. Sokka brought his fist forward but Katara grabbed it hard. She threw him off of Zuko and helped him up.

"Are you ok?" She as dusting the dirt and leaves from his back trying her best not to aggitated the wounds. She made sure that everything was fine with Zuko before she turned around and looked at her brother. She walked over to him and stared him straight in the eye.

"What?" Sokka ask. Katara rared back and landed a hard punch straight across her brother's jaw. He stumbled sideways holding his jaw and staring at her.

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR!" Sokka yelled through his hand. Katara curled her nose, putting on hand on her hip and pointing back at Zuko.

"He is mine. You don't touch. The only one who can beat up on him is me, got that?" Sokka just glared at her. She reached up and grabbed his wolf's tail and drug him out of the trees and back over to the fire.

"Sit. Eat." She ordered. Sokka felt like a whiped puppy. Since when was she so..., well she was always demanding, and always bossy, what's the word...violent? She hit him. No she punched him..hard...and it hurt.

"What the hell?" Sokka said getting a weird look from Iroh who was sitting at the fire opposite him not really knowing what had happened before. Riyo was giggling in his uncle's lap as Iroh was checking him, for the tenth time, to make sure that the baby wasn't harmed.

Zuko grabbed Katara's arm as she walked back over to him.

"What is the matter with you? Where did that come from?' Katara just looked at him. She took a deep breath and let her head fall forward on his chest, taking him slightly off guard.

"I'm tired."

Aang watched from atop Appa. The events that had conspired were so strange, and some what frightening. Had he known how things would have happened, maybe he would have readied himself differently. Maybe he wouldn't have let his feelings for Katara grwo so much. But in truth he had to be realistic. He was twelve. And that was that. She was already into marrying age, or would be soon. And Zuko, however much of a threat he used to be, was made for her.

Besides that, he was the avatar. He had only a single purpose in that world and that was to protect it from destroying itself. He wasn't meant to fall in love, he wasn't meant to have children. But if that was so..was he even meant to have friends? How could he protect the world with such a biased as that all Fire Nation were bad? Oh Ruko..he was in some serious spiritual doo doo.

Yes. Doo doo.Childish, ain't it? I love it! It is so Aang!