'Smug, that's the word, he's so smug!' Katara thought as she glared at the banished prince.
Zuko glared back 'Why does she have to care for everyone?'
"Sokka they've been staring at each other like that for almost an hour. Don't you think we should do something?" Suki looked at her boyfriend.
Sokka smiled at her. "Well Aang and Toph are out training right?" Suki nodded. "So what we should do is this." Sokka smiled again and stood taking Suki with him. "Well Suki and I are going to go make out in the dark corners of the Temple!" With that Sokka grabbed his girl friend's hand and pulled her away. Katara and Zuko turned their gazes away for a moment to watch the couple leave, and then turned their eyes back to each other.
Zuko was the first to break the brutal silence. "Well aren't you ging to say something rude or cut me down?"
"You know what? I think I will do that, now that you mention it. "Katara retorted. "You're a rude, arrogant, selfish, condescending, spoiled, back stabbing prince who only thinks of himself!" Katara yelled.
Zuko just looked back at her and said. "And you're just a little girl who cares about everybody but herself." Katara's glare dropped in to a confused stare. "I'm not stupid." Zuko exclaimed. "I see you. You're always caring for others. That's not a bad thing, but when do you have time to care for yourself?"
"I care for myself!" Katara yelled the only thing that came to her mind.
"When Katara have I seen you do that? Everybody needs to care for themselves once in a while. And no healing your own wounds isn't caring for yourself. I see you, you get so frustrated. You need to scream, cry, hit something, do anything to get that frustration out of you, because one day you're going to crack and it's not going to be pretty." Katara just looked at him startled. She whispered something to herself "What was that?" Zuko asked. "You need to scream it loud."
Zuko stood, as did Katara and she screamed. "I hate you!" at the top of her lungs.
"What are you going to do about it?"
She walked to him and started pounding on his chest saying things like "I hate you and your stupid nation. They took my mother away from me. I'm never going to be a normal teenager anymore, because I'm always going to have to be someone's mother." Then she started sobbing uncontrollably and collapsed into his chest. Zuko just wrapped his arms around her.
He whispered so she could only hear. "I'm sorry, so sorry, Katara." And let one tear escape from his right eye.