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Warning: This chapter contains a lot of romance between Mai and Ty Lee so if you want to skip that id suggest to be hones stopping reading this story in general. I really hope you all like it and pleas review and tell me if you see a typo and or you liked it.

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This room holds so much to be despised the conscious girl in bed thought to herself as she peered around the dimly lit room that was sure to become her permanent residence if her fortune wasn't to change soon. The room wasn't much to look at having only a few pieces of furniture among the scattered positions that cluttered the small space.

A sudden movement from beside the gloomy woman in the bed pulled her mind back to reality. Looking down a small smile crossed her face as she stared down at the smaller woman sleeping beside her soundly. "Soon" Mai thought. "very soon well be rid of this place and be free to leave this depressing ship". Another stir from Ty lee made the smile reappear if only temporally on Mai's face. She ran a long index finger through the younger woman's hair causing Ty Lee to give a soft moan in her sleep.

Mai had been up for hours now thinking with only the shadows on the wall and her sleeping lover to keep her company. The one source of light in the room came from a single candle beside the bed.

Mai was sitting up in bed with the contents of her mind bothering her more and more as the time pressed onward. Earlier that day Azula has called her in with the new orders. They where nothing she couldn't handle of course but they did require her to go alone and she had yet to find a way to inform her still sleeping lover of this. She was set to depart in three days time and complete her assignment quickly and without complaint as where the standards that the fire princess expected of her.

On one hand thought Mai she could easily get her mission carried out and get back in no time but on the other Mai was a little less than comfortable leaving Ty lee here on her own with Azula. The younger female was very easy to manipulate and this was no secret to anyone especially not the fire princess. It was good there for she thought that Azula didn't know the new heights that she and Ty Lee's relationship had climbed in the past few months.

It seemed at that very moment that the sleeping Ty Lee choose to awaken from her slumber. Looking up she saw her lover causing her to smile. Her smile was short lived however as she noticed the expression Mai was wearing. The unknowing Mai did not change her expression of troubled unease. Had she known of her loves conscious state she would have done so and Ty Lee was sure of it.

Knowing it would be better to pretend she hadn't noticed Ty Lee re-closed her eyes and warped her arms around the taller girls waist. The sudden movement caused Mai to give a little involuntary jump and look down. Her expression changed to that of a small smile with the speed of light it seemed as Ty Lee opened her gray eyes. Mai looked into those smokey gray orbs and felt her heart skip a beat. "I can't tell her. At least not now" Mai thought. Mai didn't think she could stand to see that smile wiped from Ty Lee's face. Not just yet any way, even though she knew she would have to soon that didn't mean it had to be now.

A pair of soft lips brought the older girl back to reality as her other half gave her a loving good morning kiss. "How did you sleep baby" the younger woman asked.

"Fine as far as I can tell" the older girl replayed in her usual unconcerned tone. This was the tone the rest of the world knew but Ty Lee knew the truth. Mai had opened up to her in more ways than even Zuko. She knew Mai wasn't really bored but merely hiding her emotions from the world with the exception of herself. This was something the older girl did rather well but slowly she was letting down more and more of her internal barriers around Ty Lee and that made the younger female happy to know.

"lets go get some breakfast" the optimistic girl suggested to her depressed lover. Hopefully after breakfast Mai would be feeling a little better Ty Lee thought. She then got up and went to the wardrobe to get changed for the day soon returning in her usual pink outfit.

Fallowing suit Mai rose from the bed and went silently back to her quarters to get ready for breakfast as well. She was quite sure she wasn't spotted on her way back which was what she had been hoping for.