Azula felt someone shaking her softly by the shoulder, when the Princess opened her eyes she saw big blue eyes looking at her. That's when she remembered she had slept in the middle of the woods, next to Sokka… She also remembered more of the night before, and blushed.

"Morning, Princess…" Sokka smiled to her, helping her to sit up.

Azula groaned, feeling her whole body sore from sleeping on the cold floor.

"Are you okay?" Sokka asked, frowning at her as they stood up.

"Yeah, I just really miss my bed…" She said rubbing her back, Sokka just laughed at her.

Since the Princess had sprained her ankle, they walked really slowly back to Palace. Sokka said he could carry her but Azula's response was a death glare, so he only helped her to walk. He was really confused about how to act around her now… After all the kissing the night before, he didn't know if there was actually something between them or not. And the truth was, both possibilities really scared him. He couldn't deny he wanted something with her, but he didn't even know how would that be possible, since she was… Azula. But Sokka decided he would think about that later.

In the bright light of the day it didn't take much longer to find the way back to the Palace. In a few hours they were already entering the secret passage.

"I can't wait to get rid of those disgusting clothes." Azula made a disgusted face. Her clothes were crumped and all covered with dry mud.

Sokka chuckled.

"Why are you laughing?" The Princess's eyes widened at him.

"It's just… a bit funny seeing you… like this." He gave her a mocking smile.

Azula glared at him, outraged.

"You're so lucky I need you help me to walk right now!"

He laughed again.

"You know I'm kidding-"

Suddenly, Azula simply pushed him against the wall and covered his mouth. Sokka looked at her startled, but then he understood her action – voices. He felt his heart beating faster when he realized they were getting closer. He didn't know how many of them were, and even though Azula was probably the deadliest person he ever met, she wasn't at her best state right now, since she was injured. But before he could panic, he realized the voices were coming from the other side of the wall, probably from another tunnel.

"This better work… There won't be another chance like this. And we don't know until when Governor Jiang will keep helping us." One man said.

"Why is he doing this anyway? He is a highborn from Fire Nation. He did support Ozai. I don't know why he would simply join our cause." A second one spoke.

"He probably has his reasons to want the Princess' death. We just need to take advantage on that." The first one commented. "Now, let's hope the girl does everything right."

"If everything does go right, that will be the Princess' last meal. They say the poison takes only a few minutes to work…"

Azula froze, looking at Sokka's eyes, startled.

"We need to hurry… " She whispered to him. Was that panic in her voice? "The servant is probably serving my breakfast now!"

She tried to walk fast ahead of him, but failed, groaning in pain.

"Slow down…" He held her by her waist, looking at her with concern. "There is no reason to rush now that we know that…" Azula looked at Sokka in a way he had never seen before. Her eyes seemed to have a mix of fear and despair… "Azula, we already know it. You're not there. There is no to fear-"

"Sokka… That's not…" The Princess groaned again, frustrated now. "Did you forget Kiyi usually comes to my room to have breakfast with me?"

His eyes widened at her.

"Uh, where is Azula, mom?" The little girl was in her older sister's bedroom.

The mother, who had followed the girl, had just entered her other daughter's room. She looked around, there was no sign of Azula, actually it didn't even seem that she had slept there. Ursa sighed, worried.

"I don't know… Oh, look, the servant is bringing her breakfast. She might be here somewhere."

A young woman brought a tray with tea, cake and some fruits to the Princess' room, she placed it on a small table next to the window.

"Cake!" She said, sitting at the table and cutting a slice of the cake.

The servant looked at the girl uneasy, she was about to say something when Ursa started.

"Dear, shouldn't you wait for your sister?"

"She won't mind, mom. Why are you here anyway?" The girl put the slice on a plate and looked at her mother, a little confused.

"I want to talk to her…"

Kiyi raised her eyebrows and looked away from her mother. She knew her mother's talks with her sister never ended well. When she was pulling the plate closer to her, so she could finally eat, something abruptly stroke the plate, breaking it and spreading pieces of porcelain and cake everywhere. The girl's scream echoed in the Palace. She was about to start crying when she saw Azula at the doorway.

The Princess' looks scared her little sister. Kiyi had never seen Azula in such a messy state.

"AZULA! What are you doing? Was that lightning?! " Ursa was already at Kiyi's side, hugging her.

The Princess didn't pay attention to her mother, since she was glaring at the servant in the corner of the room.

"Arrest her now." She said carefully to the guards at her door, Sokka was right behind them.

Azula walked towards her sister and mother, wincing in pain, she had probably sprained her ankle even more after all this effort.

"What has happened to you, Azula?" Her mother asked with her eyes widened, but the Princess simply ignored the question and faced her little sister.

"Did you eat or drink anything? Answer the question, Kiyi!"

"Azula, stop it! What's the matter with you?!" Ursa yelled at her and Azula only glared at her.

"What's going on here?" Zuko finally appeared at the door, looking startled and confused to the guards holding the servant by the arms. "What's the meaning of that?" Then he gasped when he saw Azula. "What happened to you?"

Azula crossed her arms facing her brother.

"Long story. This scum we call servant just almost poisoned Kiyi." She said coldly.

She rolled her eyes at Ursa's gasp behind her.

"What?" Zuko widened his eyes at her, getting closer.

"It's true, Zuko." Sokka finally spoke, standing besides Zuko now.

"No!" The servant cried. "Please, my lord, I don't know what they are talking about… I just brought her breakfast..."

Zuko frowned at the girl then looked at Sokka, looking for answers.

"Oh, really?" Azula asked in a sarcastic way. Sokka noticed she was facing the servant in that cold threatening way he hadn't seen in a while. Even though Azula was a mess from head to toe and walking unstably, she had this superior look that made her look like the Princess she was. The servant just looked like a small defenseless animal next to her. Sokka realized he had forgotten how terrifying she could be. And apparently Zuko was thinking the same thing... "If the food is fine, why don't you sit down and eat some of it?" Azula gave the girl a fake sweet smile.

"Wha…" The girl's eyes grow wide.

Azula calmly went to the table and cut another slice of the cake and put it on a plate, and then she handed it to the servant.

"Eat it. Now." She said in a low but scary tone. No one else in the room dared to say a word.

The servant looked at the plate horrified, then to the Princess.

"What are you waiting for? You probably have never eaten a delicacy like that... What's the matter?" Azula went on with a threatening smile.

It didn't take much longer for the girl start crying and begging for mercy. Azula only gazed Zuko, waiting for a reaction.

"Take her, she will be interrogated later." The Fire Lord said to the guards.

"Interrogated by me…" Azula smiled cruely, she almost looked like she was enjoying this situation. Zuko just rolled his eyes.

"Now, can someone please explain to me what is going on here?" Zuko yelled, looking at both Sokka and Azula.

Azula sighed, as she limped and winced in pain. Now that she relaxed her ankle was hurting even more. She saw Zuko's worried look and rolled her eyes.

"I will explain you everything, Zuzu… But later. Now I need a bath and clean clothes, and a physician…" She said, dropping herself on a chair.

"Azula-" Her brother started.

"What are you all waiting for?" She simply cut him off, looking incredulous to everyone in the room. "Go get my servants and the medical care I need now!" She yelled in frustration.

A few hours later, Azula was in fresh clothes, her hair was down and still wet from the long bath she had taken. She was sitting on a couch in one of the Palace's rooms, with her now bandaged ankle resting on a pillow on the other side of couch. Sokka was on a chair not so far from Azula, he was glad to know Azula's injure wasn't that bad, she only had to take it easy for a few days. He couldn't deny he was still really anxious. Since they came back to the Palace they hadn't been alone for one second, so he still didn't know what was going on between them.

"YOU TWO DID WHAT?" Half of the Palace heard the Fire Lord yell.

Zuko was standing in front of Azula and Sokka with an angry and frustrated expression. From the other corner of the room Ty Lee and Suki observed the scene worried.

"I can't believe it!" He went on. "I can't deny I already expected something like this from Azula, but you, Sokka? You didn't only lie to me, but you also risked your life and Azula's!"

The Princess looked unamused.

"Zuzu, please… Enough with the dramatic scene! He only came with me, because he knew I would disobey you, whether he came or not." Azula said, shrugging. "So, relax…"

"Is that supposed to be a good excuse?" Zuko looked at her incredulous, then he turned again to his friends. "Seriously, Sokka, what were you thinking?"

Wow, if he's that mad now, imagine when he finds out I made out with his sister...

"What do you think I should have done? Let her go alone?" Sokka looked at Zuko, raising his hands in a sign of frustration.

"You should have stopped her!"

Sokka rolled his eyes. "Because that's a really easy thing to do…" He said sarcastically.

Azula groaned, annoyed.

"Zuko, that's enough, okay? You can yell at me as much as you want later, but let's focus the important things now. Haven't you heard what we found out?"

Zuko glared at her, but then he just sighed and sat next to Sokka.

"Yeah, I did. But I can't simply arrest Jiang only based on this. We don't even know who were the people who said that in the tunnels anyway, and why he is helping them…" Zuko said, rubbing his temples.

"It's obvious they were the Anti-Azula squad. We just don't who exactly they are." Sokka explained.

"The anti what?" The Princess raised one eyebrow to him, confused.

Sokka gave her a proud smile.

"Anti-Azula squad. I felt like they deserved a name after all this time." He shrugged.

Azula only stared at Sokka, judging him.

"Anyway… No, Zuko, of course, you can't arrest him like that. But now we know we need to keep an eye on him, not mentioning if we actually investigate him we might find out who are the…" She made a disgusted face to Sokka. "Anti-Azula squad…" And then she rolled her eyes.

Zuko was about to say something, when Sokka interrupted him.

"You know, during that second attack to Azula's life…" He was frowning now, thoughtful. "The first time it happened when I was actually here… The man told me I should be helping him. And by what we heard in the tunnels they clearly aren't from Fire Nation's aristocracy, maybe they aren't even from here, which makes sense, since people from out of Fire Nation usually don't like you guys. Mostly Azula…" Sokka stopped, staring at the floor. "What if… What if I actually join them?" Everyone looked at him startled and confused. "I mean, as an inside man, so I can get more information. Come on, it's not that hard to believe that I would want to take Azula down…"

Azula glared at him. And he only gave her an awkward smile.

"Sokka, that can be really dangerous!" Suki finally spoke. "And you are her guard now, do you really think they are going to buy it?"

Azula frowned at Suki, a little disgusted. Why is she even here?

"Exactly! I can say I'm going to use my position as her guard to get a chance to help them kill her…" Sokka explained.

Azula and Zuko looked at each other with eyes widened and then glared at Sokka.

"Okay…" Azula began and frowned to Sokka. "I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that conversation…"

"You are spending too much time with Azula…" Zuko couldn't help but smile a little at his sister's reaction.

And Azula narrowed her eyes at her brother. "Excuse me?"

Sokka laughed.

"Guys, come on, think with me… It makes sense!"

Zuko sighed and shook his head.

"Fine, I supposed that could work. Maybe you can say you suspect Azula is doing something against me…"

Azula looked at her brother a little startled.

"You can't be serious, Zuko!"

"What? You can't deny it makes sense…" Her brother looked at her.

Azula folded her arms.

"It's him! And a bunch of assassins! How is that going to work? We will easily get himself murdered!"

"Hey! I'm still here!" Sokka complained.

Zuko looked at his sister with a curious look, and suddenly Azula froze. Did she actually show concern towards Sokka?

"I… I mean…" She tried to sound indifferent again. "If something happened to him, I'm sure you just blame me, and I will have to listen you complain the rest of my life."

Zuko rolled eyes.

"That's not true… Suki, can you see if you can track down these people? I mean, if there is somehow or somewhere Sokka can meet them?" Zuko asked softly to the other girl.

"Sure… I will start looking for something today…" She smiled. "But I must say I'm still really worried with this."

Azula almost groaned. She had to admit Sokka and Zuko had a point, it could work. But part of her was annoyed that it wasn't her who brought up that plan, and another part of her was wondering if Zuko would agree with this so easily if she was the one who had came out with this idea.

"So, I guess that's it. Let's talk again when you guys find something out else." Zuko said standing up.

The girls stood up and started walking to the door. Sokka helped Azula up. He almost smiled when he thought they would finally be alone again. But when they were about to leave…

"Azula, I want to talk you…" Zuko finally said in a serious tone.

Everyone turned to look at her and Zuko with a concerned expression. This can't be good.

Azula only sighed and then smirked sarcastically.

"Well, I knew it wouldn't be that easy… Wait for me outside." She said coldly to Sokka.

A/N: I finally had time to finish this! Hope you like it! Reviews will be really appreciated! :)

I will update soon!