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Katara woke up with her door wide open. She remembered her mother closing it. She sat up and saw the fire princess leaning against the door way with her arms crossed.

"So," She started with a grin. "Your my brothers new mistress," Katara titled her head to left. Uh, no?

"What?" Katara asked.

"That's right. You'll be serving as his concubine," Katara was shocked at how much the words coming out of the princess' mouth were really hurting her. "You'll have to do what he says when he wants it and where he wants it." Princess Azula said standing straight and putting her hands on her hips. Tears were starting to form in Katara's eyes. She was already stressed enough and now she was being she was going to be used. It hurt her feelings and at the same time scared her.

"Azula!" Ozai barked. Azula gasped and spun around to face her father. "How dare you." He growled. "How dare you speak to her like that! How dare you speak to a fellow princess with such words. Shame!"

"I was just telling her the truth."

"No, you little liar!" Ozai didn't know what to do. He was so angry. He could feel the fire beating at his palms, begging to be let out. "You," He started. "You...you go to your room right now, young lady! And you wait there! It's time we had a talk!" He said turning and pointing down the hall.

"Yes." Azula said beginning to make her way down the long way.

"Yes, what?!"

"Yes, your highness." Azula said in a soft voice, walking slow.

"What'd she do this time?" Zuko asked walking up behind his father.

"Shut up, Zuko." Azula turned towards him.

"Yes, Asura." Zuko teased leaning against the wall. Azula gasped leaving her jaw dropped.

"Azula!" Ozai warned. Azula glanced at him before leaving for her room.

"Zuko, comfort Katara. I need to talk with your sister."

"What? You were suposed t-"

"Not now, Zuko! Later." Ozai gave him a look before he turned for Azula's room. Zuko sighed and pushed himself off the wall. He turned and looked into Katara's bed room. She was sitting there, clinching the sheets trying not to cry. Zuko walked in and sat at the end of the bed facing her. He sighed and thought about what to say.

There was an awkwardness between them that Zuko didn't like. He didn't like it all.

"Uh, Azula...has some issues." He paused to think. "She lies...a lot." Katara nodded her head. "What did she say exactly?"

Katara blew a strand of stray hair from her face and hugged her self, bringing her knees up to her chest. "She said that was I was to serve as your....mistress." Zuko gasped and was taking aback.

"No, no, no. It's not like that. It's not like that at all." Zuko shook his head. "The only reason we're getting married so that the Earth Kingdom thinks that even though we're total opposites, we still fell in love and that there really is peace."

"Yeah," Katara said nodding her head. "I know."

Silence over came the two. There wasn't much to talk about. Okay, there was, but neither of them really wanted to make conversation right now. Katara sighed and remembered about yesterday.

"I'm sorry about the way I yelled at you yesterday." She said circling her thumbs.

"That's fine."

"Zuko," Ozai called appearing in the door way.

"Well, hope you feel better." Zuko said to her before following Ozai.

Katara sighed and laid back down. Her head hurt from all the frustration and those pillows were so soft. Everything about these beds were soft. The top blanket was filled with llama-sheep wool and the bottom sheet was made from glow-spider silk. Finest in the world. She curled up under the covers and fell back asleep.

"Katara," Kya called. "Katara? You've been sleeping all day. At least get up for lunch." Katara rolled over onto her back and looked up at her mother. Kya smiled and gently placed a hand on her daughters shoulder. "Azula is at practice, so you won't have to worry about running into her." Katara sat up and hugged her mom.

"You get dressed. I'll see you there." Kya said softly. Katara nodded and got out of bed. She grabbed a maroon colored robe and put it over her night clothes. She wasn't in the mood to get all dressed up. Her hair looked fine, in it's usual braid and she was satisfied with the way she looked so, she made her way towards the dinning room.

The meal was nice, but silent. At home there was always a conversation going. They always had something to talk about. Katara figured they would since Ozai was the Fire Lord and all, but she guess everything was handled privately.

After lunch Kya pulled Katara aside. "Your father and I are going to go walking around the Fire Nation and see what we can see before we go. I want you to spend some time with Ursa." Katara nodded and turned. Ursa was waiting with a sweet smile on her face. Kya turned and left with Hakoda. Katara and Ursa walked side by side.

They walked down numerous hallways before someone finally spoke. "I heard about what Azula did," Ursa spoke softly. "She's a lot like her grandfather, Azulon, but she also has a lot of her great-grandfather, Sozin in her."

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"I can't believe what Azula said this morning." Zuko said, walking next to his father. They were both dressed in their royal robes and shoulder covers 1. Zuko wore his hair up how Ozai usually did with the Fire Prince crown. The two men almost looked like twins.

"Ugh, please do not bring her up, Prince Zuko. I don't even want to think about that child." Ozai rolled his eyes at the thought of that girl.

"Who do you like more? Azula or me?" Zuko asked glancing up at his father.

"I'm...uh," He started. "I rather you be Fire Lord than she." He paused. "Because she's so much like Sozin, I worry that if anything were to happen to you and she became Fire Lord, she would restart the war. I've worked so hard and there's still so much more to do. She's weaker than you are, boy."

"What?" Zuko was shocked. Azula was a fire bending prodigy. How was he stronger...well, there was brute strength, but that was just about it. Zuko also didn't pay too well of attention in school, so she knew more than he did.

"You have more pride than she does, Zuko. She may have pride, but it's only in herself, not this nation. You understand that without this nation, you would not be who you are and your pride grows with this nation, not yourself. I've noticed how you don't see me as a higher person. You see me as your father. She sees me as a Fire Lord and at times, I think that's all she sees me as. You've never called me 'your lord', 'your highness', 'your magesty'. She let's me control her, not as a father, but as a ruler and...rulers can be taken away...but fathers....they can not."

"Mm." Zuko nodded.

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Katara and Ursa were walking in silence when Ozai and Zuko walked by. Katara almost laughed at the way they looked so alike. Katara looked a lot like her mother and they couldn't pull that off. Ozai and Zuko had their hair the same way that day, both wearing almost identical robes they both had that jet black hair, almost the same face structure, but while Ozai had a goatee Zuko had a upside down triangle soul patch, but other than that small difference they both had those amber eyes. Those beautiful amber eyes.

Katara and Zuko locked eyes while they were walking past each other. It almost seemed like everything around the sped up and it was just them. Like, they were the only two in the hall...the only two in the world. Just for that second.

Katara and Ursa walked around the palace for hours that day. They didn't talk much, but they still enjoyed each others company and that was good enough. Ursa guided Katara through the halls back to the dinning room for dinner.

"Azula will be here," Ursa said quietly. Katara stopped.

"I don't think I'm very hungry." Katara said backing away from the door.

"Well, alright. But you can't hide from her forever." Ursa said before walking into the dinning room.

Katara turned and walked towards her bed room.

When she got there there was new Fire Nation clothes and jewelry. A note was on top of them.

Katara,

Your father and I saw these while we were out

and we thought you would like them, so we

bought them for you.

Love,

mom

Katara smiled and put her new clothes away and her jewels in a box. If this was going to be her new room, she was happy she finally had something in it.

Katara sat down on her bed and looked around. To her right was a window with maroon colored drapes. Beside the right side of the drapes was a pink flowering plant. On the front wall was a wardrobe, which was probably empty. In front of it was a red rug that was also in front of the window and beside her bed. Directly in front of her was the door. To her left was her dresser vanity. Beside that was the door that led to her bathroom. The walls were plain red. Her bed had a canopy and was by far the largest bed she had ever seen.

It was an Earth Kingdom King (Californian King) with dark wood. The wood had dragons and temples and flowers carved out of it. The mattress sheets were black and so was the lowest blanket. The middle blanket was red and the one made from silk. The top one was a dark red with a kind of viney swirly design in maroon. This was the one stuffed lightly with wool. The pillows were also stuffed with wool, but stuffed just enough to be firm, but you still sunk into them a bit.

Katara got up and took her robe off and changed into a blue baby-doll her mom had picked out for her and some black pants. She undid her braid and hair loopies and decided she was going to take a nice long, hot bath in the morning.

She had been thinking about her home and how she was going to have live her forever a lot lately and the whole Azula thing wasn't helping. Her new things help a bit with her stress, but she figured a bath would make her feel a lot better.

She pulled the covers over legs and rested her hands in her lap. She wanted a book. She wanted to read. She wanted to learn.

She wasn't tired and she wanted to go look for a library, but she was in her sleep clothes and she didn't want to seem....disrespectful.

Right before she was about to lay down Azula showed up in her door way.

"I'm sorry for what I said earlier." Azula said with her hands behind her back.

"It's okay." Katara said quietly. Azula nodded and turned around. Zuko walked in after she left.

"Hey," He said. "Can I come in?"

"Sure." Zuko took a few more steps before stopping.

"So, did you have fun with my mom today?" He asked.

"Yes."

"Um...I heard you liked to read." Katara nodded. "I can show you the library tomorrow if you would like."

"Yeah, that sounds nice. But I want to bathe in the morning, so maybe after lunch?"

"Sure. Sounds like a plan."

"Mm hm." She nodded again.

"Okay, well...sleep well." Zuko said before turning around and leaving, closing the door behind him.

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He blew a strand of hair from his face and paced in front of his bed. He was getting frustrated. He want to see Mai. It seemed like he was making an effort to try, but she wansn't. He wanted to at least know if they were going to be married. If she would have to have his children. He sighed and changed into a pare of black pants. He took his hair down layed down on his bed.

He hoped tomorrow was going to be a better day. Tomorrow they would spend time together. Tomorrow he would try to have an actual conversation with her. Tomorrow he would try to get to know her. Oh, the plans for tomorrow.

1. idk what else to call them, but they're those things that kind of ripple down their shoulders that they wear...idk how to explain it. :/

I imagine the baby-doll would like like this:

http:// www dot pink-addict dot com/images/pinkpinkbabydoll dot jpg

(make sure you take out the spaces and remove dot with .)

but in a sky blue.

http:// www dot thefurniture dot com/store/images/CZE/B40000/B40000_bed dot jpg

(same with that link)

that would be the bed set, but it would have the dragon carvings and things.