Zuko rolled over onto his back. He looked up at the cell and growled. Sleep would not come. Honestly he wasn't welcoming it either. The room was quiet with the sound of sleep. Even Sokka had manage to fall asleep, only after Kercha convinced him that he would have to have strength if Angus and Brutus were to come back for him. Zuko closed his eyes, again. Listening to the silence of the room, he steadied his breathing. Sleep crept in slowly.

He looked out over the small crystal lake. He stretched out and laid back against the grass. He closed his eyes and drank in the sunlight that shown down through the trees. A joyous laughter filled the air around him searing into his ears. He opened his eyes and turned his head. Katara fell down beside him laughing. She rolled over and looked at him. She smiled and brushed his hair out of his face. She chuckled as she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead.

"Isn't it beautiful?" He smiled and sat up looking over the plush green valley. Aang, Teo, and Duke were terrorizing a poor lizard squirrel. Sokka and Haru were swimming, breaking the glass appearance of the lake. Toph was laid out in the grass about twenty feet away. Zuko turned and looked at Katara.

"So peaceful." Katara smiled. She opened her mouth to say something, but her voice wasn't what broke through.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!!" Zuko snapped out of his dream and sat up. His first instinct made him jerk to look at Haru and Sokka. They were fine, even though they to had been snapped out of sleep. Zuko turned around as he heard someone yell out in pain. Vitani's teeth were sunk deep into Brutus's arm. Brutus's hand was clenched tight around Kilani's wrist.

Zuko stared as Vitani's teeth tore the skin and blood spilled out from under his lips. Kilani jerked his arm back and rolled back. Vitani released his teeth from the man and pulled just before Kilani landed his foot hard against Brutus's elbow. Vitani grabbed the man's arm where it had been broke and jerked it backwards. Kilani took that as a chance shot his hand out of the cage. He grabbed the man's leg and pulled his foot through the cage. He jerked it to the side snapping the man's ankle. The twins then pushed the man hard away from the cage.

Brutus stumbled and fell to his back holding his shattered arm. Angus was quick to his side. He picked him up and drug him out of the room.

Sokka slowly turned to look at the two twins. Vitani's face, throat, and chest were covered in blood. Kilani pulled his shirt off and began helping his brother to get the red fluid off of him. Vitani's eyes caught Sokka's. Vitani let a smirk crawl across his face making himself look very demonic.

"What?" Sokka shook his head and looked at Zuko. Zuko didn't look surprised. He turned to look at Sokka and Haru.

"They are vicious aren't they." Haru leaned against the bars, still groggy from the venom. He nodded as he watched to twins.

"They just shattered his leg and arm. I would say that is vicious."

"Not vicious. Practical." Kercha said. He looked towards the door then looked over at Vitani. He shook his head.

"A lesson to be learned that Kilani isn't fair game." Vitani looked over at Kercha and nodded.

"If you fight them, if you hurt them. They will learn." Kercha frowned and looked back at the door. The room was dark, and even darker since it was night. Candles or torches we too dangerous to keep in the room,per chance that the moon stones didn't do their job. Sokka turned to look at Kercha. The man's face was very blank.

"Kercha...?" Kercha smiled and rolled his head against the bars to look at Sokka. "What is it?" Kercha didn't answer. He rolled his head back to look at the door.

"Teruit never came back." Hiiu said out of the darkness. Kercha nodded as he closed his eyes.

"No. He didn't."

"And he won't." Vitani added. He turned to look at Kercha with narrowed eyes. "Once Xia finds out, he will do the same to you, Kercha. You know it." Kercha started laughing. He fell down in his cage and rolled over onto his back, in a very feline movement.

"If through our deaths, we take the bastard with us, so be it." Sokka turned and looked at him with wide eyes.

"What does that mean?" Kercha's blue eyes turned serious as he looked at the younger man. He sat up on his elbow and shook his head.

"The less you know the better." Sokka nodded and laid back down on the floor of the cage. He looked over at Kilani and frowned. The two brother's were a lot closer than he thought natural.

"Why are you two so close?" Sokka ask, almost regretting it as soon as he had said it. Vitani turned and looked at the boy and narrowed his eyes.

"If it was any of your damn business, we would have told you." Kilani frowned and gave his brother's hair a quick yank.

"He isn't being nosy. Just answer his damn question." Vitani turned and snarled his nose at his brother then looked back at Sokka. He frowned deeper and looked back to Kilani. Kilani sighed and sat back against the bars, for the first time the banned tattoo that crawled up his arms and across his shoulders was visible.

"We have each other. We have always had each other. When one of us is in pain, so is the other." Kilani turned his soft eyes to look at Sokka. "It is said that having a twin is like having a piece of your soul walking the Earth with you. That statement is truer than any ever spoken. When one of us is sad, the other feels his sadness, no matter the distance between us. The same with pain." Kilani looked at Vitani and ran his hand through his long black hair. "When we are apart, it feels as if there is half missing. Spirits deny it, but we share a soul. We share a bound stronger then any steel can be forged, or any rock can be molted. People search all their lives looking, striving to find that one soul mate." Kilani smiled as a small laugh escaped his brother's mouth. " We were born with our soul mates. We don't have to waste that part of our life looking for that person to complete us. We are complete already." Haru sat up and frowned.

"You two aren't 'lovers' right?" For the first time Kilani's face went hard as he glared over at Haru. He shook his head and blinked back to serene. Vitani glared at the boy.

"Many people have thought that. Usually by the unusualness of our constant touching. This physical contact between two men often makes people uneasy." Kilani stopped as if her were thinking of his next choice of words very carefully. He looked over at Vitani and smiled. "For me, I have to touch him. I have to make sure he is still here. It isn't a sexual thing, or meant for any kind of physical gratification. It is merely comforting. To know that he is here for the moment." Vitani leaned back against his brother. Vitani's hard eyes looked over at Haru and Sokka.

"If one of us was to die, the other would die as well." Kilani nodded.

"That is what we believe at least. Maybe not death as the other's death. But for the longing for the other and the misery left behind, we would certainly morn ourselves to death." Sokka looked at him rather dumb founded.

"What? Say that again and speak human please?" Zuko laughed and looked at Sokka as he shook his head.

"Moron. He said that he would basically die if his brother did. Just what Vitani said." Sokka looked over at Kilani, ignoring Zuko. He frowned as he looked at the two. He laid back down on the floor and reached out for Katara's necklace. He patted the ground a couple times before he sat up and looked around.

"Where's it at?" Sokka said sitting up to see if he was laying on it. Haru looked over at him. He sat up and looked around the cage.

"I don't know. Didn't you just have it?"

"Xia came and got it." Sokka turned to look at Kercha.

"What?" Kercha smiled at Sokka and shook his head.

"He came and got it. While you were sleeping. The bastard is unbelievably quiet when he wants to be. Scary, isn't it."