Title: What Really Happened

Author: SCWLC

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Summary: A somewhat cracktastic way to get Katara and Zuko together in a post-finale world.

Notes: This is crack. If someone wants to take this and make it into a serious piece, be my guest, but as it stands, this is silly fun.

"Ah-hah!" Toph crowed in triumph as she marched into the throne room where Aang and Zuko were proposing simultaneously to their girlfriends. Aang looked up from where he was placing the necklace with a carved orange stone on a yellow ribbon on Katara's neck, and Zuko looked up from where he was putting the family heirloom betrothal comb into Mai's hair.

"Ah-hah what?" Aang asked, a little put out the moment was being spoiled.

"Can't it wait?" Katara and Zuko chorused at the earthbender.

Toph just smirked. "No, it can't." She waved a hand, and a metal box, very similar to the one that had once held Bumi captive floated into the room with her. "I now have definite proof that everything in this room right now is wrong. I plan to stop that."

"Everything, Toph?" Zuko asked, somewhat amused, wrapping his arms around Mai and pulling her against him.

Toph nodded firmly. "Everything," she said. She pointed at the box. "I knew something had happened when, after everything, you wound up with needles over there and Sweetness agreed to go out with Twinkletoes."

"What?" The four chorused blankly.

"Yup," she said cheerfully. "It's Azula's final plot," she told them. "Just in case. She knows that Katara would push you to really reform things around here, not to mention that you were going to switch sides," she told Zuko. "So when she saw the sparks flying under Ba Sing Se, she made sure to have a little insurance policy."

"Sparks?" Katara said in disbelief. "Nothing happened. We argued, we talked about our mothers, I offered to heal him and then he turned on us when his sister attacked. What sparks?"

"How forgivingly you put it," Zuko said dryly. "But that's right. Nothing happened, Toph."

The earthbender smirked. "That's what Azula wanted you to think. You were down there way longer than could be accounted for from your stories," Toph said. "So that got me thinking. What if something happened and you didn't remember?"

"Why wouldn't they remember?" Aang asked. "The Dai Li? Like with Jet?"

"Exactly!" Toph declared triumphantly. "So I went and I found the guy who did it."

Zuko let go of Mai and sank into a chair. "Kuei's going to have my head for this stunt Toph. No matter how much I tell him I had nothing to do with it. Thanks for the headache."

The other three all joined him, sitting at the table shaking their heads. "Toph, that's crazy," Katara said.

"No. What's crazy is that he's with Needles when he loves you and you're with Twinkletoes when you love him."

"What?" chorused all four a second time.

Toph's smirk grew to epic and frightening proportion. "And now, I'm going to prove it. Hit it, guys!" Having absolutely no warning, they were knocked out and dragged off by a cohort of former Dai Li under Toph's command.

All four woke up, hours later, Zuko and Katara having been deprogrammed by the Dai Li. Aang was the first to wake up and rushed to Katara's side. "Katara!" He checked her over, relieved to see nothing more serious than a bump on the head. She was uninjured and breathing fine. "Toph! What is going on!"

"I told you," Toph said. "I'm fixing Azula's last plan."

Katara, Zuko and Mai all groaned and started to wake up. Aang hurried back to Katara's side. "Katara! Are you okay?"

She sat up, a hand to her head, and said, "Yeah, Aang. I'm – Zuko!" She whipped around, immediately starting to check Zuko over. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," replied the firebender. "I'm . . . okay." He trailed off, staring into Katara's eyes for a moment. Then suddenly the pair were kissing. Hard. Lots. With tongue and moaning. Aang and Mai stared, horrified, at the display. "I'm so sorry," Zuko told Katara when they finally stopped. He rested his forehead against hers. "I should have . . . I don't know. I should have remembered. I should have at least not gone out with Mai."

Mai squeaked, but no one noticed. Katara replied, "I know. I should have told you. I should have known that I was angrier than I should have been for such a short conversation. I . . ." Words seemed to fail her and Zuko pulled her against him.

"It's okay." Zuko told her. "We're okay."

Katara snuggled into him. "I'm just so angry. She took away everything. The night we spent while you were trying to use me as bait with the pirates and we kissed, the talk we had at the North Pole . . ."

"When you found me and Uncle and gave me those herbs to help him even after I told you to leave," Zuko continued. "Everything that happened under Ba Sing Se," he said, one hand caressing Katara's face, softly. "I love you. Marry me?"

"Yes!" Katara flipped around and flung her arms around Zuko, kissing him fervently again.

"Whu?" said Aang.

"Buh-?" said Mai.

"Muh-"

"Yih-"

Toph shoved the two out of the room. "Yeah, yeah. We get it. Shock and surprise."

Katara and Zuko were too involved in each other to notice.