Katara had stayed in her tent since that night. Toph had made her own tent so she could give Katara space and so she could secretly laugh, she found the whole situation hilarious.
"Ya know, Katara hasn't left that thing for three days—" Sokka started to say
"DO YOU THINK SHE DIED?!" Toph said, smiling while eating her noodles. Aang and Zuko didn't look up from the floor.
"No, I don't think she died!" Sokka whined back at her
"I'm fine." Katara said softly walking out to where everyone was eating. Everyone stared at her except Zuko who remained beside Mai who was oblivious to the whole situation. "I've just had a cold, I didn't want you guys to get sick as well." She was staring right at Zuko, wanting him to look at her but he never did. All the attention was removed from Katara and transferred to Toph who randomly started chuckling, even Zuko looked which pissed her off as she clenched her fist.
"THAT'S SO FUNNY, A COLD. HA—"
"TOPH! SHUT UP WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Sokka yelled, his high pitched tone as usual as he dragged her away from the scene.
Katara sighed and looked to the ground, once looking up again she noticed a fairly large water wall behind Zuko. She gasped slightly and unclenched her fists and it fell to the ground. "I'll go get some more twigs for tonight." She smiled weakly and walked away.
Zuko thought about it, or maybe he didn't think at all before he said "I'll come with you." He wanted to sort things out and see if she would forgive him. Doubtful but worth a try. He started to walk towards her, not hearing Katara cursing under her breath.
He followed her into the forest and watched as she picked up various number of sticks. He sighed "Katara, are you going to talk or—" She snapped at him "Are you going to help me or not because I'm not in the mood to talk." Her response was cold but she wouldn't let him get to her. "I'm trying to sort things out—" he tried, but failed once again as she interrupted her. "Stop wasting my time. Go back if you're not going to be useful."
Zuko's eyes widened, she had never spoke to him like that. "You know what? Fine. You're being pathetic." He walked off and raged as he threw fire balls to the ground in anger. Katara just watched, she didn't know if sending him away way the best thing but she didn't want to be around him either. She put out the flames quickly as they were beginning to get out of control. She heard a crunch and gasped, she thought maybe the fire nation had her circled. She was slowly backing away back towards the camp when she heard running. It was Aang, she could see his blue arrows from afar as he ran. Katara sighed, she wanted to make amends with Aang to make sure he was alright but what was she supposed to say?
