A/N: I"m back!

Chapter 16:

Katara knew what he had basically asked her. He wanted his bending back if it wasn't already back. And from the burns he gave her a few days ago, his bending was returning.

The waterbender threw herself on her side as she sat kneeling in bed, chained by her ankle to it. Clearly, Ozai didn't trust her just yet but that was to be expected. She ran from him once and she would no doubt do it again if given the opportunity. But still, she thought since she was his 'woman' now that there would be perks like maybe a longer chain so she could walk around his chambers. She really didn't like being chained to the bed. It was like she was just waiting for him the return and she rather him not.

When she heard the doors open, Katara rolled her eyes and groaned as she now laid splayed out on the bed. Maybe she should ask for a longer chain. He seemed to like when she asked him for things.

"Can I have a-"

Her words died on her lips as she saw who it was that showed and it wasn't Ozai.

"Hello, there, water bitch. Thought I'd swing by and see how our Master's pet is doing." Lao grinned at her.

An hour later, Ozai was in his way to see how the waterbender was when he noticed his chamber doors were open. He immediately reached for his dagger at his hip and cautiously stepped inside. He swore if that idiot girl had escaped again he was going to break her neck.

As he walked through his chambers to see nothing looked out of place, Ozai heard a groaning sound and then the sound of shuffling coming from his bedroom. I swear to Agni. If one of his men had come in here for the girl, he was going to punish them severely.

Going to his bedroom, Ozai kicked the door open, prepared to remove his bastard subordinate from the girl. But what he saw, he hadn't expected.

Strangling Lao with her ankle chain, Katara grinded her teeth as she snuffed the life out of the man. Her makeup ruined by tears and some of it smeared on the lips of Lao as if he had his mouth on hers. His hands clawed at hers as she continued to pull tighter on his throat, gasping for air. The waterbender and Lao both shot there eyes up at Ozai as he entered the room.

"What the hell is going on?!" Losing his temper.

"He tried to rape me!" Katara growled.

Ozai's eyes narrowed at Lao, who tried to deny it.

"N-no, I didn't. She came onto me, the little water sl-"

Katara pulled the chain tighter cutting him off from oxygen as she twisted the chain, wrapping her legs around him for leverage. "Tell the truth, you son of a bitch!"

Ozai was about to let the girl finish him off. He was curious to know if she would actually kill a person. He didn't think she had it in her but then again, maybe she did. She had fought in the war. Maybe her hands weren't clean.

"Let him go."

"But he-"

"Let him go!"

Katara reluctantly loosened up her hold on her attempt rapist. She kicked him in the back and he fell into Ozai, who shoved him to the floor and then stumped on him repeatedly. She sat there in bed glaring at Ozai as he went on to beat the man senseless and dragged him off to be kicked out of his chambers.

When Ozai returned, the waterbender slid off the bed and walked up to him, stabbing her finger in his chest.

"If he comes back, I will kill him. With or without your permission." She hissed.

Grabbing her finger, Ozai pulled it up to his face and laid her palm against his face. "Fine, do what you like, waterbender."

Tearing her hand from him, Katara climbed back on the bed and sat on her knees with her arms crossed as she continued to glare at her 'boyfriend'.

"I'm not liking your attitude, waterbender. Are we not working past that?"

"I'm chained to a bed all day. I don't think we're working past anything."

"You will run if I don't."

"Then could you make the chain longer. I would like to walk around more." She told him.

Ozai smirked at her as he walked up to the edge of the bed and grinned down at her. "I like you right here in my bed."

"Well I don't." Katara looked away from him. "I'm not your whore."

"No, you're my woman."

"Then there's really no difference, is there?"

The former Fire Lord liked to think there was a difference. If she was his whore, he wouldn't be having this conversation with her right now. He would have her bent over and taking her from behind. But no, he was standing here with his hands to himself and tolerating the look she was giving him. Anyone else would be able to see the difference but she must have been a pampered little whore with his son. Well if that's the case, he'd have to step his game up.

Reaching to grab her ankle as she sat crisscross, Ozai pulled it towards him. Sighing as he dug in his pocket, he pulled out a key and put it in the keyhole of her ankle brace.

Katara watched him as he twisted the key and unlocked her shackles.

"What are you doing?"

"There's a festival being held tonight. We're going to attend."

Raising her brow, "You want to take me to a festival where everyone is going to see our faces?"

"It's a festival of masks." He tossed her a look.

"Oh." Katara said as her eyes fell on her unchained ankle. So a date basically. Wow, I didn't expect this.

A blue kimono with flower and sprites embroidery laid on the sofa as Ozai's female servants all put out accessories on the low table. Katara eyed Ozai as he stood there expecting to see her be dressed for the festival.

...

"Okay so there are only like seven women here that have blue eyes and they all are at brothels," Suki said as she caught back up to Zuko and Aang after asking around a few people. "I say we take a look at all the brothels."

Zuko scoffed and pointed to around them. It was a busy overpopulated city. Xiao Lu was one of the biggest Fire Nation colonies. It would be impossible to find her so easily in this city. Besides, if she was in a brothel, they wouldn't be able to just walk in and get her. There would be eyes everywhere to make sure she wouldn't leave and wouldn't be taken. Katara was somewhere in this city, he was sure but finding her would be a trying task.

Aang sighed as he rolled his shoulders, "I say we stick together. Rebels are everywhere. We do better in numbers. Besides, Zuko, Suki is pregnant. She won't be able to fight."

"Hey! Who said I wasn't kicking rebel ass?!"

"But you're-"

"My baby will kick ass with me." Suki said as she rubbed her belly.

The trio decided to get right to it and start searching. Each brothel they entered, they first asked for the blue-eyed woman and if they said no, they moved on. After several hours spent in the three different red-light districts, the trio found three brothels with blue-eyed women. Neither of the five women they met with was Katara. However; upon meeting the sixth one, she gave them valuable information for a few coins.

"I hear there's this brothel called the Palace Harem. It's Fire Nation owned. The ratio of Fire Nation to Earth Kingdom girls is about as even as it'll get around here. But I heard they just recently hired this blue-eyed girl. She's a dancer they say. Lost all my business last few weeks to her. She doesn't even service her guest privately, just dances. Anyway, I went to see here myself. Doesn't look a day over eighteen. Might be your girl."

Yeah, it might be. They couldn't see Katara working as a service girl in a brothel but she did like dancing. Zuko, however; didn't even want her doing that. He had seen her dance and it was nothing he wanted anyone else seeing. Zuko immediately went on to find the brothel were Katara had supposedly been seen at. He was going to grab her and go.

Arriving there, Zuko told Suki and Aang to wait for him. As he goes inside, the women waste no time giving him looks. Scoping out their next customer. When he reached the booth where a hostess was telling another girl with a basin of wine where to go, Zuko placed a bag of coins down on the counter to get her attention.

"A blue-eyed girl. I know one works here, I want to see her."

"Sorry, she doesn't see guests right now." The hostess said.

Zuko placed another bag of coin on the counter, the hostess looked at them and then back to him. "Look, none of us have seen her in the last week. We heard one of the men that works with our owner bought her. So all I can tell you is that you'll have to ask him."

"What's his name?"

"Don't know."

"The owner's name?"

"Zhao. A former admiral."

She is here! He knew how much his father favored Zhao. There was no way they weren't working together. They definitely were.

As Zuko was about to ask another question, someone familiar walked by. He turned his attention from the host and then looked at them.

"Ty Lee?!" His mouth fell open.

The acrobat looked over and winked at him. "Hey, Zuk- I mean customer!" She covered herself. "Umm, Jade, I'll take him."

"You sure, he's a bit talkative."

"No, it's fine. I like talking." Ty Lee grabbed Zuko's hand and dragged him off. "We'll take room 3"

"Fine."

Pulling Zuko into room 3, Ty Lee slid the door shut and turned to him.

"How'd you find this place?"

"Doesn't matter, where's Katara?!" Zuko stood there with a displeased expression on his face. "I know she's here!"

Trying to calm Zuko down, "Zuko, she's here but you have to keep your voice down. There are rebels here. If they find out you're here its over." Ty Lee placed her finger to her lips. "And yes, Katara's here but I haven't seen her in a week."

"Where is she?"

"More than likely with your father. He's keeping her with him." Ty Lee decided to tell Zuko what was going on and how she ran into Katara here. A lot of it, he wasn't going to want to here but she felt she owed him an explanation.

The young Fire Lord clenched his fists when Ty Lee explained that Katara ran away from his father because of what happened between them. It just so happened that while she was trying to seek a safe haven from him, he ended up having his base of operations here and took her back the moment he realized she was here also.

"He's not nice to her. I know that much but when is your father ever been nice." Ty Lee sighed and sat down slowly as she gazed down at the floor. "He burns her, ya know. On her thigh was a burn mark. She said his bendings coming back."

Zuko's eyes widened. This was worse than he thought.

...

Walking in her wooden sandals, Katara held onto Ozai's arm as she looked around at the bright lanterns through her mask. She was surprised to see there were so many people out enjoying the festival. She wondered what the occasion was.

"Come all! Pray to the fertility spirit for a plentiful year!"

Fertility spirit?! Katara looked over at Ozai.

"What the hell kind of festival is this?"

"Look around."

And she did. And unlike before, she did so with a brand new understanding. There were people all dressed in masks, women wearing their best kimonos, and men going about flipping women's masks up. The lanterns were red and there were stalls with sweets and food that were fermented. Essential oils sold. Something called a love potion. Sensual garments given out for free. Palm readers and match makers. This was a festival for people to find matches.

"I want to go back." Katara let go of his arm but he snatched her by her hand.

"You don't want to be treated like a whore but you don't like being treated like my woman, what do you want?!" He growled from under his fox mask.

To not be either for starters. If she wasn't wearing her mask he would see her eyes were narrowed at him, but Katara didn't say anything. Just went back to holding his arm and looking around as they started walking again. Seeing a candy apple booth, Katara tugged on his arm and pointed to the booth.

"I want one of those apples." Katara stated. "Might get me in a festive mood."

Ozai had no problem with that. If it kept the waterbender in an even and tolerable mood, he was all for it.

Going up to buy one of the apples, Ozai slammed two coins on the booth counter and snatched an apple. He then handed it to Katara and watched her slide up her mask.

"Thank you." She said before taking a bite out of her apple and immediately moaning from how delicious the apple was.

The two shuffled through the crowd aimlessly, taking in the scene as Katara ate her apple. It wasn't until they walked past a fortune teller that they stopped.

"You there, girl with the apple, I sense a strong presence with you."

Katara paused and looked baffled at the fortune teller. "Me?" She said with her mouth open.

"Yes, you, girl and your lover there. Come."

Reluctantly, Ozai allowed them to go see what this fortune teller wanted. Katara seemed more interested in it then he expected her to be.

Sitting down as Ozai stood beside her, Katara handed him her half eaten apple and held her hands out for the fortune teller. The old woman took Katara's hands and held them in her hands.

"Oh, I knew you had a strong presence girl. You're a bender."

Wow she figured me out. Katara marveled.

Good guess. Ozai rolled his eyes as he folded his arms.

"I have good news for you, bender." The fortune teller looked Katara in the eyes as her mask was still lifted. "You will spend many long years with your lover and you will have seven children together."

Katara's candy apple dropped out of Ozai's hand as both their mouths fell wide open.

Grabbing her arm, Ozai pulled Katara from the fortune teller. "She's a fraud."

"I am not!" The fortune teller rose. "That woman will be at your side till the day you leave this Earth and you will be given many children from her."

Katara was in a daze. What the hell was this woman talking about? Seven children? Many years? She just wanted the one child she had and wanted to get the hell away from him. How was she supposed to spend many long years with him and have that many children with him? This woman had to be a fraud. There was no way either of those things were happening.

Getting as far away from that woman, Katara and Ozai made there way to a place they could sit for a while. Katara didn't hold his arm and kept at least four inches of space between them. They sat in silence as commotion took place around them. Neither of them wanted to discuss what that woman just said because she was a fraud, wasn't she? So she was wrong and just preying on people's hopeless wonder for coin.

"I want another candy apple." Katara stated. Anything to get him away for a moment.

Ozai said nothing as he got up to go fetch it for her. Katara really hated sounding like a needy bitch but she needed to be alone for now. As soon as he was gone from sight, the waterbender got up and walked in the opposite direction.

The festive lights were brighter and the crowd was much larger where the waterbender decided to tread. There were performances by dancers and musicians. Katara watched a magician pull a rabbit pony out of his straw hat. She clapped her hands to the music and swayed her hips as more music was heard. This festive was not half bad. Too bad she was here with...oh shit!

Ozai is not only going to kill me, he's going to hang me with a chain. Katara started to head back in the direction she had came. Hoping to get back to her spot before Ozai noticed she left. When she got back she noticed he had already beaten her there. La, I'll just kill myself and save myself the suffering.

However; as he stood there waiting with his arms crossed, Katara noticed a woman walk up to him. Katara paused. The woman was tall and slender. Looked Fire Nation from where Katara was standing. The woman twirled her hair and giggled as she brushed her hand up against Ozai's arm.

Katara's brow twitched for some reason. To her it looked like the woman was flirting. But why should she care. Not like she gave a damn about Ozai. Fuck him. And as for this slut that clearly was after him, fuck her too.

In spite of this, the waterbender found herself marching over to them both and immediately grabbing his wrist to pull him away from the bembo.

"Oh, I didn't know you had a daughter." The woman said jokingly.

A switch was flipped in Katara's head and suddenly, she lost her composure.

"Excuse me?! His daughter?!" Katara walked up to the woman and shoved her finger into one of the taller woman's breasts. "Look here, you skank! I don't appreciate you flirting with my boyfriend! Back off!"

The woman didn't seem at all bothered by this and laughed. But when Katara placed her hands on her hips and lifted her mask to show her current expression, the woman stopped laughing

"Oh, you were serious."

"That's it, bitch!" Katara swung on the woman and landed a solid blow to the face. She was about to do some serious ass kicking when she was tackled by the woman and was punched in the mouth.

The waterbender spit up blood to the side and glared up at the woman on top of her. "You hit the wrong waterbender today, bitch!"

But before Katara could make the woman pay, Ozai kicked the woman off of her and rested his foot on her head as he pressed it into the dirt.

"Where the hell did you go?" Ozai asked in a surprisingly calm tone.

Standing up, Katara wiped the blood off her mouth and spit to the side again before she looked up at him with a crazy look in her eye.

"Well, I was just enjoying the festivities until I see you and miss long legs over here flirting." She had the fix herself up as she spoke. She was looking really wild.

Ozai raised his brow, "Jealous, are we?"

"Go eat a dick! I'm not jealous!" Katara felt a loose tooth. Damn, that bitch hits hard. "Whether this skank in heat knows it or not, I was trying to save her!"

"From what?"

"You and your kind of crazy."

"Is that so?" Ozai wasn't buying it. He smirked. The waterbender was jealous. The look on her face was enough to know so. Flushed cheeks and her refusal to look him in the eyes, she gave herself away. Besides, he just watch her try to fight a woman and punch her for flirting. He was convinced.

Unfortunately for Katara, she didn't know why she just did that. It was dumb. It was crazy. And it did make her look jealous. And maybe she was now that she got a good look at the bitch. She was a lot prettier than her and that really irked Katara.

Lifting his foot off the woman, Ozai continued grinning at Katara. Even as the woman swore and cursed them both, drawing attention in a crowd. But for some reason they didn't seem to notice. Just staring at one another. While Ozai looked smugly at her, Katara was dazed with confusion and annoyance. What the hell was wrong with her?

But to save herself the torture of trying to figure out what was wrong with her, Katara's attention went from Ozai to the candy apple he was holding. She walked up to him and snatched it from his hands and took a large bite from the apple.

And with that, Katara started making her way back to the brothel. Once there, she ignored the looks she was getting from everyone as she was about to travel to the inner sanctum. She saw Ty Lee who looked worried for her since she had been missing the last few days. But Katara just kept her head down as she passed through. No doubt word that she had been made Ozai's woman was being tossed around, she must know already.

But as she entered the inner sanctum, Katara received less concerned looks and more concerning looks. Other than Lao, that glared at her, she was getting looks from men that were literally drooling. It wasn't until she saw Shinji near the doorway of Ozai's bedroom that she lifted her head completely in acknowledgement.

"How was it?"

"Fine. They had candy apples."

"I mean your date not the festival."

"Oh...well, I've never went on a date so I wouldn't know."

"Hard to believe. You must have had plenty of admirers though, right?"

Katara scoffed and rolled her eyes. "My village had nothing but little boys running around while the men were at war. After the war, I was the mother to a boy that looked every bit as Fire Nation as his father. The men looked at me with pity, believing I had been raped. And in the palace, if anyone even looked at me, I'd never see them again. So no, I didn't have many admirers."

Shinji sighed and was about to give her an affectionate hug when someone cleared their throat. The two looked to their left and saw Ozai glaring at the taller of the two.

Walking up beside the waterbender, Ozai leaned down to whisper in her ear. Katara pulled away and looked at him with a cold gaze before shooting Shinji a look. She then went into their chambers and slammed the door behind her. Ozai turn his attention back to his subordinate.

"I assume you two have some sort of companionship taking place."

Shinji stared at his master, "I wouldn't go so far as to say we're friends."

Stepping towards him, Ozai shoved his fist in the wall just beside his head, "And if I were you, I would remember she's off limits."

"Master, I-"

"I'm not an idiot, Shinji. I know that look in your eyes when you see her. It'll get you killed." Ozai growled in Shinji's face.

In the chambers, Katara had stripped out her dress and ran her bath water. She needed to meditate. Her mind was clouded her and she felt so at odds with all that was around her.

As she soaked herself in her bath, the waterbender shut her eyes and began thinking. As if she didn't have things to worry about already, some fortune teller had to add to her concerns. Seven children?! Really?! And even worse, she was supposed to be at his side for the remainder of his life. Ozai was at least 40 something. He still had a decent amount of time left. Which meant she could be with him for decades. La, she didn't want that. She just wanted to get the hell out of here with her son.

The waterbender sunk up to her nose in the bath, brooding over her life before it had even happened. Not to mention Ozai basically asked me to help him get his bending back. She blew bubbles in his bath as she pouted. I did just punch that woman back there. She heard footsteps approaching the doorway of her bath and looked over at the reflection in the mirror across the room.

Leaning in the doorway with his arms crossed, Ozai eyed the waterbender in the tub. "Get out of your head. That psychic was a fraud."

Katara cast her eyes away as she sat up in the water, "So it doesn't bother you what that woman said?"

Scoffing, "Having seven bastards isn't exactly desired but I wouldn't mind, waterbender. Besides, you're already used to giving birth to firebenders, what's seven more?"

Standing up out the water, Katara grabbed her towel from where it hung on the wall and wrapped it around herself. Disgusted that Ozai would even say something like that. She wasn't having his children. Especially not seven of them. He could go to hell with that crap!

Seeing the look on her face, Ozai chuckled and approached her, "Does it really disgust you that much? You risk getting pregnant every time you lay with me."

Hissing as he glared at him, "I don't much have a choice in that, now do I? I'm your woman, aren't I? You made me that without even consulting me about it!"

"There are privileges to being my woman."

"Like what?!" Katara snapped. "Being chained to a bed all day?! Or being forced to go out with you into town?! Or being fucked every time you buy me an expensive gift as a thank you?! Tell me, oh great one, why are you doing this to me?! I just want to go back to my block of ice village with my son and live peacefully. Whatever plans you have for the world, I don't care, just do what you like, you're going to do it anyway. Hell, for my freedom and my son's, I'll return all of your bending if that's what it takes."

Ozai's expression became impassive as he grabbed the waterbender by her jaws, and pulled her to him, face to face. "What do you not understand about me wanting you, waterbender? You should feel honored that I would even be slightly attracted to you, peasant!"

Snatching herself away from him as she held her towel over her, "Sorry, but there's no honor in being forced, Ozai."

Ozai growled. "I'm not forcing anything and I'm pretty sure you know that, seeing as you just fought a woman for flirting with me!"

"Let me make myself clear. I don't like you." Katara put it simply. "I don't like sleeping with you. I don't like laying beside you at night. I don't even like being in the same general place as you. You have your way with me whether I'm willing or not. Ozai, that's forced. And as for earlier, like I said I was saving her from your delusional kind of crazy."

Ozai furrowed his brows at her. He didn't have much to say to her on that note. Sure, it hurt his pride as a man to know she still hated him after all his efforts but he wasn't going to let it get to him. At the end of the day, she was right. He'd have his way and she could either learn to like him and his affection or she could remain miserable. He didn't care which she chose as long as she knows he's calling the shots.

As Katara tried walking past him, Ozai grabbed her by the arm and yanked her out of the bathroom into their bedroom. He slammed the door and tossed her on the bed. The waterbender laid there indifferently as he once again had his way with her. Make this quick, please. She rolled her eyes.

...

Checking into an inn, Zuko sighed as he ran his hands through his hair. This was bad. Really bad. What happened to Katara was terrible. His father..he- DAMN IT! How dare he touch Katara! It had to be forced, he couldn't see Katara going along with his father. Besides, it would seem there were even bigger issues than that. His father's bending was returning. Agni, things couldn't possibly get worse.

Noticing her friend was back to his brooding ways, Suki came up and patted his shoulder. "Look Zuko, Katara's fine. At least we know where she is."

"Sure, but what happens when we find her? My father is having his bending return to him. He's going to kill her for sure."

Suki sat down beside him on his bed and leaned her head on his shoulder, "Didn't you say Ty Lee told you Katara and your father-"

"Stop. I don't want to talk about it. Just leave me alone. Please."

Zuko didn't want to think about that. The mere fact that his father would even take her to bed made him sick to his stomach. He couldn't imagine how terrified she must have been. He remembered when his parents were together, how his mother would cry after leaving his father's room in the morning. Katara must feel just as bad if not worse right now.

...

Katara woke the next morning to Ozai sitting on her side of the bed holding something in his hands. She rubbed her eyes and started sitting up. If he was going to pull some crazy shit today, she rather be up and ready to slap him than to be caught off guard.

Noticing she was a wake, "It's a ring. I had gotten it this morning for you."

"What for?" She looked over his shoulder to get a look.

"You're my woman now, this will represent it. Fire Nation tradition." He told her.

Oh, dear La. Was this the equivalent of a betrothal necklace because if so, then she was going to scream. And not for joy. This asshole was serious. Like serious serious. Freaking La, Zuko never gave her a damn ring when they fooled around...well, she guess that they were just fooling around, it was nothing serious. At least not after he left her high and dry for Mai. She sighed and fell on the bend of her knees on the bed and covered her face with her hand. She was flatted. Truly, she was. He liked her enough to do this. That was flattering. However; no. NO!

"Not wearing that." She folded her arms.

Turning to look at her, "You will. You belong to me."

"Can't you just be normal and say I'm your girlfriend or something? Like it's bad enough I don't like you but to say I belong to you is just plain sad."

Grabbing her wrist, Ozai forced the ring on her finger and then shoved her on her back, straddling her as he did. "What's sad is wanting someone who made it pretty clear he's not interested in you anymore. You were just a fling, girl. However; while my son doesn't want you, I do. Why not accept those truths?"

So...he wanted her to choose him over his son because his son didn't like her anymore and he did? Okay that made total sense. In some fucked up universe! Katara would be damned. She would accept only one thing and that was that this man was out of his mind. How? How in the world did this man ever get laid in the first place? Like who fucked him? Seriously, who slept with this man and boosted his delusional ego? She wanted to know so she could beat them to shit. Was the sex good, yes. No denying it but was it enough to make her enjoy his company, his presence, his existence, or be okay that he was ever a concept to begin with. Fuck no. She didn't hate him as she did in the beginning. She just found him terribly annoying and insecure. and yes, Ozai was a very insecure man.

Because beating your son and burning his face for embarrassing you, doesn't sound like you have a serious problem. Because kidnapping an eighteen-year-old girl whose father you killed and son you kidnapped as well doesn't strike you as odd behavior. OR BUYING A LA DAMN RING TO SYMBOLIZE YOUR POSSESSION OF HER IS SO NOT INSE-FUCKING-CURE! Katara raged in her mind as she kept a blank expression while staring up at him. Internally, she was having an aneurysm just thinking about her entire situation. But on the outside, she was as calm as ever, she even smiled a little. Not because she was happy or going to accept how bat-shit this man was but because she was doing her damnest to continue betraying the impulse to spit in his face, slap him, knee him in his crotch, and drag him by his hair to the tub where she would DROWN HIM!

"Say something, girl."

Katara could find nothing to say. She just laid there smiling, even giggled, which was making Ozai very uneasy. She was going nuts because of him. Hell, she was losing her fucking mind right as we speak. She felt her brain cells dying off one by one and her whacky side coming into full effect as her mind tried to protect itself. She burst into laughter and tears ran down her cheeks as she did, a small spasm in her neck made her look like she was twitching. She was having a manic attack from trying to process everything that was happening to her. What the fuck is going on?! Katara screamed on the inside.

Grabbing the collar of his shirt and pulling him to her as she abruptly stopped laughing, Katara pressed her lips to his ear. "Please. Kill. Me." She said.

He looked at her with confusion when she suddenly went back to laughing. This looked fairly similar to how his ex-wife had acted when he finished with her or even how his daughter seemed to be as she got older. Ozai knew she was having a meltdown. His jaws set as he hardened a stoic expression. Was he really that bad with women? Driving them all insane.

...

A/N:

So Katara's losing her shit, Ozai has women issues, and Zuko is so close to finding her. I figured I'd make shorter chapters to at least give you all some sort chapters.