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Chapter 7

Barn (Haylin's point of view)

After this mornings events I decided that I needed my own room. And what better room than the barn with Appa? It was away from every one else's rooms-so they couldn't hear my pitiful cries during restless nights, I can keep Appa warm, and I can stay up as late as want without Katara nagging me to get some sleep. It was perfect.

Once I was settled in my new room I removed the soaking wet, partly torn, blue spirit tights and put on my only outfit, a long, blood red fire nation robe that's tight around my chest and waist and drops loosely to the floor. It had long sleeves but I decided to burn them off. It's basically plain except for a piece of gold ribbon tracing the collar and another going from the middle of the square collar, down the front of robe and sewed into the hem at the bottom.

Right now I am in my 'room' trying to talk the Avatar into lending me Appa.

"Please Avatar, I need to visit a relative in the Earth Kingdom to let them know I got out of the fire nation okay." Lie

"Why do you need Zuko to come with you?" Maybe because he's my only trust worthy friend I have. Why cant you just trust me with your stupid bison?

"Protection-if you haven't noticed, there are fire nation troops all over the Earth Kingdom." "But you're part of the fire nation, they shouldn't attack you."

"Who said anything about them attacking me? Most of those soldiers are less than two years older than me and I'm just an innocent little girl who has no hope of protecting herself against a mob of hormone crazed teenagers." As if they could get their hands on me.

He didn't say anything but I could see he was thinking it over. After a few minutes of thinking (and complete boredom on my behalf) he spoke.

"Zuko will be with you the whole time?" Is that a yes? "I won't let him leave my side."

"sigh You can take Appa-" "Thank you so much Avatar!" I picked him up from the waist and engulfed him in a tight, almost bone crushing, hug.

"ayin…cant…brea…hug…to tight." I placed him back on the ground and gave him a moment to speak.

"You didn't let me finish. You can take Appa," Yes Yes Yes "as long as Toph comes along to make sure there is no trouble between Zuko and the troops." No No No! She cant come! She'll ruin my plans! "Deal?" "Deal."

With that he left the room leaving me to mull over how I'm going to convince Toph to not tell the others my intentions.


Two hours later…..

"Thinking… Thinking… Thinking… Finking… Linking… Ninking… Kinking, hmm… Is kinking even a word? Why was I thinking again?... Don't know.

You were trying to find a way to bribe Toph.

Thanks. How am I going to do it? I wish Zaron was here.

Why would you say that! Zaron's a deceiving, backstabbing prick!

Yes but he'd be able to figure out how to bribe Toph. After all, he's a smart, deceiving, backstabbing prick."

"Ehem." I turned around to see Toph standing in the door way. "Oh, hi Toph."

"Cut the formalities, scar. I got two things to talk to you about." Scar?

"um, ok then." She came in and brought a pedestal up from the floor and sat on it.

"Firstly, why do you really want to go to the Earth Kingdom because you know as well as I do that your uncle isn't in Ba Sing Se anymore."

"I was planning on going to the earth kingdom to pick up a few things, then after an hour of doing that, I wanted to take Princess to the fire nation to have some…. fun with the locals."

"Sounds interesting, but I'm guessing twinkle toes didn't hear this."

"Not in that many words, or at all. And that's why you can't tell him or anyone." She nodded slowly in agreement but added. "I wont tell, but only if you do something for me."

"What would that be exactly?" I stood up and walked towards a window on the west side of the room.

"I want you to take me to do some scams. They're really great-" "Deal." I turned my head away from the noon sky and looked at her pale face.

She 'looked' at me – by that I mean she looked at the wall that I was standing in front of – and stood up to leave, saying that she was going to tell Katara something.


A/N: This took a long time. Don't ya just love the way Haylin thinks. Zaron, in case your wondering, is a prick from the fire nation