Thanks to anonYmous, for the part where there is a come back. Ya'll are great.
Katara opened her eyes and blinked lazily into the sun. She stretched out and sat up shaking the leaves from her hair. Their nice little life living in the cozy loft in Ba Sing Sei was over. They had left the city after her episode and after if became apparent that the King wasn't going to listen to them. That had been a little over a month ago. Five weeks at the least. Things hadn't been much better. She had absolutely no memory of what transpired while the demon had her. All she did know is that after she woke up, when the demon had left her, that the guys were very distant.
She looked over at the other's wrapped in their sleeping bags. Aang hardly spoke to her, that wasn't one or two words. Her brother watched her warily, but didn't act much different then before. And Zuko, he was just as distant as Aang. She let out a breath and shook her head. When she had tried to ask them about it, or talk about it the subject was changed. It really pissed her off that they would be so secretive and hush hush about the entire thing. Toph was the only one who had said anything regarding it, but was quickly told to keep her yap shut by Aang. Toph had said that Katara had made a real sight out of her self. She stood up and caught her self before she fell backwards. Her balance had seemed a little off lately. She walked over to the where the fire was still trying to burn and picked up a small pouch that had been full of fruit. There were only a few pieces left. She grabbed a small papaya and curled up her nose.
She started walking through the trees. It was promising to be a beautiful morning. She finished the papaya and tossed what she didn't want into the bushes. She stopped. A wave of dizziness caught her and threw her to the ground. She stood up against a tree and shook her head trying to free her head. She frowned as her stomach knotted. She bent over and felt her stomach lurch. She gagged then had to say hello again to her papaya. She stood up and wiped her mouth. She was going to be sick again. She fought it back and started making her way back to the camp.
Sokka looked up at his sister walked back into their camp. He held up a mango to her.
"Here. Hungry?" Katara snarled her nose and clamped her hand over her mouth. She stumbled over to the bushes. Sokka watched as his sister wretched. He frowned and looked back over to Zuko and Aang who were rolling up their sleeping bags. Something had definitely gone wrong. Those two had acted different since Katara had been freed. He knew that something had happened between each of them and Katara, he just didn't know what, or to what extent. He had a pretty good imagination but he didn't like to think into it. And now, she was sick. What next.
Zuko stood up straight and looked into the forest. Toph's eyes narrowed as she became very still. She soon was facing the same direction that Zuko was looking. Sokka turned and listened to see if he could hear something. Aang narrowed his eyes and tried to see into the forest at what every one was sensing. Zuko ran over and grabbed Katara. He jerked her away from the bushes and over to Appa. He half helped half pushed her onto the large beast. Aang was atop the animal with a gust of wind. Sokka helped Toph onto the animal before getting on himself. Zuko turned and ran over to his ostrich-horse. He untied it quickly and gave it a swift slap on the back. The animal voiced it's complaints and took off. Momo jumped onto Zuko's back as the fire bender jumped up onto the large bison.
"Yip yip." And the animal was in the air. Katara leaned over the the saddle and looked down into the small clearing. A group of men broke through the bushes and stared up at them. A twinge of fear shot through Katara. There were three men down in the clearing, but one of them stood out among the others. He was supposed to have been dead. She had stabbed him with an ice dagger and Zuko had buried him. She had seen his grave. He was supposed to be dead.
She looked with wide frightened eyes over to Zuko. Zuko stared down at the man as they spread off through the air. He turned and met Katara's eyes.
"Didn't you kill him?" She stared at him with eyes the size of mangoes. Her stomach complained at the thought of a mango.
"Didn't you bury him?' They looked at each other then looked back to where the small clearing was just a speck in the distance. She shuttered as she laid back against the saddle rim. Her mind reeled. How did they find them? As if they didn't have enough problems already. She closed her eyes as her stomach curled again. She tried to force the thought out of her mind. But it wouldn't listen. She had noticed a great difference in her. Her stomach a was tighter then normal under her naval. Where she normally had a small lump of fat, now it was gone and it seemed hard. She shook her head. Then there was the nausea. She opened her eyes and looked over at Zuko. She took a deep breath and turned to look over at Aang. She felt tears start to sting her eyes. She clamped her eyes shut tight. She was not going to cry. She opened her eyes as the wind shifted direction. Aang was taking Appa down. They had gotten far enough away from the men, over a mountain range and across a river. It would take the men forever to find them if they stayed still, but considering they had to keep moving, it was highly improbable that they would find them at all.
She wrapped her arms around herself as she slide down off of Appa. Tears burned her eyes as she warded them off. A sudden burst of anger shot through her. Dammit! They should have told her what happened! They should have filled her in on what that damned demon did with her body! No! Instead they started ignoring her. They acted as if she was still the demon. She took a deep breath and shook the anger away from her. They had to have a reason for acting like such ass holes. They had to. She watched as Zuko slid down off of the animal. His black hair lifted for a moment revealing his face, but all to sudden it was hidden again behind his bangs. She brought her hand up to touch her hair. It hadn't grown out as much as she would have hoped. It was still short and still butchered. She watched him as he helped Toph off of the animal. She took a deep breath and tried to tell her knotting stomach to take a break.
She watched as Zuko double checked his broad swords across his back. She frowned as she made up her mind. As the others began walking she walked over to Zuko. She grabbed his wrist and held him back. He looked at her coldly. She felt a pang of hurt as he looked at her with such disregard.
"Zuko. I need to talk to you." He nodded and started walking behind the others, just far enough that there conversation would be private but not so far as to loose sight of them. She walked beside him. She wasn't used to him being so cold. Even when they first started traveling together when she was hurt, he wasn't this cold towards her.
"I really need you to tell me what happened when I was possessed." Zuko looked at her for a moment and shook his head.
"It doesn't matter. It's over with." She frowned as the anger flared back up inside of her.
"Dammit Zuko! You act like you can't stand the sight of me. You can't look at me with out a look of disgust in your eyes. Aang won't talk to me, HELL he won't even look at me if he can help it. I know something bad must have happened, but everyone is so damned tight lipped about everything that I'm really scared." Zuko looked at her.
"There are things that happened that are best left unsaid. Once all of it is far enough in the past, then perhaps we can talk about it then. Right now I am done talking about it." He hissed. She stopped and stared after him. She shook her head as the tears welled up in her eyes.
"But Zuko..."
"But what?" He snapped at her. He stopped and turned around to look at her. She furrowed her eyebrows and covered her face as the tears began to flow down her face. She shook her head as she found her voice.
"Something is wrong." Zuko narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest.
"You're crying because we aren't fighting over you. I was really wrong about you. You are juts another typical girl." She felt the tears over whelm her. She couldn't have him being so hateful towards her. She shook her head as her knees went out from under her. She dropped to her knees and shook her head. She wiped the tears from her face and looked up at him. She glared at him.
"You're a fucking asshole." Zuko shook his head and turned around to walk off. "You won't even listen when I'm trying to talk to you." He stopped and walked back over to her glaring down at her.
"Then fucking get to the point!" She looked up at him and then back to the ground.
"I think I might...be pregnant..." Zuko's eyes went wide as he dropped his rigid stance. He looked down at her with blank eyes. He shook his head and helped her up. She watched him. He was completely blank as they walked on. He didn't touch her, say anything, or even so much as glance at her. And that scared her beyond all reason. Once they caught up to the others, he turned to look at her with cold eyes.
"You really need to do some thinking, and so do I. Don't talk to me until everything becomes clear to you." She stared after him as he turned his back on her.
