Hey! I know it's been forever but I got a good reason.

Between my new job (yay) and a buttload of yardwork I got recently. I literally don't even have time to complain I'm to tired to write. (that bad)

But this chap is extra long so I hope that helps.

Enjoy

Betrayed and Loved

Katara's face froze in horror. "I can't believe I forgot about Aang. When he finds out about me and Zuko...it'll break his heart."

"Katara?" Suki broke her train of thought. "What's wrong?"

"Yeah, why do you look so worried?" Sokka added. "Chances are he'll take it better than me."

Katara tensed up. "He'll take it harder then you think."

Everyone raised their eyebrows, even Zuko.

Katara hesitated. "Aang might have feelings for me."

Sokka scoffed. "What makes you say that?"

Zuko winced at the phrase. (Last time he said that, he screwed himself.)

"He..." Katara turn her head and blushed. "...kissed me at the invasion." Her voice trailed off as she finished the sentence.

Everyone looked at her wide-eyed. This was the first time she told anyone about this. She and Aang hadn't talked about it since it happened, so now on top of guilt, she felt bad for talking about this behind his back.

"Wait, he liked you?" Toph exclaimed. Katara turn to her and nodded. "I just brought him up because I thought you guys forgot he wasn't here."

"Where is he now?" Katara asked.

"Back at camp, but he doesn't know we left."

"Which reminds me, we should get back before he wonders where we're at." Sokka insisted.

Everyone nodded in agreement and headed back with a quickened pace.

"So what are you going to tell him?" Toph asked again.

"I don't know." Katara said with her head low.

"We'll tell him together." Zuko said with a smile.

Katara smiled back at him, but she knew how hard this was going to be. Sokka was still giving Zuko a scornful look. He had a lot to say to him and his little sister, but in this case he decided to let Aang confront them first. Suki was worried for everyone's sake, and was dreading the scene once they got back to camp.

Before they made it to the top of the hill where they were camping, they saw Aang with Momo on his shoulder running down the hill waving his arm. "HEEEEEEEEEEY!" Aang stopped when he reached them. "Where were you guys? I woke up and everyone was gone."

Toph was the first to speak. "We were looking for these two." She pointed her thumb at Katara and Zuko. "Found them asleep on some random field."

Aang had a confused look on his face. "Why were you two sleeping in a field?"

"Oh, um," Zuko looked to Katara for some help on what to tell her what-would-have-been boyfriend.

"We stopped to lay down, and I guess we fell asleep." Katara said. "Looking an the stars that is." She nervously added.

"Oh, so how was the festival?" asked Aang

"It was fun." answered Katara. "Zuko and I had a run in with some dangerous guys but we got out okay."

Sokka almost yelled out loud. "WHAT? They didn't mention any 'dangerous guys'." He bit his tongue to stop himself from yelling. This wasn't the time or place for that.

"Well I'm glad Zuko was there." Aang placed his hand on Zuko's shoulder. "Because I know I can count on him."

Aang may have put his hand on Zuko's shoulder as a sign of trust, but to Zuko, it was like an injection of guilt that ran through his body, and a punch to the gut to everyone else (execpt Toph who seemed unphased). "Greeeeeeeeeat, throw that in my face." He felt worse than scum.

Katara saw the look on Aang and Zuko's face. "Now how do we tell him?"

With his face frozen Zuko responded. "Yeah you can trust me." He was unknowingly yelling.

"Okay?" Aang had a confused look on his face. "Well I made stew for breakfast if…"

"Breakfast? Best news I've heard all morning." Toph said still hungry.

Katara was relieved Toph changed the subject. "Hey, we can talk about what happened at the festival while we eat."

"Yeah." Aang agreed. "I was wondering what happened while you were there."

Now she wanted to kill her. They all walked to the fire pit and saw the pot of stew Aang had made. They all got themselves a bowlful and sat around the fire. Sokka, Suki, and Toph sat on the larger log, Katara and Zuko sat on the smaller one, and Aang sat on a stump in the ground. Aang would have rather sit next to Katara, but didn't want to make a big deal about it.

Everyone except Toph and Aang were eating slowly. Suki looked over at Toph. The fact she was acting so calm made her mind uneasy.

"So." Aang said breaking the silence. "Besides those 'guys', did anything interesting happen last night?"

The couple didn't like how he said that. It sounded like an interrogation.

"No." Zuko started. "Not really."

"But you said it was fun." Aang stated.

"Yeah it was fun, but not that interesting as you put it." Katara continued. "We walked around, ate some snacks, saw the fireworks, and came back."

"Well we stopped to look at the stars." Zuko corrected. "When we accidentally fell asleep."

"Oh, of course, yes." Katara practically stuttered.

"So, pretty boring, huh?" Aang said eating another bite of stew.

"Yup." The two said together.

Aang was content with the answer, but Toph had had enough.

"OH FOR PETE'S SAKE, AANG!" She shouted. "KATARA AND ZUKO-"

Katara panicked. She quickly threw down her arm, waterbending the stew in Toph's bowl to spill on her feet.

"OW!" Toph yelled. "HOT!"

Toph quickly wiped the hot stew off the top of her foot, and started to blow on her red skin.

"Toph you okay?" Aang asked in concern, not noticing it was Katara's fault. Everyone else (including Sokka and Suki) was just glad she shut up.

"I'm fine, I'm fine." Toph answered.

After Aang finished his soup, he cleaned his bowl, and put it away. "Well I'm going to go practiced waterbending. You want to join me, Katara?"

Katara hesitated. She glanced over at Zuko, who gave her a half-nod. "Sure, I'll catch up in a little bit."

"Okay, just head that way," Aang pointed, "down the hill, through a small strip of woods, just go straight through it, there will be an open field with nice pond. I found it last night when I went to go meditate."

"That sounds nice; I'll meet you there." Katara said stiffly.

"Great." Aang glanced at everyone before he took off. Everyone looked tense for some reason, except for Toph who was still tending to her foot. He decided to ignore it for now, and took off on his glider with Momo following him. He soared through the air until he was over the pond. He flew down and landed. He took off his shirt and shorts, so he was just in his trunks, then he dived in the cool water. It felt nice as he floated on his back while the morning sun warmed his skin.

Even though they said it was boring, Aang still wished he went last night, it thought it couldn't be that boring with Katara there. "Katara..." He thought about her and the kiss he gave her on the day of the invasion. He still hadn't talked to her about it since it happen. Since it didn't seem anyone else was going to go with her he should have gone so they could talk. But he didn't, he was too afraid of what she would say.

He looked over at Momo who was perched on a tree limb. "You think I should talk to Katara?" Momo looked at him, tilted his head, and just chattered.

He floated there a few more minutes, then he decided. He was going to tell her how he felt. He got out of the pond, waterbended himself dry, and threw on his clothes. He grabbed his staff, and ran back towards camp with Momo riding on his shoulder. He figured she would be on her way by now, so he would meet her halfway in hope of being alone.

While running through the woods he spotted a small patch of wild flowers. "She'd like these." He grabbed a handful and tears them cleanly from the root so they'd look nice. He continued through the woods and was almost out when he saw Katara walking towards him from the plains, but she was with someone...Zuko. He ducked behind a tree so he wouldn't see him with the flowers. "What is he doing here? I'll have to get him to leave before I can talk to her alone." He held the flowers behind his back so Zuko wouldn't see, then came out from behind the tree and walked towards them.

But Aang froze. His arms fell to his sides as he saw Katara and Zuko kissing each other. He stood there with his jaw hanging open, and his heart slowly breaking.

Oh crap...

I don't make promises I can't keep so I can't say when the part will be up.

But it will be up sooner than the last one.

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