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Written: November 15, 2010-November 18, 2010

Posted: November 18 2010

Chapter 4: Dates, Documents, and Double-Crossing

*PREVIOUS*

"Why did you look into my mother's case? Why are you telling me this information?"

"Well, I do want to get to know you and I can't do that with you hating all time. Plus, I want to help you find this man and take him out for you and my father."

My eyes grew wide at that statement.

"You…want to help me?"

"Yes. Anything to get you not to hate me…and anything to see you smile at least once. After all, we are partners." He extended his arms and quirked a brow. "Partners?"

Hesitantly, I stretched out my arm to shake his calloused hand.

"Partners."

*NOW*

(Takes place three days after the previous chapter)

I looked around the room. It was quite large, actually. Of course BAU had the largest dorms for college in the entire world. They're that expensive and hard to get in to. I noticed there were five bedrooms total. The first, which was closest to the kitchen, was decorated in green and gold; must be from the Earth Kingdom. I looked at the room beside it to see that it too, was adorned in green…another Earth Kingdom. The room next to that was unoccupied as it had no bed or dressers, and still the pearly white wallpaper. The fourth room was in all red, gold and black. Great, a fire nation person. Just what I needed.

Apparently, all of the people who lived here were out, so I set up my things in the third bedroom and turned on my laptop. I saw that I had an email from a friend back at the South Pole. As I began to reply to my friend, Katilda, a little DING alerted me that I had an IM.

It was from Zuko.

A few days ago, Zuko offered to help me find my mom's murderer and I said yes, but he hasn't talked to me since. Not even a note in science class or a "hey". Personally, I thought he was avoiding me.

Zuko07: hey Katara

Kat22: hey

Zuko07: I've got good news. I found some stuff about the man we're looking for. I'll send it to you now.

I sat back in my chair and waited for Zuko to send me the document. After about ten minutes, I got another IM.

Zuko07: still there?

Kat22: yea

Zuko07: look it's not working for some reason…do you have a webcam?

Kat22: mhm

Zuko07: Turn it on plz

I closed the IM box and scrolled down the list of programs on my laptop. Finally, I came across the webcam. It was under "W"…I'm not that bright. I hooked u to a server that said "Blazer". I mean, come on! He's the Fire Prince? Fire? Blaze? Never mind. When the server was fully loaded I was greeted by a pair of breathtakingly beautiful amber eyes. Then my eyes roamed down.

I literally choked on the black cherry vanilla Pepsi in my hand.

His chest was clad in nothing but muscles and skin. He was staring intently into the computer screen. Obviously I could see him, and he couldn't see me. I took advantage of this moment to gaze at his chest. His abs were firm looking and his entire body had meek glow to it. His shaggy black hair stuck to parts of his face and it was wet looking. At the moment, I only wanted run my slender fingers through it to see the tiny water droplets flee from his long locks.

"Katara? Can you see me?" Zuko asked suddenly, bringing me out of my phase. I pretended to bang on my computer a bit to make it seem like I couldn't see him.

"Zuko? Yes! I fixed it!" I exclaimed in mock relief. "Hey."

"Hey," he said slowly, as if he were observing something. I looked down at my clothing to see I was only wearing a strapless white top with a short skirt; my hair down, pulled back by a blue flower headband . I blushed lightly.

"About the document?" I asked, trying to gain his attention.

"Oh, yea. Get a load of this," he said as he held up the document to the camera. It was profile of someone. "Yon Rha."

Zuko removed the paper from the camera and began to read aloud to me.

"Name: Yon Rha. Age: 41. Height: 5 ft 7. Eye color: Murky Brown. Yon Rha is wanted for smuggling illegal objects to the Fire Nation colonies that live in harmony with a small Earth Kingdom village. Also wanted for stealing from the Firelord himself.

"Yon Rha ran away from his warrant and lived in the Southern Tribe posing as a native there for two years until he was found and Firelord sent an assassin to take out Yon Rha. Yon Rha cleverly snuck into a nearby house and used a 29 year old woman as a shield from bullets. Yon Rha then ran away back to the Earth Kingdom in the Fire Nation colonies, some say with a little girl squealing in his arms."

"My sister… where did you get that?"

"I was digging for days in my dad's old files for something on him."

"Great. We know all we need to. We just need to find him."

"It's not that easy. I'm going to say something you may not like. We should postpone the search until the holidays."

"What? Why? We only just started?"

"Exactly. There's not that much more info that we need. We wait until the holidays when we both don't have to worry about our courses and search together for a week. The other two weeks we spend with our family to enjoy the holidays. I think it's sensible."

"Well…I don't know..."

"You worry too much. You need to relax. Come with me to the Dragon Festival. It'll be fun."

"I don't know, Zuko. I still have a lot of unpacking to do. I just moved into my new dorm."

"But everyone's there!"

"That explains why I haven't met my roommates yet."

"Come on, Katara. Please?"

I hesitated before looking into the amber orbs known as his eyes. They pleaded silently for me to join them. I gave in.

"Alright, fine. I'll go. Where is it?"

"The middle ring."

"What? That's off of campus!"

"We're allowed to go off of campus, Katara."

"I know, but I can't drive my brother's car! It's a mess!"

"Who said anything about you driving?"

"Huh?"

Zuko chuckled and smiled widely at me.

"I'll pick you up in front of the courtyard in 10." Then he turned off the computer. I sat there unbelieving what he just said. He would pick me up? I wonder what kind of car he has…

I soon began to become eager with questions swirling in my head. I kicked off my white flats and put on some white heels and applied a little make up. I also removed the flower head band to let my hair fly free. Why am I getting so dolled up? It's only Zuko! After I closed the door, I began to stride over to the courtyard. I waited for exactly two minutes and 17 seconds (yes I counted) before I heard a faint growling in the distance. I squinted my eyes to get a closer look and a bright light flashed in my face. I shielded my eyes, then looked again to see it.

Zuko pulled up to the curb on a jet black motorcycle with blue flames painted along the edges. His helmet had the same design. It all happened in slow motion.

He removed his helmet and shook his silky black threads. He wore a black leather jacket with a white T-shirt under. I was kind of hoping he'd go shirtless.

"Hey," he said in a husky voice.

"H-hey," I managed to spit out. "Is this yours?"

"Yep."

"Then why do you ride the shuttle?"

"She was in the shop for a new paint job and a few mechanical problems, but she's better now." He tossed me another helmet and patted the space behind him. "You ready?"

I nodded and climbed onto the seat behind him. I placed the helmet on my head…and sat there.

"Are you gonna hold?" he asked humorously as he angled his neck to look back at me.

"Oh," I answered quickly before outstretching my tan arms around his muscular figure and lacing my fingers just above his bellybutton. Hesitantly, I laid my head on the back of his leather jacket and smiled contently to myself. I wanted to hold on to him forever.

"Are you ready?" I could hear the smile in his voice.

"Sure," I said, trying to stay calm.

"Alright." He started the engine and we drove off.

As we drove off of the campus, I took in the scenery before me. Two people riding a motorcycle at night in the glowing light of the moon. When you think about it, it's kind of romantic…like a getaway from people who say our love is not to be…

OF COURSE WE DON'T LOVE EACH OTHER! WE'RE HARDLY FRIENDS! But, ya know…just saying…

I strayed away from my awkward thoughts to see that we were already there.

"That wasn't long," I said to myself.

"It was like 15 minutes."

"Really? More like 5." Zuko chuckled and took off his helmet. As I took of mine, he helped off of the motorcycle.

"Well, here we are," Zuko announced, gesturing towards the celestial lights and crowds with one hand, and grasping my hand my hand softly with the other.

"It's beautiful," I said in awe, looking at the colored lanterns and many shops. This must be decorated to resemble the Fire Nation.

"Yeah…you are," Zuko muttered to himself. I looked at my feet and blushed. He coughed awkwardly, hoping that I didn't hear his comment. Little did he know that I did. I couldn't believe it! Zuko, the sexy Fire Prince, thought I, a Southern Tribe peasant was beautiful. As I replayed his comment over again and again in my mind, I began to blush deeper before he suddenly pulled the hand that was in his.

"Come on. Let's go." Snapping out of my thoughts, I nodded and allowed him to drag me threw the crowd of children and parents. The more Zuko and I walked, the more I became suspicious, for he was leading me to a dark alley away from the festivities.

"The festival is that way," I pointed out softly.

"Yeah, the one for children. Ours," he paused dramatically as we came to a door in a brick wall. "is here."

With one hand, Zuko pushed open the door to reveal a mass of neon lights and co-eds dancing everywhere. This must be the night club he was talking about. We walked in and I saw a wave of familiar faces. Zuko was right. Everyone was here. We walked a little deeper into the club before Zuko turned around and looked my in the eye softly.

"Do you want to dance?"

I stopped and actually listened to the music that was playing when he asked that.

Her bones are withered away

But her ghost will remain

You're the only one that wore your seatbelt

We're the only ones that cried

Catastrophic accidents

You're the only one that died

"Yeah! I love this song!" my hesitant mood suddenly changed and without thinking, I dragged Zuko to the middle of the dance floor. I began to dance eagerly to the melody of the rock that blasted through the club speakers. Soon, Zuko followed and we were just two people, dancing. As rapidly as the song began playing, it ended and a slow song started playing. I stopped dancing and froze. Zuko stopped as well, scratched the back of his neck( which is always kind of cute) and offered me his hand. I took it, with a blush and he smiled sheepishly.

Slowly, he pulled me into his chest, abandoning my hand to wrap his arms around my waist. I laced my fingers behind his head and laid my head on his shoulder. We swayed with the smooth rhythm and thoughts began to swarm in mind.

Good Katara: You like him.

Myself: NO I DON'T!

Bad Katara: Yea ya do! AND he likes you!

Myself: Whatever…you really think so?

Good Katara: Of course! Besides, you really never did have a reason not to like him, anyway. I mean look at him! HE'S FREAKING HOT!

Bad Katara: Well…he is a son of a―

Myself: What?

Bad Katara: …Firelord.

Myself: Oh.

Good Katara: Just go with what you've got, now. Maybe in the end, you'll have a hot new boyfriend!

Myself: So you're saying that I do like him?

Good and Bad Katara: YES!

"Katara?" Zuko said looking at me. He snapped me out of my mental conversation and was looking at me weirdly. "Are you okay?" I hadn't even noticed the music had changed to a fast beat techno song.

"Oh, yeah. I was just thinking about something," I said truthfully. He nodded and began to dance. "I'll be right back. I'm going to go to the ladies' room."

"Okay, I'll be with that group over there. They're some friends from school," Zuko said, obviously enjoying the song that was playing. I nodded and began my search for the restroom.

It wasn't hard to find; the big neon sign gave away its hiding place. The ladies' room was large and tile. One large mirror went across the silver lining of sinks and red stalls had a glossy shine. For a club, the bathroom was pretty nice. I walked over to a sink and withdrew a small tube of pink lips from my skirt pocket. I applied it quickly, eager to get back out with Zuko, and made my way to the crowd to the spot Zuko said he would be with his friends.

Well…he was there…with another girl…

…engaged in a full lip-lock kiss.

I felt the tears welling up in my eyes, and out of frustration, ran out of the club. How could that jerk cheat on me? Well weren't together, but still! I thought he liked me! Instead he's making out with some Goth girl behind my back! I should've never come here.

I walked angrily towards the kids' festival to leave when a hand grabbed my arm. I turned around, expecting it to be Zuko, when it was a shaggy brown haired boy with a pointed chin and mischievous chocolate eyes. He was actually kind of cute.

"Now why is a pretty girl like yourself leaving a party so early?" he asked in a charming voice.

"It's nothing," I huffed.

"Ah, jerk ticked you off, eh?"

"Kind of."

"Your boyfriend?"

"Psst. Hardly even a friend."

"Well, because he didn't show you a good time, how about you let me try?" The look in his eyes were too sweet to resist, but I knew I had to get home. But for some reason, my mouth said yes before my mind did.

"Great! I'll take you to my favorite place in the middle ring."

"Um…okay, sure."

"Come on, my car's just over there," he said pointing to a curb. There sat a green and black suburban with rims. He unlocked the doors and held the door for me. After we were in the car, he turned to me curiously.

"Ya know, you never did tell me your name."

"Sorry, it's Katara."

"Katara, eh? That's nice. By the way, I'm Jet," he said before sticking the key in the ignition and driving off.

AN: So whatcha think? What do you think is gonna happen now? Let me know your thoughts and predictions in a nice review PLEASE!