Katara had barely even realised the island moved (except that the ocean got a lot warmer), let alone that a whole week had passed.  She'd gone to class.  She thought.  Maybe.  But most of the she'd been on the beach waterbending and training.  Zuko's leaving hurt a lot, but it also brought home the reality that she needed to go back to fight a war ( Read more... )

Katara woke up slowly, her hand almost instantly tightening on Zuko's as she realised that today was the day he was leaving.  Secondary to that realisation was that she wasn't wearing any clothes.  It seemed less important than the first which probably meant they'd done the right thing.  She didn't want to think about it yet, just wanted to enjoy ( Read more... )

Katara trudged over the ice, her hood thrown back as she barely even noticed the cold.  "Come on," she called back to Zuko who looked much less comfortable.  "There's got to be some penguins just up here."

[OOC:  For Zuko.  And the penguins.]

Katara was well aware that it was completely silly to still be kinda annoyed that stupid Hades had decided to take over the stupid island on her birthday.  It wasn't like he could have waited or anything?

She sighed at herself, disgusted that she was thinking that way when people had gotten hurt and there were way worse problems, but maybe it was ( Read more... )

They'd been silent for ages - ever since the sun came up really, just listening to the waves wash up onto the beach and the sound of each other breathing.   But Katara was quietly happy as she leaned against Zuko, and the idea of moving and making the night finally over seemed just terrible.   Instead she turned her head slightly to look up at him ( Read more... )

Katara fiddled with her blankets and really, really wished she hadn't asked Dr. Howser to take her shift at the clinic tonight.  She'd kinda thought that Zuko was going to ask her to the dance, but then she hadn't heard anything from him, and it was really, really stupid to kinda sorta count on firebenders.

So she sat on her bed, trying to decide if ( Read more... )

Katara fussed with her hair for a long time before she finally just braided it like normal and threw it over her shoulder.  She had a few hours yet before she had to be at the clinic, but there was nothing at all to do.  Finally she flopped on her bed, grabbing a book and started to read.

It occupied a few minutes before she got bored again and ( Read more... )

Katara was Not Thinking about what had happened on Tuesday.  Instead she was waterbending.  That was all.  Just standing knee-deep in the cold water and bending it around her.  It was good sometimes to be Not Thinking.

Katara pulled her knees up towards her as she watched the waves break against the sand.  She'd wanted to go to this Mexico so very much and see a new ocean, but she didn't want to make the clinic short-handed and so stayed in Fandom.  At least she had an ocean here after all, and a bedroom all to herself since Chad and Teddy had gone up to New York ( Read more... )

Katara curled up on her bed, looking out the window up at the night sky.  She didn't think she could see the eclipse from this angle, but it seemed safer than going outside to look.

She shivered, her arms hugging her knees to her as she watched, trying not to remember the past two eclipses and their consequences.  Her eyes went to the water skin ( Read more... )