She obviously couldn't talk to Zuko. She shook her head as the anger slowly crept back. She forced it down and followed a pretty nice distance behind them. She looked up as Aang stopped Appa. Sokka sat down on a small rock. Toph fell down next to him and closed her eyes. She watched Aang for a moment then walked over to him. She looked at him for a moment before she reached out and tapped his shoulder. He turned around to look at her, and frowned.
"Aang. I need to talk to you."
"Can it wait?" Katara's eyes snapped open wide and she stared at him. She grabbed him by the shirt and glared at him.
"No." She hissed and drug him a little ways away from the group. He pushed her hands off of him and stared at her.
"What's your problem Katara?" Katara glared at him.
"What's my problem? What the fuck is your problem? You won't talk to me, look at me or anything! I didn't do a damn thing to you and you and Zuko both are acting like assholes!" Aang looked at Katara with wide eyes. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She let out the breath and opened her eyes to look him straight in his.
"Aang. I'm pregnant." Aang's eyes got wide but he quickly shook his head.
"Well I wonder whose fault that is?" Katara clenched her fists and stared at him.
"What happened when that demon had a hold of me?" Aang shook his head and looked at her in disgust.
"Why don't you go ask Zuko, I'm sure he has a better answer then I do!" Katara took a deep breath and glared at him. That was it. She reached out and grabbed him by the collar and started dragging him.
"Katara!" She snapped her eyes to look back at him.
"Shut up!" Aang stared at her with wide eyes. He stumbled behind her as she pulled him. She drug him over and looked at Zuko. Zuko just glared at her. She shot her hand out and grabbed a handful of his shirt. She drug them over to a large rock and forced them to sit down.
"You two good for nothing, pieces of shit better start talking! I need to know what the hell happened when I was possessed and both of you are being so GODDAMNED HATEFUL! That I can't get either of you to be honest with me! So now you both start talking, or I swear to all the highest spirits you will learn the real meaning of water torture!" Zuko glared at her.
"Why should we explain anything to you?" Katara stared at him. She narrowed her eyes and backhanded him...hard.
"My fucking body has been used. And one of you took advantage of it, if not both of you! Now I am pregnant and the two possible fathers are treating me like trash." Aang just stared at her. Zuko looked over at Aang then looked back at Katara. She pursed her lips and nodded.
"Fine. You two want to be this way about it. I didn't want to have to do this yet but you have given me no choice." She crossed her arms over her chest and looked over her shoulder. "SOKKA!" Sokka ran around the tree and stared at her.
"What's wrong are you hurt?" She cocked her head to the side as she stared at Aang and Zuko.
"No. I'm not hurt. I'm pregnant." Sokka's eyes grew wide and he tilted his head a little.
"Say again..." She turned to look at her brother with tears in her eyes.
"I'm FUCKING pregnant! And they aren't telling me what the hell happened!" Sokka's eyes turned pure black as he turned to look at the two men. Almost instantly his bladed boomerang appeared in his hand.
"Which one?" He hissed. It was all he could say through his clenched teeth and tight throat. Zuko glared at the two and stood up.
"You want to kill someone, find the fucking demon that seduced us." He growled and started to walk off. Katara growled and sent a stream of water around him freezing him in place. He turned his eyes back to her and glared at her. The ice melted away and steam boiled off of him. Katara's face melted. She covered her eyes and shook her head.
"This wasn't my fault..." Sokka wrapped his arms around his sister as she started to cry. "It wasn't my fault. I didn't do this..." She shook hr head in Sokka's shoulder. Sokka shook his head as he rubbed his sister's back. He turned and looked at the two men.
"You guys are real smooth. You're blaming her for something she didn't have control over. How can either of you sit there and think she took advantage of you? How could either of you claimed to care about her and now when she needs you the most, you treat her like this? One of you are responsible, you need to start acting like it. Some men you are. Right now I am ashamed that we are considered the same." He moved and walked his sister away from them back over to Appa. Toph listened to Sokka for a moment then turned to glare at the other two through her blinded eyes. She stood up and walked over to them.
"You both should be ashamed. Maybe you two should figure out who had the most to donate, and figure out who has the highest chance to be the dad. Remember I smelled her on both of you." She turned and walked off. Zuko hung his head and shook it. He turned to look at Aang.
"Now what do we do?" Aang glared at Zuko.
"I know what I did with her...what did you do?" Zuko narrowed his eyes.
"I don't see how that is any of your business. But if you want to know tell me what you did first!" Aang curled up his nose, and then it disappeared. He shook his head. Zuko took a deep breath.
"Regardless of who did what, the fact is that she is with child now. She doesn't need us treating her like we have been. We need to take care of her and the child, despite who fathered it." Aang nodded in agreement with Zuko.
"She hasn't given us reason to hate her. If we should hate anyone it should be ourselves." Zuko looked over at Katara. She had pushed Sokka away from her and was sitting by herself.
"If you don't mind. I would like to talk to her first." Zuko looked over to Aang and nodded. That might be the better idea considering it was his child. Aang stood up and walked over to where Katara was.
"Katara." She looked up at him with weary eyes. She shook her head and turned her back to him.
"I don't want to fight any more." Aang closed his eyes and shook his head. Zuko was the one who should be talking to her first. It was his child after all.
"Neither do I." She turned to look at him. "Katara, I want you to know that I'm sorry. You need a friend right now not an enemy." Katara nodded she turned completely around to look at him.
"Then you will tell me what happened." Aang thought for a moment then looked back up at her.
"I know that things aren't going to be easy for you. But the night before you were freed from the demon..." He stopped. He didn't know why he was telling her this instead of the other, but he couldn't force himself to tell her just what had happened between the two of them. "You spent the night in Zuko's room...all night." Katara looked at him with wide eyes.
"Why wouldn't you just tell me." Aang frowned.
"It hurt me so much to see you go to him. I thought I maybe still had a chance with you, but you went back to him. I just knew that you had made your choice. After..." He stopped. No he wasn't going to say anything else along those lines. "I knew it wasn't for us to be together." Katara nodded. She kissed him on the forehead.
"That's all you had to tell me." She turned and looked at Zuko. He was sitting on the rock with his head in his hands. "I'm gonna talk to Zuko." She stood up and Aang grabbed her arm. She turned to look at him with unfriendly eyes.
"Don't." She growled. He quickly took his hand away as she walked off. He let out a long sigh. If she really was pregnant they were all in deep shit. Zuko looked up as she walked over to him. He moved over and let her sit on the rock next to him. She looked at him as tears started to well in her eyes.
"Why couldn't you just tell me?" Zuko turned to look at her and shook his head.
"How could I?" She looked at him.
"Open your mouth, generally words tend to come out that way." She laughed. Zuko shook his head.
"After feeling myself become so entranced by you, so connected to you...I just don't understand. I see now that it was Kuiodio, but you must understand. To know what I felt for your, and believing what I saw in your eyes to be the same feelings for me, It tore me to shreds to see you come back with Aang. I can remember you hugging me and his smell rolling off of you. I couldn't stand it. Loving some one as much as I did you...there are no words for it." She stared at him with wide eyes filled with fear.
"Wait...Aang..." Zuko looked up at her and he frowned.
"Yes...isn't that..." But his sentenced was cut off. She covered her mouth and ran. She ran as hard as her legs could carry her. The pumping of her legs began to throb but she pushed them forward. She could hear them calling out to her. She ran into the river without realizing it. She stopped and fell to her knees. Both of them! She clenched her eyes tight as the tears flowed from her eyes. She did both of them! She screamed into her mind. She opened her eyes and stared down into the water. Her breath caught in her chest as she stared at the reflection. It wasn't her own. Smiling orange eyes stared up at her as shimmering red hair framed the face.
"Not so high and mighty now that neither of them want you...are you Katara?"
