Zuko's POV
As I wake up, I notice that I'm on a ship as a result of the rocking feeling a ship would provide. I look around the quarter and notice that there is another bed in the room. Who else would be sharing a room with me, I wonder. I notice that it's not kept and so know it's not my mother's own. When I take a good look at myself, I also notice that my clothes were changed. Who changed my clothes?! I'm pretty sure that I was knocked out for only 7 hours at most. Why would my clothes need changing! Who in their right mind changed my clothes while I was sleeping? I get angry thinking this and just shrug it off, I really don't need this kind of stress right now, I'll just figure it all out when I see my mother. As I finish fixing my bed, I go out into the hall and look for everyone. It takes me a while, but I finally find Jet, his parents, and my mother in the dining hall all eating breakfast. As I come up to them, they all look at me with shocked expressions on their faces, what's with the look I think to myself.
"Hey everyone, what's for breakfast?" I ask sitting down and looking at the menus that were put aside.
"Zuko honey, are you alright, do you feel nauseous at all?" my mother asks me with a worried look on her face.
"Yes I am, why mother, did something happen to me?" I say looking at her curious at why everyone kept looking at me funny.
"Well Zuko, you were kind of unconscious for three days." my mother says surprising me. I look at her with wide eyes and am speechless.
"Zuko, are you ok?" Jet finally says still looking at me.
"Yes, but I just want to know what happened to me." I say looking at everyone with a serious expression.
"Well Zuko, it's not really a story you might want to hear." my mother says looking at me with a soft expression.
"But why not?" I say wondering why my mother would think that I wouldn't want to know what had happened to me.
"Well, it's a funny story sweetie-" my mother says before getting cutoff my Jet.
"More like embarrassing." he says getting into a fit of laughter. I blush and really want to know what happened to me.
"Mother what happened to me?" I say looking at her really anxious.
"Well Zuko, when we arrived at Jiaying's home, you immediately fell asleep on the first bed you were offered and…" she says looking hesitant.
"And what? I remember all those parts, what happened next." I say looking at her with my still anxious expression.
"Well, you must have been having a bad dream because you fell off the bed and hit the marble floor really hard. You had a huge bruise on the back of your head for a day. You would still have it right now if it weren't for the water bender healer we found yesterday. She healed you and said that you were going to be fine and that you just needed some rest. So we let you rest for three days and you still hadn't woken up. The boat leaving to the South Pole was departing that day and would be the only one for a month, so I was going to cancel our trip but then Jet told me how you really did want to go, so I did not want to disappoint you. We found the healer again asked her if you could be moved and she said that you rested enough to be moved and so, we put you in the room you were in earlier and left you there waiting til you woke up." mother says and then looks at my shocked appearance.
"Wait, isn't the ride to the South Pole only three days, why haven't we arrived yet?" I ask confused.
"Oh there was an oil leak and it had to be repaired so we made port for a day, you were still unconscious of course." Miss Jiaying says answering my question.
"Your mother did not want to leave your site the whole time you were out cold, so Jia made Jet and your mother switch rooms just so that she could rest." Jet's father says, I forgot to ask for his name.
"Oh so was it you who carried me to the room." I say looking at him.
"No, it was Jet. I was busy loading everyone's luggage." he says putting another mouthful of eggs in his mouth.
"Really, you carried me" I ask looking at him embarrassed.
"Yup and I had to do it bridal style too. We were getting strange looks so I just told people you were my little brother who broke his leg." he says with me looking at him with a raised eyebrow. "Surprisingly, your much lighter than you look." he says with one eye open looking at me from the side as he eats.
"Hey, I was knocked out for days, I didn't get to eat." I say defending myself.
"Sure, that's probably it." he says with both eyes closed and unconvinced as he wipes his mouth which really ticked me off.
"Oh so who's been changing my clothes?" I ask wondering who was touching me whilst I was out cold.
"It was me." says the person who I wished hadn't done it.
"Why you?" I ask him angry and annoyed at the same time.
"That's because I know you wouldn't want your mother doing it and we didn't have any servants that were male at the time and my dad didn't feel comfortable doing it, so I was the only one left, even if I didn't want to, I still had to do it." Jet says folding his arms and looking the other way.
"Oh well, thank you I guess." I say embarrassed that he had to be the one who had to do it. So wait, did he see me… nude? No, no, no, no, no, no, gross, I really don't want to think about that. "So wait, I just fell off the bed, why is that a story I wouldn't want to hear mother?" I say confused.
"Well…" she says and Jet cuts her off again.
"You peed yourself when you fell off, that's why my dad didn't want to do it." Jet says explaining what my mother didn't want to say to me. After that comment, I blush like crazy, that is just too embarrassing, I can't believe I did that in front of mother too. If Azula were too find me like that, she would never let me live it down, ever.
"Did I really?" I say with closed eyes, ashamed at myself.
"It's ok sweetie, that's probably a one-time thing, you never had an accident since you were five." my mother says making me feel even worse.
"Thanks mom, I really wanted to hear that." I say still looking downcast. After breakfast, I walked silently to me and Jet's quarters and laid on my bed faced down. I heard the door open and assumed it was my mother so I didn't say anything. The voice I heard was definitely not that of my mother's. It was Jet's. Yay, I say with fake enthusiasm in my head.
"Why are you moping around, so what if you took a tinkle in bed, it's not really a big deal." he says trying to cheer me up, no that can't be it. I just shoot him an evil glare with my body still faced down on the bed. "Ok, ok." he says putting his hands up in defense. "I was trying to cheer you up, geez." he says walking to his bed.
"Sure you were." I mutter into my pillow.
"C'mon, I hear you're a fire bender." he says sitting on his bed.
"So what if I am one." I say finally sitting up.
"Well, I wanted to get some training done and was wondering if you wanted to train with me." he says. "I always wanted to duel a firebender." he continues.
"Well it doesn't matter, bending isn't allowed on board anyway." I say laying back down on my bed.
"Really, then how about hand-to-hand combat, is that allowed?" he asks me. What is up with this guy?
"How would I know that, I just care about the bending rules, but don't get me wrong, I'm still good even without my bending." I say. I've been training with uncle since I could walk.
"Well, if it isn't allowed, then I've been breaking the rules since this trip started." he says chuckling to himself.
"Idiot." I say to myself.
"What?" he says looking at me.
"Nothing." I say.
"Oh ok." he says completely oblivious to the fact that I just insulted him.
"Well, I'm going to rest until we actually make it to the South Pole." I say reminding me of a question I wanted to ask him. "Oh yeah, why did you tell my mom that I really wanted to go to the South Pole?" I say with a curious expression.
"Well didn't you?" he says turning to look at me.
"I guess, but I just thought that… oh well never mine then, it's not important anyways." I say laying back down.
"Well ok then." he says. "I think I'll just rest too, I'm beat from taking care of you all this time, haha." he says laughing making me blush as I try to ignore him.
"Whatever, I'm just happy we'll be there by morning." I say my back facing him.
"Yup." he says laying down on his bed and instantaneously falling asleep.
"Wow, he was beat, and I thought he was tough." I say to myself. "Oh well, at least I finally get to see Katara." I say laying back down on the bed facing the ceiling. "Wonder what she's doing?" I think to myself.
Back in the South Pole at the same exact moment
(Katara's POV)
"Achooo!" I wheeze out and rub my nose with the back of my hand. Wow, that came out of nowhere.
"Katara are you sick honey?" my Gran-Gran says worriedly.
"Nope, I've been fine all day." I say answering her question and then she gets a funny look on her face. "Gran-Gran, what's with that face?" I say wondering what was up.
"Oh, someone's just thinking about you my little waterbender." my Gran-Gran says.
"Haha sure Gran-Gran." I say wondering where she gets these silly ideas.
Author's Note:
Finally, I can now write about all of them in the South Pole, haha. Thanks to zutarafan11, whiteoak-alina united, and Live and Love for the reviews, haha thanks! ^-^ Next chapter is when they finally arrive. Yay!
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