Chapter Eleven

I had weird dreams all night long, dreams of my parents, Kaida, Zuko, Kyoto and her family, as well as the Fire Lord. I woke up sweating.

"You okay?" Zuko asked. He had already been up, packing his things.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I lied. I had been so stressed out, finding this person, who very well may be related to Zuko. How would I tell him?

I got up and packed my things, throwing my weapons and pack over my back.

Zuko closed his fist, putting out the fire and I followed the crystals to the exit and finally made our way to the city.

"So, can I ask where we're going, October?" He asked as we made our way along the streets.

"We're going to the Green Turtleduck, we're staying the night, then tomorrow I've got work to do." I stopped in my tracks, and turned toward him, with a pointed finger. "You will be staying there, not coming with me. Understand?" He nodded and I started to walk again.

"Do you even know where this place is?" His voice had really started to annoy me.

"I'm gonna find it." I retorted, looking for lodging signs.

"Maybe you could ask for directions." He suggested. I had mustered up enough self-control to not turn around and firebend him into the spirit realm.

"I'm fine without directions, your highness."

We continued walking for at least an hour, until I finally found it. I'd admit, I was too prideful and stubborn to ask for directions. If Zuko hadn't been with me, I would've.

I stepped into the small inn and found an older woman at the front counter.

Zuko and I walked up, while the people in the inn gave us odd looks.

"Can I get a room please?" I asked the old woman, who had a name tag reading 'Rose.'

"Are you newlyweds?" She smiled, her face showing no signs she had eyes when she did so.

I looked panicked at Zuko. He took my hand and told her we were.

"It's so nice to see such young love. You know, when I was about your age, I fell in love with a strong handsome young man, quite like you actually…" She rambled on about her old love, before I coughed and snapped her back to reality. "Anyways, here's your room, number three, the honeymoon suite. Extra charges on me, okay sweeties? Just come downstairs if you need more towels, or candles, or anything." She smiled again as she handed me the key. I let go of Zuko's surprisingly cold hand and grabbed.

We mumbled a thanks and went to our room.

"Why the hell would you do that, Zuko?" I lashed at him, as soon as he shut the door.

"We can't look suspicious." He smiled mischievously.

I looked around our room. The bed was huge and very green. Pink hearts hung from the ceiling.

The room was decorated with pink and red candles, as well as rose petals. There was a doorway to where a bathtub was, which was accompanied with glass jars of salts, petals and other various pink things.

"This is just perfect." I said, walking out of the room into where the bed was.

Zuko was sprawled across it, tossing heart shaped chocolates in his mouth.

"You're sleeping on the floor tonight." I said, throwing my bag in the corner of the room, and then stepping out on the balcony, facing the large city with an orange sunset sky.

I stood in absolute silence for a moment, and then felt two hands on my shoulders.

"Get off me, Zuko." I said quietly. He removed his hands, but I felt him to the left of me, putting his hands on the railing.

"You know. When you were the fun Kaida and I was the Blue Spirit, we had nights where we worked together. That night we went out, showing our faces, that was great. What happened?"

I didn't look up to see his sad face, but I could sense it.

"It was fake. We weren't our true selves."

"I was my true self at the golden noodle. I just had a different name." I looked up at his face, seeing his pained look.

"You're the banished Prince Zuko, and I want to kill your father. That's who we are, Zuko."

"Can we start over?" His eyes were pouring into my soul, but I shook my head no. "Please, just humor me, October." He said, covering my hand on the railing with his.

"Fine," I said. "Hi, my name is October." I smiled for a moment, then took my hand back and stuck it out in front of me.

"It's very nice to meet you, I'm Zuko." He smiled and took my hand briefly, before letting go.

I stared at him for a minute. "Zuko, this is stupid. We already know who each other are."

"But I got you to smile." He smiled again. "Listen, I know who you are, but I don't know everything. You know who I am, but you don't know everything. Let's put our differences aside and just speak person to person."

We stood on the balcony for about an hour, telling each other our childhood memories, our parents, our goals, our funny habits, or interests.

I told him about how strong my dad was. He stood for what he believed in. I told him when I'm nervous, I twirl my hair, or look away from people a lot. I told him about how I've kept track of people I kill, he respected me for that.

I learned of his sister, and how cruel she was. I found out his Uncle was more of a father to him. He told me he once wanted to be an earthbender, because fire had hurt him. He said he didn't want children because he was afraid to be a father.

We eventually made our way back inside and sat on the bed facing each other, continuing our talk.

He wasn't as bad as I made him out to be, and when I talked about myself, I didn't feel as bad either.

I had fallen asleep during a story of him and his sister, but when I woke I was under the blankets, while he slept on the other side of the bed above them. I gently pulled the blankets out from under him and pulled them back. It was probably about midnight, so I turned back to my side of the bed and slept dreamlessly.

Woop! Sorry it's been SO LONG. But I'll start again, as well as on my other stories! =D Remember to review!