A/N: So. Sequel. Jet's alive, though all other events are canon... for now. I didn't feel like jumping straight back into the action, so here's a little prologue I wrote as a general follow-up to "A Beautiful Lie", relating to the canon.

Summary: "No matter how many deaths that I die, I will never forget. No matter how many lives that I live I will never forget. There's a fire inside this heart and a riot about to explode into flames." Sequel to 'A Beautiful Lie' in which Jet survived. Goes from the Fall of Ba Sing Se up until the end of Sozin's Comet, spoiler warning.

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender

Hurricane

Prologue

Yesterday, Ba Sing Se fell to the Fire Nation.

In the end, there wasn't much of a fight. The Earth Kingdom gave in – there was no point in fighting back. The Avatar was dead. There were too many Fire Nation troops. There were rumours that they had entered the city in disguise – two of them had come in with the refugees, disgraced members of the Fire Nation Royal Family – Prince Zuko and the Dragon of the West. After them came Princess Azula and her allies, in disguise as the honoured Kyoshi Warriors.

Several rebellions have broken out all over the city.

Ba Sing Se is too large for the firebenders to cover everywhere, so the rebels keep moving. The only constant is their headquarters, which is rumoured to be in a tea shop in the Lower Ring of the city. Whenever the Fire Nation soldiers search the shop, there is never any sign of any rebels or 'Freedom Fighters' as they call themselves.

The leader of the rebellion is a sixteen year old Earth Kingdom boy – no, man – named Jet. He fights against the Fire Nation because they took everything from him – they took his family, his home and his lover. He doesn't remember much about the person he had loved, only what Smellerbee will tell him – she says that his name had been Li – he had been a handsome boy, though an encounter with a firebender had left him with permanent scarring on his face, and he died when the Fire Nation invaded the city. He was killed personally by the Prince of the Fire Nation, but she won't tell Jet anything else about this so called 'Li'.

Jet doesn't even know whether she's telling him the truth or not, and he isn't sure he wants to know – he's seen the anger in her eyes whenever he asks her to tell him more. It seems as though no-one wants to talk about Li and the circumstances in which he died.

No-one wants to tell him the circumstances how he ended up under Lake Laogai either. He knew that he was arrested, but Smellerbee won't tell him what for. She says that it would be too painful for him to know – so he knows that it relates to Li somehow. All he can remember is that his parents were murdered by the Fire Nation, some of his life as a Freedom Fighter and helping the Avatar and his friends – the dead Avatar and his friends who seemed to have escaped.

When it comes to Ba Sing Se, his memories are hazy, like the smoke wafting from the palace.

A/N: Chapter 1 is in progress at the moment, and I will hopefully have it up soon. I need to concentrate a bit on my Resident Evil fic, seeing as it's been a while since I updated that...

Any comments or feedback are appreciated.