A/N: Chapters will get longer when we are into the story more so yeah. Sorry once again for the last chapter (*Waits for tomatoes to be thrown at me… once again*)

Me and my friends play handball at lunch time, and when I was hitting the ball, it must have been going REALLY fast, and my fingers JUST missed the ball, and it made the white part of my nail come STRAIGHT OFF! It hurt SO BAD but I couldn't stop laughing. Me and my friends just had this full on laugh attack. And yeah. So now all of my nails are long and my index finger on my right is short. Grrr….

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LOL. I'm listening to My United States of Whatever by Liam Lynch! Tehe... Funny…

Fire Lady Katara

Chapter 5

Zuko had left 3 days ago. It seemed like much longer, however. She had never realised how lonely she felt with him gone. She never realised how empty she felt with him gone. He was going to be gone for another 10 or so days. She couldn't bare thinking about being without Zuko for that long.

As Fire Lady, Katara had a limited amount of things she had to do. It was nothing compared to the Fire Lord's job. She didn't know how Zuko done it, and was quite glad with having the simple tasks of a Fire Lady.

The Spirits were torturing her, she knew it. Coincidently, Katara had less work for the past 3 days than normal, which just made more room for loneliness and boredom. The first few months as Fire Lady were exciting and new, with servants and such, but it soon became very ordinary.

After doing her Fire Lady duties, it was only about 10 in the morning, so she decided to walk around the palace. She also tried to make it longer by going in every room and checking up on all of the servants. It was about half past 11 by the time she had been in every room, except one.

Katara had just realised this. The only room she hadn't been in was Zuko's study. It was a couple of doors down from their bedrooms, which she just so luckily had ended her walk around the palace. Curiosity consumed her, as she walked up to the door. Her hand was slowly getting closer to the doorknob. She quickly snapped out of her trance, remembering that Zuko didn't like anyone else going in there. She honestly couldn't believe that she almost opened that door. Curiosity killed the cat owl as her Gran-Gran always told her. Katara laughed to herself, remembering this. Zuko probably would have killed her if he ever found she even stepped a foot in his study.

Zuko's study was the only place in the whole palace, including the gardens, that he could have some alone time. He did not mean to make Katara think she was a nuisance of course, but even she knew Zuko needed some alone time every so often. Every day after a long period of meetings and such, he would go into the study room and lock the door. He would stay in there for at least half an hour.

Leaving the study door, Katara decided to feed the turtle-ducks. After going to the kitchen and getting some bread, Katara sat down next to the turtle-duck pond. Breaking off a small piece, she threw it into the water. The turtle-ducks almost came immediately. She smiled at this, and continued throwing the small pieces of bread into the pond, until there was none left.

Katara let her body rest on the tree behind her. She soon fell asleep in its shade, but only for an hour. Looking down at the pond again, she could see the mother turtle-duck with her babies. Katara once again smiled, and went deep into thought on her and Zuko's future with their child.

Katara was interrupted from her thoughts by a servant walking up to her.

"Your Highness, there is an important message waiting for you at the door."

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A/N: OMG CLIFFY! Yeah, I know. I hate that too. But I can't continue until the next chapter. I believe this is the longest out of all of my chapters so far, and I will try to keep that up. I just finished this a couple of minutes ago, and it is 11 pm, so I'm posting this then going to bed. So yeah. Bye for now everybody.