Thank you to those of you who reviewed, I love hearing from everyone who reads my stories! I can't promise an update every day, but I will try to update as often as possible. I'm sorry if Aang seemed a bit harsh, but remember, in this version, Aang is older and more mature, with a different mindset from the young Aang we all know and love. Plus, (slight spoiler) you're all going to be a little more angry with Aang in a few chapters. Sorry.

Little bit of back ground info:

-Aang was born about 6 years sooner in this universe, so he was 18 when the monks told him he was the Avatar. After they tell him that he would have to give up his attachment to Gyatsu, he ran away, and we all know the story after that.

Ages for all characters are:

18 - Aang and Suki

17 - Sokka and Zuko

15 - Katara and Toph (just so she isn't so many years younger then everyone else)

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Katara got dumped by Aang, who is about to leave Ba Sing Se.

Chapter Two

Zuko frowned as he entered the dining hall. Usually, by the time he had finished with his morning routine of training on the roof top of the palace and meditating in the early morning sun, everyone was already seated around the table, talking animatedly and fighting over who got the last piece of bacon, even though there would be more brought shortly by the palace staff. But as Zuko entered the dining hall, he found that only Toph and Mai were present.

"Where is everyone?" Zuko asked as he sat in his usual spot next to Mai.

"Dunno, Preggers just went to hunt down Snoozles and Sugar Queen and Twinkle Toes got into a fight this morning. Sweetness is still in her room boo-hoo-ing."

Zuko frowned and asked the blind Earth bender, "who? Never mind, why is Katara crying?"

"I suppose her and Aang got into a fight. How am I suppose to know?"

"I thought you were her friend?" Mai snorted as she pushed a grape around on her plate with a fork, "shouldn't you be, I don't know, comforting her, or something?"

"Nah, Sugar Queen knows I ain't no good at that kind of stuff so what's the point in trying?"

The new Fire Lord sighed and turned back towards the hallway, "I'll go check on her. Honey, will you ask one of the servants to send a tray up to her with some jasmine tea. Maybe it will help her calm down."

Mai sighed and kissed him on his cheek.

"You sound more and more like your uncle every day, Zuko."

"I'll take that as a compliment," he chuckled before walking on down the hallway towards the guest's wing, intent on finding out why his friend was so upset.

Zuko and Katara's relationship had started out... tedious, to say the least, but over the last few weeks, what with all the deep, emotional talk, the playing ninja in the night, and fighting together in a life or death situation against his sister, only to be subsequently saved by the Water tribe girl, Zuko felt like Katara was one of his best friends, and someone he could trust with his life.

And if Aang had gone and done something to hurt her, there was going to be Hell to pay. Agni knew, he was a man with a temper, and when it came to those he loved, there was no holding back.

"Katara," he called as he knocked on her door, "breakfast is ready."

"Go away, Zuko," he heard the girl hiccup from the other side of the door.

"Toph said you and Aang had a fight. Do you wanna talk about it?"

"Not now!" she yelled, throwing something, probably a soggy pillow, at the door.

Zuko sighed, thinking it best to leave her alone for a while longer.

"Alright, I'll leave you be for a while. I asked Mai to have a tray sent up for you, try to eat something or you're going to make yourself sick. You know where to find me when you're ready to talk, alright?"

There was a long pause, then the sniffles resumed.

"Thanks, Zuko."

Said Fire bender smiled and left the door without saying a word, heading back to the dining hall to join the others for breakfast. When he arrived, he found that Sokka had joined them, and was just scarfing down the last of the frost berry pancakes.

"Hey, Zuko, any luck with Katara?" he asked between bites as the fire lord sat next to him at the table.

"She's still upset, so I left her alone for now. She'll come around in a while. Any idea what happened?"

Sokka swallowed, then stopped eating all together, gripping the handle of his fork tightly.

"Aang's a jerk, but he's not here anymore, so let's not discuss it."

"Twinkle toes left? Without saying goodbye?" Toph gaped.

"He hurt Katara, Toph. He thought it would be best if he left as soon as possible to make it easier on her to get over it."

"More like he didn't want her over-protective big brother to beat the crap out of him," Toph snorted, "just wait until you have daughters, Suki. There will be no dating for them until they're old and wrinkly if Sokka has anything so say about it."

Sokka snorted as he started back in on his pancakes, "yeah, like that'll happen anytime soon."

Suki fidgeted in her seat and glanced nervously at Toph, who smirked. Zuko frowned, the only one who had caught the interaction as his girlfriend dished out some komodo rhino sausage and firecake biscuits, his favorite breakfast meal since childhood. He smiled as her and placed his hand on her cheek.

"You remembered."

"Of course I did, Dummy," she snickered, "I had a crush on you growing up. I'll bet there are things I know about you that even you don't remember."

"Of yeah, like what?"

"Like how once, before she was so evil, how Azula married us in front of the statue of your great grandfather in the court yard."

Zuko's eyes widened in surprise as the memory came back to him, vaguely, just enough for him to remember that it actually happened.

"I can't believe I forgot that. Wow, we mustn't have been more then four or five."

"At the oldest," Mai agreed.

Zuko smirked, "you know, since it was recognized in front of a Fire Sage, our 'marriage' could be technically binding, right?"

Mai snorted, "oh, no, you don't get out of dating me and having to go through an actual proposal THAT easily, mister. You still have to do this the right way."

The young man sighed in mock exasperation, "fine."

"YOU'RE WHAT!?" Sokka yelled as he fell out of his chair.

That's the end of chapter 2, guys! Review, review, review!