Bzzt. Eliana screamed, struggling against the restraints. She knew what they were planning on doing—torturing her until she talked. Or her heart stopped. She knew to them it didn't necessarily matter whether she talked or not, it would simply save them time. She knew there was a long list of back up benders they could easily torture until they spoke. But she refused to talk. She would not allow them to get to her. Ever.
"So, did you want to answer the question now?" Julius asked, and although Eliana couldn't even gather up enough energy to open her mouth, she could hear the menacing smirk in his voice.
"Well?"
Silence.
Julius sighed. "You won't be able to take the pain much longer, Eliana. It goes against your nature as an Earth Bender. If you don't speak soon, you'll be dead in the next couple shocks."
She knew, of course, that he was right. They'd caught her in one of the rebellion's strikes against the union, and immediately dragged her out to the middle of the ocean, where her skills were annoyingly useless. Just to add to her already complicated and deadly enough situation, they were torturing her with electricity. Yet another element she could not master. She knew what was coming, could already feel her heart slowly beginning to fail. He clicked his tongue disapprovingly.
Bzzzt.
Her body shook at random intervals with the electricity traveling through her veins, their power far beyond her body's ability to withstand. For a heavenly moment, her heart stopped and she was out, before she was shocked back into consciousness. Barely aware of the scream escaping her mouth, her last word before her death was her daughter's name.

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"So remind me again why we're here?" Naz asked her friend, who was just returning to the pool with two beers. Kassandra smiled, handing her a beer. "To have some fun. You know there's such a thing, right?" She joked, clicking her bottle against her friend's and taking a drink. Naz smiled and did the same.
"I know how to have fun," She argued, and Kassy laughed.
"I know."
They sat for a few minutes in silence, watching the other party-goes toss beach balls and wrestle and drink. Music boomed from a speaker off to the side.
"So how'd you manage the invite?" Naz asked, and Kassy smirked against her beer. "I didn't." She said, taking another drink. Naz rolled her eyes, and the two girls caught the eyes of a boy watching them. Naz smiled flirtily and waved, and Kassandra just looked down at her drink before taking another sip.
"I hate how you're so much better at flirting than me," Kassy muttered, and Naz laughed.
"Practice, child. It's about knowing you have the upper hand and being confident with it."
"Yeah, but the problem with that is how I don't have the upper hand."
Naz rolled her eyes, took a sip of her drink, and lowered her voice to a whisper.
"If you wanted to you could control every ounce of blood in that boy's body."
Kassandra paled. "I hate talking about that. You know I hate it. It was an accident that one time and I'm never doing it again."
Naz smiled apologetically. "I didn't mean it like that—"
"I know how you meant it, and the thought kind of disturbs me." Kassy snapped, then sighed.
"You pissed?" Naz asked, and the other girl shook her head, taking a drink.
"No. Just wishing that it wasn't true and I could deny it."
"Hey," Naz said, in an attempt to cheer the younger girl up, "embrace it. Girl, waterbending is a badass skill, alright?" The older girl straightened her back pride fully, "Almost as badass as airbending."
Kassy laughed, and just then Naz's phone chimed. The girl sighed, drying her hand off with the towel before digging her phone out of her beach bag. She sighed, casting her 'Just guess who it is' look to Kassandra before flipping her singing phone open.
"What?" Naz asked into the phone, her annoyance evident. As she listened to what Jokku said on the other line, her brow furrowed. She sighed.
"Alright, we're coming now." More listening. "Yeah, she's with me right now. I'm not an amateur at this, you know. We'll be fine." She closed the phone and began to get out of the pool, wrapping her towel around her. Kassandra sighed, following suit.
"What now?" She asked, and Naz sighed.
"911. The Union. Jokku says they sent at least two agents here. He's announcing a lockdown. Now."
"Here, at the party here?"
"Yupp, now let's get out of here before they find us."
"Um, Naz?"
Naz, who was already in her shorts and shirt and anxiously tying her hair up in a ponytail, looked up at Kassandra. "Yeah?"
Kassy pointed to the other side of the pool, where two tall men in black suits were staring at them, making Kassandra shift uncomfortably, and struggle to dress even faster.
"I get the feeling they already have."
Naz cursed and grabbed her bag, making a beeline to the party host's house's parking lot, rummaging for her keys in her bag as she hauled Kassy by the arm along with her.
"Ow, Ow! I can walk on my own, no need to dig your nails into my skin. Ow!" She kept whining, and Naz rolled her eyes, clicking the button on her keys to unlock the car. She risked a quick glance behind her and was surprised to see the men weren't trailing her, which of course just made her even more nervous. Sure, she'd been in a situation like this before, but never just her and someone else. Especially one of the youngest of the gang. She took a deep breath and climbed into the driver's seat of the car as Kassandra hopped into the passenger seat. She twisted the key in its hole, and...nothing happened. Desperate, she twisted again.
"Well come on, we kind of need to start driving away," Kassandra said.
"You don't think I realize that, Kass? The freakin' car won't start!" Naz snapped, and Kassy's eyes widened.
"We're screwed. I told you we should've ridden Bora."
"Oh sure Kassy, because my flying bison wouldn't have attracted any attention at all." Naz had abandoned all hope that the car would start and had turned to face the younger girl. She could only think of one thing to do, but she knew it was risky, and Jokku would have her head if he knew what she was planning. But hey, desperate times called for desperate measures. Even if they were suicidal desperate measures. She unbuckled and threw the car door open, hopping out. Kassandra stared at her, wide eyed.
"Wh-what are you doing?"
"Going to show those douche bags what happens when you mess with a descendant of Aang."
Kassy gaped at her. "We can call Jokku! Get back here!" Naz sighed and turned to glare at Kassy, before bending the air to snatch the phone out of Kassy's hand, mid-call. The younger girl stared at Naz.
"We are not calling Jokku and the rest to come to our rescue. We can do this on our own." When Kassandra didn't make a move to join Naz outside, she pursed her lips.
"Fine. I'll do it on my own." She swiveled around, using her ability to slam the door as she stomped off, back in the direction of the party.
"Ugh!" Kassandra exclaimed, slamming her foot against the dashboard and kicking her head back in frustration. Sighing, she unbuckled.
"Naz," She hissed, jumping out of the car and chasing after her friend, not even bothering to close the door behind her.