Zuko was standing in the doorway of the Royal family's lounge room, in the air ship that they were currently on. He had just finished speaking with the captain and looked over to where his daughter, whom he had gotten in a fight with the night before, was sitting on a sofa, curled up in her mother's arms. Izumi didn't like flying and due to that fact, the family usually travelled by boat for long distance trips. However, it was just a day and a half ago that an urgent meeting in The Earth Kingdom was called, leaving no time for preparations to travel by ship.

Izumi noticed her dad staring at her and looked away. They hadn't spoken all morning.

Zuko walked over to where his wife and daughter were. He stopped and stood next to the couch. Izumi's back was turned to him.

"Izumi." He addressed her. She turned even further from him, hiding her face in the back of the couch.

"Izumi, look at me." He said, gently, kneeling down next to the arm of the couch.

Izumi stayed in place for a moment,but then turned to face him.

"If you need a break from flying, let me know and I will give the order to land ok? We left early enough that we have plenty time to make it to the Earth Kingdom."

Izumi stared at her dad. When he came over to talk to her, she thought he was going to say something about their fight from the night before, but he didn't mention it at all.

"Ok." She responded.

At that Zuko turned to head away, Izumi watching. After a few steps, she stopped him.

"Dad?"

He stopped and turned towards her.

"Yes?"

Izumi got off the couch and hugged him.

"I'm sorry about last night. I shouldn't have yelled at you."

Zuko wrapped his arms around her. "It's ok."

After a moment, he pulled out of the hug. "How are you feeling?" He asked. "You know, about being on the air ship?"

"I'm...ok." She said, sounding unsure of her response. "I drank some calming herbal tea before we left, which is helping a bit. I also packed some sleeping medicine to help if I need it, but I don't want to take it if I don't have to because I need to be awake for the meeting later."

"Well I'm glad the tea is helping. I'm sorry we couldn't travel by ship, there just wasn't enough time."

"I know."

"Here let's sit." Zuko said, heading back to the couch. He sat down near his wife, leaving enough room for Izumi to sit in between.

Izumi sat down between her parents. Zuko wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him, as to engulf her in safety. Izumi's mom placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder.

"Hey, since we will be staying with Uncle Iroh in Ba Sing Se, maybe sometime in the next few days we can go shopping in the city."

"I'd like that! Can we do that?"

"We sure can."

"I will stay with Uncle Iroh in his tea shop." Nolan, who had been watching everything from a lounge chair, next to the couch, piped in.

Zuko paused, really taking note of Nolan for the first time since boarding the air ship.

"Nolan, where did you get those Fire Flakes?" Zuko asked, referencing the bag of Flaming Fire Flake chips Nolan had in his hands.

"Definitely not from your suit case." He retorted.

"Nolan!" Zuko exclaimed.

"What? They're really good! And I won't eat all of them."

"You better not." Zuko said with a smile. "I might make you go shopping with your mom and sister otherwise."

"No!"' Nolan replied.

"Yes!" Zuko's eyes got wide with theatrical excitement.

"Well, I will just have to tell Uncle Iroh about that, I'm sure he will save me from

the shopping trip."

"Yeah, I bet he will." Zuko said, knowing that it was probably true. Uncle Iroh dotes over Izumi and Nolan. Which makes sense, they're basically grand kids to him.

At that moment, Izumi moved slightly from Zuko's arms "I brought a deck of cards along, do you guys want to play?" She asked, looking from Nolan to her dad. Her mom wasn't a big fan of cards.

"Sure." Nolan responded.

"Ok," Zuko chimed in, "But if I beat you," he pointed to Nolan, "then you have to buy me more fire flakes from one of those Fire Nation cuisine shops in Ba Sing Se."

"Deal."