"I'm not going!" Katara shrieked stomping her feet down onto the ground trying to get away from Zuko. "Aang, Sokka help!" She yelled.

Zuko sighed trying to get her to leave the camp. If she kept yelling like that his uncle might think that he was trying to rape her. He finally stopped and hit her across the face. She stopped her screaming and yelling long enough to bite Zuko on the hand. Snapping his hand back he finally held up a burning fist to her face.

"I'm sure you don't want a scar like mine on that lovely face." Katara backed up slightly. "If you don't…" Sighing he watched the girl run off towards the forest. Snapping towards a guard, "Tell my uncle that I'm going out to catch her. I'll be back before sun down."

Zuko walked through the forest wondering if he should call out to the girl like a master would its dog. He shrugged it off and followed the track that she had left for him. He finally figured that it would best to do something on what his uncle had told him the previous night.

Flashback

Iroh sat at the table watching his nephew eat a fish that was recently just caught. Sighing he interrupted Zuko's dinner.

"We're entering fire Nation territory. And to make it more specific you're sister is in the area." Zuko threw is fish towards Iroh.

"Sister!" Flames were coming out from his hands. "What do you mean sister?"

"I mean a girl that your parents had before your mother died. Remember all they had to do was…"

"I know how children are made uncle." Zuko said raising his hand as if to blow Iroh off. "I want to know when they had it."

"While you were born." That made Zuko even angrier. Raising his hands towards the ceiling he released a bunch of fire. "She's your twin."

Zuko walked up to his uncle and stood about an inch away from Iroh's nose. "When were going to inform me about this."

"Your father always thought you knew. That girl that was following you during your training was her." Iroh shrugged and took a sip of his tea.

End Flashback

Zuko looked down as he walked trying to think of that girl. She was a complete blur to him. Occasionally he'd remember a girl following him and wanting to be just like him but other than that nothing came up.

"Zuko," A soft moan came. Stopping where he was he looked around. "Down here bastard." It was that water bender's voice.

"What happened to you?" He asked looking down.

Katara was in a ditch nonetheless. She was clutching her ankle as if it was broken or sprained. Zuko knelt down so his knees were almost touching the ground. He laughed before picking her up bridal style.

"Put me down!" She shrieked. "I can walk."

Zuko touched her ankle and felt shatter with his touch. "Not any more." He laughed almost feeling bad for braking it; almost. "If looks could kill." He muttered as Katara shot him a dirty look.

"Yeah cuz with all the looks you get you'd be dead." She laughed to herself and then sighed. "Why me not Sokka?" She asked the prince.

"Because you're closer to him." Was his answer walking up the platform leading onto his ship.

Iroh looked at the girl and sighed. Tears were running down her face. It looked like that her ankle was broken. When it came to women Zuko didn't have the best of luck. He really didn't know how to treat them considering his mother wasn't around for most of the young fire bender's life was full of his sister nagging on him.

"I'll take the girl." Iroh said taking Katara from Zuko's arms. It was going to be easy to figure out Zuko's plan. It was always going to be the same one over and over. Capture the Avatar's girlfriend, use her as bait, Avatar comes, Zuko gets his ass kicked, girl leaves with Avatar, rinse, and repeat. Iroh felt like he was washing a messy kid.

Katara had falling asleep by the time he reached down stairs. Placing her on Zuko's bed he took off her shoes and saw that it was swollen Iroh wrapped it up and elevated it. The water bender was young, Iroh figured just about to turn fifteen; she wasn't ready for the responsibility that came before her in the next few days.

Katara was confined to Zuko's bed for the next few days, counting on everyone else to bring her food and water. She didn't like that because occasionally it would be Zuko brining her the food and water. Conversation between them resulted in him yelling at her for lying around all day. Eventually he would leave sending one of the guards to get the dirty dishes.

Around the fourth day Katara was able to walk around the room but was still unable to put a lot of pressure on her right ankle. Zuko walked in and saw her sitting at the desk playing with a marble that she had found the day before.

"Having fun?" He asked startling her.

"What do you want?" She asked after recovering from her shock.

"Fire bending training wondering if you'd like to learn some basic moves." Zuko sighed walking over to Katara, "it should help with your ankle."

Katara narrowed her eyes. "You broke it!" She yelled wobbling like a duck over to Zuko. She poked his chest and did her best to keep her brave act going. "It's all because of you I'm still here."

Zuko grabbed her arm that was poking him and laughed. "Yeah it's because of me you're still alive. Blame the bad guy for saving your life. Next time I'll let my sister's armies capture you." He laughed again and turned to the door. "If you're going to survive on this ship I suggest you learn some type of basic fighting skills."

K15: Ok this story falls into place eventually if you stick with me it will get better. Later. K15