A/N:
One more chapter after this guys! And then possibly an Epilogue. Just a heads up!
Chapter 37:
These were the parts of the tundra that many outside the Water Tribes had never known existed. There were huge evergreen trees that formed a forest for the wildlife to live in and call home. Ozai managed to easily score three rabbit kills and two deer using his bow, and several squirrels with his throwing knives. The others were surprised at how well versed and skilled the former Fire Lord was with weapons. They thought for sure he'd only want to use his bending or that he just wouldn't be any good at hunting. However, he proved them wrong and brought in even more kills when they came upon a watering hole for the local wildlife.
"Shhh," Ozai said as he held his finger to his lips and crouched down to the ground, eyeing his prey.
The others all got down with him as they saw him remove a knife from his satchel. One caught a glimpse at the satchel and the stitched characters on it and chuckled.
"Looks like pretty boy here got a nicely stitched satchel from his ex-wife." Laimon giggled.
The other man looked over at his satchel and saw the stitching, bursting into laughter.
"Are they really divorced?" One hunter asked another.
Shrugging, "Who knows. You know our tribe doesn't recognize divorces. Once you're married, you're married for life."
Laimon tilted his head, "I think it's different in the Fire Nation. They did marry on Fire Nation soil, right?"
"Who cares?! Katara should have known better than to marry him. Now, she's ruined." Greto said to Laimon.
Kholji glared at them all, "What business is it to any of you? Katara's been no trouble to anyone after saving the world, must I remind you. You shouldn't speak so ill of her. Plus, I'm sure there's things we couldn't possibly understand that happened between them."
Greto scoffed, "I heard she had an affair."
"Me too!" Another said. "I never took her for that type."
Ozai ignored the chattering and threw his knives at several prey, taking them down immediately. The other animals ran and Ozai watched the others scramble to take their prey. As he walked up to his, Kholji followed to help road up the boars and deers he killed.
"I'd be careful of the other men. They've been talking a lot about you and Katara." Kholji warned.
Grabbing the boar and throwing it over his shoulders, "It's all utter nonsense. Katara was faithful. I failed her." Ozai told the man as he started tying up the deers by their ankles, dragging them on a line behind him. "Tell them to stay focused. We have an objective here."
As night fell and they set up camp, Ozai sat with Kholji on the log as he was the only tribesmen that didn't want to fight him. He ate silently as everyone chatted amongst themselves. Greto, a husky tall build of a man with his hair braided into a ponytail and shaved on the sides, looked at Ozai and eyed him harshly. He spit to the side and waited till Ozai caught his gaze, as soon as he did, Greto smirked.
"Tell us, hothead, what has you so obsessed with one tribe woman that you sacrifice all your riches to move here and prove yourself to her?"
The group laughs.
Ozai eyed the man and looked away, "I'm not obsessed."
"Looks like it to me. Everyone saw how you were following her the week you were dropping the kids off a few months back. Gave me chills."
Ozai snorted, "Sounds like you have your eyes on my waterbender."
Everyone 'Ooo'ed and 'Ahh'ed at this.
Scoffing, Greto picked his teeth, "As young and beautiful as Katara is, no one wants your sloppy seconds, you ole palace pooch. We all know she only gets freaky for you fire bastards."
Ozai glared at the man, "Watch your mouth. You wouldn't know what to do with a woman like Katara. Your small cock would only serve to make her laugh."
"You son of a bitch!" Greto stood up ready to fight.
"Fight me, peasant!" Ozai stood and pulled off his parka, fur vest, and tunic. "I'll teach you to keep my waterbender's name out of your mouth!"
"I'd like to see you try, you old fuck!"
Everyone stood too, ready to see a fight as the former Fire Lord was down to his bare chest ready to fight Greto.
"Hey! Guys! Break it up! This is no way to behave!" Kholji, being the only voice of reason, pulled Ozai back as the man wanted to ruin the other's face.
Greto was about to throw the first fist when a dire-wolf lunged at him from out of nowhere. All the hunters stopped what they were doing and immediately went into defense mode as they noticed a pack of dire-wolves staring hungrily at their camp. Laimon helped Greto up after killing the dire-wolf that attacked him and resumed position.
"Everyone, let's keep them away from the kills we have." Kholji told them.
Ozai pulled out his knife and gripped it tight, "They'll make for a nice scarf for my waterbender." He grinned.
….
Carrying a basket of food from the marketplace with Nyla and Suki, Katara sighed with worry as she looked to see if the men had returned from the hunt yet. Both Nyla and Suki noticed their friend's worrying over her ex-husband. They tried not to giggle but she was so obvious that it was hard for them to believe she was in denial over her feelings towards him.
"It's only been three days, Katara." Suki told her sister-in-law, hoping to get her to calm down.
Katara didn't know how long the hunts took. She never paid much attention to the hunters before Ozai joined them and honestly, she wished she had. Maybe she would have talked him out of it somehow. Tui and La, please let him live!
Nyla giggled, "They should be back today, Katara. Don't worry. I doubt the men have run into any trouble. Kholji always tells me how boring the hunts have become with the dire-wolves and arctic-foxes moving further south of the pole."
"It's already noon." Katara said in an anxious tone.
Suki paused as she saw a group of women all waiting by the edge of the village and saw men making their way to them. "Look, that must be them."
Katara dropped her basket and raced over to the group of women waiting for their sons, husbands, and brothers. She waited anxiously in the group waiting for the men to approach. She managed to catch sight of Ozai and felt immediate relief. He was covered in scratches and bruises, his hair was a mess, tangled and in need of a deep cleaning. She figured she'd have to straighten him out but she was just relieved to see he was safe and sound.
Seeing his waterbender waiting with the other women to greet the men, Ozai smirked and she pushed her way through the crowd to get to him.
"Ozai, what happened?" Katara asked with concern.
Ozai couldn't help but smile down at the waterbender, "We were attacked by dire-wolves. Managed to kill them all."
"All thanks to Ozai." Kholji said as he popped up beside the man and chuckled.
"Yeah, Ozai saved us all. We'd have been wolf food if not for his firebending." Laimon told Katara as he came to the other side of Ozai.
Katara was taken aback as she looked at her ex-husband and saw him beaming at her.
Ozai pulled out a wolf tail that one of the other guys converted into a coin purse and handed it to her, "Here, it's for you."
Taking it, Katara eyed him and took his wrist, pulling him along with her to her place. The men all whistled at them and Suki tried to hand Katara her basket of dropped food, but decided to hand it to her later.
Reaching her home, Katara brought him inside and started stripping him out of his clothes. Ozai, of course, grinned the entire time as he had an idea of where this was going but his head was just in the gutter like everyone else. She had him bathe and scrubbed the grime off of his skin, healing him at the same time.
"You don't have to do this, waterbender." Ozai told her as she began detangling his hair.
Combing it through, "I know that."
"Then why are you doing it?" He asked in curiosity.
Katara tilted her head, "Because, in the eyes of the tribe, we're still married."
Ozai smirked at this realization.
"But that doesn't mean much since we were married in the Fire Nation. I'm just doing this because you look pathetic and I hate to see it. It's an eyesore."
Ozai rolled his eyes, not believing that for a second as she tried to pretend like she didn't care about him. He'd let her, however. He knew she didn't like being vulnerable with him, especially now. So, confessing that she was doing this out of deep concern for him was out of the question. But he knew to read between the lines and her actions. Katara always gave away her truth through her actions and behavior. She was an easy but intriguing read.
As Ozai was getting dressed again, the door was knocked on and Katara answered it to find Kholji handing her the money earned from the hunt. It was a large purse of coins.
"That man of yours is truly cut out for the hunt. Tell him, I can't wait till next week's hunt." Kholji said gleefully.
Katara went to take the purse of money to Ozai and he looked through it, surprised at the amount he got for such an easy job.
"So, what do I do now that I have a job?" Ozai asked her.
Folding her arms as she eyed him with worry, "I think hunting is too dangerous of a job, Ozai."
Smirking, "I enjoyed it. Don't you think I should do what I enjoy?"
"You've always done so and look where that's gotten us." Katara said in a snippy tone.
Ozai leaned down to her and kissed her cheek, "I'll be fine, waterbender."
"Oz-"
"I'm going to go see about getting a place to stay so I can be out of your hair." Ozai told her as he took a few coins out of his coin purse and placed it in her hands. "Thank you for fixing me up."
…..
It was astonishing. A month as a commoner in the South Pole and Ozai had become rather popular with the locals. Apparently, after saving the men on the hunt, more wanted to join the hunting guild which brought in more meat for the village and all of it was thanks to Ozai. The men all wanted to get buddy buddy with him and the women were curious if he wanted more than one waterbender in particular. However, Ozai had only two tribesmen he could say he was friendly with and eyes for one woman and one woman only. This was something that did capture Katara's attention. She was waiting for him to cave and seduce a tribe woman but he remained focused on his primary objective.
Back from another hunt, Ozai saw a bunch of women crowd around him and pine for his attention. But he caught sight of Katara across the way hanging her linen and laundry up on the line. Excusing himself as he maneuvered himself through the women crowding him while carrying a dead wild boar over his shoulders. As he got free, he strolled up to where his waterbender was and laid it down on the ground beside where she was hanging clean clothes.
"That boar soup you make, can you make some with this?" Ozai asked her.
Katara glanced at the boar and then shifted her eyes to him as she continued with her house chore, "If that's what you want, Ozai."
"I'd appreciate it if you did." He gave her that smile all the other women fell over at the sight of.
Rolling her eyes, "Very well. Don't be late for dinner."
Ozai smirked and thanked her as he heard his friends calling him to come have drinks with them.
"And don't come here drunk." Katara grumbled.
"Just a few drinks, promise." Ozai said as he went to catch up to his new pals.
As much as this whole thing was for him to win Katara back, Ozai had come to really enjoy life in the South Pole. The village was smaller than the city he was accustomed to but it was no less exciting and full of liveliness. Many of the folks were genuinely funny people and cracked him up even though he tried to keep up his guarded stoicism. Ozai figured if he was going to be getting Katara back now that his throne was abdicated that this would be his home from now on. It only made sense that he settled in with the local people.
Katara sighed and shook her head, "Funny how everyone looks at me crazy for marrying him but they're all over him now."
….
Signaling to the bartender for his second drink, Ozai laughed with his friends, Kholji and Laimon as they discussed the funny things that happened on their latest hunt. Truthfully, Ozai was having a ball with this new life he had here. It was the most fun he's had all his life. No restrictions, no repression, no having to abide by so many rules, no limitations to how much time he could spend being with his family. Every night he had dinner with Katara and the kids and he got to teach his sons how to prepare for a hunt and cuddle up with his daughter on the sofa as she drifted off to sleep in his arms. It was a simple life but it had more meaning than the life he lived as a royal. He understood the ideas he had of being a father and a husband were all corrupted in the way royals neglected the people that were supposed to mean everything to them. He realized he could do so much more by his family as a common man than as Fire Lord and it made him feel a new sense of pride in his own actions. This was how life was meant to be lived.
"Tell us, Ozai, what did you do to cause Katara to run away?" Laimon asked in curiosity.
Kholji nudged him, "What kind of question is that, Laimon?!"
"What?! I'm just wondering."
Ozai drank from his second mug of ale, "I treated her like a bed-wench."
Kholji and Laimon laughed.
"Then I ignored her to sleep with my concubines, had a son with one of them, forced her to have another child with me to make up for the guilt I had, then while she was nursing me back to health and everything was going good, I cheated on her with a Northern Tribe woman, and pretended to get sick by poisoning myself to repair our marriage." Ozai confessed nonchalantly.
The laughter stopped halfway through what he was telling them and they just stared at him funny.
Sighing as he downed the entire mug and asked the bartender for a refill, "Now, I'm just trying to prove I want to be good to her but Katara's a stubborn woman and she's even more guarded than before. I don't know if she'll ever give me a chance again."
Kholji and Laimon patted the man's back, assuring him that she would come around eventually.
Leaving the bar, Ozai staggered a little to Katara's place and entered to see she was setting the table. He grinned and went up to her, hugging her from behind as he kissed the back of her head.
"Looks delicious." He cooed at her.
"I thought I said don't come here drunk?" Katara hissed as she pulled away from him.
Pouting, "I only had three drinks." Ozai said as he sat at the head of the table.
"Arctic ale is far stronger than anything you have in the Fire Nation. You needn't drink more than a mug full." Katara told him as she continued setting the table.
Ozai was given a tonic by Katara and held his nose as he drank the entire contents of the glass.
"Straighten yourself out before the kids arrive. My grandmother should be here any minute with them." Katara told him.
Ozai patted his cheeks and applied some heat to his face to help sober him up. As he did, the man sighed and relaxed in his seat.
"Better?" he asked his ex-wife.
Katara got up in his face and looked at his eyes, moving her finger back and forth to watch how his eyes followed them. "Good enough."
Smiling, "You look lovely today, dear." He told her.
Scoffing, "Zip it, Ozai." Katara, then, disappeared back into the kitchen and returned to see Ozai staring at her lovingly. It really annoyed her how he looked at her like a lost and lonely pup. Did he really think she'd fall for how he went from a wolfishly sexy man to a cute adorable one like night to day? It was infuriating how she wanted to truly believe he was just a cute man adoring her because all she could do when she looked at him was think of how he fucked her over so many times.
As the kids joined them for dinner, Soji and Kai had a lot to say to their father about what they learned in school about hunting and fishing. Apparently, they wanted to follow in their father's footsteps and become hunters. Katara told them they would not do so, she wanted them to become scholars and leave the South Pole to make more of themselves. Ozai told them that nothing was more important than family and to always put family first. They both nodded as Nanami asked if her father could teach her how to hunt too. Ozai told her she could learn healing from her mother and become a healer. Katara narrowed her eyes on him and told her daughter she could do both and told Ozai to be fair to the kids.
When dinner ended, Ozai tucked the kids in as Katara washed the dishes, their nightly routine. Once they were all tucked in and kissed on the forehead, Ozai came back downstairs and went into the kitchen where Katara was.
"I see you've changed or at least, trying to change."
Ozai leaned against the threshold and folded his arms. "So, you'll give me a chance?"
Washing the dishes, "I'll think about it." Katara told him. "Now, get on home."
Ozai kissed her cheek and left. When home, in a second story apartment, Ozai stayed up all night thinking of how he was close to getting a second chance with his ex-wife. There was nothing he wanted more and sleep eluded him.
….
Several months passed by and winter was upon them. The weather had slowly grown colder, so when a heavy blizzard blew in suddenly and trapped everyone indoors during the middle of the day, no one was expecting it. Not even the waterbenders that kept up with the weather of these arctic lands.
Having been trapped in Ozai's apartment while bringing him the red parka she had been working on for months, Katara sighed and felt her luck was just no good these days. She was freezing cold and forced to huddle up against her ex under a fur quilt she made him last month. It wasn't all bad. Ozai put on tea and shared a few cups of it with her, plus, he was very warm given he was a firebender.
Honestly, the waterbender had no real problem with Ozai as he had shown nothing but consistency in his pursuit of her. She felt he really did come here for change and to win her back. It was just she had a hard time forgiving him but she felt she could eventually get past the bad blood with how he was nowadays. The last eight months had really proven to her that he meant what he said about leaving everything to be with her. However, she worried about him falling back on his word as there were so many women throwing themselves at him. She truly wouldn't forgive him if he involved himself with anyone here. It would not only be embarrassing but it would tell her that he hadn't changed.
While keeping warm under the fur quilt with her firebender ex, Katara sipped her hot tea and glanced over at him. "Tell me about your childhood." She said, wanting to see if he would. Now that would tell her he really changed.
"My childhood?" Ozai raised a brow at her.
"Yeah, like how was it?" She looked away from him to her cup of tea.
Ozai sipped on his tea and looked away too, "There's not much to say about it."
"Must be something you could tell me about it." Katara glanced at him.
"It was hell." Ozai hissed as his demeanor shifted to a dark one and gripped his cup tight.
Seeing this, Katara placed her hand on his and gave him a look that let him know she was here for him. "Can you tell me more? Please."
"Why do you want to hear about my childhood?"
"So, I can get to know you better." Katara told him. "I could tell you about mine."
Ozai eyed her, "Fine. You first."
Katara chuckled and told him about her family as a child. About how both her parents were non-benders. When her mother discovered she was a waterbender, she was told never to reveal it to anyone as it would bring negative attention to them from the Fire Nation. Katara told him how the Fire Nation eventually caught wind of there being one more waterbender in the South Pole and came looking for her.
Holding the pendant of a choker, "My mother gave up her life to protect me, the last waterbender of the South Pole in those days. After that, my family was never the same. My father went to war as a vendetta to avenge my mother and left me and Sokka here to figure out how to go on without him." Katara sighed and looked up at her ex, "It was during this time we discovered the Avatar and then joined him to save the world from you."
"Is that when you met my son?"
Nodding her head, "Yup, Zuko was so persistent in finding the Avatar back then. None of us knew he was just trying to come back home. But eventually, he joined us and I got close to him because I have a soft spot for broken things. That's how Kai came to be and everything else was just me working as his ambassador and then you."
"Sounds more eventful than my childhood." Ozai scoffed.
"Is it?" Katara tilted her head at him, ready to listen to him explain his childhood.
Groaning as he set his cup down, "My mother was a concubine that my father was in love with. Eventually, she died after having me and my father blamed me for the cause of death, forcing me to live in solitude."
"Solitude?" Katara asked.
Ozai nodded, "Only my one caregiver and two servants were allowed with me till I was six years of age and then, I was left to my lonesome in a large domain where not even the servants were allowed. I did have tutors that visited to make sure I had a proper education and one friend that my father would one day have me marry when I came of age. I never even met my father until I was twenty-four."
Katara furrowed her brows at this, "Really?"
"Yes." He said simply.
"Ozai, I'm sorry."
Shaking his head, "Nothing to be sorry about. Those days are long behind me. After I was able to leave the domain, I felt I had to prove myself to my father that I was worthy of being his son and eventually, it turned to resentment. I eventually had him killed and took the throne all to prove to myself that I was worthy of the life I was born into. I'd be an old man by the time I realize none of it was what I truly wanted. I was just trying to be what I thought I was supposed to be, not what I wanted."
Katara looked at Ozai as he spoke and could genuinely feel the sincerity in his voice. He really had changed. Not just that but he found himself while out here in this frozen tundra. It made her want to embrace him in her arms and tell him she was so happy for him. But she restrained herself. Her guard was still up. Even though she wanted the walls to finally fall so she could feel more than just his presence.
"You like it here?" She asked him in a small voice.
Ozai leaned back on his hands and smiled, "You could say that. Or maybe I just want to be here because you're here."
Feeling her face flush, Katara turned her head and furrowed her brows at her tea cup. "Ozai, what would you do if I never gave you a chance?"
"Even if you didn't, I'd stay by your side till my last breath because you're the woman I love and nothing will ever change that." Ozai told her.
Katara pulls the quilt off of her shoulders and stands to her feet.
Ozai sighed and leaned forward, gathering his hands in his lap. "I know you don't want to hear that but I mean it, Katara."
"I know." Katara pulls off her parka and tosses it aside.
Raising a brow at her as she began stripping in front of him, "Katara?"
Down to her bindings, Katara walks up to him and shoves him back on his hands as she settles herself in his lap. Her arms wrap around his neck and she whips her hair over her shoulder as she cups his face, looking up at him lovingly.
"Show me how much you love me, Ozai." She whispers to him before kissing him and he flips her on her back to do just that.
…..
The blizzard let up a few days later and then another three days passed before the snow melted for people to be able to leave their homes. It took Katara and Ozai a minute to realize they could leave as they were preoccupied with making up. Eventually, they caught on when they heard people going about their day outside. Katara got herself dressed up after taking a warm bath with Ozai and was on her way out the door, when she was handed her wolf tail coin purse by Ozai. Katara beamed up at him as he smirked at her.
"I'll give us a chance." Katara told him before reaching up on her tippy toes to kiss his lips.
Before she could pull away, Ozai grabbed her face and kissed her hungrily. Pulling apart, the waterbender grinned at him and turned away to leave. Neither of them noticed that Kholji had seen the exchange between them and chuckled to himself.
Later that day, Nyla found Katara at the healing hunt and had just finished up with a patient. She went into her medical room and smirked at her with her arms folded. Katara raised a brow at her.
"Are you pregnant?" Katara asked.
Shaking her head, "No but someone could be. My husband tells me he saw you kissing Ozai this morning when going to check on him after he didn't see him yesterday. He thought that you two killed each other and got worried, but it seems he was worried for nothing."
Katara blushed as she cleaned her medical table down and placed clean linen down on the table for her next patient.
"You slept with him, didn't you?"
"SO!" Katara blurted out. "It's been a long time since I've slept with him and I don't see the problem. Sleeping with him is no big deal. We were married once."
Sighing as she looked at her friend. "Very well, Katara. Have your fun. I'm just glad you're giving him a chance. He's been doing his very best to get back with you." Nyla cooed.
Rolling her eyes, "Nyla, leave, please. I'm working here."
….
Seeing her granddaughter go around town with Ozai at her side and seemingly enjoying his company, Kanna narrowed her eyes.
"Sokka, tell me, what's your sister doing?" Kanna asked as she continued staring out the window.
Shrugging his shoulders as he was in his office signing off on a trade agreement with the Fire Nation through Zuko. "Giving him a chance. Suki says they're working on repairing their relationship."
Kanna wasn't so sure about Ozai. Sure, he had been on his best behavior and was consistent in Katara's life. But that didn't mean he should be a part of it. Kanna knew her granddaughter had a soft spot for the man and it didn't help that they had history. However, Kanna felt her granddaughter was better without him. That man was a sick man and he had too many issues to count. She hated him. She didn't want him around her granddaughter. He should just turn tail and return to the Fire Nation.
"Katara shouldn't allow herself to be swayed by him. He's dangerous." Kanna scoffed.
Sokka sighed and put down his quill, "Not to her. Trust me, gram gram, everyone can see the man just really loves her. Isn't that what you want? For us to be loved?"
"Yes but like how you and Suki are in love. Pure, untainted, and faithful. Ozai has done nothing but make your sister miserable. So much so that she ran here to get away from him. That bastard has no business here."
Sokka listened to his grandmother rant about how awful a person Ozai was. Honestly, he'd agree with her had he not seen how much Ozai truly cared for his sister. Who gave up everything to be with someone? Literally gave up everything, including his throne and royal status to be with her here in a developing nation that was only a shell of its pre-war self. Sokka was convinced that the man did indeed love his sister. He just had to learn to do better by her.
"I'm going to tell him to leave her alone." Kanna said as she marched out of the office.
Sokka just sighed to himself and let her leave.
As Ozai kisses Katara's forehead and lets her go pick the kids up from school, he feels a rock hit him in the back of the head. He turns to see Katara's grandmother glaring at him as she readies to throw another rock at him. Ozai quickly goes up to her and stops her.
"What is your problem, hag?!" He hisses as he glares back at her. "Are you trying to ruin my relationship with Katara?!"
"YES! Stay away from my granddaughter, fire slime!" Kanna shouted, catching the attention of everyone around them.
Ozai looked to see everyone staring at them. "Kanna, I know you're worried about Katara but I mean well, I mean it."
"You meant well when you married my granddaughter but that didn't stop you from ruining her life! I won't let it happen again!" Kanna jumped up and slapped him hard, kicking him in the nuts immediately after.
Ozai dropped in the snow and with him, the red necklace he had crafted had fallen out into the snow in front of Kanna. The old woman bent down and picked it up, wiping the snow off of it with her mittens. She gasped and looked from it to Ozai.
"You bastard!" Kanna hissed. "You're trying to marry her again!"
Wincing on the ground, "I love her, you old hag! Of course, I'm trying to remarry her!"
"Ozai, you fool, do you really think she will agree?"
Ozai started pulling himself out of the snow and looked at Kanna, "Look, woman, I just want my wife back and do things differently. That's all. I'll do whatever it takes."
Kanna looked at the man as he got himself out of the snow and sighed as she looked up at him in pity. Truthfully, she hated this man's guts for what he did to Katara but she couldn't help but see his sincerity on top of his actions as of late. Maybe he really meant well.
"Alright, Ozai, you win for now. Just don't make me regret letting you off the hook or I swear my club is going through your skull."
Ozai grumbled something under his breath as he glared back at the old hag. He really wanted to strangle her but knew Katara would never take him back if he did so.
The next morning at his home, Ozai was getting ready to leave when he heard a knock at the door. Outside, waiting with a basket of food was his little waterbender. The arctic air blowing through her hair as it was worn down with just a single beaded braid hanging to the long end of her part.
"Come to see me off?" Ozai asked her as he smirked when he saw her pull her hair behind her ear.
Giggling, Katara nodded and handed him the basket. "You can put these in your supplies. Food for your journey. I hear you all are going further into the mountains for more dire-wolves."
"Thank you." He said with that trademark smile of his.
Katara stepped up to pull him by his collar and kiss him passionately. His arms wrapped around her and she felt him stick his tongue into the back of her mouth, the two getting carried away as Kholji walked up and cleared his throat.
"Fuck." Ozai whispered against her lips.
Katara smirked.
"You sure we don't have like ten minutes to spare?" Ozai looked at Kholji.
"Ten minutes?!" Katara and Kholji raised a brow at him.
The men hurried up to meet up with the others as Katara had water whipped Ozai in the face for his remark about needing ten minutes. As they caught up and started on their way to the tundra forests, Ozai pulled out a red choker and showed it to his pals. Laimon and Kholji both wished him luck on proposing to the fiery waterbender he seemed to love so much. They just knew she'd agree now that she was giving him a shot.
…
A/N:
Ozai is gonna get his wife back! Maybe.