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Knock You Down

Chapter 6

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The morning sun was just rising over the gang. Everybody but Katara was still asleep.

She sat on a log staring up into the sky. A light fire flickered in front of her as she listened to the sounds of the birds chirping far off in the distance. A deep sigh escaped her. Why was sleep so hard to come by these days?

Aang stetched from his position on the ground, cracking his knuckles and sitting straight up. A loud yawn escaped his mouth and Katara darted her eyes in the direction to which it came from. A small smile settled on her face when she saw the Avatar quickly close his mouth and blush.

"Oh. Hey Katara," he said as he got up from his spot and sat next to her on the log. "Isn't it kind of early for you to be up?" He took his arm and wrapped it around her shoulders bringing her closer to him. She smiled and rested her head on his shoulder.

"Yeah. I guess so. I just didn't get much sleep last night so I decided to just stay up."

Aang's happy expression changed to one of deep concern. "What's on your mind?" He asked only to realize he might be getting a little too personal. "If you don't mind sharing." He added.

Katara sighed throwing her hands up in the air out of fustration. She got up from her original position next to Aang walking closer to the flickering fire in front of her. She stared at the fire as if under a hypnotic trance.

"Katara...? Is something wrong?" Aang asked. Much concern filled his voice as he walked over to the waterbender. She kept her eyes fixed on the fire ahead of them, as if she didn't even see him there.

"Nothing's wrong..." She settled on this answer after minutes of silence. Her voice was quiet and barely audible to the airbender's ears. A deep frown creased his forehead showing that he was obviously not satisfied with her answer.

"Katara," he spoke softly to her searching for her eyes. "I'm your boyfriend now. If you can't talk to me then this relationship is not going to work out."

Katara finally let her eyes gaze over to his worried ones. He had a point and she knew this.

"I'm sorry Aang. It just that I... I miss my mother's necklace..." She raised her hand up to the now blank area on her neck.

Aang looked her deep in the eyes as if searching for something. "Your mother's necklace?"

"Yes. It's the only thing I had of her before she died. When you guys came and got us I lost it. I have no idea where it is. Whenever I used to wear it, I felt like a part of her was with me... and now with it gone... I just feel so incomplete. "

Aang slowly nodded his head, hesistant to do anything else but. He understood exactly how she felt though and there was no doubt in his mind about that. He was new to this whole relationship business, but he was working on it.

"Do you... do you need a hug?" He slowly walking over ready and willing to give her one. He accidently tripped on a rock and they bumped forheads causing her to stumble back tripping on a rock and fall on her head. "Ow!" She yelled as her head hit the hard ground. She rubbed the back of her now hurt head.

"Katara!" He rushed over to her bending down checking on her head. " I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"

She groaned and shook her head in response. By now the group was waking up due to the startle that Katara's ear peircing yell brought.

"What's going on?" Asked Sokka as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes and gradually gained full alert to see the Avatar over his sister and her rubbing the back of her head. "Did you hurt my sister?" He yelled as he grabbed his boomerang and lunged himself at the Avatar only to be held back by Zuko while Toph went over to aid Katara.

Aang's eyes pratically fell out of their sockets as he came to realization of what Sokka thought he did. He jumped up to his feet shaking his head and backing away from the warrior who was being held back by Zuko.

"It was an accident! I didn't mean to!"

Sokka cut him off grinding his teeth and narrowing his eyes. "You liar! I knew you weren't to be trusted!"

Zuko sighed and shook his head. "Aang's not like that Sokka. He's not like that all. He would never hurt anybody intentionally."

"Shut up Zuko! How can I trust either of you?" Sokka snapped back as he was able to snatch himself from Zuko's hold. He went up to the Avatar pointing his boomerang directly at him. "You monster!"

Katara groaned once again as the pain in her head refused to go away. "Sokka please stop. Aang didn't mean to. It was all an accident!"

Sokka looked over at his sister and shook his head. His frown softened a bit as he saw the look of plea on her face. "Katara. You don't know that."

Aang glanced between the brother and sister his heart breaking all the way as he saw how hurt Katara was. He walked over to the waterbender trying to help her but Sokka interevened.

"No!" Sokka yelled. "Katara doesn't need you. We don't need you. All you'll ever do is cause trouble anyways. So why don't you just get out of here."

Katara sighed, trying to ignore the pain she felt. "Please Sokka. Stop it."

Sokka gasped in disbelief. "He deserves it! He hurt you Katara! He's a monster! Just like Ozai." Sokka went over to his sister's side to examine her head.

Toph sighed and nodded her head, having remained quiet until now. "That really was messed up Aang. I thought you were better than that."

A deep frown grew on Aangs face as a sickening feeling went through his stomach. "Come on Aang." Zuko spoke softly to young man, grabbing him by the shoulder. "Let's go. Were not wanted here." Aang nodded his head solemnly glancing at the waterbender who seemingly felt numb in her head as if the aching pain that was once there just vanished.

"Aang..." She whispered looking at the Avatar with tears filling her eyes. He shook his head and kept walking with Zuko away from the three of them. They climbed aboard Appa.

"Yip! Yip!" Aang spoke pulling on the bison's reins.

"Why didn't you do it Aang?" Zuko asked after several quiet minutes of them flying in the air.

"Do what Zuko?"

"You could've easily blew him into a tree with your airbending, or hit him in the head with a rock with your earthbending. There is so much you could've done but you didn't do anything at all!"

Aang took a deep breath. "If I did that would've made Sokka right..."

After several minutes passing Zuko asked a question. "Where are we going now?"

Aang frowned deeply as he meditated on what his next move would be "There's something I need to find..."

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A/N: Hope you guys liked it!