Chapter eleven: Fights

Disclaimer: I haven't and never ever will own Avatar: the Last Airbender (AtLA), but this story I spent my time on writing is mine.

Important A/N: In this story time goes slower than in the actual show. From where we are right now in the story there is about 4 months until Sozin's Comet.

The Unexpected

Katara's P.O.V

It had been two weeks since my father and the others arrived. Two weeks since I've had a rational conversation with him. Why must everything be so difficult?

I roll over on my side and face a sleeping Zuko. His arm swung lazily over my waist pulled me a bit closer involuntarily. I sigh and trace the crevices of his scar, and gently kiss the darker part where his eye is. Honey colored eyes flutter open and look up at me.

"Morning," I say and run my finger though his ebony, mop of hair.

I hear something mumbled in the pillow that sound like 'good morning' as he buried his face in the pillow in a attempt to block out the sunlight.

"Come on. What happened to Mr. I-rise-with-the-sun?" I tease.

"He's sleep, I'll tell him you asked for him later," was my muffled reply.

"Ha ha very funny," I say as an idea popped up in my head, "I'm hungry."

"Why don't you go fix breakfast then?" He groaned at his useless attempts at not getting any sleep.

"Who ever said for food?" That seems to get him up in a heartbeat.

"Good you're up," I giggle as he pouted when his figured out my little trick. I wrap my arms around his neck as plant a quick, but passionate kiss on his lips. I feel him shift his attention down toward my huge belly.

"How are you doing little guys?" He cooed as he rubbed my stomach.

"I guess they're happy, considering how much they're kicking me," I smile and watch Zuko continue rubbing my stomach gently. He looks up at me and leans up to kiss me. About an inch away from my lips we hear a BOOM! I pull away and look at him.

"What the hell was that!" I yell in shock.

"I don't know," he jumps of the bed and grabbed my wrist and runs to the main area, "We got to get out of here."

I hear more explosions as we run I see Aang air bend a bomb out of the way. I hear Zuko yell something, push me, and land on top of me.

"What are you doing?" I yell confused thinking this was not the time to be doing this.

"Keeping rocks from crushing you and the babies," he says and remains on top of me.

I look to where I was just standing a see huge rocks in it's place. I was about to tell Zuko thank you, but I hear more explosions in the background and hurry to get away.

"Okay, I'm not crushed you can get off of me now," I snap on accident.

He grumbles and slides off of me as I begin to run away.

"I'll take that as a thank you," I hear him say as I walk off.

While the rest of us are trying to work together to get Appa into the cave I turn around to see Zuko running to where the attacker is.

"What are you doing?" Aang asked.

"Go ahead, I'll hold them off," he says making he way over to the air ships, "I think this is a family visit."

I hear Aang shout something at him, but ignore it. I can't believe Zuko would actually be stupid enough to put his life in danger to just settle a little family rivalry. I can't lose another person I love, like mom, and I can't raise these babies on my own.

Sokka grabs my arm and hop on Appa, but he wouldn't go into the cave.

"We need to split up," Sokka says.

"Come on Katara!" My dad yelled over all the noise.

"I'm not coming with you," I shout at him.

"Stop acting like a child. I only want what's best for you," I begin to walk toward Appa.

"If you want what's best for me you will see that I need to be with my fiancee and raise these kids," With that I turn around and don't look back, but call back behind me, "Bye dad, I love you. Hopefully I'll see you after the war is over."

I hop on Appa with the help of my brother and Toph makes a clearing. Once we were in the air I look around I finally spot Zuko and see him fighting Azula. My heart breaks in half when I see him slide across the war ship and fall off. We fly to his rescue and I put my hand out and grip onto his tightly and pull him in the saddle. I pull my arms around his waist and hug him and I feel his arms slide around me.

"She's not going to make it," I hear Zuko say as we pull away.

When I look over I see Azula take her hair piece off and propel herself to the cliff with her near firebending.

"Of course she did" He let out with a sigh.

We eventually ended up camping on a hill with a rocky terrain with everyone gathered around the camp fire. We were eating dinner, which was biscuits and water.

"Wow, camping. It really seems like old times again, doesn't it?" Aang asked.

"If you really want it to feel like old times, I could, uhh... chase you around a while and try to capture you." Zuko said while eating his biscuit.

"Haha," You could hear the sarcasm drenched throughout the phrase.

I was pissed by now. If Zuko really thought it was okay to just go around risking his life, he was in for a rude awakening.

"To Zuko. Who knew after all those times he tried to snuff us out, today, he be our hero." I hear my brother say and see everyone raise their glasses.

"I'm touched. I don't deserve this." That was enough, I don't want to snap at Zuko in front of everyone.

"Yeah, no kidding." With that I stand up and walk back to my tent ignoring the calls for me to come back.

I walk for about five minutes before I feel a hand grab my wrist and pull me back towards them. I didn't need to turn around to know who it was.

"What do you want?" I snap, "Can't you see I want to be left alone?"

"What's your problem, Katara?" Zuko says, "Is it mood swings again?"

"NO!" I was beyond furious, "You're my problem."

"What can I do for you Katara?" He asked.

"What can you do?" I shout, "For starters you can stop putting yourself in danger at times when it's not necessary. I can't raise these babies alone, Zuko." I can feel tears rolling down my cheeks by now, "I can't loose someone who I've gotten so close to again. I want my mother back." The last part came out in a sob.

I brushed past Zuko's shoulder as I run quickly as I could with a giant belly to my tent.

In side my tent I lay my head down on my pillow and think of everything. I miss my mother so bad. What would she say if she found out I was pregnant only at 15, and with a fire benders baby no less? Would she be as angry as dad was or would she support me?

Thoughts like these and more fill my head as I lay my head down to go to sleep.

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I wake up in the morning and head out my tent to my bag. A when I see the state Zuko is in, when I go to look to my things. I pull out my herbs and swallow it quickly with a drink of water from my canteen and grab my comb to get the knots out of my hair.

"You look terrible," I tell him while swiftly combing through my hair.

"I've waited here all night," He stand ups and puts his hand on my waist only to have it smacked away by my smaller one.

"I'm still mad at you," I remind him, "What do you want?"

"I know who killed your mother," I almost dropped my comb at this news, my heart about stopped when I heard what him said next, "I'm going to help you find him."

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I walk to the middle of the camp site with Zuko and stop and look at Aang with a stern look on my face.

"I need to borrow Appa." I state quickly and I see Sokka walk into the area.

"Why? Is it your turn to take a little field trip with Zuko?" He teased gently while feeding Appa, but I was in no mood for teasing.

"Yes, it is," I say as I begin to throw some bags on top of Appa.

"No, absolutely not," Sokka jumps in and grabs my arm as I'm about to put another bag on Appa.

"What's your problem?" I snapped.

"What's my problem?" He replied with a dry laugh, "Did you forget you're pregnant or do I have to keep on reminding you?"

"I don't need you to keep telling me, Sokka." You could hear the annoyance throughout my voice, "I know who killed mom. I'm going to find him."

"No, no your not," He shouted, "I promised dad I would take care of you, even though he's mad at you right now he would want you to be safe. She was my mother too"

"Then you didn't love her the way I did!" I yelled and stormed away.

I could not believe this. A part of me understands where Sokka is coming from, but the other part of me wanted, no needed, to find the monster that took my mother away. Zuko slips his fingers through mine and walked me back to his tent.

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I walked swiftly and quietly to Appa, with Zuko right behind me. The black suit I was wearing could have been looser, but I didn't really mind as long as it wasn't too tight. I was pretty fast to be expecting in about a month, with twins never the less.

"So you were just going to take Appa anyway?" Aang said angrily as he jumped up from behind a rock with Sokka.

"Yes," I replied bluntly.

"It's okay, because I forgive you," He smiled and changed his voice to a sweet tone, "That give you any idea?"

"Don't try to stop us," We throw the rest of our bags on Appa and I climb up in between his horns.

"Katara!" Sokka yelled and then turned towards Zuko, "You're telling me you are perfectly fine with letting her go on this dangerous trip, when she pregnant with your kids?"

"I'll be there to protect her if anything goes wrong." Zuko stated as calmly as he could.

"What if something happens and you aren't there?" He asked.

"Not possible," Zuko moved forward and placed a hand on my shoulder, "I will be there, by her side every second of the day."

"I'm still worried for her," He turned towards me, "Either all of us go or none of us go."

"What?" I turn towards him shocked, "All of us?"

"That's right," Sokka add with a nod, "I'm not letting anything happen to you. I shouldn't have let that happen to you." He said as he pointed to my stomach.

"Get over it," I say as I smack his hand away from my tummy, "Fine, tell everyone to be ready by dawn. I don't want anyone to hold us up."

I wasn't happy at all with the outcome of this, but it's better than not being able to go at all. I headed back to me and Zuko room for a long night of much needed rest. La sure knows I need it, for I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow.

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I'm not dead! 50 reviews, you guys are awesome! Sorry for the very long delay. I had some paperwork and studying that needed to be done before I started on this. I owe a lot of the quotes in this chapter to AvatarSpirit (dot) net, check out the site some time. So I know what your thinking, you're probably like no Katara and Zuko are supposed to go on this trip alone. Don't worry I'll make sure they get all the alone time on this trip as the had in the series. Also don't forget to review, it gives me motivation to work faster :) Also I have another story. It's called Old Feelings Become New Again. Check it out on my profile soon. Also my computer had this really nasty virus to where it closed everything down on my computer and wouldn't open anything. So I had to take it to the shop, that's why I couldn't update, but now I'm back and better than ever. I hope to get one or more updates in every week now I'm really sorry guys. I'll try to put one up before Thanksgiving. The keyword is try. Review!