Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Blurs of red and black, gold and silver, yellow and green, blue and brown Then white clouded her vision. It was so bright, she found herself desperately trying to look away but everywhere she looked it was blinding. She didn't know you could hurt this bad, her whole body had a tremendous pain going threw it. And the light… it just got brighter- mocking her, watching her squeal in pain. Then it went pitch black. And someone was screaming… the screams got louder and louder. Oh God she wanted to die.

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Zuko was panicking. He had no clue what to do. He had woken because Katara had been breathing very heavy. He hadn't really thought anything to it, just thought she was having a hot flash or even a nightmare. He had sat on the bed watching her, waiting until the breathing subsided but it never did- it only got worse. She started shaking violently, he could see her eyes were darting back and forth under her eyelids- and her breathing only worsened.

He had jumped off the bed to go to her side. He shook her gently, saying her name- trying to wake her. He put his hand over her forehead, Holy shit, it's burning. He shook her with more force, yelling her name. He tried to hold down her arms, but it made her squeal in pain. He loosened his grip and looked around the room.

He could splash water on her- but that could make it worse. He looked down as she yelled up in pain and started shaking even more. He yelled her name, shaking her roughly. As he was about to go run to the door for a doctor, she started screaming.

Screaming in fear and pain. He panicked. Was she allergic to the sleeping powder? Was it because of her injury? An infection? He ran to the door, trying to unlock but his hands were fumbling.

"Damn It," heyelled in his head. He finally unlocked the locks and yanked it open. The guard outside the door looked at him, as if saying "What the hell?" as Katara's screams echoed down the hallway.

"GET A DOCTOR!" Zuko yelled, the guard a little taken back, "NOW!"

The guard hesitated for a moment but quickly nodded and ran down the hallway to find the nearest doctor.

Zuko turned back and ran to Katara who was trembling and screaming. Her arms flailing everywhere. He held her in his arms and rocked back and forth with her.

"It's ok. I'm here katara, it's going to be fine. I'm here. It's gonna be fine," he said small soothing words to her. She stopped screaming and her trembling had gone down. "I'm here."

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Around two hours later, Zuko was pacing outside his room. They didn't take Katara any where else for the fact she would start screaming even more when they tried to pick her up and bring her somewhere else and that Hito's room wasn't any better.

He didn't know why he was so worried about the girl. All she was, was a prisoner to help him catch the Avatar. She was a stupid water peasant girl. It angered him that he cared.

"I don't care. You're just worried that something will happen to her and you wont have anything to help you catch the Avatar," But even when he told himself that he didn't believe it.

His thoughts ran away when five of the best doctors on the ship walked out of the room. They hurried over to him. He stood up straight and gave them a small nod. They replied with a bow.

"What is wrong with the girl?" Zuko tilted his head up a bit, he put his emotions away to not let them see that he could actually care for this girl.

None of them answered what had just happened to the water bender. He kept getting more and more frustrated. They were just looking at one another, worried looks on their faces, trying to see who would go up and face their prince.

Finally one of them spoke up. He had greasy black hair and ember eyes. "Prince Zuko," he gave a small bow then straightened back up, "For now we don't know exactly what happened to the girl. The sleeping powder you gave her, we checked and nothing seemed wrong with it and most people aren't allergic to it- especially water benders because they are familiar with the ingredients, but it is possible.

"But we don't suspect anything with the sleeping powder because the symptoms of an allergic reaction was not shown."

Zuko nodded his head, taking in the information. If it wasn't the sleeping powder then what? "A infection from the cut?"

"Its possible, but we couldn't see how it would have been an infection, Prince Zuko. It has been taken very well care of and no sign of infection at all. There's the chance that something got into her bloodstream and made this happened but we highly doubt it".

"So what happened?!" Zuko flared in frustration. His eyes shown with anger and his emotions were showing. He regretted and quickly put himself back together. He still showed anger but no other emotion.

"We- we think that it may have been something with the brain." the doctor looked at Zuko with some fear, "as for we couldn't find anything really wrong. And her eyes were darting back and forth, showing that she was dreaming when all of this happened. The pain that was produced by the injury she has, could send waves to the brain making her have a nightmare which didn't just have the images but the pain. Zuko sighed. Just a nightmare.He asked the question he was somewhat dreading.

"Will she be ok?"

The doctors looked at him uncertain. "Were sure she will be fine, but if these nightmares keep happening it could disrupt her real life- when she's awake. And they could send more pain to her".

Zuko wasn't relieved anymore. Yes there nightmares- but there deadly, or that's what he thought, maybe he was just over reacting.

One of the doctors saw his worry and decided to tell him soe good news. "The girl is fine right now, much better. We think she was waking when we left the room".

Zuko looked at him and said his thanks. He dismissed them. Why am I worrying so much? Why am I worrying about the enemy?

He let out a loud breath and his uncle showed out of no-where.

"Worrying about the girl?" his uncle asked. Zuko was a bit startled by the sudden appearance of his uncle. Iroh saw this and chuckled to himself.

"No. Why would I ever worry about some stupid water bender," Zuko snarled at him, but he could see his uncle didn't believe him, "Ok your right. But I'm worrying because if something happens to her, I wont have anything to get the Avatar to come," this time he didn't even believe his own words.

"What about Revenge?" Iroh smirked at him. He knew he cared about this girl and it amused him to watch his nephew battle his guy emotions. But he wished that he would find it out soon.

"What about revenge?"

"If something were to happen to the girl, the Avatar would want revenge," his uncle said, "would he not?"

"I didn't think about that," mumbled Zuko, turning around and walking to his room- away from his irritating uncle.

Iroh laughed, "Sure."

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Zuko opened his door and walked threw it. Locking it up once again he turned around, only to find a calm looking Katara staring at him, but when he looked in her eyes he could see the trace of anger- of hate. It disappointed him.

He stood there, not knowing what to do. She just stared at him. She was sitting up and he wondered how long it took her to get like that- and if there was anymore pain in the process.

"Why?" one word escaped Katara's mouth and it made shivers run down his spine, but he still stood tall.

"Why what," he said it a bit harsh and he wanted to slap himself but he just stood there, staring at her as she did the same.

"Why did you do it to me?" her face was emotionless and scared him. And it hurt him that she thought he did this to her.

"I didn't do anything to you," he took a step forward and he saw anger and fear cross her eyes, he stopped moving, "when you were sleeping, pain from your injury sent waves to your brain making you have a nightmare."

"A nightmare?" She looked at him as if he was stupid, "You think a nightmare made me scream in pain, made me burn, made me hear terrifying screaming. You think a nightmare did that!?"

She was getting up from the bed, he could see her fighting away the pain. He wanted to help but it would probably make matters worse. "And do you think a nightmare brought me into your bedroom."

She stared at him, she was standing up ten feet away from him. Anger poured onto her face.

"I had to, there was no where else for you to go with your injury," his voice was calm, looking at her trying to see if she was about to collapse with the pain but she didn't.

"Let me sleep in the hallway- the prison!" she threw up her arms and winced in pain but still put it away, trying to forget it, "Its better then here- with you."

"You would have died!" he shouted, now anger was over taking him- like it usually did. Fire blared in his eyes.

She stood her ground, "So you go and do this to me, even though you don't want be to die."

"I didn't do anything to you!" He took a step forward wanting to hit her. She didn't know what happened, she has no clue.

"Zuko!" Katara screamed. She was scared that he was going to hit her- she didn't want anymore pain. She saw him stop in his tracks and look at her, he lowered his hands and he saw the fear in her eyes and her body was trembling.

He looked down, mad at himself. "I didn't hurt you, I didn't do anything," he looked up at her and she saw the honesty in his eyes, she saw the hurt.

"It's ok. I'm here katara, it's going to be fine. I'm here. It's gonna be fine," Zuko's warm voice said. "I'm here."

She remembered him saying those words. Guilt filled her. "I know you didn't hurt me," she took a few steps toward him so they were standing right in front of the other. "I know".

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Iroh sat outside his nephews room. He had heard Katara's scream come threw the door, even thought it was muffled, he knew it was a scream of fear. Then everything had gone quiet.

He prayed that his nephew controlled his anger and not had hit the poor girl. Even when Zuko got mad at him and hit his shoulder or something it would hurt, but that wasn't even half of what his nephew could do. Zuko didn't ever hit his uncle full blast unless he was uncontrollably angry- but with other people-

Iroh didn't want think about it. He just prayed the girl was ok..

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Zuko was shocked by Katara's words. They had looked into one another eyes for a moment but Katara looked away after a few seconds.

"Do I have to sleep here," she left off the words, with you. She turned away from him.

"Yes," Zuko said.

"Cant I sleep on the couch, " she turned her body towards the couch. She already knew the answer, No, because of her injury- the couch was not to be laid on especially someone In her condition, a bad stab wound and pain filled nightmares. "Well what about if you sleep on it."

"Im not going to sleep on the couch," Zuko sounded annoyed, she wanted to laugh at it.

She slowly made her way over to the bed again. She sat down wincing again at the pain and finally looked at him. "You better not touch me during the night," she looked at him, "you with your boy hormones."

"What! Im not like other boys," here she goes accusing him of something he's hasn't done, "I'm not going to touch you."

"You better not," she smirked at him, "and you are like other boys- you have hormonal problems."

He looked at her, mouth agape- why was she talking about his hormones? "I'm not like other boys. I'm on a ship 24/7 away from girls."

"Well now your in the same bed as a girl," she still stared at him as she pushed herself up the bed, trying to pull up the covers very slowly, sometimes showing pain, "so that's not a excuse anymore."

He wished she wouldn't stare at him like that. He turned around and headed back for the door, "I'm not going to do anything to you during the night," he started unlocking the locks.

"Sure," She watched him unlock the last lock, "that better be the truth."

He opened the door and looked at her one more time, "It is the truth. Don't do any thing while I'm gone." With that he was out the door and gone.

What can I do, thought Katara. She laid down, wondering if she should fall asleep again or not. She thought against it. She looked at the room. It was actually pretty nice. The bed was covered in red and gold silk sheets and six big pillows. There was a bathroom in far right corner of the room- which looked pretty big. There was a huge magony dresser in the left corner of the room. The door was straight ahead. The golden red couch was on the left of her. She looked at everything and while she was doing this she fell asleep. Not a nightmare but a soft normal dream.

All she remembered was hearing the words run in her head- "It's ok. I'm here katara, it's going to be fine. I'm here. It's gonna be fine," From Zuko's warm voice trying to calm her "I'm here."

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Appa wasn't getting any better. They saw only small recovery from his health, but other than that he wasn't getting better- therefore he couldn't fly. And if he couldn't fly, they weren't able to find Katara.

Aang wasn't able to use his staff because it wasn't working properly because Sokka was practicing with his boomerang and it somehow made a rip in the cloth of the staff and chipped a bit of the wood. Aang was mad at Sokka for awhile but let it go. Toph kept going back to the village to get more medicine for Appa and was trying to find more information on what Zuko was doing to Katara- but nobody knew.

Aand was getting very fustrated and Sokka was also. It made him beyond angry and mad to know that Zuko had his little sister and god knows what he was doing to her, It made him shudder at the thought- he would kill him if he did anything to her, if he ever touched her.

It made them all worry about how long Appa would be sick. They needed to leave now- but it just wasn't happening.

"Soon," Aang told himself, "soon."

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So here's Chapter 5! Sorry for not getting it up quick, I had a very busy week and wasn't able to get to a computer for days. Hopefully you guys like it and more importantly hopefully all of my faithful readers are still reading the story. I know I said the more reviews the quicker I get it up and that always is true except for that week- I had family up and was out of town and stuff but now, Im totally free! So Review! Chapter 6 will be up!

Oh and Katara dosent have healing powers yet- she hasnt figured it out yet, she'll figure it out later into the story.