Staring ahead I saw through the living room window that dawn was breaking, and I hadn't slept, couldn't sleep. I had to watch Meza carefully now, while yes she may be a waterbender she was still elderly and her husband died last year and I've often heard of people dying from heartache. That is why Meza and I are so close, I took it upon myself to be friends with her and her husband when I first moved in, her husband was a firebender, kind and gentle in his ways and he also had quite the sense of humor. We had become a family of sorts and when Mikhail (A/N: Pronounced Meek-hail) passed away it hit both of us hard, but of course Meza took it the hardest; she tried withdrawing and not letting me into her life, hiding in her apartment. I had to metal bend her door to get in, and I of course metal bended it back to perfect shape before taking care of Meza and holding her letting her cry into my shoulder. As I reflected on these things I felt Meza stir behind me and yawn softly.

"Terra, you're still here"

"Yes"

"Did you at least get some rest?"

"No"

"TERRA LEE-" Meza scolded as she swatted my body and used the water from her cup on the bed side table to whip my butt, literally. "Ouch! Meza! I did it to watch over you and protect you, keep...keep last night from repeating itself" I explained throwing my hands in the air for defense. She stopped and sighed looking at me like she was still frustrated with me but only slightly.

"Terra my dear, I appreciate you watching over me, I do, and just because of last night's little mishap doesn't mean that I'm not ok, but you need sleep too and I'm not as weak as you make me out to be, I learned my lesson by getting complacent and not carrying my water skin on me, and thankfully you were there, but I have water in the cups and pipes and pots here so I'll be ok, but you Terra, you need to go home and get some rest" She lectured, but it wasn't in a harsh way, her tone was soft throughout her entire speech and I sighed and hesitantly walked out of her apartment, listening momentarily to hear if there was sobbing. When I heard there was no noise other than curtains being drawn, I was satisfied and went back to my apartment and plopped into my bed and fell asleep.

Amon and I stood there, it was a stand-off but no one made a move. Just he and I staring at each other, we did this for what felt like an hour before he lunged at me and I ducked. I threw my hands up and hit his legs up further so he would tumble, but he didn't, he landed gracefully like a cat on all fours. Whipping around I leapt when he swiped his leg in an effort to trip me again and bended the earth in several spires in an attempt to impale him but he was gone. I looked around and suddenly felt someone grab me by the waist, they spun me around to face them and there he was, Amon. His cat like grin that was etched into his mask sent shivers down my spine and he kept one hand on my face and one hand on my right cheek and he leaned in. I could feel his warm breath on my face as he touched my forehead with his, the coolness of his mask felt nice against my skin and my eyes fluttered shut. But in one swift movement he had me on my knees facing him and he put his fingers on my forehead, and rid me of my bending...

I shot up from my bed in a cold sweat, looking at the time I had been asleep for at least 8 hours. "So it really was just a dream" I muttered as I sat fully upright on my bed I looked up and saw Amon at the foot of my bed. "No it wasn't" He cackled evilly...

I shot out of bed this time I fell on the floor on my face and felt the pain, I knew then that I was fully out of my dreaming state. I got up slowly and changed into my uniform for work which was the standard metal bending uniform. I picked up my helmet and left my apartment building after locking my door up. I was going to be early by the time I got there so I walked instead of taking my Satomobile. I was walking along, saying good morning to the citizens when I saw a Satomobile screeching around the corner at high speeds about to hit a man who was crossing the street. I ran and slid in between the man in front of the car and shot a single column up and the Satomobile's front bumper got hooked on it so it was stuck. I turned around to face the man, who was nearly hit, but he was gone, I looked around and saw him nowhere. I thrust my fists down facing the ground to make a single column wide enough for my feet shoot me up to the driver's side window and knocked. It was a Triple Threat Triad member and he was looking like he was about to crap himself.

The clinking of the window made him slowly turn his face to face me and he rolled the window down. "You might want to reconsider speeding Mochi" I reprimanded and gave him a ticket. "If you don't appear in court, I'll hunt you down myself" I warned and thrust my fists up to make both the column under Mochi's Satomobile and my feet shoot down back into the earth as if it had never been apart from it. Mochi nodded and drove away to the speed limit. The rest of my walk to work was uneventful and I made it on time for debriefing, once Chief Beifong had finished she stuck me and the new recruit Tai Fong on patrol duty which meant I was driving one of the Metalbending police force Satomobiles with her in the passenger seat firing off a bunch of questions. Normally I didn't mind recruits but this one was a particular brand of annoying compared to the usually 'men of few words' recruits I usually had. Tai Fong, or Tai-Fo as she preferred it, was taller than me by far, she was 5'6 with long red hair that was tied up into a proper bun under her helmet, she had pink rosy cheeks with pale green eyes and freckles that spotted her pale complexion like stars on a clear night, she was lithe with an average sized bust.

"So have you ever blown up a Satomobile?"

"No"

"Ever blown up a Satomobile and walked away without watching?"

"No"

"Ever beat up a bunch of baddies on your own and captured them on your own?"

"No"

"Hmm, ever saved a damsel in distress while swooping down with your metal cord?"

"Oh for heaven's sake no! Look kiddo, I don't know where you get these fancy ideas from but those romantic notions you hold about being a Metalbending police officer better get tossed aside because that stuff never happens" I scolded and her face went down trodden for a moment before a report came over the radio. "All units! All units, please respond, two Equalists spotted in the southern district" Tai-Fo tossed the siren on and we pulled a U-turn on the empty street we drove on and sped off towards the Equalists.

"Dispatch this is Staff Sergeant Lee, Private Fong and I are en route, over"

"Roger that Lee, be careful, dispatch out"

Luckily the southern district wasn't that far from where we were so we made it in good time. We stopped the car and Private Fong and I got out of the Satomobile and met up with the other officers on scene. There, lying on the street was an officer by the name of Talos, one of the officers who I recognized as Raiden was picking him up off the ground, all Talos could mutter was the two words 'my bending'. Everyone frowned, sad for not only his loss of bending, but his loss of sanity. Raiden placed him in officer Gai's cruiser and Gai took him to the hospital.

"Amon was here"

"Yes, but he can't be far away, keep your guard up and search the area for him"

"Yes sir!" I saluted and Tai-Fo followed me to search an abandoned warehouse, our hands were up ready to bend at any moment.

"How did you know it was Amon?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Silence.

"Talos was muttering about his bending, it's safe to say he can no longer bend, only one man has that kind of power, and that's Amon" I explained with a sigh of frustration, and I couldn't help but wonder how she even got on the force in the first place.

We got inside and the place was even bigger than the outside, and that was saying something. It was large and empty save for the large rusty saw blades that hung on our left beside a large broken glass window and large steel pipes and gears, in front of us there was a large set of metal grated stairs that, like everything was coated thick with dust and rust, and to our right was an open door frame.

"You search along the bottom floor, I'll take the top"

"Yes sir!"

We parted ways and a large part of me was relieved, she was a good kid but a bit too naïve and childish for my liking. I made my way up the stairs hands still up in the air ready to bend if necessary, there were two doors. 'It would probably be best if I grabbed another officer to help me search this-' My thoughts were interrupted when a sound of metal dropping on metal reached my ears, I shifted my right foot slightly and felt it but could not see anyone so I cautiously entered the room in front of me calling out for Tai-Fo who didn't answer, and probably because she was in deep and couldn't hear me. The pitch black was getting on my nerves and I was beginning to think it'd be a great idea to have a squad of three all consisting of the three main elements respond to calls, so that I would be able to have a firebender light the room up a little. That thought quickly left my mind as I felt feet as soft as air touch the ground behind me and I bended the metal to surround the person, luckily I had got him but then the door slammed shut and I felt 3 more pairs of feet on the ground. I managed to get the other two who approached me from both sides and only when I finished containing them did I realise the last set of feet had disappeared. Shifting my feet again I saw nothing and I tried not to panic too much.

Then it hit me, literally, I was hit in my back with something hard and I whirled around and came face to face with the painted mask I had come to fear and hate.

"You again" I seethed as I threw out a kick and hit him in his right lat. He stumbled a bit before coming back at me and I launched metal spires at him and when he dodged them I dislodged them and threw them like darts at him. Even then he still dodged effortlessly as he landed on all, belly pressed against the cool metal, and I lifted that up and tossed him across the room but he landed like a graceful cat almost like the dream I had last night, on diagonal on the stair case to my diagonal left. He stared at me before darting up the staircase and I followed him up there and in front of me was a gaping hole in the wall and a steel frame holding this floor up, on the side with the gaping hole was the metal pipe frame flooring and rail, the rest was covered in charcoal grey steel flooring. To the right stood Amon who didn't take long to lunge at me and I ducked in time. He let his foot collide with the wall and pushed off for momentum and kicked at me but I pulled a sheet of the steel flooring up and used it as a wall. Amon circled around it and threw a punch at me, it connected with my jaw but I managed to land an elbow strike from the close quarters he allowed himself to get into. It was CQC on CQC (A/N: For those of you who do not know what CQC stands for, it stands for Close Quarters Combat), no bending on my part; he was too close to my body every time that it didn't allow me much wiggle room to launch a devastating attack with the metal around us.

Without realising it until too late Amon had cornered me onto the steel pipe framing floor. I shook a bit as I nearly fell but kept balance. He threw a punch and I leaned back and did a back flip onto the rail, pushed off with my feet and front flipped over Amon before using both of my feet to kick him in the back forcing him to go stomach first into the railing, successfully knocking the wind out of him. I front rolled and spun around and lunged at him but he quickly turned around and grabbed me and threw me back first against the rail pinning me with his body weight.

"Terra, how nice to see you"

"Can't say the same about you Amon"

"Oh come now, I orchestrated this whole evening just for us two, I went through a lot of trouble to get this perfect"

"You scum bag! Are you so ugly and desperate you need to force women into what your twisted psychopathic mind considers a date?"

"You saved my Lieutenant this morning. Why?"

"Don't change the subject you sadistic bastard, and you're obviously crazy I didn't save your so called Lieu-" My brain went into over drive as I realised who he was talking about. Earlier this morning, the tall, lean built male with shaggy dark brown hair and a Fu Manchu mustache with steel grey eyes that I had saved from the speeding Triple Thread Triad member Mochi.

"Now do you remember?"

"I didn't know it was him! If I did I wouldn't have saved him"

"Liar" Amon chuckled as he let a finger drag down my cheek, and then drop to trace my jaw line.

"I'M NOT LYING!" I roared in defiance as I kicked at his chest but he grabbed my feet and placed his body in between them, and pinned my wrists down hard. He leaned in, every movement showed his rage as he placed his thumb and forefinger on my forehead and leaned in so close that my lips were nearly touching his mask. For a moment neither of us moved, I stared into his eyes and he mine. "I want to watch your eyes spread wide with fear as I take away your bending Terra" He said low, with the closeness of our faces I used my lastand I quickly got my hands loose and knocked the lower part of his mask out of the way and used my other hand to grasp the back of his neck and in a flash I did the only tactic I had left to distract him and get away, I crushed my lips onto his in a kiss, which he quickly and surprisingly returned. I quickly snapped out of it and with Amon temporarily stunned I took the opportunity and pushed him away and metal bended a wall between us and took off down the stairs in order to preserve my life and bending, past the two captive Equalists, dragged them with me down the stairs and out of the warehouse.

Tai-Fo had been right behind me with two other Equalists confined in metal and we bolted like bats out of hell to our Satomobile's, tossing our prisoners in the back quickly before tearing off to the station. While Tai-Fo called in the situation to dispatch, I couldn't help but think about that kiss I had given Amon...

Did she hate the kiss or like it? More to come in the next chapter of Forbidden Fruits!

*Woohoo! Promised I'd give you some goodies, and I did, didn't I? Hope y'all liked it!*