A/N: I know this is really short but I didn't want to skip this episode and I didn't want to mess it up too much...so I made into a cutesy interaction between Mina and Zuko. I'm posting the next chapter tonight as well to make up for this one's brevity. Read, Review, Follow, Favorite, Enjoy!
Prince Zuko, Lieutenant Jee, and Mina were hunched over a map making plans to continue their search for the Avatar when a large Fire Nation Naval ship came up right beside their ship, casting it in shadow.
"What do they want?" Zuko asked annoyed.
"Maybe they want to play Pai Sho." Iroh, who was in the midst of a game, said jokingly. A soldier bordered their ship and stated the reason for his presence.
"Admiral Zhao orders all information on the whereabouts of the Avatar to be reported to him." the soldier stated officially.
"Tell Admiral Zhao I congratulate him for his promotion." Iroh said.
"We don't have any information on the Avatar, now get off my ship and let us pass." Zuko demanded.
"Admiral Zhao is not allowing any ships to pass in or out of this area." The soldier informed.
"Get of off my ship!" Zuko repeated even angrier than the first time.
"I won again!" Iroh exclaimed as he gathered his winnings. "Who's up for a rematch?"
"Prince Zuko are you alright?" Iroh asked. "You haven't given the crew an order in over an hour."
"What's the point? Zhao is going to capture the Avatar." Zuko mused.
"You could still beat him to it." Mina said confidently trying to boost Zuko's spirits.
"How do you figure? Zhao has far more resources available to him than I do." Zuko said. Iroh and Mina sat in silence. They knew they weren't going to cheer him up anytime soon.
"My honor, my throne, my country: I'm about to lose them all." he sighed.
Later that evening Mina heard someone walking down the corridor where all the bedrooms were. She knew it had to be Zuko. No one else had gone to their room yet. She ran out to talk to him, to try to cheer him up again, but he was gone. She ran on deck to ask Iroh if he knew where Zuko went but he was clueless.
"He won't possibly be gone that long." Mina said to herself. "I'll just wait for him in his room." When she got there the door was unlocked and left ajar. She felt no guilt just walking in. She noticed his decorative broadswords were out of their display and missing. "Huh, that's odd." she thought. Mina walked over to the bed and sat down on it. As the hours passed, she fell asleep right in his bed while waiting for him to return.
Late into the night, Zuko returned. He was surprised to see Mina in his bed. He hung up his broadswords and hid his blue mask without waking the girl. Then he climbed over the the far side of the bed because she had fallen asleep on the closer side. "What are you doing in here, Mina?" he asked softly.
"I wanted to talk to you, to try to cheer you up, or at least make you feel a little less hopeless, but you weren't here so I waited for you." she explained with a yawn. "I'll go back to my room." she said but made no attempt out of the bed right away.
"You're fine in here for the night." Zuko said, he too yawned.
"Did you have a nice time out?" Mina asked.
"Sure." he responded and turned towards the wall bearing the Fire Nation emblem.
"That's good." she said, too tired to pick up on his odd response. Zuko turned away from the emblem and cuddled up to Mina, putting an arm around her.
"Yeah." he agreed and they fell asleep.