Title: When You're Gone
Words: 922
A/N: a modern day AU a follow up to 'I'm here without you'
Summery: Katara plagued by the memories of her last relationship.

10:15pm Wat3rTr1b373 says: Are you even paying attention sis???

10:15pm Istas says: I'm sorry Sokka; my mind is miles away at the moment.

10:17pm Wat3rTr1b373 says: UR thinking about him again aren't u?

10:18pm Istas says: Don't be stupid Sokka… I got a million things at work that I need to do. I have better things to do then think of then him.

10:18pm Wat3rTr1b373 says: You still love him admit it.

10:19pm Wat3rTr1b373 says: I can't believe you Katara

10:19pm Wat3rTr1b373 says: after all teh crap he put u through…

10:22pm Wat3rTr1b373 says: ARE YOU EVEN PAYING ATTENTION TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10:23pm Istas says: I'm sorry Sokka, I really got to go. I've got an early meeting tomorrow.

10:23pm Istas says: Talk to you later. Send Dad and Grangran my love. 3

Message: Istas has signed out 10:23pm 09/02/07

She stared at her laptop screen a moment longer. 'Why did that idiot brother of mine have to bring him up?' she tried to will away the tears that threaten to fall. 'I don't need people to remind me of him. I do a fine enough job doing it myself...' she clicked the laptop shut and moving it off of her bed for the night.

I always needed time on my own.

I never thought I'd need you there when I cry

"Zuko…" She clutched a pillow and finally allowed the tears to flow. 'Why can't I make this pain go away?'

"Katara…" she could still feel his warm lips kissing away the tears that she had shed in the past. She realized that his voice and those warm lips on her eyelids were nothing but her mind playing cruel tricks on her.

And the days feel like years when I'm alone

And the bed where you like

Is made up on your side

"Stop it!" she took the glass of water on her night stand and sent it crashing against the wall. "This is for the best!" she screamed.

"Katara…" his voice whispered in her head again.

"Stop it!" she clutched her ears in hope to drown his voice out as the tears continued to flow from her redden eyes.

When you walk away
I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?

"You're so beautiful." He placed a small kiss on her lips

"I don't know how you make me want to kill you one moment and the next, I can't help but love you?" pale lips smirked.

"I don't need your help" his golden eyes flamed "Leave!" he threw a vase at her.

"I can't go through the fights again." She mumbled to her memories. 'He hasn't changed, he probably never will.' She calmed her tears. "Moving here was for the best." Katara whispered to herself as she got to her feet.

When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you

"I'm better off here in Omashu. I got a fantastic job, great friends, I don't need him." Her caramel hands carefully started to pick up the broken glass. "Then, why does it still hurt to think of him?" she paused.

I never felt this way before
Everything that I do
Reminds me of you
And the clothes you left
They lie on the floor
And they smell just like you
I love the things that you do

"Are you stupid or are you just plain crazy?" his harsh words rang in her ears.

"I'm out of here. I don't need this crap." She still remembered the sound of him slamming the door.


When you walk away
I count the steps that you take

Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you

"Katara, I'm sorry." His voiced rasped. "Forgive me… please" she remembered how they used to hold each other for hours after one of their many fights.


We were made for each other
Out here forever
I know we were
Yeah Yeah

"It is almost as though we meant to be together. You fit perfectly into my arms." He played with a lock of her messy hair.

"I love you." He kissed the crown of her head as she nuzzled his chest.

All I ever wanted was for you to know
Everything I do I give my heart and soul
I can hardly breathe I need to feel you here with me
Yeah

"Because I still love him." she broke her chain of thoughts and returned to clean up the broken glass.


When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
And When you're gone
The words I need to hear will always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you

"And I miss him." she dumped the contents of the dust pan into the waste bin. "I'm hopeless." She confessed before she was startled by someone knocking on her front door. 'Who can it be at this hour?' she looked through her peep hole and gasped. "Zuko?"

Author's notes:

Again I apologize for the suckiness. I just can not write what I am seeing in my head.
Anywho I wanted to give the other side of the 'I'm here without you' fic. But this time the song is 'When You're Gone' by Avril. When I first heard this song on the cd I fell in love with it. I am a sap at heart.

I also plan on getting a new picture designed for this once I get a chance... in the mean time you have to deal with the cropped "Come into these arms again" pic.

Also I forgot to mention it but Katara's screen name means Snow in Cherokee.