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It's been almost three days since the 'talk' Zuko and Iris had. He hadn't visited her room again. If he hurt her every moment he'd spent with her it was better to just leave her alone with Katara.
The others were still trying to figure out what had happened. They were all curious. Toph, Sokka, Aang, Teo, The Duke, Haru, all except Katara. Katara was still mad at him and she treated him coldly whenever she could. She'd spent most of her time with Iris or Suki who also helped to heal Iris.
Iris and Suki had gotten well along together. Good enough to say that they were friends. But it was difficult for Iris to keep her old hard-core-self after everything that had happened. Most of the times she'd ask Katara and Suki to just leave her alone and join the others.
Iris didn't like being bed-ridden all day. She wanted to get back to action, to punch the trees around the Temples like she used to when she was younger. She had a lot of a pressure and anger to burst on.
Next morning, Katara entered her room once again. She opened the windows of the room allowing the sun's morning light enter in.
"Good morning, Iris," Katara said as she walked towards her at the bed "How do you feel?"
Iris was tired to be hearing that question all over but she answered like every other morning "I'm fine, Katara. For how much long do you think I'll be like this?"
Katara took off the bandages of her, mostly healed, wounds and she smiled "Not long," she answered.
Iris let out a sigh of relief "Can I get up now?" she asked immediately.
"No," Katara answered without second thoughts.
"But I feel great-" Iris tried to say and wake up but Katara cut her.
"Hey, you wanna wake up and go watch Zuko and Aang practice fire bending?!" Katara asked knowing that Iris will be negative to this.
"No," Iris answered immediately and she fell back on the bed. She growled angrily "I hate that guy!"
"Me too," Katara agreed as she took out the water from her pouch and started another healing session at the wounds.
"Aang and Sokka... even Toph... I can't believe them! Friends with Zuko?! That's just crazy!" Iris said angrily.
"I know," Katara agreed...
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"I still can't believe we got to meet real dragons, and learn fire bending from them," Zuko said as they repeated a fire bending form.
As they finished the form Aang sat on a bench saying "There were lots of dragons around one hundred years ago. They were pretty shy, though, most of them lived way up the mountains,"
"They didn't seem shy to me," Zuko said grumpily.
"One time when we were kids, Iris, Kuzon and I went looking for them," Aang said.
"Is that the story when the three of you saved a dragon egg?" Zuko asked.
"Yeah, how do you know?!" Aang asked confusedly looking at his friend.
"Iris had mentioned that story when she was my prisoner in my ship," Zuko answered grumpily focusing his gaze on the ground.
"Oh..." Aang said awkwardly. He rubbed the back of his neck and he said trying to light up the mood "...well, sure a lot of have changed in a hundred years,"
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When Hatred turned to Love (ATLA Zuko x OC)
Fanfiction***CURRENTLY UNDER EDITING*** Broken, filled with loss, pain, and anger of her people's death... she could only hope she had died with them. An Air Bender from the Western Air Temple never having the chance to find balance within. She never knew...
