Suddenly everyone is awakened by the loud noises of expulsions. I see Aang run and grab his staff, and the he shuts the doors with a sharp whip with airbending. I'm too busy watching Aang to realize the sounds of the crumbling roof falling down.

"Watch Out!" Zuko shouts, as we roll across the floor, with the debris falling from the ceiling crashing a few feet away from us. His arms and entire body are covered and hovering over mine protectively.

"What are you doing?" I ask angrily looking up at him. His golden eyes meet mine.

Calmly Zuko replies. "Keeping rocks from crushing you."

I huff. "Okay I'm not crushed you can get off me now!" I yell as I crawl out from his hold.

As Aang and Toph and the others are trying to get Appa into the cave, I notice Zuko is looking out to the attacking airships. I hear him talking back to Aang, something about a "family visit" which could on mean his crazy sister Azula is behind this attack, and then he takes off.

Aang is trying to pull Appa into the cave but he just won't move. "I can't get him to go in there, Appa hates tunnels!" he shouts. I reply to him. "Aang there's no way we can fly out there."

"We'll have to find a way." He tells me. Sokka is talking now. "We need to split up. Take the tunnel and get to the stolen airship."

I look to my father and run up to him. "No the firenation can't separate our family again." He hugs me and tells us it won't be forever.

Then we are up on Appa he flies through the outside area of the temple while being covered with a shield of rock in front to protect him. Azula attempts to bring him down, but her attempt only destroyed the shield so we escape. As I look up, a second airship appears with Zuko on top. They face off in a battle of fire when they both suddenly evenly matched with a blast off fire coming from their hands which in the end shoots them both off the airship. Appa swoops by Zuko, and I know what the right thing is to do so I reach up and grab Zuko's hand to bring him into the saddle with us.

Meanwhile Azula is still falling through the air when I hear Zuko sigh and quietly say "She's not gonna make it." At that moment I felt a bit bad, even though they may not be on the best of terms that's still his little sister. But then Azula uses her firebending to propel herself toward the wall, as she does she takes out her hair pin to save keep her held on to it. "Of course she did." He finishes. And then we continue to fly to a new hideout.

….

We're all sitting by the campfire. Everyone else seems to be enjoying themselves, happy we got away; but instead I'm angry. We left the rest of our friends, and my dad. I'm tired of running from this. I know we needed to it's just, I don't even know.

"Gee It really feels like old times again." Aang says cheerfully. To that Zuko replies. "If you really want it to feel like old times again I could uh chase you around and try to capture you for awhile." The group erupts in laughter expect for me to which I give a sarcastic "ha ha."

My brother clears his throat and raises his cup of tea. "To Zuko, who knew after all those times he tried to snuff us out, today he'd be our hero!"

"Hear Hear!" Everyone says as Toph and Aang jokingly punch Zuko's arms. He smiles. "I'm touched, I don't deserve this."

And finally I've had enough of all this. "Yeah no kidding." Then I stand up without looking at anyone and walk away to the edge of the cliff."

…..

I'm overlooking the cliff when I hear someone approaching me. I turn to see Zuko walking up to me so I just walk ever farther away.

"This isn't fair, everyone else seems to trust me now. What is it with you?" He asks.

I scoff. "Oh everyone trusts you now!" I yell furiously. "I was the first person to trust you remember? Back in Ba Sing Se!" I point out to the water. "And you turned around and betrayed me betrayed all of us!"

I see him close his eyes as he remembers the scene that took place. "What can I do to make it up to you?" He asks. He really doesn't get it. I stalk up to him and begin to snap and go off. "You really want to know? Hmm, maybe you could reconquer Ba Sing Se in the name of the Earth King". Then I just let it out, the entire truth that has been holding me against him. "Or, I know! You could bring my mother back!" I walk away bumping his shoulder in the process.

…..

I step out of my tent to which I can assume will be another day of me avoiding Zuko, when I notice someone sitting down on a rock with their heads down. Oh it's him. "You look terrible." I tell him.

"I was waiting up here all night." He replies now standing up. I walk past him and grab my brush for my hair.

"What do you want?" I asked him with annoyance clear in my voice.

He doesn't hesitate. "I know who killed your mother, and I'm going to help you find him."

I stop brushing, he said very important words at that moment. Words that have made me avoid him all this time. Does he really know who? I turn to look at him, when he explains a bit more.

…..

Aangs feeding Appa some hay when we approach. "I need to borrow Appa."

He laughs. "Why is it your turn to take a little field trip with Zuko?"

I give him a very serious look. "Yes."

He's confused and continues to ask more questions when my brother comes into the picture.

"Um... and what exactly do you think this will accomplish?" Aang asks.

I shake my head and scoff quietly. "I knew you wouldn't understand."

He steps up to me. "No, Katara I do understand. You're feeling unbelievable pain and rage, how do you think I felt when the sandbenders stole Appa, or when I learned what the firenation did to my people?"

Now Zuko is talking for me. "She needs this Aang. This is about getting closure and justice.

Aang looks to the floor and then straight back to me. "I don't think so, I think it's about getting revenge."

I stop him there, because he's right in a way. "Fine maybe it is! Maybe that's what he needs! Maybe that's what he deserves!" I spit angrily .

"Katara." He pauses. "You sound like Jet." He says quietly.

"It's not the same!" I yell back. "Jet attacked the innocent, this man.. he's a monster!"

Sokka seems to have heard enough when he decides to speak. "Katara she was my mother too."

Then I say something I know I'll regret immediately. "Then you didn't love her the way I did!"

"Katara." Sokka says sadly.

Aang tries again to win me over. "The monks used to say that revenge is like a two-headed rat viper. While you watch your enemy go down, you're being poisoned yourself."

Zuko replies something witty when I begin to talk. "Now that I know he's out there, now that I know he's alive I feel like I have no choice."

Aang sighs. "You do have a choice, forgiveness."

"That's the same as doing nothing!" Zuko says exactly what I was planning too.

"No its not." Aang starts. "It's easy to do nothing, but it's hard to forgive."

I'm turning around when I talk. "It's not just hard, it's impossible.

With that I leave my brother and Aang behind as Zuko follows me.

…

"So that's it?" Zuko asks me as we are walking back to my tent.

I close my eyes and sit down on a rock. "No, like I said I know he's out there, and I'm not going to let him prance around happily like he did nothing anymore."

"So what's the plan?" He replies.

…

We're packing our bags when Zuko motions to me that we should start leaving.

As I'm about to get on Appa, Aang and my brother appear.

"Don't try to stop us." I tell them.

"I wasn't planning to. This is a journey you need to take. You need to face this man. But when you do, please don't choose revenge. Let your anger out, and then let it go. Forgive him." Aang tells me.

Now Zuko is speaking. "Okay, we'll be sure to do that, guru goody-goody." He says as he hops on Appa.

"Thanks Aang. Yip Yip."

And we're off.

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Hey everyone, I'm out of school now so I can update a lot more now! Sorry for the 3 month wait, but hopefully you forgive me! As always review, thanks for reading! Also I've gotten a lot of new followers and favs on this story so thanks for that guys!