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Zuko:

I hear her scream. I look over to her, with horror and worry slowly etching across my face as I see her hit with my fire ball and collapsing. She is in so much pain. My instincts take over, and next thing I know, I am by her side. I see her pass out, I partially regain my composure. "Uncle! Get some medical supplies!" I yell, picking her up and rushing to the ship.

As the crew begins to set sail, I take her to my cabin. I leave while my Uncle treats her and lean against the railing on the deck. I try to figure out what happened. As soon as I heard her scream my mind knew instantly to go rescue her, protect her, defend her from any danger. Like myself, I think, in retrospect.

I try to shove thoughts of my worry for her out of my head. She is your Prisoner, Zuko. You must use her to capture the other Avatar. You have to turn both of them in to your father. You must get your honor back. She is nothing to you. You….. you hurt her.

Why, all of a sudden, does she matter so much to me? Her golden hair is beautiful. Her eyes are amazing. She is a symbol of perfection. ZUKO! STOP! I sigh out of frustration and head to the back of the ship to train, still attempting to not think of the beautiful girl whom I've injured.

Cornelia:

When I wake up, I wince at the pain in my side and instantly everything that happened comes flooding back into my mind. I don't know where I am, but something tells me that I am on that royal jerk's ship. Obviously because of the bed I am in, I know I'm in someone's room, just whose? Maybe his? Weird. Why would he treat his prisoner like this?

Just then, my thoughts are interrupted. I hear a yawn next to the bed, and slowly turn my head over there in shock. I see him, the royal jerk, lying on a couch next to the bed, apparently having slept there. He looks almost peaceful and pleasant and kind of, cute? Am I really thinking about how handsome this prince, who KIDNAPPED and HURT me is, even with that scar? I wonder who would be stupid enough to burn this guy. I see that his hair is in a ponytail. That is so weird for guys, I don't see how some girls go crazy for it. I wonder what his hair would look like down and if it wasn't shaved everywhere on his head but the ponytail. Perhaps that would actually even make him look cuter.

I feel a stabbing pain in my side again and I must've made some sound, because he jolts awake and instantly looks over at me. Why does he look so worried?

"You're awake," he says, looking a bit relieved. " Yeah," I say. "So are you." He sighs. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you." After he says that he averts his gaze. I am completely shocked. I really wasn't expecting someone from the Fire Nation to ever apologize, let alone a prince. The people of the Fire Nation are often arrogant and only care about their pride.

He look at me again, before glancing at my side. "Since you are awake, we should probably redo your bandages. You yanked them off five times already. " He looks at my side, then back at me, apparently waiting for me to move the blanket. I do so, and see blush creep onto his cheeks. I look down, only to see myself in my normal airbending pants that aren't so poofy like Aang's and a wrap that was already around my chest. Where is my shirt? I blush too, realizing he is embarrassed because he is seeing me without a shirt on. He undoes the bandages that are currently wrapped around me and I hear a Faint gasp from both of us when we see my wound.

Zuko:

Pink. The burn has healed, but what remains is a scar. A scar, like mine. I've done to her what my father did to me. I have hurt her; and given her my own marking as a remembrance to the pain. I gasp when I first see the wound and I hear her reaction is the same. All I feel is guilt. Now this perfect girl has been given an imperfection and it's my entire fault. I don't know why, but I feel compelled to touch it. I want to see if it is really there; if I have really scarred her. I do so, with shockingly no objections from her. I sigh, closing my eyes, hating myself for doing this to her. Then I feel a hand on my face. I open my eyes to find her looking over my scar with the same interest.

The way she is looking me, though, is what keeps me from pushing her hand away. She looks so caring, as if she understands me and I am not the man who has harmed and kidnapped her. Again, I am ashamed of myself, so I let out another sigh. She instantly drops her hand. I want to tell her that I wasn't sighing because of her, but I realize that would be a huge mistake and I decide not to do so.

I've just started putting new bandages on her in silence when Uncle walks in.

Cornelia:

"Zuko, I see you and our guest are awake. Thank you for tending to her bandages," his Uncle says, walking in. "Yeah, thank you," I whisper to him. His eyes meet mine for a second, then he as he turns his back to me, he mutters, "You have nothing to thank me for. I hurt you." Then he leaves.

"I apologize for my nephew's actions, miss. For right now and the other day. He is often misunderstood. I hope you can forgive him," Zuko's uncle says. "Oh there's no need to apologize, he already did. AND I FORGIVE HIM!" I say loud enough that he would have to be deaf not to hear. "And besides, he was doing what he thought was right when he fought me. Though I probably still would've followed you all because he knew about Aang. And maybe also because of a whole 'Avatar thing'." "What do you mean, my dear?" "Well the first time the Air Nomads taught me to get into the Avatar State, Roku taught me a couple of rules of being an Avatar. One of the things he taught me was that if an Avatar gets into the Avatar State and it lasts for a really long time, then the Avatar basically will be in a coma. They can only be awoken by one person after that and apparently for me, that person is your nephew," I explain. He laughs. "I apologize miss! You don't even know who I am do you?! I am Iroh, Zuko's uncle." "I am Cornelia, it is a pleasure to meet you." Iroh walks over to a chair, picks up some clothes laying there, then comes over to the bed and hands them to me. "Here is a change of clothes for you, Miss Cornelia. When you are ready, you may head to the deck if you wish. Or if you are still feeling unwell, you may head to your new room; which is two doors down from right here." With that, he leaves.

I get dressed in the fire nation clothes, then head outside the room, to search for Iroh. I find the deck, and begin to walk around the side, when I hear people fighting. I slowly walk forward, to see what is going on. Zuko must be training against some of his men, because he is fighting them, but not really trying to harm them. Wait, is he shirtless? When I realize he is, I turn back around the corner, blushing. Wow. That guy has some abs. He also is a great fighter and bender, seeing how quickly he was taking down some of the men. Why are you thinking about him like this Cornelia? This guy hurt you! By mistake, I think to myself, and he apologized for it. I shake my head, to try to clear it, then walk out from the side, only to trip over one of the guys Zuko battled. I go stumbling forward and someone catches me before I fall.

Please don't let it be him, I think, please just have him have disappeared. I look up, and find myself in the arms of Prince Zuko. Handsome, fit, shirtless Prince Zuko just caught me from my clumsy fall. I just really hope he doesn't notice the blush creeping onto my cheeks.

Zuko:

I was training. Still trying to get her out of my head, when suddenly I see someone trip over one of the men I had just beat. I run over and catch her from falling, though my rational mind was screaming at me to do the opposite. When I catch her, I feel her touch on my skin and remember that I always train shirtless. Of course I would think of that when she could look up at any second! Now she will see me blushing from the thought, and think it is because of her! But it is because of her, I think to myself. Wow. I can't believe that already this girl has made me blush so much by me simply being near her. I don't think I've ever blushed this much for anyone, not even…Mai. I wonder how she is doing, and if she even still is friends with Azula. Hopefully not.

Looking back down at the girl, I see her head turn to me. Those eyes. They are enough to make me go speechless. Stop it idiot! Say something! "Um, are you alright?" I want to slap myself. Grr! Of course she's fine, idiot! You just caught her! "Oh I'm fine!" she says quickly, as if she is trying to hide something. I narrow my eyes. "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be lying down? Uncle! Gah! Where is he?" "He told me I could walk around, I really needed to and," she says, then she is interrupted by none other than my uncle. "Cornelia! Zuko! The cook has prepared some food for us and I have made us Jasmine Tea! Now let's go and sit down,….." He sees our position. "Are you sure she could not be something more to you, Zuko, like a lady-friend?" "NO!" she and I shout at the same time, both of our faces instantly red. Both of our faces? She gets up and hurries over to follow Uncle. Why would she be blushing? I'm the only one who hasn't been able to get her out of my mind, she can't possibly be thinking of me, can she?

Cornelia:

I push myself off of Zuko, and run over to Iroh. I just know he saw me blushing after Iroh said that. Grr! But, wasn't he blushing too? Why would he? I thought he hated me. I sit down across from Iroh and Zuko sits next to me. "So Cornelia, my nephew tells me you are an Avatar?" Iroh says to me, in an attempt to make some conversation at the silent table. "Yes I am. My brother is too. His name is Aang. I am the princess of the Southern Air Temple and he is the prince of the Western Air Temple," I state. This gets Zuko to look and actually seak to me. "You're a princess?" I look at him, a bit dumbfounded. "Yes, I already told you this, remember? Before you tried to capture me?" "I thought you were just teasing me for using my title," He mutters. "Prince Zuko, don't you think honorable princesses would not do such a thing? Miss Cornelia would have no reason to do such a thing to you if she did not know you," Iroh says. "But perhaps now that you know she is the same class as you, you will consider her as a possible lady-friend? She really is beautiful," he whispers rather loudly to Zuko. What is his with his obsession of Zuko finding a 'lady-friend'?

"Uncle! Stop saying that!" Zuko starts to rant and begins to get up to storm off, when his hand accidentally knocks into my side, the one with the burn. It is still tender, so I make a little yelp. Zuko is backdown at my side in an instant realizing what he did. "Cornelia! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to! Are you alright?" His concern for me after simply knocking into me confuses me. "I'm fine, Zuko. I'm alright. I just need to go lie down." Iroh begins to stand to help me, but Zuko does so instead and stops him. "Uncle, sit. I will take her to her room." Iroh does so. Zuko's hands don't leave from supporting me as I walk until we get to my room. I attempt to joke with him, because he seems to be distracted by something. "Hey, here's a good thing! At least you can sleep in your bed again, rather than that floor!" He snaps out of his daze and mumbles, "You said my name…," "Uh, yeah. I'm not supposed to call you Angry Guy or Ponytail, am I?" This earns a glare from him, but then he softens his eyes. I sigh. "Yeah. I guess you are right. That was the first time I've said your name, Zuko," I smirk from saying his name again. "But it is also the first time you have said mine." He looks at me again, like he wants to say something, but then he changes his mind. "Lie down. Get some rest. Uncle or I will be coming to check on you later. I mean, Uncle will." He turns and walks out of the room, muttering to himself something along the line of "stupid" as he closes the door. Why did he do that? I don't get why he acts so caring one minute then puts up a wall then next. All I do know is that I have got to find some way to stop thinking about the fire prince with the scar.


Okay I would like to explain something. With that Avatar thing Cornelia brought up, it is something of like all the rules the Avatars are taught when they are sixteen and told that they are an Avatar, by previous Avatars. Aang, hadn't been taught them yet, because the monks didn't wait to tell him, like they had for Cornelia. The previous Avatars knew whatwas going to happen to Cornelia and Aang, so they let Cornelia know of that rule and that there were a lot of rules; that both the children will learn throughout the journey.

And don't worry, Aang and Cornelia will meet up soon. Also, I will probably do some POV's of some of the other characters too, but all of them will link together in a way that I think flows in the story.

I hope that you all don't think I'm being weird by having both Cornelia and Zuko's thought about each other having their emotions flying all over the place. I just think that Zuko hasn't met many girls as abnormal as Cornelia, so right now he is attracted to her powers, her looks, and how she isn't afraid to stand up to him. Cornelia wasn't around many guys at the air temple that couldn't be thought of as family, and now she has actually met a pretty cute guy, but she doesn't want to have a slight crush on him because she knows that he doesn't want her and her brother for a good reason. So don't think that I am trying to rush their relationship, please. I am just trying to develop it, so don't expect so much Kissy-kissy-lovey-dovey stuff just yet. Lol!

Sorry for rambling on! Please review and possibly follow! A new chapter will be put up soon!