"You can't be serious. Tell me you're not." Her eyes suggested otherwise. I groaned at her stupidity, I thought I was the rash one. I felt like tearing my hair out, not that I had any left to tear. She walked past me and I reached for her wrist. She stopped and span to face me, her hair acting as a whip, her eyes blazing with left over anger.

"Of course I am serious, that man just killed what remains of my family and blinded my sister," she seethed, heat rolling off her in waves.

"You don't know that." I tried not to shout but I could feel my voice rising as Kila glared at me. I had forgotten how terrifying she could be when I was under the full force of her mismatched eyes.

"Did you hear him, did you see him? He smiled when I said it. He smiled." she shouted, she was doing that a lot. Something had changed and I wasn't sure what, as she walked away from me. Her door slammed at the edge of my hearing and I sighed as Uncle stepped up behind me.

"You should wait before you speak to her, let her calm down."

"She's angry at me, I don't know why." I started down the hall to my 'temporary' room as Uncle called after me.

"There is no greater rift than that caused by time." I growled at the uselessness of his reply. I didn't want to wait to talk to her, I wanted to find out what was wrong now. I opened the door to her room and expected her to spin around and shout at me. She didn't.

She was lying on the floor unconscious . She'd tried to do too much. I walked towards her as she started to stir.

"Kila?" she looked at me as though she couldn't see. As though she was still ill... which of course she was. I felt like face palming at my idiocy. "You lied about being okay, didn't you?" She sighed and nodded as she pulled herself up into a sitting position.

"I just wanted to spar with you again,the last time was... too many years ago." I squatted down next to her as I tried to remember, I think it was about 6 years ago.

" Longer since you saw uncle though." she shook her head as she started to shiver, though from cold or muscle exertion I wasn't sure. She pulled my coat tighter around her.

"No. I saw him 3 years ago, well, almost 3. At your Agni Kai." oh cinders. How could I have forgotten that she was there. She'd seen my fall from my fathers good books. I'd yelled at her to go away when she tried to help me. No wonder she was so on edge.

I sighed and leant back against her bed, ashamed for forgetting and unable to look her in the eye. She shivered again, her muscles tightening in her legs as though she were getting ready to run. She whimpered and curled in on herself, her hair falling in front of her face. I stood up and walked towards the door. She looked up.

"Where are you going?" her voice was broken and cut off.

"To get the healer." She stood up suddenly and walked towards me, attempting to stop me. At least I think that's what she had attempted to do, she fell halfway her legs having given out. I caught her and squatted down besides her as she forced her way onto her elbows and dry retched.

"There is no way you're in any condition to have an Agni Kai. I'm getting the healer and you're being healed." I said as she looked up at me, her forehead beaded with sweat. She looked about to protest but she seemed to think otherwise.

"Fine." She sighed and pulled herself painfully into a sitting position before I left the room.

By the time I had gotten back, with the healer close at my heels, Kila was sat at the table by the window with Uncle, having tea.

"Uncle! She's ill, she shouldn't be having tea." I tried not to yell as I walked towards the pair and pulled the cup out of Kila's hand. She didn't look much better than earlier but at least she was sitting now and not lying on the floor. I looked at the cup critically and realised that it was just water. She waved her hand in front of me and I gave her back the cup of water.

"I got thirsty and Iroh offered me a drink. He also told me that he had spoken to Zhao and that the Agni Kai was officially cancelled." She took a sip of her drink as the healer walked over and examined the back of her head, pulling her ponytail out of the way. Kila winced as she prodded a particularly sore area and then took a sip of water. The healer continued her examination, pulling Kila's head this way and that, as I spoke to my uncle.

"You cancelled the Agni Kai? I was going to do that,"

"You were busy." Uncle stated as he took a sip of his tea. I sighed and frowned slightly.

"You never told me that you knew her." the healer spoke up. I took a startled step back before berating her.

"You're not supposed to ask questions." Kila rolled her eyes at me as the older woman tutted. " And I didn't think I had to" At that Kila laughed, causing the older woman to frown as though there was an inside joke.

"Zuko, you know you should have told her who I was." I glared at her, when had she started to use my name so freely again.

"Sorry, prince Zuko. Better?" I saw uncle smile into his cup as he took a sip.