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Zuko's Betrayal	By : CaptATKirk Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female > Katara/Zuko Views: 9220 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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- 2
- 3
Note: I really have to Thank JP Nelson for doing a quick edit. Zutara fans I am sorry to let you down....I see it! I do but, I am a Kataang.
Chapter 2 The Road to Salvation
((( Katara )))
I sit here in the gardens with the ducks and think as far as prisons go there are worse. Zuko has done everything he can to ensure I am comfortable. He even lets me have the bed all to myself if I want it. Zuko gives me so much to try and comfort me and I can give him nothing because I am not my Water Sister . . . I am not the one he loves. I am not Lan.
As I sit here waiting for him to leave the war room, I think on how I hated Zuko at one time. I think of how he came to tell me Aang had died even after I used the oasis water that Lan had given me. She and I used mine to save Suki. I wanted to die and be with Aang. I had slit my wrists when Zuko went to the war room that day three years ago now. I roll back the red and gold sleeves of my Kimono and look at the tiny scars on my wrists now and can only think how stupid I was.
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Katara sat in the hot steamy water and let the deep cuts on her wrist bleed into the water. She had done it right and soon she saw a light. She followed it into a corridor that led her to . . . Kyoshi. It was empty but the trees were releasing purple flowers and it smelled delicately sweet.
“ So this is what heaven looks like.” She remarked as the flowers fell around her.
“ No . . . this isn’t heaven Katara.” A familiar voice answered her. She turned to see Aang alive and in one piece. He was a little taller and broader than she remembered but it didn’t matter.
“ Aang!” She screamed and launched herself into his arms. He caught her and they both fell into a heap on the warm spring grass. She is frantically placing kisses all over his face.
“ Okay Katara as much as I enjoy this . . . you have to stop and listen to me.” He made his voice stern but he was enjoying having her in his arms way too much.
“ We’re dead, and we have all the time in the world now!” She tries to kiss him again but he held her away.
“ No were not dead. We’re in the dream world . . . which is close to the spirit world but-“
“ So You’re not really here?” She stops trying to kiss him and begins instead to cry. “ You’re dead and I’m not!”
“ Katara I am not dead and neither are you. You have to listen to me before Zuko finds you and wakes you up.”
“ Dammit Aang I want to be dead! You don’t know what I go threw every night with him!”
“ Katara he uses his hand for crying out loud! Yes I do know! He makes it look like you two have sex every night so that Ozai will let you stay with him. He is doing what I asked. He is protecting you the best way he knows how! You don’t exactly tell Zuko to stop!” Aang’s face is blood red.
He knows about them. He has his mind in the spirit world and his body encased in a crystal cavern under Omashu. He sees everything . . . and feels it too. His heart breaks even though Zuko would use his hand to make it look and feel real for Katara. It still killed Aang that she was making those kinds of noises for another man.
“ Aang it’s so-“ She can’t explain. Zuko didn’t force her that was true. She had told him to stop once and he did. Truth be told she enjoyed his touch. She hated to admit it but she did. She knew why Lan needed him every night. Katara racked up enjoying him to being lonely and missing Aang.
“ I don’t want to know.” He holds up his hands to fend the images away. “ The point is Zuko is doing what I asked. I wasn’t ready Katara. In two more years the comet will be leaving. Lan will be at the height of her power and she can help me. Her and I are going to put an end to this but you have to hang on Katara. You have to keep you and Zuko going that long.”
“ He calls out to her in his sleep-“
“ As you call for me . . . I know.” She scooted to him and let him hold her.
“ Aang it’s like I said when you and I made love when they were married. I only want you.” She looks into his grey eyes that are filled with tears like her own.
“ I know Katara and I only want you. Until I see you in the physical world whatever happens from this moment on it is not . . . betraying me. I love you Katara.”
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“ Katara don’t do this to me!” She had come back to her body. She could hear the water splashing and a rip. She could see Zuko tearing his tunic to wrap around her wrists. Worry etched on his face as well as a genuine concern for her.
“ Why didn’t you tell me? ” She croaks out as he lifts her out of the tub and into the bed room. He warps her in blankets and holds her to him. “ Why didn’t you tell me you were doing what Aang asked you to do?”
“ After what everyone thinks I have done would you believe me?” He looks at her wrists again. She has used her water bending to close the wounds but she is too weak to make them go away. Looking at her wrists he knows it’s his fault. Looking at her wrists he knew he should have tried harder to get her away from Azula and his father after she healed Aang but he couldn’t. He barely got Aang out.
“ I see your point.” Katara snakes her arms out and warps them around his neck. “ You both gave up the thing you loved the most to save everyone else.” She can feel his hot tears falling down his face and knows she had hit the mark with him.
“ Katara I will do something else. I will get you away from here! You won’t have to suffer anymore-“
“ NO!” She sits up and looks into those amber eyes that have been filled with sorrow. “ You and I are in this together now. We do what we have to form here to stop your father while Aang does what he must. You and I have to make it look real. I know now you weren’t really taking me. We do what we must to survive now Zuko! Lan and Aang will understand.”
“ Aang will understand. Lan is another matter. It’s not in her . . . ”
“ Lan loves you. She will forgive you.”
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For three years we have been doing everything to help with Ozai’s down fall. Zuko does so in the war room and battle field. I score my own victories on Azula with Mai and Ty Lee. Thanks to me the are beginning to question if they have done the right thing. Every day I watch them question themselves more and more.
Zuko and I are doing what we can to make it look like we are the perfect married couple so that Ozai can say nothing. We only really have sex once a month before I am supposed to have my monthly flow so that Zuko can say he is trying to get an heir. The rest of the time Zuko uses his mouth to pleasure me. I have tried to return the favor but he tells me that if he couldn’t let his own wife do it than I can’t either. When we do have to, I use my water bending to keep from conceiving. Zuko I know is holding back and being gentle when he does make love to me. I am not exactly built to receive him. Lan was made for him . . . mind, body, and soul.
Thinking of her, I wonder where she is. We have not heard anything from her or about her. Aang visits either Zuko or myself every now and then in our sleep but Lan is deafly quite. Even Aang is concerned because he and other sprits cannot speak with her. Zuko I know is losing hope and believes she is dead. I see it in his eyes every day. Every day his eyes get duller and duller. I try to give him hope but it doesn’t seem to work. Lan must have done something with her bending to help him. Not knowing what she did I can’t duplicate it.
I watch the Mother duck and she is acting unusual. She only acts this jittery when Zuko is around. I look up and I see Zuko now walking to me. This is the Zuko I remember. His eyes are alive like when he married Lan on Kyoshi. He is practically running. Looking at him I know he has news that we have been waiting for. We now know Lan’s fate.
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(((Zuko)))
I close my eyes as I slowly work into Katara. She is too small to receive me fully but my father is starting to have doubts about our marriage again so I go in as far as I can without hurting her. I know there is someone at the door watching us again. Katara knows it as well. Tonight we put on a show.
I made a very convincing one. I played the perfect adoring husband using my hands all over her soft body to get her ready. Her and Lan feel so different. Lan skin is smooth and soft but you can always feel the muscle she had rippling under the surface. Katara has a smaller chest then Lan but no less responsive. Her hips are smaller than Lan’s but I can still grab them and flip her onto her back just as easy.
I keep my eyes closed and lie to myself that it is Lan underneath me. It almost works until Katara starts moaning. I am not fully in her and I can still feel her clamping down enjoying what I can give her. I can feel her tying to take me in. She is so hot and tight but I hold back. I feel Katara’s release and I hold myself back. I have received the news I have been waiting for. I will not finish inside Katara anymore. That I will save for Lan now . . . if she will still welcome me. I hear the footfalls of the spy leaving. At one point in my life all I ever wanted was to be home . . . now I want out.
I lay on my side and spoon Katara as she sleeps and can still only think how Lan and Katara are so different. Katara has dark skin where Lan’s is a creamy white. Katara has chestnut hair where Lan has hair the color of our element . . . fire. In my own way I do love Katara but not like I do Lan. Given the choice I would rather have my Orchid. Katara and I have become close there is no denying it. I am not Aang who holds her heart in his hands for all time and she is not Lan who owns me mind body and soul no matter what happens now.
“ Zuko what do we do now?” Katara rolls over to look at me. It’s not that she isn’t beautiful she is but she is not for me.
“ We wait and see. Something will happen to let us know what move we are to take.” I hold her like we have done so many times before. I think of Lan and she of Aang. We are each others only comfort for now. Soon that will change.
I already have an idea on how to make that change happen. I will take Katara with me to the next battle I have to fight. I have to hold a city three miles from Bah Sing Se. I will take her with me and let her escape. Lan and her Immortals will find her and then I will have kept all my promises to Aang. I will be alone that is true but only I should have to live this nightmare. Katara should have been kept out of it. Soon It will be so.
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((( Toph )))
The Dai Li are lined up before Lan and I fell them cringe with fear. The earth reveals all to me. I can feel her anger like a living thing. She is angry that they protected their culture and not their people. She will make them sorry. I and the rest of the Immortals as well as all the other Generals and Admiral Quan are behind her outside the Place doors. Quan decided to leave it to her to put them in line. He knows they fear her and know her name. The world knows her name and they call for her. She is answering now with a vengeance.
“ You Dai Li do an injustice to your creator! You bring shame and dishonor not only to yourselves but to the Noble Avatar Kyoshi who created you!” She is walking the front line like a cat sniffing her prey. She is feeling for the weakest one to make and example of. Lan has become so cold and me of all people I am scared out of my mind for her.
“ You turned into a nest of sneaky underhanded murderous thieves. Now I will turn you back to what you were made for!” She has found the weakest one. Her hand snaked out quick as a viper and she has the poor man by the throat.” You will defend not only the history of the Earth Kingdom but also it’s people! For without the people there is no history and without history you cease to exist! If anyone has a problem with this speak now!
I can feel their fear and smell it. Boy Lan wasn’t kidding fear does stink . . . My hand reaches for Sokka’s. This is not the Lan I know anymore. The Lan I knew hated to hurt anyone. She hated to make anyone scared. This Lan gets off on fear, pain and killing. This Lan is what Zuko has made her.
“ It’s okay Toph. She won’t kill him. She just using a scare tactic.” Sokka whispers as he squeezes my hand in reassurance. He only half believes what he says. He is just as scared as I am. Everyone who is left that loves her is afraid for her.
“ No challenges . . . Good! “ She releases him and I feel him fall to the floor. No one will help him. They are all too afraid. “ Remember my words. Dismissed!”
The Dia Li have been defeated. They file away broken and beaten. She stays and I can feel her look to the sun. It is beating down on us and from the angle I would say it’s noon. Lan pats my shoulder and kisses the top of my head before walking away. She reaches outside the doors and the people are cheering her again. It was that way when we walked into the city. They were throwing flowers at her feet and screaming her name. They still do it now.
“ Where is she going?” Admiral Quan is beside me looking at her with the eyes of a lover. I know she won’t have him but he doesn’t give up hope.” She walks through them as if she can’t hear them.”
“ What is she wearing?” I know a certain day is coming soon but with all the excitement we have seen days and nights all bleed together for me. Please Great Goddess don’t let it be white!
“ She looks like a slave girl. She is wearing the gold bikini and matching hip belt with two long pieces of white with gold trimmed cloth coming to her ankles-“
“ Okay I get it white and gold!” I didn’t need to know all of that. He was practically salivating as he said it. So it is white! So today is the one of three days she lets herself feel anything.” Morning! She is going to the sea to mourn!”
“ For the love of Yue!” Sokka smacks his fore head and he knows what day it is.” I can’t believe-“
“ Admiral Quan there is two people waiting to see her Highness!” Laet cut off Sokka and I am so grateful. Everyone doesn’t need to know.
“ Well who are they?”
“ Yagoda from our home in the North. She says she has the solution to her highness’s problem with General Iroh and Suki of The Kyoshi Warriors!” I feel Sokka tense at the mention her name. So Suki is here. Great just what I need now after finding out the other night that Sokka does have a problem with me having sex with Haru . . . competition.
“ I’ll meet them if you two will go get her. Since you know what she is morning Toph it may be better this way. If I go, she will think I am intruding.”
Sokka and I leave and he is still holding my hand. Maybe I am worried for nothing. I hope I am. I have told Haru we will have to stop for a while. He didn’t seem to mind to much. I think he is going to redouble his efforts on Lan now. I don’t think it will work . . . hell June and I have a better chance of getting in her pants then he does. Now there is an idea . . . Me, June, and Lan. I am going to have to talk to June about it. What’s the worst that could happen? We make our way through Bah Sing Se and then I remember something.
“ Who’s Yagoda?”
“ She’s a healer from the North Pole. Lan sent a letter to her asking for help with Iroh. I guess she finally has the solution.”
“ Good! As June would say’ I really miss Uncle Lazy!’ “ I do miss him. I have missed him for a long time. I know Lan has to and if she can find a way to bring him back then I know he can bring her back. I know Iroh will bring back the Lan we all knew. Hope that we are going to make it just got kicked up one more notch.
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((( Lan )))
Toph wasn’t lying when she said that interrupting me today would be worth it. Yagoda has brought the answer I need to help Uncle Iroh. I told her I still have to think it over. She seemed pleased with this. Suki was also a nice surprise to see. Although now, things are strained with Toph and Sokka. I do not want to be a fly on the wall when Suki tells Sokka about the twin girls they have. Toph is strong but I believe this will kill her. Yes she has sex with Haru now and then but that is all it is. That’s one complicated mess I am glad to have avoided.
Watching the Kyoshi warriors walk behind the Earth King disgusts me. Here they are without a home and have to play subservient to this ass who left his people to fend for themselves. He stands before me and bows some kind of praises are coming out of his mouth but all I see is red. I can’t help it, and I slug him in the face.
“ That is for abandoning the people that you were supposed to protect!” I hit him again in the face and still everyone is too stunned to move. I can’t help it I have had enough of cowardice. I have had enough of this war. He had a chance to nip it in the bud before it got out of hand.” That is for being such a naive child as to listen to Long Fang if you notice his head is on the pike at the entrance of my tent!”
I watch everyone’s head turn to look at his decomposing head on a bamboo pole outside the entrance. He looks back to me terrified as well as my sister Warriors. I don’t care . . . their fear or any others no longer bother me. Someone once asked me if it is better to be loved or feared? The old Lan would have said loved . . . I say fear me.
I hate people like this supposed King before me. They are so pampered and sheltered they let others make choices for them. The Kyoshi Warriors do nothing to help him. I have just voiced everything they have wanted to say themselves. All the other generals are looking at the scene with mild curiosity. They have seen me like this before. This is nothing new to them.
“ Now your highness there is an age-old saying in fighting.’Everyone has a plan till they have been hit.’Well you have been hit twice so what do you plan to do? It better be to grow up and protect your people or you will answer to me!” I watch as he kowtows before me. Good maybe I have saved someone son or daughter from any more needless death. I can only hope. No. I don’t hope anymore. I can only make my best guess.
I can no longer stand to be in his presence so I leave. I know I will hear it late from Sun Quan but right now I don’t care. He’s just a giant pussy cat really. He has a broad strong body built like the great cats we have seen here. He is not hateful at all to look at with his long raven hair and chocolate eyes that always look at me with hunger. He isn’t hateful to be around either. Unlike most strong men he does have a mind that I like but . . . as I told Haru it would only be sex. I love no one anymore.
Yagoda has brought me my answer to get back into the spirit world again. I make my way to June and Iroh’s tent. I made sure my Uncle and best friend have every comfort I can give. Hell their tent is better than mine. It is well insulated for hot and cold has more things everywhere then my own. Yagoda and June are into a heated conversation. What I can only guess.
“ What the hell you are a healer and your going to give her Nightshade!! That stuff will kill her!” June is in the older woman’s face but Yagoda is not backing down.
“ Yes it is and she has taken it before and lived. Like I said this will get her there but the only reason Lan survived last time was because she wanted to live! Its Lan’s choice not mine or yours! ”
I hear and I remember. I had taken the poison before to open another’s mind that was broken from having a ship sail hit him in the head. Master Wei, Yagoda’s son is alive today because of what I did when I was twelve. I remember I almost died but was saved because I really wanted to live. I look at the table and see the purple liquid and ask myself ‘Do I want to Live?’ I have been asking myself that question since she came here with the stuff. I have no doubt I will knock down the wall Iroh’s mind has been locked in but will I make it back is the question.
“ Lan please! I have lost Iroh don’t make me lose you too!” June doesn’t cry and to see her on the verge of tears really hurts.
They had to pick today. They had to pick the one of the three days I allow myself to feel to do this today. Today four years ago I married Zuko and I was happy. Now I morn that day. I ask death to take me and still he turns me away like I turn every male who wants to come to my bed. Now death is inviting me to come and play and he knows if I want it I will die.
June has Iroh sitting up and looking at the harbor. I kneel at his feet and look up at his dead eyes. I have to do this. I grip his knee and ask whatever spirit still likes me after all I have done to let me do this. Let me save at least one person today instead of killing them.
“ I am going to bring Iroh back today or I will die.”
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I forgot how peaceful the Spirit world could be. To most it is scary with it’s bare trees and muddy looking appearance but to me it is the much needed peace I have actually longed for. I pick myself off the grass and look around. It is darker than I remember. It may have to do with Sozin’s comet . . . I can only guess.
I have no idea where to begin to look for Iroh but I do know one who does. I have dealt with Koh before. Nothing escapes him in this world. I make my way to the gnarled and almost dead tree of life. This is where the world was to have begun. I must show no emotion. That will not be hard since I don’t do that anyway. I walk down into the roots of the tree and look for Koh. He doesn’t keep me waiting long. Soon I can her the scuttling of his many legs.
“ Well, Well Lan Yin Meng you come to see me again. This has to stop. People may begin to think we are in love.” He stops abruptly in front of me wearing the face of a Blue Demon. Maybe he has stolen Zuko’s soul. Now that I will give myself hope for.
“ I doubt that. Once again I have come here for your help.” I speak monotone and show him as much respect as the face stealer deserves.
“ You must be desperate to enter my lair twice. Ask you question Mother of Avatars.” His coils are around my body ready to squeeze me and steal my face. I did this once I can do it again.
“ I must find the Dragon of the West. I know Iroh is in this realm. I would be appreciative of you if you could tell me where?”
“ You do not wish to know who else has come to this realm?” I know his game. I have played it before. Koh enjoys pulling you away from what you want.
“ I only wish to save one person today.” His coils leave me and I know I have won this time. He knows he cannot beat me this time either. He looks me in the face with that of a child now.
“ Very well. The soul you seek is in a prison of his own making. In a river that fits him well.” I know the prison of his own making. It is a box he has trapped his mind in. The river riddle is the only one I can’t figure out. There is only one river here that has a name and that is . . . Woe. That does fit. I have now what I need.
“ I thank you. Until we meet again.” I bow and leave to go to a place I thought I would never see while living.
“ We will meet again Lan Yin Meng. Oh yes Avatar Mother you and I will see each other yet again.”
As I make my way, I can see why it is woe. There are ghostly spirits floating in the river that falls off into hell. They are all calling and begging to be given redemption. I stay away from the edge or I will become like them. Sucked into a fate that cannot be changed. Looking at there graying form I wonder if I am already locked in a fate that I cannot change. I wonder if I will remain the monster I know I have become.
I see something else I thought I would never see again. The Tree of Pain. Were soldiers who have done unspeakable things to people are hung naked while birds peck at them and eat them for all time. I may end up on this tree one day. There is a comforting thought. The Spirit world has become blacker than I remember. I keep looking around and I see it. A gold cube sitting on an Island in the middle of the river of Woe. I know that this is where Iroh has locked himself. I take a running leap and barely clear it but I make it to the island. I see all the Water Tribe souls in the water that Zhao had stolen so that he could live. I will repay that fucking prick one day.
“ Uncle Iroh it’s me! It’s Little Lan!” I call and look for at least the tiniest crack in the box. Anything to help me. I walk round and round hoping to weaken it with my pleas. “ Please Uncle Iroh I need you. June she needs you! If you won’t come out for me then think of June! She misses you so much! I know how much it hurt to have Zuko turn on you and believe me I do feel it but we can’t do this Uncle Iroh. We can’t hide away. We have to do something! You made a promise to my Father to help me. So help me!”
“ You have been hiding for four years now.” The box breaks and I cover my face with my arms to keep the shards from hitting me. I see Iroh now before me dusting himself off. “ It’s about time you got here I was beginning to worry.”
“ YOU . . . ARGH!” I can only yell but I am so happy we are doing this the easy way. I didn’t want to have to break it myself. I look at my hands and they are bruised. Come to mention it my whole body is bruised. I look at Iroh and he can only shake his head at me sadly.
“ Your spirit is so bruised. You are dying spiritually Lan. You should have come for me long before this.” I see him look past me at something but I don’t care. I have come here to do what I must.
“ Yeah well I guess I am a poor student.” I hug him and I have hope in the world again. I have missed him so much. I let him go and look at him and feel . . . hot. This isn’t right there is no hot or cold here in the spirit realm. I should not feel like this at all but I do. I feel as if . . . but that isn’t possible. There is no way in the Universe Zuko could be here. He can’t come here for he has no soul.
((( Aang )))
I had brought Katara and Zuko here when I felt Lan enter. It was easy since I know what today is. Zuko I knew would be on his knees at temple praying for deliverance. This is the one month he will not touch Katara at all. It is his and Lan’s wedding anniversary. Katara I knew would be asleep. It’s about time Lan got here. I was beginning to think she had abandon all hope. I knew she was alive because I could hear the world calling her name. I also hear how she answers them but I have not heard her voice for many years. I have brought Katara and Zuko here on one condition they do not go to Lan. This is her first journey here in four years. To see them she could go into a rage and kill them....or herself. I gave them the excuse it would be to much for her. They both agreed. The truth would kill them both . . . literally.
Jong Jong was easy enough. He just got to Omashu where I am kept safe underground by Bumi. Jong Jong has picked up my training where Iroh was abruptly cut off. He trains me in the dream world where I can get to from the spirit world where I have locked myself. Ozai cannot find me. He will not know me until I am ready. Lan keeps his attention now. I hear the whispers of how he fears her. He should because even I the Avatar am afraid of her.
All of us stand on the other side looking at Lan and Iroh. In some way we have all failed her. Me for not trying harder to find her and tell her what happened. Katara for enjoying herself at times . . . I can’t think there. Katara and Zuko have done what they must to survive. I cannot blame them. I still love and desire Katara. Nothing will change that. Jong Jong for the simple fact that he couldn’t get Lan here. I know he feels he has failed her by not teaching her that there is a life after this is over. I can feel how disappointed he is in himself like a father who has failed in raising a child. Zuko is the one we fear for. His anger and rage he has turned inward on himself. He has become his own worst enemy.
“ Is it me or does Lan look like a slave girl in morning?” I can’t take the tension I can feel radiating from Zuko. He ignores me while Katara tries to keep from snickering.
“ Your lesson on life begins now. What do you plan to do when this is over?” Iroh and her cross the river and wait. I can see Lan in thought. It is something she has never considered. It is something she has never stopped to think of.
“ I don’t know. I guess I will go home and be a Mother to my twin boys.” She shrugs her shoulder and looks to the ground.
We all look at Zuko now. He is usually pail but his face is as white a Jong Jong’s hair. Katara tried to take his hand but he refuses it. So Lan did get pregnant. She went against what they said they would not do and had not one but two. Zuko falls to his knees and I can see him holding it all in. He never knew. No one told him.
“ Zuko I am so sorry.” Katara tries to comfort him but he shrugs her away. He looks up to see Lan and Iroh walking away to where she came in at. He wants to run to her I can feel it but he holds himself back.
“ All of you knew and you didn’t tell me! I kept every promise to each of you I ever made and none of you told me I have sons! Katara is there anything you are keeping from me!?” He towers over her and I will fight him if he touches her. It was my fault. I am the only one who knew . . . actually I didn’t know really till two weeks ago but still.
“ Don’t blame her.” We all look to Jong Jong.” If you want to blame someone blame me. I helped bring Jiang and Lu Ten into the world.” I look to Jong Jong in shock. So he has known all this time.
“ No. I am not pregnant. I swear it.” Zuko looks her in the eyes before nodding. Katara has never lied to him and she isn’t now. There is no life in her womb and Zuko will now do everything he can from putting life in there. He will not touch Katara any more after this I know it. He has a plan to get her to safety. We all agreed that it will work and to make it happen.
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((( Zuko )))
I kneel here on the cold floor of the temple and feel nothing but hate. I have twin boys. I have heirs with the woman I love and no one thought to tell me. Her and I had agreed to wait till the war was over to have children and now I find that she had twins. No, I don’t hate. I don’t hate her. I don’t hate Aang I hate no one really. Jong Jong has kept my Wife safe. He has kept Aang safe in Omashu that had taken back years ago.
I sit here and I remember seeing her in the Spirit world. I had begged Aang to let me know the minute she came there. I am so tired but it was worth it. To see her even thought she did look like a slave girl in morning was worth it. She looked so beaten and battered though. Uncle had said her soul is dying. As soon as I went to the Spirit world with Aang I felt her. As soon as Aang got me I knew she was there. I felt heat running threw me and pooling in an all familiar way. I felt that way when I met her in the North Pole and fell in love with her. I still love her now.
I can hear Katara coming toward me. Her footsteps are all too familiar. I feel as she lays a blanket on my naked shoulders. I feel her hand on my back and want to lie to myself. I want to lie and believe it is Lan with me now. I want to lie and believe we are on Kyoshi plotting my Father’s destruction. But I can’t. Katara has to open her mouth and speak destroying my happy lie.
“ Iroh will put her back together.” I bury my head in her hair and bite my lip to keep back my sadness. I should be there putting her back together. I should be the one she calls to a night. I should be the one with Lan now telling her . . . no making her soul come back. Instead I am a coward here playing to my Father’s whims. I have made up my mind. Katara is not the only one who will escape.
TBC
Sorry it only gets darker from here.
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