-1After the great input from the reviewers, of course I felt compelled to continue (I would have continued it anyway, though). But seriously, your reviews made me feel so good. Thank you.

WARNING: Sexual scene at some point. You'll find out.

Enjoy.

Two years had passed, and Hama had finally gotten over her fear of becoming dehydrated. Her fear, however, was completely justified; several people had died of dehydration. But she decided that starving herself was not going to help her, or anyone else.

But she had noticed that ever month, when the moon was full, she could feel strength course through her. She felt like she could do anything, but couldn't had the same time, leaving her confused and feeling worthless.

Some of the water benders had gone mad; muttering and talking to themselves, making odd jerking movements with their hands. Hama couldn't stand to look at them anymore; it was too heartbreaking.

She wondered what Kanna was doing. Maybe she had gotten married. Maybe she even had a kid. Hama was beginning to think that that she would never get to feel those joys, that if she does survive, nobody is going to want a Fire Nation prisoner.

The slam of the prison door made her look up; it was water time. She watched as the guards worked their way from prison to prison, until they got to her. One of the guards smirked at her as she tied back her right arm and someone else did the other, then they did her legs, leaving in her a very awkward position. Hama couldn't even look at them in the eyes as they handed her the ladle, she just concentrated on swallowing as much of the water as she could, and not drop any.

She heard snickering next to her, turned to the guards.

"What is it?" Hama asked weakly; it had been a while since she had spoken.

"Nothing," one said between laughs.

Hama looked into the ladle and realized that there was some weird stuff on the bottom, like some sort of herb.

"And that one is just for you!" The other one cackled.

"Maybe we should leave her up there," the other said.

The other one actually seemed to consider it, but luckily shook his head. "Nah, she'll go through enough."

He smirked, and then they let her down. Hama was back on the dirty floor as she wondered what the big deal was.

But a couple hours later, she figured out what that was. Apparently those guards knew what that contaminated water would do to her.

She curled up in a corner, clutching her aching stomach.

"Damn them.." Hama muttered under her breath. She looked around; luckily it was the time everyone was asleep, so she took a chance. She carefully lifted up her gown, and went for it.

"What a bunch a creeps; they knew this would happen." Hama sighed, half groaning, accidentally letting her guard down for a second. A big mistake; she didn't hear the two guards come in.

"Hey look, Gen, our plan worked!"

"It seems you are right, Rong." They both pointed and laughed at the embarrassed Hama.

"What was the reason for doing this, you perverts?" Hama spat.

"Because we can. Because you are our prisoner," Gen said, smirking.

"I'm not your prisoner, you two are just guards, you didn't capture me," Hama said, carefully standing up, and pulling her gown back down. "You're probably army rejects because you can't firebend. Is that right?"

Rong's face turned bright red, and quickly reached in the cage, grabbing Hama by the neck. "You better watch your mouth, you dirty bitch! With permission from General Huojin, we can kill you very easily."

Rong tightened his grip a little, probably waiting for Hama to make a choking sound, and when she did, he roughly let her go.

"Now, now Rong, no need to get angry." Gen thoughtfully put his finger to his mouth. "Say Rong, whatever happened to your girlfriend, Luli?"

Rong's face suddenly became very stiff. "You.. You know she was executed after being accused of treason."

"Oh, that's right. I guess it slipped my mind." Gen gave Rong a suggestive smile, "So, when was the last time you.. You know?"

Rong didn't understand at first, but then got it. "Oohh, yeah, I guess it has been awhile. Why?"

Gen looked over to Hama.

"Her? But she's a Water Tribe bastard! You can have her! I may be a little desperate, but even I have standards."

Rong snorted, while Gen looked Hama over. "I don't think right now though, she's a little gross".. Gen was interrupted by Rong muttering a "a little?" "Anyway, will you tell one of the other guards to bring a large bucket of water down here? And make sure she cleans up, or else I'll personally kill her."

Rong left the room snickering loudly. Gen eyed Hama suggestively. "I actually don't know when it will be."

"Then how will I know when to wash up?" Hama couldn't believe she just asked that.

"Hm.. I guess you won't," Gen sharply turned, and left the room.

"Ooohh, Hama! Maybe they're going to let you go!" It was a water bender, one of the ones who had gone mad.

"I don't think that's the case.." Hama said as she curled up tightly into a ball, trying to fall asleep and not think about what might happen to her.

The amount of food Hama was given suddenly decreased, and at first she did not know why, but slowly it dawned on her, when she began to feel weaker and weaker.

"So I won't put up a fight.." Hama stared at the bowl with a small clump of rice inside. Her stomach growled loudly. "I know.. I know.." She ate the rice bitterly, and fought back the urge to cry. The fire, which she hated to think of it that way, that had burned within for all of her life, seemed to be extinguishing rapidly.

She felt like she was in Hell the next couple of days; every time the guards came in, she froze up, fearing that today would be the day, but every time, they ignored her. Gen didn't even look at her, and he was doing that on purpose, he was mentally torturing her. At first she looked at the insane water benders with pity and disgust, but now she was beginning to envy them; they lived in their own little world, everything that happened around them did not seem to bother them.

One early morning, Hama was woken up to a loud rattling on her prison; it was Gen, and he didn't seem too pleased. Hama immediately sat up straight and stared at him.

"I guess this is it, huh?" Hama asked.

But Gen did not say anything, he just unlocked the door, and pulled Hama out by the arm. Silently, he led her to a long staircase, a nice one in fact. They walked up it, and wound up in front two large, extravagant doors. Gen opened the doors, revealing General Huojin inside a large bedroom.

"Sir," he bowed stoically.

"Oh come now, Gen, why the long face? Was there something you were hoping for?" Huojin was teasing him, Hama couldn't figure out why. "You may go."

Huojin motioned to a stone basin filled with water. "Gen told me you were pretty dirty, and I can't have someone like that in my private quarters. It's bad enough that you are from the Water Tribe."

Hama fought the urge to punch him, and bent down in front of the basin. Just as she was taking a cloth out of the water, thought occurred.

'I'm a water bender, and there's water in front of me..' She placed her hand right on the water's surface and concentrated. But she was struggling and the water only rippled and rose slightly before falling back down.

"Trying to do some water bending? That's pretty brave of you considering it's a new moon and you're probably very weak," he smirked cruelly.

Hama pulled her hands out of the water and stared at it. A chilled feeling shot up her spine as feeling of dread hit her. 'Why would they do all of this?' She remembered what Gen was going do, and it seemed like that wasn't going to happen, so why did..

"No.." She looked up at Huojin in horror and backed away quickly until she hit the wall.

"Finally figured it out, have you?" Huojin picked up the basin and walked towards her, "I haven't been with another woman for so long.."

He tossed the water on top of her, and bent down eye-level. "That's better isn't it?"

He grabbed Hama by the scruff of her gown, dragged her, and tossed her onto the bed. He climbed on top of her, his middle meeting her's. She struggled a little bit, but stopped when Huojin held a flame next to her ear.

"Everytime you try to escape, a burn off a different body part," he whispered in her other ear.

He pinned her arms down and kissed her starting from her neck, and as he worked his way down, he burned a split down her gown, kissing her navel. She whimpered as he burned her wrists, but did not cry out. He began removing his clothing, quickly, and easily removed her gown, tossing it randomly to the side. She felt pressure between her legs, closed her eyes tightly, and tried to distance herself the best she could. As one point, she felt the urge to fight back, but when she made any sort of movement, he burned her wrists even more.

She wasn't sure how long this went on for, but when he was finally finished, she found herself very tired and sore.

Huojin stood up and began getting dressed. He picked up Hama's gown and tossed it to her; she stared at it, not sure what to do.

"Well, put it on," Hama wordlessly showed him the rip down the front, "Oh, right.. Well, you'll get another later."

Hama did what he told, to weak to argue. Huojin pulled on a string hanging from the ceiling, and in a matter of seconds, two soldiers came in.

"Take this girl back to the prisons," he said.

Hama had mixed feelings about coming back to her jail cell; she was back in the dirty, foul cage, but she was away from that man. Hama held the sides of her gown tightly together, and curled right in the middle of the prison. Tears ran down her face as she slowly let herself succumb to sleep.

Yay, rape scene! But seriously, it was hard writing that scene, without making it too descriptive. Speaking of which; I didn't write the first part of the chapter to be gross, I just wanted show what she had to put up while captured, and what assholes she probably had to put up with.

I didn't wait very long to finish this chapter because I'm going back to school on Tuesday, and I know I'll be dead-tired as soon as I start, so I don't know when the next chapter will be. Who knows? Maybe it'll be sooner that I think.