"Nolan!" Zuko exclaimed.

Zuko ranover to where his shirt was laying on the ground, his shirt which Nolan had just accidentaly set on fire during their fire bending spar. Zuko extinguished the flames with a wave of his hands, and picked up his shirt, or rather what was left of it.

"Sorry." Nolan said, with a classic "oops!" Expression on his face.

"It's fine." Zuko threw the destroyed shirt back onto the ground and turned to face his teenage son.

"Think fast!" Zuko shot a fire ball at Nolan, purpoesfully missing by several feet.

"Hey!" Nolan shouted at the suddenness of the restart of their bending match. Nolan started towards Zuko who ran away, as they shot friendly flames towards each other.

The incident with the shirt reminded Zuko of a time when Nolan was younger and accidentally set some stuff on fire...

"Help!" Five year old Nolan screamed from inside Zuko's office, where Zuko had left him a few minutes before.

Zuko at that moment, had been walking down the hallway, heading back towards his office, when he heard Nolan's scream.

Zuko momentarily made eye contact with the guards at the entrance and then quickly ran past them, bursting through the doors of his office. Nolan! What's wrong?" Zuko exclaimed.

Nolan was standing beside Zuko's desk, tears flowing down his face. "My arm got burned!!!" he cried loudly.

"How?" Zuko asked, hurrying to his son's side and kneeling down to get close to

him in order to examine the burned arm. Zuko had barely got to look at it for more than a moment though when Nolan responded.

"I started firebending and it got burned. The papers on your desk caught fire to."

"What!?"

Zuko turned towards his desk and saw that the papers he had been working on for the last hour were burned.

"Daddy it hurts!"

Zuko quickly turned back to Nolan, who was still crying. The issue of the burned papers would have to wait, taking care of his son was more important.

"Ok, come on," Zuko said, picking up Nolan. He ran him down the hall to the bathroom, placing him on the sink counter. Nolan's arm was deifntley burned, but it didn't look too bad, medically speaking. Zuko turned on the sink.

"Here, place your arm under the faucet. The cold water will help."

Nolan, who was still crying placed his arm under the running water. Zuko placed his own hand in the sink as well, helping guide the water onto the burned area of Nolan's arm.

"I'm going to wash your arm, ok bud?"

"Ok." Nolan responded, his tears begining to ease up.

Zuko squirted some soap onto Nolans arm and washed the burn. When he was done he patted it dry with a towel.

"There, it's going to be ok. It's only a mild burn, We just gotta put some medicine on it to help it heal."

Zuko scouped Nolan off the counter and carried him down the hall. Zuko asked one of the guards in the hallway to fetch some Aloe. Zuko then continued back to his office with Nolan.

Zuko put Nolan down and walked over to his desk to assess the damage done to the papers. They were pretty much ruined.

"Nolan, this is why we don't fire bend inside! I've been working on these papers for an hour and now I have to start all over again."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to catch them on fire."

Zuko sighed. "I know, but when you fire bend, things can catch on fire. That's why we practice our fire bending outside or in the training room." Zuko paused. "Why don't you go throw these in the trash for me?" Zuko handed Nolan the burned papers and sat down in his chair.

"Alright." Nolan took the papers to the trash can, on the other side of then room. At that moment, the guard Zuko had asked for Aloe walked in.

"Here is the Aloe you asked for, Sir." The guard approached Zuko, handing the bottle to him.

"Thank you." Zuko took the aloe from the guard, who bowed his head and then exited the room.

"Come here, Nolan." Zuko said, pushing his chair out from his desk.

Nolan walked over to Zuko.

"Let me see your arm."

Nolan held out his burned arm. Zuko rubbed some Aloe gel onto it.

"Here, that should help it heal and relieve any pain you have. If the burn starts to hurt at all later tonight or tomorow, then let your mom or I know and we can put some more of this Aloe gel on it ok?"

"Ok." Nolan started to climb into Zuko's lap. Zuko wrapped his arms around his son.

"How's it feeling right now?"

"Better. It really hurt when it happened, but the pain started to go away when you put cold water on it."

"Good," Zuko smiled, looking down at his son, who was sitting onhis lap, adjusting himself. Zuko was glad that the burn Nolan suffered was only minor, and hoped that it woudn't leave any sort of...scar. Zuko began thinking. How his own father, Ozai, could have burned him so badly without a care in the world, Zuko would never understand. Zuko couldn't imagine not attending to Nolan's burn right now, regardless of the mistake Nolan just made, let alone inflicting a burn upon him.

"Whatcha thinking?" Nolan had evidentally noticed that Zuko was getting lost in thought.

Zuko thought for a quick moment of how to respond and then gave Nolan a smile, "That I'm glad your'e ok, that the burn you got is only minor."

"I'm glad about that too!"

Zuko chuckled, "I'm sure you are. I have to get back to work now, though. I need to rewrite the papers that got destroyed, so why don't you go play?"

"Ok." Nolan hoped off Zuko's lap. "Sorry again about the papers."

"It's alright," Zuko assured his son. "I don't want to see you fire bending inside again though ok?" He added, with a stricter tone.

"Ok." Nolan turned and headed out of the room.