NOTE: This is not a shipping!!! It's about what happened to Jet and Suki during 1) the parts when they weren't in the show before Secret of the Fire Nation and 2) after their encounters with Azula/the Dai Lee. Enjoy!

Jet and Suki

Ch1

Suki

Suki watched as Sokka, Katara, and of course, Avatar Aang flew off into the distance leaving Kyoshi island far behind. She had remained transfixed as the Avatar miraculously managed to train the Unagi to quench the fires of her village. As she helped the other Kyoshi Warriors to start to rebuild what had been destroyed in the village she felt as if her mind was on another dimension. Being sixteen, she had had crushes before, but none like this. What if she never saw Sokka again? He was risking her life to defeat the powerful Fire Nation. Why shouldn't she do the same?

"Suki, are you alright?" asked her friend Lia, another of the Kyoshi Warriors when Suki had stood staring off into the distance for a good minute when she should have been helping rebuild a house.

"Li, I've been thinking, why can't we go and help defeat the Fire Nation? Why do we have to stay here?"

"I dunno…we're needed to help defend the village here?"

"Yeah, but there are probably more people out there, in the rest of the Earth Kingdom who are suffering from the Firelord's oppressive tyranny who need our protection more!" Suki turned and looked her friend in the eye. "Would you be willing to leave Kyoshi Island and help others in the Earth Kingdom?"

"I guess…but I've never left the island before."

"Neither have I, but tonight I'm going to ask Oyaji if we can go help the troops in the Earth Kingdom."

"What if he says no?" asked Lia.

"I don't care. I'm going." And with that Suki returned to her work without another word.

"Suki, dear, you've been so busy all day. Where are you off to now?" Suki's mother asked her much later. Her mother, a retired Kyoshi warrior, had been helping heal those who had been injured.

"I have to talk to Oyaji about something." Replied Suki.

"Does it have to do with the Avatar?"

"Yes! I want to go and fight the Fire Nation." Her mother raised her eyebrows in reply. "Come on Mom. Just imagine if you were my age, you'd want to do the same thing." Suki's mother sighed.

"Come on, I'll help you convince Oyaji to let you go. He's bound to be reluctant to let his best warrior just leave…"

Jet

Two weeks after Suki watched the Avatar fly away on his bison, Jet was doing the same. He gazed off into the distance as the bison with the beautiful girl, Katara, her troublesome brother Sokka and Aang, the young naïve avatar, gradually grew smaller and smaller until he could see them no more. He had no choice but to watch them, really, he legs, arms, and entire body was frozen to the tree. He could have summoned his Freedom Fighters to come to him in a second, but he wanted time alone to think…

"Jet you monster!" Katara's words seemed to echo in his head. Was he really the monster? Jet shivered slightly, partially from the thought, and partially from the ice encasing his body. Maybe it was time to try something new.

Jet waited until he was completely thawed before going back to the hideout. He was greeted cheerily by everyone there.

"Jet, where were you?" asked the Duke.

"Yeah, where were you?" added others in the group.

"And where's the Avatar?" someone else asked.

"Quiet down and I'll explain." said Jet. Immediately everyone quieted down. There were two basic groups of the Freedom Fighters. One was Jet's group, those who were included on daily outings, kids like Smellerbee, Longshot, the Duke, and Pipsqueak. Then, there were the others, who were too young or just uninterested in fighting, such as the younger children and several older girls who cooked and looked after everyone to make sure no one made trouble. All eyes were on Jet as he continued to talk.

"The dam exploded and the village was destroyed—" several people cheered, "but, no one was hurt when the village flooded. The Avatar's friend, Sokka, warned the villagers and they evacuated in time."

"Including the Fire Nation soldiers?" asked Smellerbee, she was the only girl who refused to cook and wanted to fight. Jet nodded solemnly.

"This mission may seem like a failure, but it is a success. The Fire Nation will have nowhere to stay in the valley and they will have to leave. Also, I have had time to think, and I believe that it is best that we leave this valley, and go to Ba-Sing-Se, as refugees." There were murmurs among the small crowd as Jet finished his speech.

"So we're not gonna fight the Fire Nation anymore?" asked another one of the Freedom Fighters, a boy named Sneers.

"Nope. So we should all start to pack up our things and get ready to travel, by say, next week?" The was a general agreement and the kids cleaned up dinner and went to sleep.