Auther's Note: I'm glad so many people like my story so far and it's going to get better. I'm so very sorry for the delay but I was busy last weekend and I've had to work majority of this week so I haven't had a chance to sit at my computer.

anyway, here's chapter two hope you like it!

reviews would be greatly appreciated btw :3

Emilia didn't tell the two why she was really upset, she just kept it all bottled up inside. She knew if she told them anything they would probably send her away or whatever it is they did here. She had done her best to avoid Iroh and Zuko while she was on the ship. Every day she was on the ship and not her own bed was another day she feared for the worse. What was even worse than not waking up was knowing that everything Zuko was going to do was going to end up failing. She wanted to tell him that he wasn't going to capture Aang this time around or any time he tried. All that was going to happen was he was going to get stuck in a blizzard and nearly freeze to death. It was frustrating to watch him act like the pompous prince he was. If this was what he was really like then she didn't care if he was attractive or not.

The ship had made it to the North Pole finally and Zhao's men were already attacking the ice fortress. Emilia watched from the window, knowing she should just flat out tell someone that this was just not gonna work out but now, it wasn't going to work like that. If she told someone they would think she was completely off her rocker. The door to the room Emilia was in cracked open but she didn't turn around.

"Prince Zuko is about to leave, would you like to see him off with me?" Iroh's voice asked. Emilia turned around to look at him, a curious look on her face.

"Are you sure? I mean I don't even know you guys that well,"

"Of course, besides you need some fresh air,"

So that's what she did. She accompanies Iroh out of the ship to where Zuko was preparing to leave. Emilia knew what was about to happen, it was one of the most touching parts of the entire first season-well, it was in her opinion anyway.

"You're fishing for an octopus, my nephew. You need a tightly woven net, or he will squeeze through the tiniest hole and escape." Iroh said to his nephew.

"I don't need your wisdom right now, Uncle," Zuko said in that typical know-it-all voice. Emilia smiled, knowing what was about to happen.

"I'm sorry, I just nag you because, well . . . ever since I lost my son-"

"Uncle, you don't have to say it . . ."

"I think of you as my own," Emilia felt as though she could tear up. This moment was so much more touching when you get to experience it firsthand. Zuko looked at his uncle, a small smile seeming to play on his lips.

"I know, Uncle," He bowed to his uncle and Iroh wrapped his nephew in a hug. Emilia just sat back and watched the adorable moment unfold.

"Besides, When you get back I'm sure you'd love to have this young woman accompany you on your ship," Iroh playfully elbowed his nephew causing the teen to roll his eyes. "We will meet again."

"After I have the Avatar," Zuko said and got into the boat to leave.

"Remember your breath of fire; it could save your life!" Iroh called.

"I will," Zuko replied.

"And put your hood up; keep your ears warm,"

"I'll be fine!" With that, Zuko left and left the two by themselves. Emilia was about to go back inside when Iroh grabbed her arm and stopped her.

"I think you should fallow my nephew," Iroh said. "He needs someone to guide his way and you seem like just the person." Emilia looked at him strangely. Maybe this dream was get a little better.

"But I'm not exactly ready for swimming," Emilia said, gesturing to her jeans and t-shirt.

"Lucky for you I have some clothes for you,"

About an hour later Emilia was wearing some Fire Nation clothes and swimming through the freezing cold water or the North Pole. She had found several holes but none of them had any footprints leading away from them. After about six holes she came across one that had some footprints near it. She decided that this was her best bet at finding Zuko and fallowed the foot prints. She looked around at what was happening and tried to find out where Zuko might have been. It was starting to snow meaning Zuko was probably on his way to the cave. Emilia shivered and groaned before heading to the cave.

By now it was snowing really hard and Emilia was ready to just lie down and die from hypothermia when she found a dark spot in all the snow. She wondered how long Zuko had been in there but decided it couldn't have been very long since he was still giving the "daddy loved Azula more" monologue. Emilia listened to him until he was finished then decided to stumble her way through the snow and into the cave. She must have startled him because he took a fighting stance.

"What are you doing here?"

"You're uncle asked me to make sure you didn't get yourself killed," Emilia said. "Now can you make a fire before we freeze?" Zuko rolled his eyes and walked away from her. She looked at Aang on the ground, tied up like he was supposed to be. Emilia sat on the ground by Aang to try and transfer some body heat since the pouty prince wasn't going to make a fire or willing share any of his warmth. The blond teen looked at Aang and felt sorry for him. She always like him in the show, his childish air and wisdom filled words always made her feel better, so why did it seem like her path in this dream was to help Zuko?

"I guess we're going to be here a while," Zuko said, turning his attention to the blizzard outside. Emilia looked at him then at the snow. She was wondering how long it would be before the others found where they were. Everything moved so slowly here, she missed just watching TV and yelling at it when the people on it didn't listen to her. Emilia's body erupted in a shiver, making her curl herself into a tight ball by Aang. This earned some attention from the prince. It was the first real ounce of it he'd given the girl since she set foot in the cave.

"You're Fire Nation right? How are you not warm in this weather?" Zuko asked her. The body temperature of the normal fire bender was at least 100 degrees and since majority of the Fire Nation were benders then why was she so cold?

"I c-can't bend anyth-thing, so r-right n-n-now I'm free-eezing," Emilia said through chattering teeth. "And o-on top of th-that, I'm n-not ev-v-ven Fire N-Nation." She couldn't remember the last time she was this cold. If she ever woke up from this damned coma then she would never complain about having to walk to school in the snow ever again. Zuko looked at her shivering form and felt a twinge of guilt. He had assumed she was a fire bender because of her shirt but now he realized that she was just a weak little girl. Against his better judgment he crawled over to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. Emilia jumped a little and looked at Zuko who was still looking out of the cave. She felt her body begin to warm and assumed it was because of him. She smiled softly as the tremors in her body began to stop. This dream was finally getting good.

"Thank you," Emilia said.

"My uncle likes you and since he's probably going to invite you to travel with us I may as well keep you alive," Emilia nodded her head at Zuko's response. He probably didn't want her on the ship and was just being nice to her out of pity. But this was a dream so things should be going her way, right? It was probably because she really was in a coma. Her mind was trying to make it easier on her so it's making her actually have to do everything the hard way. She'd had a TV crush on Zuko since the series started but as of right now she couldn't imagine why that was. Zuko was a dick.

"Thanks for caring but I think I'd rather freeze," Emilia said before standing to walk away from him. Zuko rolled his eyes and stood up too, his butt was starting to freeze. Emilia saw a light in the sky outside the cave and then looked to Aang. He was coming back from the spirit world. Zuko was looking at her when the young air bender's spirit returned to his body but when Aang made a noise he redirected his attention.

"Welcome back," he said with a low voice. Emilia knew what was about to happen so she backed away a little for fear of being hit with a blast of air. Like he should, Zuko hit the wall then charged after the Avatar. Emilia felt the urge to warn him that Katara and Sokka were going to be out there so she ran after him.

"Zuko, the bison's going to be out-" she was too late, it was already there. Great, now there had to be a dumb fight that Zuko would lose. Zuko dropped Aang and took a fighting stance as Katara got off Appa.

"Ready for a rematch?"

"Trust me Zuko; it's not going to be much of a match." Emilia felt like she should warn him but before she had a chance to he was already down and Sokka was cutting the rope on Aang's arms. Emilia ran up to Zuko and started trying to get all the snow off but there was too much. She looked up just as Aang began pulling Zuko out of the snow.

"Come on, you too," Aang said, helping her onto Appa's saddle.

"Yea, this makes a lot of sense," Sokka said sarcastically. "Let's bring the guy who's constantly trying to kill us." Emilia rolled her eyes and looked at the water tribe boy. He looked back at her and raised an eyebrow.

"And you are?"

"Emi. Now do me a favor and stop talking shit about Zuko," Emilia warned. "I may not be a bender but I can give you good ol' fashioned ass whooping." That seemed to shut him up pretty quickly.

Emilia knew Zuko wasn't going to stick around for the slaying of the moon spirit so she slipped away when he did to go find Zhao. She watched in awe as Aang took control of the water spirit to take out the soldiers, but her attention was redirected to Zhao and Zuko. This was a fight she had watched over and over, mostly because it was the last one with Zhao in it and she loved watching him get his ass handed to him. She watched as Zhao ran and directed Zuko to where he was going. Emilia smirked when Zuko shot a fire ball at him.

"You're alive?"

"You tried to have me killed!" Zuko shot more fire at the man and jumped of the ledge after him, Emilia fallowing close enough to still watch.

"Yes I did," Zhao said like the pompous ass he was. "You're the Blue Spirit; and enemy of the Fire Nation. You freed the Avatar."

"I had no choice," Zuko shot some more fire at Zhao but he deflected it. Emilia was watching intently with that creepy smile on her face like she did when she was in her room. It was so much better with a front row seat.

"You should have chosen to accept your failure; you're a disgrace," Zhao taunted. "Then, at least, you could have lived." With that Zhao shot some fire at Zuko and Zuko shot some back. It was getting so intense; Emilia almost forgot she was watching it live as opposed to on a TV screen.

"Left, right, he's gonna hit you from behind," Emilia shouted like she always did. "Hit him now, he won't be able to recover!" Zuko was taking her advice and finally had him on the ground when he noticed the moon was back to normal.

"No!" he cried. Without warning, the ocean spirit came out of the water and wrapped its watery fingers around Zhao's body. He looked terrified and for a moment Emilia felt sorry for him. She and Zuko rushed to his aid.

"Take my hand!" Zuko instructed. Emilia held hers out too, trying to extend her fingers just a little bit more to help the poor man. He gave up though, knowing it was no use. You couldn't fight off a spirit. He was dragged under the water where he surely drowned. Emilia watched as the water returned to normal then looked back to Zuko who was looking at her strangely. She raised an eyebrow questionatively.

"How did you know how everything was going to happen today?" Zuko asked. Emilia mentally face-palmed herself; how could she have been so stupid? She had to think of something quick before Zuko had a chance to ask any more questions.

"I . . . I, ugh . . ."

"You're a profit, aren't you? You can see the future,"

"Yes, I can see the future," Emilia said, subconsciously running her fingers through her hair-something she did when she was nervous.

Sometime later the trio were on a make-shift raft on their way out of the North Pole. Emilia was helping Iroh put up a sail as Zuko sat at the edge of the raft, looking into the water.

"I am surprised, Prince Zuko," Iroh said as he fiddled with the make-shift sail. "Surprised that you are not at this moment trying to capture the Avatar." Iroh looked at his nephew out of the corner of his eye, obviously waiting for some smartass remark like he usually got.

"I'm tired," was all the prince said. Iroh came up behind his nephew and place his hand on his shoulder.

"Then you should rest," Iroh said like the wise old man he was. "A man needs his rest." With that Zuko lay on his back and looked up at the sky, a pained look on his face. He looked so defeated. Emilia felt bad for him, she knew she probably shouldn't but she did. After Iroh had returned to the sail Emilia walked over to Zuko and sat by him. He looked up at her with the same look of defeat. Emilia gave him a soft smile and reached out to stroke his head gently.

"If you could see the future, why didn't you tell me I would lose the Avatar?" Zuko asked quietly. Emilia's smile fell and she took her hand back and placed it in her lap.

"I can only see certain things," Emilia lied. She didn't like lying to him like this but what else could she do? If she told him the truth he would think she was crazy. She didn't want to be alone in her mind for the duration of her stay here so she would just have to continue lying. This was the world of Avatar; not Reno, Nevada. The only hope she had was that she could continue to lie until she found out how to get home.