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Zuko's P.O.V.
Katara sat outside, waiting for Sokka to come get her so they could go home. I waited there with Azula at my side.
"Okay Zuzu, all you need to do is slip a teaspoon of this into that water bottle of hers and swish it around, as soon as she finishes the drink it will take 24 hours to take affect. Are you ready for this?"
"Won't it, you know, change the color? Won't she notice if it taste funny?" I asked my sister, with an evil smirk on her face. "Of course not, it is designed to blend in with the color of the beverage or food. Even if it is water."
"Okay, here I go." I said, walking slowly up from behind Katara. She turned around as I was reaching for the bottle. I shoved the vile into my pocket. "What do you want Zuko?" She asked.
"Oh, nothing…isn't that your brother?" I said pointing at some random direction. I ended up pointing at a large crowd of people.
"What are you trying to do Zuko?" She asked, eyeing me suspiciously. "Nothing, hey how's that Aang kid doing? I heard he had amnesia." I asked, trying to get off the previous topic.
"He's fine, thank you very much. Now seriously, what do you want?" She asked.
"Katara!" We heard a scream to the right. She turned and I quickly grabbed the water bottle to her left and poured a bit of the liquid into in, screwed the top back on, and shook it up. I set it back down as she reached down for it.
"Well, it was… wonderful speaking with you Zuko. See you later." She said, heading off to meet her brother and taking a swig out of her water bottle.
I heard footsteps behind me. "Oh, this'll be fun!" Azula stood next to me, with that same smirk on her lips. "I s'pose."
Katara's P.O.V
I walked away from Zuko with my water bottle in my hand. I took a sip, moistening my dry mouth. Sokka and I had a quiet ride home. I was quiet because I wanted to see Aang, he was quiet because Toph was coming by later.
Once we got up the driveway I jumped out of the car and ran inside the house. Nothing was broken or missing. Aang lay quietly on the couch virtually unhurt, save for the bandages that covered wounds from the accident. He looked up at me with gray eyes and smiled.
"Hello." He said kindly. I smiled back at him, "Are you okay?" I asked him.
"I'm fine…. except I wanted to make a pizza and I put it in the, oven I think? You know, like you taught me. But when I tried to take it out I kinda burned my hands." He said, pulling out his hands from beneath him, which were raw and red. I gasped.
"You use hot pads, buddy." Sokka said as if he knew it would happen. I gave him a glare.
"Aang, why didn't you call me?" I asked him as he sat up and I examined his hands. Sokka went to his room as Aang answered my question, "You said school was important."
"But this is more important, how long ago did you burn your hands?"
"About thirty minutes ago, I woke up late." I nodded.
"Hopefully I can heal these without much scarring, c'mon let's get some water." I pulled him gently along into the kitchen. I turned the sink on and used my waterbending to get water. I tried to heal his right hand first, but the dirty water wasn't working so well. The fridge wasn't working well either. I decided to pull Aang down to the basement to get a water bottle.
"What's that?" I heard Aang ask behind me. I turned around and saw him pointing to his old wheelchair.
"It's a wheelchair," I told him, "It used to be yours. When I first met you, you were paralyzed. But I healed you." Suddenly, his face went blank.
Aang's P.O.V.
"It's a wheelchair," she told me, "It used to be yours. When I first met you, you were paralyzed. But I healed you."
It all went black…
I woke up in a white room, the unfamiliar feeling that I only had half a body ran through me. I looked up to see a young doctor, looking down at me almost apologetically.
"Do you feel alright?" She asked me, beside the fact that I felt only half of me, I felt okay.
"I-I guess." I told her, sitting up slowly. "What happened?" I asked. "You got into an accident with your uncle, your legs got ran over by a car. I'm sorry to say there was nothing we could do for them, you're paralyzed from the waist down."
"What?" I asked looking at her like she was crazy. "Paralyzed, are you sure?" She nodded. "You'll have to ride in a wheelchair now, and get a new home."
"A new home? What happened to my uncle-"
"If he didn't rush in front of you, you'd be dead." She said to me. "So you're saying he's, he's…"
"Dead," She said, closing her eyes and looking at me sadly, "I'm so sorry, but he was killed upon impact. There was nothing we could do." My heart shattered as my eyes filled with tears.
The scene changed to sidewalk, I was looking at the rode where a boy and a girl stood arguing about their car and the wheelchair. The girl was very pretty.
"Oh man! That stupid wheelchair scratched my car!" said the guy across the street, then the most stunning creature I have ever seen stepped out of the car yelling at the guy, the girl spoke. "Oh calm down Sokka, we don't even know where it came from, it could have been a total accident!"
"But what if it wasn't! What if Zuko followed me here just to ruin my new car!" Sokka yelled. "God Katara, you never look at the possibilities!"
"Of course I do but that's so unrealistic!" Katara said. She picked up my broken wheelchair. "We have to find out who this belongs to, apologize, and offer them a ride home if they need it." Katara looked around as Sokka, who looked like her older brother, sighed. "Fine..."
Katara asking people nearby if they knew someone who had just lost their wheelchair, no one knew, then she looked across the street and saw Toph and I. She looked both ways on the street, and crossed.
"Excuse me, but do you know who this belongs too?" She asked putting down the heap of junk that was my wheelchair. "It's mine." I answered; she looked at me and saw my chin was bleeding.
The scene changed again to two building with a small alley between them.
"Where are you going?" I asked. "Isn't this where you live?" she asked, I mentally slapped myself, I had completely forgotten I told them this is where I live, when were I really live, is in the alley beside it. "Aw, crap." I said out loud. "What, did you forget your key?" she asked. "No- uh, I mean, yes, that's exactly it, I left my key at school how stupid of me, well maybe you can come tomorrow!" I said turning the way to here house. "Well, why don't we just go back to school and get it?" she asked. "Uh, they locked the doors." I answered. "There's after school programs today." she said. "Um..." was all I could say.
"What are you keeping from me Aang?" Katara asked giving me her hurt face. "Do you not have a home at all?"
"No, no, I do, it's just, not here." I said taking her to the alley toward the shack; I heard the barking of Appa and the meowing from Momo as they greeted me home. "This is where I live." Katara gasped.
"This is where you live?" She asked. I nodded. "Aang this is awful! Look at this place! And there's dumpsters that smell like dead cat!" She said.
"There are dead cats in there! I saved Momo before he died." I said as Momo came up to me and jumped in my lap and purred. Katara gave a disgusted face and looked back at me. "Couldn't you, live with Toph or something?" she asked.
"We tried but they don't want anyone else there, and they said they'd send me to an orphanage, we had to tell them it was a joke, I can't go to an orphanage!" I yelled.
"Then you can live with me and Sokka!" She said.
The scene changed to inside a car. I was looking suspiciously at Katara, then Sokka, then Katara again.
I knew something was up, I couldn't tell what it was yet, but I knew it was something. As we pulled into the driveway, they insisted I come in, as it was already hot enough, and we had to sit in the car for 20 minutes, so they were sure I was hot. So they got inside and I rolled in behind them looking down, but when I looked up, I saw a huge banner that said 'Welcome home Aang!'
"W-wha?" was all I could say, there was food everywhere, and Appa and Momo where there too! "Aang, you're living with us now!" Katara said. "Huh?" was all I could say, I was stunned. "We took the stuff from your 'home' today, brought it here, and brought it into the empty room we had." Katara explained.
"I know you probably think your gonna be a burden," their grandmother said, "But I assure you, we were planning on another one a couple of years ago, before their parents died in a car accident. We've always kept a room, for a place for their spirits to stay, until another was to come and live with us, for their spirits, will still be with us." I was shocked.
"I-I I don't believe it, I mean-" I started. "Aang would you be quiet, and celebrate with us?" Katara interrupted. Katara pulled out egg custard tarts, I told her they were my favorite a couple days ago, now she's using them against me.
"Katara how could you! You know I love those! Now your using them against me for evil!?" I asked. She laughed. "Here Aang, have one." She gave one to me.
"Darn weaknesses..." I said as I took a bite out of the deliciousness of an egg custard tart. "Well then Aang, welcome home." Sokka said.
"Home..." was all I could say, I finally have a family now, though they didn't officially adopt me, I was simply living there until I found another place to stay, but calling it home, was good enough for me.
The scene opened up to the car again, except I was just with Katara.
Katara nodded. "So, are you still going to the dance with Haru?" I asked as she made a disgusted face. "No, he was too much of a jerk, he's not my type." she answered.
"What is your type?" I asked. "Sweet guys with black hair, gray eyes, a dog and a cat, is mostly honest with me unless it's to personal cause I'll respect their personal space when they need it, and I don't mind if they're disabled." she said, only to have me realize she described me as we both blushed. "Oooh." I said. "So, have you found him yet?" I said playing along. "Yeah actually, I met him before the first day of school, and he just got out of the hospital." she answered. "Hmm, this guy is really lucky then." I said as she blushed. "Yeah, I'm just waiting for him to ask." she sighed. "Well actually, I talked to him a little while ago, he was wondering if you wanted to go to the dance with him." I said, blushing. "Tell him I said yes, and give him this." she said giving me a kiss on the cheek. "O-ok." I said blushing a deep shade of red.
She helped me into the car and got into the driver's side. "I'm glad I'm going with you Aang, your the only guy I can trust." She said as we drove home.\par \par When we got inside she told me to lie down. "Katara I'll be fine!" I told her. "I know that, but this is for something else." she said getting a large cup of water from the kitchen. I did what she told me as she waterbended water onto her hands, and the started to glow, she put them over my legs, going back and forth.
-5 hours later-
Katara was sweating in concentration as I slowly realized something was going on in my legs, it was weird, because I could feel it. Finally, Katara was done, she sighed. "There Aang." she said backing up. "There what?" I said sitting up, I actually felt the fabric of the blanket on my legs. "Katara, how come I can feel my legs?" I said, poking them. "I healed them, when you were out, I researched on how to heal paralysis with waterbending, and it worked!" She said. I couldn't believe it.
"Yes!" I screamed as I got up on my legs only to not be used to it and have my legs cave as I fell to the floor and scrapped one of my knees. "Ow, hey I felt it! It hurts! YAY!" I said as I got up and just started dancing some crazy dance. "I can feel 'em! I can feel 'em! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" I started singing. "I wouldn't be that happy if I hurt myself." Sokka said looking at me weirdly.
Scene opened to my room with Momo and Appa beside me.
I heard something outside my room, and skipping footsteps, towards Katara's room. What was Katara doing outside my room? Oh no, what if she heard my talking to Momo! I thought, I got up and walked towards Katara's room.
I entered, "Katara, what were you doing outside my room?" I asked. "I was curious about something, then I heard you talking to Momo." Katara told me. "Oh no," I said," You probably think I'm a total idiot, don't you?"
Katara got off her bed and walked up to me, "Aang, there's nothing to worry about." She said. "Yes there is! You probably hate me now and never want to talk to me again!" I yelled.
"Actually, it's the opposite." She said. "So.." I said. "What's the opposite of hate?" She asked, "L-Love?" I asked. "Exactly," She kissed me, on the lips! It was passionate, but short, she let go of the kiss, "I love you Aang, and I always want to talk to you." She said, I blushed. "Good Night Aang, can't wait for the dance." She said. "G-G-Goodnight K-Katara, m-m-m-m-me ei-either." I said, stuttering.
Then, it opened to a dance floor, Katara looking absolutely amazing.
We were on the dance floor, he head was on my chest as they played the last slow song, and our only dance, but she seemed happy, and so was I.
I yawned, she chuckled and looked up at me, "Tired?" She asked, "Yeah, a little bit." I said. She gave me a small kiss, short but sweet, she smiled.
If only moments like this could last forever.
The last scene opened up then, we were in the car, everyone including Toph. Skies were gray and we were heading back from what was supposed to be a day at the fair.
I looked out Katara's window, she was looking down at a book she had brought, when I noticed a very large truck outside, it wavered on the rode, and I grew nervous.
"Katara, switch seats with me." I told her, I couldn't risk Katara's life.
"What?" She asked, looking at me like I had grown two heads, "Just do it!" I told her, as we quickly switched seats.
Soon, I saw the truck lose complete control. Everyone gasped, the truck was heading straight towards us, I gave Katara one last look, I knew I wouldn't be able to survive this.
A wave of realization struck Katara's face as I gave her a sad look. "Aang, NO!" I heard her scream as the truck struck my side of the car, full blast.
Glass shattered, my skin was on fire, the car turned upside down, and I bashed my head against the roof, as my world went black.
I opened my eyes to realize I was slumped against the basement wall. "Katara?" I said, "Yes." She answered. "What happened, why am I here? I was sure I would die…"
"Aang, what are you talking about?" She asked, confused.
"The crash! We just got into a huge crash with a truck. I was positive I would die." I explained.
"You remember?" She asked.
"Of course I remember, how could I forget that?" I answered as she hugged me tightly. "You remember!" She screamed. "Katara, what are you-?"
Sokka ran in to the basement. "Katara, what's all the screaming about?"
"It's Aang, he got his memory back!" She said happily. "Back?" I said confused.
"He does! That's great!" He said, coming towards Katara and I.
"What are you two talking about!" I yelled at them.
"You had amnesia." Said Sokka.
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