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I'M SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG! It's just, ya know, life. . I'm working, and I'll try to be more consistent with the updates!
I hope you enjoy my writerness. (yes, I just made that up. BAM, I went there (WTF am I on?))
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Katara
I had approximately half an hour to find somewhere to hide.
I flew down the corridor and took a sharp right, almost flattening some servants walking the hallways. I turned again into the entrance of my garden, which, of course, was made of ice. I heard someone calling my name, but I ignored them.
I stopped short right in front of a large ice wall. I breathed in deep, and welted the wall, I slid in quickly and raised the wall back into place.
I turned on my heel and flew down the stairs into the dark and freezing depths. The blue light around me was soothing and I slowed my pace, knowing that I was finally safe. I pulled the hood of my parka up over my head to keep out the frigid air and shoved my hands deep into my pockets.
I reached the bottom of the stair case and turned again into the deepening darkness. I pulled off my glove, resisting a gasp as the artic air hit my bare skin, and placed it against the ice wall. I felt the ice suck the warmth from my hand and stick to my skin. I inhaled and melted the wall, stepping out into another dark blue hallway.
I sprinted down the hall and turned right. The floor beneath me sloped upwards steeply. And I came to a dead end, placing my bare palm against that wall as well, it melted.
As soon as the wall fell, I froze. Trying to remain as still as possible, I caught my breath and adjusted to the light. As soon as I could breathe, I shot out from the wall. It took me a few seconds to rebuild the wall and sprint faster.
I threw my hand out at the corner to get around it faster. I looked over my shoulder just as I got around to make sure no one was following me. Just as I did, I smacked into someone large and very warm.
"Whoa!" He said, laughingly, "Slow down! Haha."
I looked up into the face of the man that caught me, he blinked his golden eyes several times as he recognized me.
"Shit." I muttered.
"Katara?" he whispered.
I had run smack into the person I was bent on avoiding.
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Zuko
"Katara?" I whispered to the small blue eyed girl who I held in my arms. Her eyes widened, and her mouth gaped, as if there were something she wanted to say but couldn't get out.
I stood her up on her feet, steadying her as she looked like she was going to fall over. She took several quick steps backwards, and looked to my left where her father stood.
In the moment I had forgotten that he was there, but he merely smiled amusedly at the two of us, "So, Lord Zuko," he said, laughter creeping into his tone, "You were saying?"
I stared at him blankly for a few moments before my mind came back to the conversation we were having before Katara came out of no where and slammed into me, "Um, yeah, the wall looks great. It should be able to hold off any attacks against it, not that anyone would attack it now."
I noticed Katara creeping back around the corner out of my peripheral vision and turned back to her. Her father laughed again, "Indeed it would seem so. But I do believe that you two have some catching up to do. If you'll excuse me, Lord Zuko." He bowed his head slightly as he dismissed himself.
I turned back to Katara immediately and simply stared, taking her all in.
She had grown considerably since we had last seen each other. She'd gained at least five inches, and her curves had filled out. Her chest was considerably larger, though it's full size was restricted by her bindings. Her chocolate brown hair was longer, by far. It now almost reached past her now curvy behind.
Her eyes were the same, those two orbs of deepest blue. Right now they were wide with shock. She breathed my name, "Zuko,"
"Katara," I whispered back, waiting.
She just stood there, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape, "I-" she uttered, "I gotta go!" She turned on her heel quickly and fled.
"Katara!" I yelled after her, sprinting around the corner behind her, "Katara!" I stopped short in the middle of the hallway. I heard the cracking of ice to my left and knew she had disappeared into the wall.
"Shit." I muttered to myself. I ran my hand over my face, feeling the scruff of beard that was there. I closed my eyes for a second before sighing and turning back down the hallway, to where Katara's father had showed me my room.
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Katara
I ran. Fast.
I couldn't take it, I needed to get away.
It wasn't that I didn't like him, no, I did. That's why I needed to get away.
When I was around Zuko, I couldn't think. My mind would become one giant muddled mess of, mess.
I sagged against the ice wall I had just thrown up between Zuko and myself. I knew that he could melt it in a second, but that he wouldn't.
I shut my eyes and rested my head in my hands. There was only one place I could go in times like these. I took a deep breath, stood, and started walking, wondering why I hadn't headed there in the first place.
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Yes it's short, I know you'd think with the month it took me to write this it'd be like, 10 pages long. Sadly, it is not. L I apologize again for the length of time it took, please stick with me guys. I'll try to keep up! J