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Chapter 14

Peasant

"Zuko, aren't you going to come greet our guest?" Katara asked anxiously, while leaning on the door of his meditating room, with her hands on her hips. She had already lied to Aang and Toph about him being busy and they did really want to see him. She hoped that he would say yes but she knew Zuko. He would probably say no just to irritate her. Zuko swayed his head towards her. He gave her a small stare then turned back to what he was doing. "No." he said dully.

Katara's jaws clenched. She knew he was going to do that. He was back to his egotistical bastard self again. " Whould it hurt you to be a little more caring sometimes?" She asked in a calm way but her voice still carried a hint of grouchiness. Zuko let out a bored sigh and leaned back on his elbows. He turned his head to look at her again and he could tell she was mad. It was so obvious because of the way she carried herself. "Well, it wouldn't hurt to be caring, but I don't want to be caring. Besides…It's your company. Not mine. What do you need me to greet them for?" he asked irritated.

Katara's hands clenched tightly onto her hips at Zuko's last words. Zuko saw this and continued on to what he was saying. " Secondly…I have more important things to do."

Katara was furious now. Her shoulders tensed and her hands were bald into fist hanging by her sides. "Ah…" She screamed, while storming out of the door way towards the hall. " I can't believe I married you!" She howled throwing her hands up in the air like a mad woman. As soon as she said that Zuko's head was already out the door yelling right back at her. " You can't believe you married me?" He looked puzzled and pointed at himself. "I should be the one saying that…I married a peasant for Agni's sake.

Katara's eyes shot wide open. Did she really hear him say that or was her mind playing tricks on her. She turned around so she could see him. He had a small smirk on his face and his arms were folded across his chest. "What did you just call me?" She growled.

Zuko's smirk grew wider. " You heard me, peasant!" he spat. She just insulted him so why not play her at her own game. "Peasant, Huh?" She smiled her sweet smile but had an evil yet sweet ring to her voice. She moved her arms behind her back and secretly started to waterbend without Zuko noticing. She had picked up a vase nearby and it hovered above his head.

Zuko did not notice anything. He wasn't even aware of his surrounding. All he was focused on doing was messing with Katara. "That's right…peasant…. P…E…A…S…A…N…" He was singing childishly but could not get the last letter out because of the vase that dropped on his head.

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Two guards were around the corner from Zuko's meditating room. They weren't assigned to do anything at that moment so they were just lollygaging around. They were about to go to the training arena but ran the other way when they heard a painful scream coming from their lords meditating room.

Before they could turn the corner they saw Katara walking down the hall. " Lady Katara, is everything alright?" both soldiers asked in unison gesturing towards the scream. " Katara grew a small smile. " O my, of course everything is okay. Lord Zuko just had a little accident. You might wanna go check up on him though." She said before walking away.

When they finally turned the corner they spotted Zuko's body in the middle of the hall. "Fire Lord Zuko?" One guard yelled while running to aid him. He was drenched in water and there was broken glass everywhere. This gave them a little bit of relief. They knew who did it and it was amusing. "I wonder what Lord Zuko did to Lady Katara this time." One guard said to the other. "Maybe he called her a 'you know what' again." The other guard laughed. They both lifted Zuko up.

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Zuko awoke with a throbbing headache. The last thing he could remember was calling Katara a peasant. No wonder. He thought to himself. She couldn't have been that mad since he was in his room and not at the medical center. He looked at the clock to his right. Only an hour till dinner. He said out loud to no one in particular. He got out the bed surprised that he could walk strait. He went to shower and get dressed. He stared into the mirror to see if there were any cuts on his face. Luckily he found non-. As he brushed his hair he could feel a few minor cuts on his head though. That damn Katara!

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Toph sighed and put her elbows on the table. "Do we really have to wait for 'Fire Lord Zuko'?" She asked while making quotation marks with her fingers as she referred to him by his title. Katara looked at her friend and let out a small laugh. "Yes Toph…If we didn't it would be considered disrespectful. " How could it be disrespectful to eat?" Toph asked overwhelmed by what Katara just said. Katara was about to respond to her question until she heard Toph speak again. "O…so Big Red finally wants to join us?" She asked sarcastically. Katara and Aang did not hear Zuko approaching the dinning hall but Toph did. "Don't call me that!" Zuko said before taking his seat at the head of the table.

"Hey Zuko" Aang said brightly. "Hello Avatar." Zuko never really got the chance to call Aang by his real name. It was just too weird. "Well, I didn't get a hello!" Toph pointed out. " You could have had one but you ruined the moment when you called me that infuriating name." Zuko said in an in your face kind of tone. "Well excuuuuuse me, 'Angry Boy'." She said, which made Zuko bored eyes turn into an evil stare.

" What took you so long? I'm starving here." Toph said irritated at his lack of timeliness. Zuko turned his head away from her and gave the servant approval to serve the food. Then started to talk back to Aang and Toph. "It was all Katara's fault." He said accusingly. "What!?" Katara screamed narrowing her eyes at him. Zuko never looked at her. He just explained to them that she couldn't control her temper and dropped something full of water on his head. " You should start calling her 'Angry Girl'!" he said while pointing at Katara with his head facing the other way and his nose pointing to the ceiling.

Aang and Toph stared at Katara with complete silence. Even though Toph could not see she still knew the direction of which Katara was sitting. The servants with hot gold plated plates filled with food broke the silence. They sat everything in the middle of the table and Toph immediately dug in. "Food!" She screamed, reminding Katara of Sokka. Aang looked at his dear fiancée and smiled. She was so adorable when she ate. He waited for her to finish picking threw the food before he got his own. No one noticed but they were the only two eating.

Katara was starring at Zuko with her arms folded across her chest. Zuko stared back at her with his angry face and stuck his tongue out at her. She picked up a knife and held it up for him to see as a gesture that she would cut it off if he did it again. " Katara, aren't you going to eat?" she heard Aang say. He could fell the bad vibes coming from her and Zuko even though he was no Toph. Toph couldn't feel it because she wasn't paying any attention to the two. They were always mad at each other so she just stopped being nosey and she was in too much of a daze with the food anyaways.

"I'm not hungry." Katara said not even looking at Aang. She kept exchanging deadly stares with Zuko. Zuko was air talking and Katara could read his lips perfectly. His lips formed the word peasant. If Katara would have narrowed her eyes even further she wouldn't have been able to see. Aang saw this and elbowed Toph on her side. Toph turned to look at him and he asked "can you feel it" a gesture to pay attention to them.

Toph could feel the tension between them. She put down her rabbit chicken leg and whispered "May be we should go" to Aang and he agreed "Good idea!" Aang took his last sip of his water and then stoop up with a huge grin on his face. Both Katara and Zuko glared at him because of his sudden movement. This caused Aang to get a little nervous. "Umm…" he started out then let out a nervous laugh. Toph had to step on his foot to make him go on. " Thanks for the wonderful dinner, but Toph and I are really tired." He began to fidget with his fingers.

Katara could see that he was a little nervous. "Don't worry Aang. I was about to leave also. You can go." She smiled. Aang let out a small sigh and stuck his hand out for Toph to take, helping her out of her seat. "See you two hot heads tomorrow." Toph waved.

As soon as Katara was sure they were gone she looked at Zuko. "See what you did?" She said pointing at the door. Zuko was perplexed. "Me? What did I do?" He asked in his defense. Katara didn't saw another word and walked off. Zuko just stayed there puzzled while looking at her backside.

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Katara lay in her bed telling herself that she was not waiting for Zuko, but she was. She just wanted to make sure that he was there. She didn't want him to be anywhere else. Her large bedroom doors opening and shutting interrupted her thoughts. She quickly turned on her side away from Zuko and pretended to be asleep. She could hear Zuko taking off his clothes and putting on his pajamas. She felt him get into bed and under the covers. She was surprised when he slid over closer to her. She could feel his body temperature rising.

He was doing what he hadn't done in weeks. He was actually holding her. Her back to his chest. "Why are you always mad at me?" he whispered in to her ear. His hot breathe tickling her neck. He knew she was awake because she wasn't snoring. "You called me a peasant." She said softly. "Yeah…but you started it." He said in a childish tone. "Well, you should stop acting like a jerk!" Katara said while turning to face him. She lifted her hand up to remove a stray hair from his face. "Sorry!" he replied coolly. "Me too." She said gently while stroking his face. He moved down to kiss her on her full lips. It was sweet and simple.

Katara was hoping for the make-up sex but Zuko still refused to touch her. He hadn't touched her in weeks. She was sexually frustrated and worried about her love life.

A/N: Sorry for the extended wait. I had a bunch of Birthday stuff to do. I'm finally Sixteen. YAY ME!

In the next chapter you will find out what's in the letter Katara wrote.

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