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The Siege of Katara	By : CordeliaLeCroix Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Threesomes/Moresomes Views: 56169 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Katara finally, and miserably, understood the importance of the healing classes she took for granted in the North. If she could heal she could destroy.
It felt like an epiphany and she wondered if the Northern Water Tribe had any idea. Clearly not or the men wouldn't have labeled it women's work. She wanted to talk about it, but had no one to talk to. She didn't even know how to cope with the way she'd used her skills.
The people of the village had been less confused. To them she was a hero. While she agonized over this and other things, they were celebrating. Her heart felt empty and she wondered if she would ever feel normal again. After a couple days she had decided it was time to go but she didn't go alone.
Two earth benders, a couple named Oton and Ten-yi, insisted on coming with her. Ten-yi took a motherly role towards her and Oton was happy to follow his wife. She wanted more than anything to be alone, but she couldn't stop them from following her, even after telling them she had no plan, just an idea of which direction she wanted to go. It was good enough for them and they started traveling around the massive lake.
It wasn't long before they found another oppressed village, and another. As if it were a mission Katara and her new friends liberated villages and their circle grew, more people following them until they had a sort of army.
It wasn't what she had planned but it gave Katara renewed sense of duty. These people looked up to her and she would take care of them. When she felt homesick for her friends she would find a tree and focus, practicing how far she could follow the water until guilt or Zuko invaded her thoughts. Then she would purposefully march on to the next task to drive him out of her mind.
Truths and rumors spread about the earth army, giving hope to people who had given up. Oton and Ten-yi stayed close to Katara and they traveled ahead often to scout. They went through a small valley and into something that looked like it used to be a medium sized city.
"Something is really wrong." Oton stopped short. "There's smoke rising from buildings."
Katara ran, her army following in her wake, but was too late. Most of the earthen buildings had been destroyed, burned, or at least scorched. There were bodies her mind refused to register laying on the ground. She kept running, looking down alleys and inside buildings but nothing moved.
Overwhelmed she stopped in a large clearing that used to be the center of the city and tried to breathe.
"Are you the water bender?" A weak voice asked.
"What?" She looked around and finally found a man, dirty and injured, leaning against some rubble.
"You're too late. Or maybe you were too early." He was badly bruised, his arm in a sling.
"What do you mean?" Katara slowly approached him.
"We heard you were coming, hoped you would. Some even openly rebelled against the soldiers. When they discovered you were headed this way they destroyed the city and left." He spoke like he would fall asleep any moment and even wobbled a little.
"What about the people?"
He thought for a moment and Katara looked around thinking he might not answer.
"Mostly injured, some dead." He said looking around at the bodies she still refused to acknowledge. "The survivors are all in the shelter." He nodded towards a scorched structure that looked like the only thing intact. "Those who aren't injured are helping those who are."
Katara ran to the shelter, through the door which was blocked only by a blanket. Oton and Ten-yi were behind her. The open building was probably once filled with light and happy people, but now it was filled with injured and sick and the light was blocked out by blankets over the windows and doors. The sounds of pain reached Katara's ears, bile welled up in her throat, and her eyes stung. This was all her fault.
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"This isn't funny. Why are you smiling?" Mai asked in a hushed voice.
"She's always doing things like this."
"She's always raising armies and pissing off the colonies?"
"Something like that." The report in Zuko's hands detailed how many villages had been lost, the locations this new earth army had been encountered, and even how many families were leaving the colonies for the Fire Nation for protection.
Zuko bit his lip. That last part would definitely get his father's attention. Ozai wouldn't be pleased that his people were fleeing. All the reports contained embellished descriptions of a water bender or several water benders leading the army, causing floods, and defeating whole troops.
He looked up at Mai, who stood in front of him with a blank expression, obviously upset. She seemed to have come to terms with the unusual circumstances. He had thought she would eventually go back home when she realized he wasn’t going to give up on finding Katara, but she had done the opposite. She wanted to find the exotic water bender as much as he did, accepting their troika as if it were natural. Zuko only wished it were that simple.
"June will tell us where she is."
"If you can trust her." She shrugged and crossed her arms.
"As long as Azula doesn't find out."
"As long as Azula doesn't find out what?" Azula stood in the massive doorway. "That your girlfriend is wreaking havoc on the colonies? That Fire Nation generals are fleeing? Don't worry, I'm sure there will be plenty of punishment for deserters."
Azula still wore her smug smile but she was different. She left most things up to him now, impossible to imagine, and though she was still her confrontational self, there seemed to be less fire to back up her threats.
Zuko had a theory.
He stood. "I've been communicating with father. He wants you to take care of the rouge earth army personally. His faith in me isn't fully restored."
"I guess I could let you go after her to show Father you're not so worthless."
Her barb stuck in his chest and he clenched his jaw even though it was just a ruse to see if Azula would back down from the challenge. "His orders are direct."
Azula smirked. "Are you too in love to do what needs to be done?"
Zuko's fingers twitched and the thick scroll disintegrated between them. Flames flashed from his palms. He thought he saw Azula jerk in fear, but surely he'd imagined it. He bent a harmless fireball to her and she dodged it. Even Mai's mouth hung open.
"You can't bend," he said just to hear it out loud.
"It's temporary."
"So that's what she did to you."
"She's just a stupid water bender."
"She took away your bending."
"Listen to what you're saying. It's not possible." Azula snorted.
"She dropped Dai-li all the way from the palace to the outer wall."
"It's not possible!" she shrieked.
"Pack your stuff, Azula."
"What?"
"I'm sending you home like a good big brother. You're not well." He had trouble keeping the glee off his face.
"I'm not going anywhere."
"You're of no use here. I'd hate to tell Father of your condition if you refused to go quietly."
Her face went through shades of red. A drop of blood fell to the floor from where her fingernails dug into her palms.
"I bring you back into the fold and this is how you repay me?"
"I'm sure you did it out of love and I'm sending you home out of love, sister. I wouldn't want you to get hurt."
"Maybe Father would like to know there's a water bender possibly carrying the royal blood line."
"Are you going to tell him just what you're carrying?" It was a long shot, but it would explain a lot. She had been favoring Dai-li soldiers since she'd arrived, so it wasn't out of the question. Azula didn't give him an answer.
"Father's orders are for me to go after Katara." Her teeth were clenched and a puddle of blood had formed at her feet. He noted how hard it was for her to restrain herself. They had something in common after all.
"He'll understand if you're too ill to go. I'll take care of the situation myself and return home afterwards." He turned, dismissing her like she had done to him so many times.
"That was…" Mai paused looking for the right word. "Delicious."
Zuko cocked an eyebrow at her. It had felt good to finally put Azula in her place. He sat on the Earth King's throne and called for a soldier to start the boulder rolling to get Azula on her way home, but Mai knelt in front of him.
He knew what was coming and his body responded before Mai's beautiful delicate fingers stroked his erection through the material of his pants before deftly releasing his belt. He had never asked her for this, but whenever the whim struck her she would kneel at his feet just like this.
Her hands were cool on his hot skin, stroking him while she freed his length. He whispered her name and she moaned before taking him in her mouth, as deep as she could.
"Another message came…" The soldier who walked into the throne room cut his sentence short, still holding the scroll out as if he were going to hand it to someone.
Mai ignored the intrusion, working her mouth over his erection again and again.
Zuko cleared his throat. "What does it say?"
"Er…" The soldier visibly collected himself and unfolded the parchment. "It's from someone named June. She says she's getting closer. She'll have an answer for you soon."
"Good," Zuko said and groaned as Mai brought him to release. She looked up at him through her lashes and continued to suck, swallowing as she went.
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"Should we go back for the others?" Ten-yi put a hand on Katara's shoulder.
It would be the sensible thing to do but she couldn't leave these people.
"No." She forced a smile for the other woman. "Not yet. I need a favor."
Motioning to the rubble in the center of the city she continued, "There is water flowing through here, underground. Can you get me to it?"
Oton and Ten-yi stood in the center facing each other. Together they stomped the ground and raised their arms. Chunks of earth moved out of the ground until a well formed straight to the underground river.
"I need something around it. A short wall to hold in the water but big around enough for a man to lie down in."
"Like a fountain?" Oton asked.
Katara gave him a genuine smile for understanding and nodded. A few motions later the rubble turned to dust. The ground pushed up and a wide fountain was shaped. A few people wandered out to see what they were doing. Ten-yi added steps leading into it. Oton raised a spout from the ground to keep anyone from falling into the well.
It wasn't a work of art but it would be functional for what Katara had in mind. Gathering her courage she pulled her shoes off, and rolled up Zuko's pants. She would take them off if she was wearing more than the red triangle held by a gold chain, but she took his shirt off and avoided looking at her friends to see their reaction to the indecent matching top.
She padded into the new fountain, and once again imagined the egg breaking on her head to help her focus. She looked at the sky and called the river to her. The pool filled and ribbons of water circled and twisted around her, something she knew people were starting to recognize as a sign that the army had come and hope was there.
Slowly she lowered her head and looked at Oton and Ten-yi. "I'm ready."
They brought a man to the fountain, hobbled from a broken leg and a broken arm. They helped him into the pool and sat him in the water. Katara knelt beside him, drawing water up with her hands. He looked frightened.
"It'll be okay." Katara whispered to him.
She touched his arm and the water turned blue. She tried to heal him but he screamed and she stopped, trying to sooth him. Her ribbons fell as panic seized her. How could she heal him if it hurt him? Then she remembered Alda and how easy it had been to put the woman to sleep.
She tapped two fingers to the scared man's head and reached out to him. It wasn't a verbal command, but it was like suggesting something to him. Perhaps you are tired now? And he fell back into the water asleep. Instead of pulling away she maintained her connection with him and was awed by what she found.
She could 'see' his body through water bending, almost like the tree only sharper. His arm was broken and healing crooked. No wonder he screamed: it would need to be re-broken before she could heal it right. She suggested to his sub-conscious that he didn't feel any pain. Focusing on his arm she felt it break and then heal.
Katara repeated the process with his leg, amazed that he felt so alive to her. Finally she searched for other injuries and finding none she suggested that he wake up. He sat up bewildered. He tested his arm, then felt his leg. He stood and started crying. Katara tried to comfort him, but he cried harder and trapped her in a hug.
With tears still running down his cheeks he walked out of the fountain on his own legs and held up his arm. A few of the onlookers gasped before turning to bring more people to the fountain.
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Katara spent each evening in the fountain healing, growing more exhausted though the people brought her food. The army arrived and soon homes were rebuilt, out laying farms were tilled, the rubble was gone, and the army seemed to double.
The amount of pain and suffering weighed on Katara and she withdrew into herself. Healing it wasn't enough. She would have stayed in the fountain until she expired but Ten-yi clucked over her, making sure she ate and slept.
News spread and soon she was healing people who weren't part of the city. New people arrived every day, but a tall girl with an air of self-assurance caught her attention. Katara recognized the bounty hunter from the Abbey. She was dressed the same as the rest of the travelers, but she was clean and her long black hair was groomed.
She tried to keep an eye on June and tried to spot her Shirshu anywhere nearby. When she noticed her speaking to Oton and Ten-yi her suspicions rose. That evening after Ten-yi insisted she stop for the evening Katara dried herself off and took a walk through the city, taking a now familiar path through the buildings acutely aware that June was following her. She had one ribbon of water, swirling around her absently. It would be enough.
Finally she reached a small hilltop where they could be alone.
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