*All important disclaimer! I don't own anything! This was made for fun! Anything from the show or the real world not mine! Any reviews or helpful suggestions are accepted. Anything rude will be ignored. Characters a mostly OC, a bit of my alter ego's might slip in here and flames on the pairings or how Emotional Aang might be will be totally ignored. This is a Zutara story, I never cared for KatAang even when the show was going on. Aang will grow up I promise so please bare with me. Any helpful suggestions are appreciated. All haters and flamers please take your mean reviews and use them to thaw your cold hearts.*

Katara awoke to Suki standing in Zuko's doorway gaping. Katara rolled her eyes and got up ans softly and quietly as she could. Katara motioned for Suki to meet her in her room. Katara walked in through the bathroom, stopping only to close the door. 'He looks so calm when he sleeps.' she thought to herself as she stole one last look. Gently she closed the door and exited out her own. "WHAT HAPPENED!" Suki exclaimed, her arms flailing! "Your brother called me this morning, he said your not answering your phone, their worried sick! Aang called him last night in hysterics, Sokka couldn't understand any of it! Your dad is apparently angry at you too!" Katara sighed. She was afraid that would happen. Her father and Aang's uncle have several business agreements. 'Though I don't think Gyatso would never let mine and Aang's relationship affect his business dealings, dad must feel differently.'

"Tara! Hello!" Suki waved her hand in front of her eyes. Katara snatched her wrist mid wave, "Look, last night I had a bit of an eye opener. Remember Coco, from the store?" Suki nodded and sat with Katara on her bed. "Well turns out she was in a hurry, to get away from me because she was too chicken to tell me she and Aang were screwing behind my back!" Katara exclaimed, now she was more angry than sad. Sukis' hands flew in front of her mouth as she gasped. "Oh Yea Suki, and by the way that scrawny little jerk was worried about ME cheating on HIM!" "What are you going to do?" Suki asked, totally engrossed. Katara shot up from the bed, "I'm breaking up with him! This is the ultimate betrayal! I mean we actually talked about getting married!" Suki nodded and allowed Katara to rant it out. When Katara had finally calmed down, Suki brought her downstairs to make her some breakfast.

As they walked downstairs Suki had to ask, "so you slept with Zuko for revenge?" "Next to! I slept next to Zuko, and only because he was there when I just about fell apart. He knows about Mai and his dad by the way..." Suki gasped and Katara quickly explained. "Not from me! He walked in on them doing the dew." "Gross!" Suki exclaimed. Toph sat at the table with Zuko drinking coffee. "I'm so sorry Sparky. I wanted to say something..." Zuko smiled and ruffled Toph's bed head. "No worries champ..." He glanced up to see Katara and Suki, his smiled broadened when he looked at Katara. She returned it before grabbing some coffee for herself. As she sat down she turned on her phone and checked her messages. She just deleted the texts. All of them were from Aang. Her voice mail had at least ten messages from Aang, varying in moods. There were two from Sokka pleading for her to call him. But it was the last message that tore her heart out. Her father was angrier than the time Sokka burrowed the truck and crashed it.

"Never in my life have I been so humiliated... I received a call from Gyatso stating our business ventures are to be put on hold until this mess with Aang is resolved. I knew allowing you to leave for Ba Sing Se was a terrible mistake. Now look, your perfect future is put in jeopardy. Just because something has changed and seems new doesn't mean it makes what you have worthless. You are just like your mother, I'll not speak to you until this whole mess is cleared up..."

Katara lowered her phone with tears in her eyes. Toph, Suki and Zuko asked what was wrong. 'What did he mean when he said I was just like mom? What did mom think was worthless? Me?' Tears began to pour and all Katara could do was sob into her hands. Two strong arms encircled her, the smell of cinnamon and sandalwood filled her nostrils. "Come on Tara, what did the bastard say?" Zuko asked, his voice low and it vibrated through her. She hiccuped slightly and recapped what her father had said. Suki and Zuko looked shocked, Toph simply snorted and kept whatever comment she had to herself. A heavy knock from the front door resounded through the apartment.

Suki answered the door to find an exhausted looking Sokka, his five o'clock shadow and baggy eyes showed he taken the red eye flight. "Where is she?" Suki moved aside to let him in. "Katara!" he breathed with relief as he embraced his sister. "Sokka, its a break up not an execution..." Katara mumbled as she returned the embrace. "You don't understand Katara, Aang went missing last night. Coco called Gyatso, he had another attack. This one was huge. I was in the air when it happened but apparently he bent like hurricane force winds and got here. He was apprehended and arrested for public endangerment..." Katara's blood ran cold, almost like there was shards of glass in her veins. Sokka continued, "he has been placed in a special ward in the hospital. They think he had a mental breakdown. Katara this isn't your fault." The look on her face told everyone she felt otherwise.

Zuko placed his hand on her shoulder and turned her towards him, "Sokka is right Tara, Aang is responsible for his choices. Aang chose to cheat on you, Aang chose to get upset when he found out you knew. Aang chose to bend up a storm to get here. No where does it say you made him do it." Katara nodded but still felt overwhelming guilt. She excused herself and went upstairs to shower and change. Katara wore a knee length layered black skirt with a blue tee. She held her breath as she dialed her phone. "Ah Katara, I wondered when I would hear from you." The phone said gently. "How is he?" she whispered. Gyatso stood in the hall as his nephew lay unconscious behind the glass. "The doctors say that the massive rush of chi nearly caused an aneurism. He is stable for now. Katara I appreciate that you called. No one other than my self cared for Aang more, but I believe that might have lead to this, wouldn't you agree?"

Katara sniffled and agreed. Gyatso sat, his yellow and orange robes fanned slightly. "I remember the day I received the news, my beloved sister had passed away. Leaving me to raise this little twelve year old boy with Avatarism. For a year he seemed to just float through existence. Doctors advised anti-depressents, and even more to handle his attacks. I did not believe in such things and now I realize my mistake..." "You did what you thought was best," Katara defended as she sat on her bed. Gyatso shook his head lightly, "no, no dear child. I did what was easy for me. When he met you he seemed more eager to meditate and try to handle his attacks naturally. Since the loss of his mother he wasn't eager to let many people in, so it was a relief. Had he been any other kid meditation would've worked. But his abilities are very powerful, too powerful to go as unchecked as long as they did. I always believed the spirits allow things to happen for a reason. Possibly, nearly destroying my nephew was a test for me. I have failed. Myself, my nephew and you dear Katara. I pray one day you'll forgive me. I put to much responsibility of handling Aang on you. You were his lover, not his mother. And I believe that perhaps for Aang the line might have thinned..."

Katara felt tears falling down her face, "its all my fault! If I had just gone to Omashu with him like he begged me too!" "No, no dear one. That I believe would've only delayed the inevitable. I am seeing that my nephew receives the best care. If only I could do the same for you child." Katara thought of her friends and brother downstairs. They had taken a red eye flight or skipped class to make sure she was OK. A soft smile graced her face. "It's alright Gyatso, I have everything I need right here I believe." She hung up with him, promising to call and check on Aang's progress. She fell back onto her bed and let out a sigh of relief. 'One problem down, like a million to go.'

Suki made a fabulous diner, "its a family tradition. When bad fortune comes your way, have a feast. Its to attract good luck spirits, that or my granny just likes to eat." They ate together comfortably. No on knew of Katara's talk with Aang's uncle but as long as she was smiling they didn't really care. Later that night Katara sat on her bed, clutching her Koala-otter doll. Her fathers words were dancing around her brain. Sokka knocked softly and entered with his hands in his pockets. "So Suki mentioned dad said some things..." "What did he mean! Aang cheated on me, not the other way around! How am I just like mom? Sokka please if you know tell me!" she pleaded. Sokka took a seat next to his sister and sighed. "Do you remember anything from when mom was alive?" Katara nodded, "yea. We still lived in that three bedroom trailer with Gran Gran. Dad's business hadn't taken off. Once a week mom would disappear for the day, Gran Gran was real tense those days. But mom always came home by diner. Those were the nights she and dad really fought. I was about five or so."

Sokka inhaled and held it for a moment. "Well I was real young but I remember a lot about mom. She loved you, me, Gran Gran, dad. But, and I don't know the full story, but there was another man mom used to see a lot..." Katara wheezed as she stared wide eyed at her brother. 'Mom had an affair.' Sokka held up his hands, "Gran Gran swears by the moon that mom never slept with him. He just filled the gaps dad tended to leave. He took me and mom to movies and picnics a lot. Taught me how to throw a curve. Just did things for mom dad couldn't." Katara felt tears welling up in her eyes again, "then if it was so innocent, what happened?" Sokka gulped and paused to choose his words. "You came along." Katara stared at her brother aghast. 'My father might not be my...real...'

" I know mom never would have Katara, but the word of a seven year old means very little. The night she left, she was on her way to see him. To tell him that she couldn't see him anymore for the sake of her family. Then the car accident. He came to the funeral and dad almost killed him. Gran Gran and Pakku {Gran Gran's man obviously lol} stopped them. But I saw his eyes as he left Katara. He really loved mom, and I am a believer that people can have more than one loves." Katara nodded as silent tears rolled down her face. "I'm on the next flight home in the morning, I will talk to dad. He shouldn't have thrown it on you like that no matter how angry he was." He hugged her and stood. Before he fully exited the door Katara spoke, "Sokka wait." He turned to his sister. "What...what what the mans name? I at least deserve that much." Sokka exhaled and scratched his head. "Piandao Kekoa."

*dun dun dun! for those of you who don't remember Piandao is Sokka's master. Aang is going to be in intensive therapy for a few chapters since i broke him {hehehehehe} so now the big question is, did Kya cheat on her husband? or will there be a convenience twist of plot at the lat second! keep reading to find out!*