Thanks to everyone who reviewed!! I really appreciate it!! I had to change some things, just because I haven't thought about this story in awhile and have sort of forgotten my plot but have a new one. I guess thats what I get for getting distracted with 4-H and Track. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter!! Please read and review!!

Katara walked down the hallway towards Sokka, and let out a sigh, unsure of why she was going this. 'Sokka...' said Katara, thinking of what she should say, and nervously messing with a strand of hair behind her, 'can we talk?'

This made Sokka turn as pale as the clouds outside, and for him to start stuttering, 'You...you...are...aaarre you...'

Katara seemed to sense what he was trying to say and an angry look crossed her face. 'No Sokka, I am not pregant! Do you really think I would let some boy do that to me? Honestly, Sokka, where do you come up with these ideas? You know I would fight tooth and nail before I let something like that happen, unless of course I was married.' Her tone was irked the whole time she talked and she had moved her hands onto her hips, glaring at Sokka, who had his head hanging down and finding the floor suddenly interesting.

'So then what did you want to talk about?' asked Sokka, raising his head, glad Katara was done talking, even if she still looked very intimidating.

'So you will listen without thinking of the worst first?' asked Katara, calming down somewhat but still glaring at Sokka.

'Alright, but you might want to sit down first, so lets go to the library, since it is nearby.' said Katara, then starting walking towards the library with Sokka behind her.

When the siblings had reached the library, and Katara made sure that Sokka was sitting down, she began telling him of what had been happening between her and Zuko, starting with, 'I probaly wouldn't be telling you this, but I feel guilty for not doing so...' When she reached the part about last nights events she left out the fight and instead told Sokka that the tide had been to high to take a walk along the beach. All the while Sokka kept his mouth shut, afraid that if he opened it, Katara would get mad again from what he had to say or he would never be able to close it again.

'This couldn't possibly get any worse! My sister is falling for the king of the nation that killed our mother! Why is this happening?' thought Sokka, wishing that there was a way that everything Katara had just said was just some sort of cruel joke, and any second now, she would say, 'Did you see the look on your face?' or 'You know I am kidding right?', but nothing of that sort came, only an ackward silence.

'Sokka will you please say something?' asked Katara, starting to regret what she had said, 'Sokka?'

'Why? Why are you falling for the Fire Lord? The man in charge of the very same nation that killed our mother? I mean I'm glad you told me, instead of trying to hide it from me, but why?' asked a slightly confused and flustered Sokka, who wanted to pinch himself to make sure this wasn't a dream.

'I...he is not the man his father was! He is compassionate, and caring! He wouldn't send troops to a village or city unless maybe that village was harrasing some of the Fire Nation and plotting on killing him or something!' Katara paused, taking in what she had practically shouted, and surprised herself by it, then talking a little more quietly, 'I have trust in him, and Aang does too, isn't that enough for you? If we can trust him why can't you?' Sokka only looked away from his sister, making her more upset. 'When are you going to realize not everyone in the Fire Nation is evil?' she asked as she stood up. Letting her words hang in the air she walked out of the library, on her way to the garden.

The water in the pond splashed dangerously as Katara walked towards it, still made about how Sokka acted. She sat down under the tree nearest to the pond, and stared at the cyrstal clear water before her. As she sat there she bended some of it, lazily, just trying to clear her mind. She never heard the footsteps of someone coming closer to her, or notice their shadow until the person spoke, 'You know with firebending, it usually comes easier if the person is standing, instead of sitting down, although I'm not sure if that is true with waterbending...?'.

Katara let out a sigh and spoke with some depression in her voice, but tried to cover it and only failed, 'Hello Fire Lord Zuko.' she didn't even bother to look up at him and kept her gaze on the water.

Noticing how her voice sounded, the Fire Lord sat down next to her and asked softly, 'What's wrong?' Silence followed his question for a moment before Katara only shook her head and answered, 'Nothing.' This made Zuko raise an eyebrow. 'Are you sure? Please tell me Katara.' he asked, wishing she would at least look at him. There was a sigh from Katara before she said her brother's name, with only puzzled Zuko further. 'Is he ill or something?' he asked, trying to get more out of her than a simple one worded answer.

'No, but I can wish that, then at least I could think that what he said wasn't true.' said Katara, finally tearing her gaze away from the water to look at Zuko for a moment, 'I basically told him what has been going on lately...and he didn't take it well. Before you ask why, I told him because I feel like we are sneaking around, and I hate that feeling, well at least when it comes to hiding something from someone in my family...' and from there she filled Zuko in on what had been said in the library and how Sokka had reacted to it.

Thrilled that Katara didn't see him, as her brother had and a few other people out there, Zuko had to hold back a smile. 'Well you did what you thought was right, and that's all you can do.' his voice tranquil, as he put his arm around her shoulders. Katara let out a soft sigh and let her head rest on his shoulder, as her gaze fell back onto the peaceful pond before her with her eyelids fluttering shut until finally she fell asleep on the fire lord's shoulder.

'Sokka! Sokka! Sokka!' yelled Aang, as he raced down the hallway towards the kitchen, where Sokka had been spending a lot of his time lately.

'What do you want now Aang?' asked a very annoyed, Sokka, who didn't even bother to look up at his friend.

'This letter came for you and Katara!' said Aang, hoping to cheer Sokka up. A grunt was all that Sokka did in reply, Aang let out a sigh and thought for a moment before calmly saying, 'Well, I guess if you don't want to be the first one to read what your dad wanted to tell you and Katara, then I'll just go and find Katara then.' This gave Sokka an energy boost as he jumped up from his seat and said quickly, 'Give it here Aang!'. With that the Avatar passed the excited water tribe warrior the scroll and let Sokka read it in peace.

As Sokka read the letter, his excitment mixed with dread and confusion, and left Aang only to stand there and wonder what his friend was reading. As Sokka finished he resisted the urge to crumple up the letter and throw it into the closest flame near him. Without saying anything to Aang, Sokka left the kitchen to go talk to his sister, which left a very confused Aang trailing behind him.

Zuko let out a sigh, this was the second time Katara had fallen asleep on him, but he didn't mind seeing that he had the chance to hold her. As he made his way up the stairs, he almost ran into Sokka and would have dropped Katara, but he didn't.

'What are you doing with my sister?' asked Sokka, raising an eyebrow and putting Zuko higher up on his list of 'Never let my little sister go near this person ever, ever again'.

'What does it look like?' asked Zuko, trying to step around Sokka and failed. There was a moments pause and neither of them spoke and only exchanged glares. As the moment passed Sokka finally spoke, 'Tell Katara, whenever she wakes up, that I recieved a letter from our father and that she needs to rest up because first thing in the morning we are leaving for home.'

Zuko raised an eyebrow, and must have shown a lot of confusion because Sokka sighed and spoke quietly, 'Whenever she wakes up tell her I would like to talk to her. Also, tell her it involves our father and some old friends of ours.' Zuko nodded his head and stepped around the Water Tribe warrior and continued on to Katara's guest suite.

Before Zuko had a chance to set Katara down on the bed, in her suite, her eyelids fluttered open and a smile came to her lips, since the first thing she saw was said firebender's face. He quickly put her down on the bed and a spilt second later she was sitting on the bed with him at her side.

"About time you woke up. I carried you up at least four flights of stairs and across the palace grounds!" said Zuko somewhat sarcastically, but still serious. In response, Katara only rolled her eyes and laughed a little at him.

"And what makes this so funny?"

"Nothing, I just think you are over exaggerating a little."

With that response from Katara, it was Zuko's turn to roll his eyes. "Me exagerate? Yeah, right, why would a fire lord do such a thing?" he asked in a mocking tone. Then remembering what Sokka had asked him to do he quickly filled Katara in on the encounter.

"I wonder what he meant by old friends..." said Katara thinking out loud.

"I don't know but he sounded pretty serious and distracted." added Zuko, only adding to the master waterbender's confusion.

"Well, no use in wondering about something that hasn't happend yet, right?" said Katara getting up slowly, "I guess I should go and talk to him and figure it out. You can come with if you want."

"No thanks, I don't think your brother would appreciate it if I went along, just tell me about it later."

"Alright."

With that conversation over and a quick kiss goodbye, they left the suite and Katara went to find her brother.

"Sokka what did you need to talk to me about? What did dad have to say?" asked Katara, walking into her brother's suite, since the door was already open.

"You may want to sit down for this." said Sokka, going towards the nearby table and sitting down, then gesturing for her to do the same.

"Alright, now what is it?"

"First off, I would like to start by saying that I had nothing to do with it, even if I don't really like the fire lord and the fact that you like him." The Water Tribe warrior paused and took a deep breathe and looked down, " Dad returned home, as you probaly already know, and he met up with some old friends of mine...do you remember Koda?" he paused once again as he saw her nod her head, "Well, I guess there is no easy way in telling you this but...you basically have an arranged marriage with him."

Hearing the words come out of Sokka's mouth sent her heart shattering into millions of pieces and her mind into utter confusion. This had to be some cruel joke right? But one look at her brother's face told her otherwise.

"I'm sorry Katara, really, if there was something I could do about it, I would. You may not think so but I do want you to be happy, even if it means being able to tolorate the royal pain for a few days, instead of seeing you miserable with someone you can only stand and don't love." Said Sokka trying to comfort his, now crying, sister, but his words fell on deaf ears as she bolted from her chair and into the hallway.

Not paying attention to which direction she was going, Katara ran into the library, and thankfully no one was there to see her tears spilling out of her eyes and to hear her hiccups and her somewhat staggered breathing from the running she had done. She dashed to the farest corner of the library and sat down hugging her knees to her chest and putting her arms over them then burying her face into her arms and continued to cry.

Unkown to her, someone had walked into the library, and was making their way towards her. Upset and worried as they heard the distressed waterbender crying, they softly sat down next to her and started to rub her back gently and quietly yet firmly asked, "What's wrong Katara?"

Somewhat startled by the fire lord's sudden apperance, she jerked away from him at first then relaxed as she recoginzed him. She slowly and painfully told Zuko what her father had done and what Sokka had said. She leaned more on his shoulder, and the young firebender put his arms around her, unsure of what else he could do.

So, they sat like that until Katara had finally finished crying, and Zuko planted a soft kiss on her forehead and tried to remain calm on the outside. Inside of him though, he fought the urge to track down this 'Koda' and have him mysteriously disappear from the Southern Water Tribe. "Feeling better?" he asked, feeling her relax more. She only nodded her head and slowly stood to stand.

"Would you like me to walk you back to your room?" asked the fire lord softly.

"I don't think that would be a good idea..." said Katara looking down feeling her heart shatter more, if that was even possible.

"Why not? It would only be an innocent escorting."

A moment of silence hung in the air as Katara thought about his response and then slowly nodded her head. They both were soon walking out of the library in silence with a small balance of tension between them.

I think I like this better now that I have edited it. Then again I don't know, I want to know what everyone thinks first before I carry on. So, please review!!