Katara POV

The cold ground is all I feel. As I curl up into a ball trying in vain to convince myself that everything will be alright. I shake my head in despair and stand up to pace my prison. On my fifth lap I hear the sound of moving rock and look up to see the banished prince being thrown down into my prison.

"Zuko!" his name escapes my shocked lips; he has caught me off guard once more. It takes me a second to harden my expression "Why did they throw you in here?" I ask accusingly. Without waiting for an answer I say "oh wait let me guess it's a trap so that when Aang shows up to help me you will finally have him in your little fire nation clutches. You're a terrible person, do you know that? All ways following us try to hunt down the avatar to capture the world's last hope for peace. But what do you care you're the fire lord's son spreading war violence and hatred is in your blood."

"You don't know what you are talking about." He shoots back at me finally getting a word in.

"I don't?" I unleash my anger "How dare you! You have no idea what this war has put me through! Me personally…" I turned and curled up into a ball as if trying to disappear; my rant dissolved into a bare whisper "The Fire Nation took my mother away from me." Pain, agony, rage, helplessness, fear all run their course through my bod; Flashbacks of the black snow, the stranger in the house, her last words to me; the guilt that I didn't run fast enough. Just as the tears began to spill over, I felt a hand on my back. As my perfect enemy pulled me close to him in an embrace "I'm sorry" he told me pulling me closer "that is something we both have in common" I cry into his chest, he holds me and the tears fall faster "all my fault" I sob "run faster" the black snow falls in my head, her last words echo in my mind "don't worry" fear "I'll handle this" pain "she lied" hate "she lied" I feel myself curl closer to Zuko "she lied to me." I fall unconscious lost in the nightmare of the worst day of my life.

Slowly the world comes back into focus, I find myself still in his arms. I am oddly comforted by this, he is warm and his touch brings back a sense of security, and possibly protectiveness. I look up at him tears still in my eyes. "I'm sorry I yelled at you"

"It doesn't matter" he replies gently wiping a tear from my cheek

"It is just for so long when I imagined the face of the enemy I saw your face"

"My face I see" he stopped lifted his hand from my face to his own

"No it's not that-" I reach up to take his hand

"It's alright," he takes my hand into his and smiles at me softly, he has a nice smile I think to myself "but for so long I thought that my scar marked me, the mark of the banished prince, but now I Know that I am the only one who can do that to myself"

"You know" I say thoughtfully "I might be able to heal it."

"It is a scar they don't heal" he replied disbelieving

"not necessarily" I decide to take a gamble "I have healing abilities, and when we went to the north pole I was given a gift from a master water bender" I reached into my robe and pulled out the amulet of water from the spirit oasis "this is water from the spirit oasis at the north pole, it has special healing properties, maybe it can heal your scar"

"It is worth a shot" he said doubtfully, but I saw the glint of hope in his eyes.

I moved out of his arms and we sat on our knees face to face. I took out the water and bended it onto his scarred eye. It spun in a small glowing circle for about a minute. It isn't working the scar doesn't budge; I feel disappointment in myself for not being able to help him. I removed the spirit water and put it back into the amulet. I sighed in defeat.

"No luck, I'm sorry Zuko" I dropped my head and put the amulet back in my robe. He put one of his warm hands under my head and made me look at him; though I did little to resist.

"Katara, thank you" he leans in and I close my eyes, his hand slides from my chin to the back of my neck and I feel the touch of his lips against mine. I hesitate a second before retuning his kiss and wraping my arms around him, he pulls me closer and the ground begins to rumble. I think to myself 'is he actually rocking my world?' when I hear the sound of Earthbending and Zuko and I break our kiss to see the shocked faces of Aang and Iroh.