Lucy slowly walked through the battle. She only had one opponent in mind, and she had a feeling that she was waiting for her…

Lucy threw a fireball and it narrowly (but purposefully) missed its noisy target. The target in question raised an eyebrow at the scorch mark next to her head. "No need to ask if you can bend." Anna let out a sigh. "Why are you tagging along with sifu hotman?" (Sorry if I spelt that wrong)

"Because he has better abs than Aang and Sokka's combined?" She replied, her senses telling her that the people around her were slowing down to hear the conversation. "Also, I get a nice bed and Iroh's tea! There's no way I'd turn this opportunity down."

"You'll miss the newly refurbished chamber." She said in a childish tone.

"I'll meet him eventually." Lucy replied, aiming another fireball at her friend. She dodged it with ease (damn her and her gymnastics). "There's no way I'm gonna leave Hot Shot over there for you guys. You don't even have my other favorite yet!"

They kept fighting for a couple of minutes before Anna sighed. "Just don't get your hopes up. Okay? I don't want to lose my best friend because she repeated her mistakes."

Lucy nodded before going to find Zuko. It didn't take long, and she soon heard him crashing into a house. She ran into the building, cutting her legs up in the process. She leaned over and shook Zuko slightly. "Zuko, it's time to wake up. I'd like you to wake up before winter. Maybe then we'll have fun. You know, ice skating and building snowmen. Do you wanna build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman…"

Zuko groaned. "What happened?"

"Aaah!" She screamed, falling back onto the ashy ground. "You scared me!"

He growled and stood up. "What happened?" He repeated annoyance evident in his voice.

"Well, you were thrown into this building, and we're also having our asses handed to us by the Kyoshi warriors." She said, pushing herself up off the ground. "If you wanna get out of here with the majority of your army intact, I suggest we leave. Like now."

They soon called for a retreat, Lucy screaming out random stuff like "You won't be lucky next time" and "I LOVE TACOS" knowing that his will be one of her last non serious moment with Anna for a while.

When they arrived back onto the ship, Iroh was the first to greet them.

"Excellent try, Prince Zuko. You to Lu- oh my! You're bleeding!" Lucy didn't know what he was talking about until he touched her arm, which caused pain that she hadn't felt until now. She hissed in pain and was immediately bandaged up.

When she finally got back to her room, she changed into a knee-length dress and tried not to hiss when she touched the bandages. The cuts on her legs were small but painful, and would give her a few days of pain. The one on her arm was nasty, she had no idea how she didn't notice it. It would take several weeks to heal, and she wasn't allowed to do strenuous activities such as fire bending or playing the violin.

She sighed. She had literally nothing to do. She wasn't allowed to roam the ship (not until the cuts on her legs healed) and the only non-strenuous immobile activities required some sort of vision. Which she had none.

She lay sprawled out on her bed for a few minutes until she heard a knock on her door. She let out a groan of "come in" before the door opened. She didn't know who had stepped in so she remained sprawled out until her visitor spoke.

"I brought tea." She didn't expect Zuko to visit her and shot up, earning herself another cringe as pain shot through her body. She heard him quickly approach and sit the tea down. "Don't make your pain any worse."

"I know." She said, mentally preparing herself for her visitor. She didn't want to look weak in front of him. She held out her hands and waited for the cup to firmly press on her hands before she took a sip. "Thank you."

"I know what it's like to feel like you can't do anything," he said, taking a sip of his own tea. "So I thought you could use some company." They sat in silence before he spoke again. "Why?

"Why what?"

"You know why what. I might have been fighting, but I still saw you. You obviously cared about the girl, yet you turned down her offer, and purposefully missed her several times. Why?"

Lucy sighed, thinking about the question for a moment before answering. "Anna is my sister in all but blood. I would do anything to protect her. But," she put the cup in her lap. "We're on different sides of the war now. She follows the Avatar, and I follow you. We both knew our decisions, but that was the moment that we decided; we are now enemies, but will not be the cause of each other's deaths."

They sat in silence for a few more minutes before Zuko slowly pulled her into a hug. Lucy clung to him and sobbed the life out of her until she eventually fell asleep. He grabbed the tea things before pulling a blanket over her and walking out the door. Yes, he knew what she was going through.

He knew all too well.