"Hey, watch it!"

A ten year old Izumi, with a plate of refreshments and a cup of lemonade in her hand, had been making her way across the dance floor, at a father daughter dance her school was having. She was heading towards one of the seating areas, to the small round table Zuko was sitting at, when she tripped, causing the lemonade she had to fly out of its cup and onto a man standing near the table.

"Sorry!" Izumi exclaimed, after the man shouted at her.

"Look what you did! You got lemonade on my shirt. This is going to stain!" The man said, looking down at the white shirt he had on underneath his dress robe.

"I'm sorry. I tripped and the lemonade flew out of my hand."

"Well why don't you be more careful and watch where you're walking." He snapped.

Zuko, who was sitting less than a foot behind the man, noticed the unnecessary, outburst. Izumi wasn't wearing her crown tonight and it seems that the man didn't know she was the princess, as Zuko doubted the man would go off on her if he knew. Therefore Zuko, who as fire lord, was more readily recognized by his people and who was wearing his crown tonight, got up from his chair and headed to Izumi's side.

"Is there a problem here?" Zuko asked the man, while putting his arm around Izumi.

The man, froze for a moment, recognizing Zuko as fire lord, and by default, who Izumi was. He quickly bowed.

"Fire Lord Zuko, no there isn't a problem. I didn't realize this was your daughter. I'm sorry, Sir."

"I think the princess is the one you should be apologizing to. And princess or not, you really shouldn't be yelling at a ten year old because they tripped and spilled lemonade on you."

"Yes, Sir. And my apologies princess."

Izumi wasn't really sure how to respond.

"Thank you." She said.

The man then quickly got up, bowed his head one more time towards Izumi, and left.

Zuko turned towards Izumi. "You ok, there sweet heart?"

"Yeah I'm fine."

"Ok, don't worry about that guy. He is just mean."

"Yeah...I feel sorry for who ever's dad he is."

"So do I. Hopefully he is kinder to his own daughter. Though I wouldn't be too sure that he is..."

"Yeah." Izumi agreed. "Dad! You got lemonade on you to." She said, noticing there was a spot of lemonade on Zuko's robes. Zuko was already aware of this fact.

"I know. I'm going to go to the bathroom to see if I can wash it out. Why don't you go inform one of the staff members of the lemonade spill and pick this stuff up," he motioned to some of the refreshments that had fallen off of Izumi's plate and onto the floor.

"Ok." She responded.

Zuko headed off to the bathroom to see if he could get the lemonade out with a wet paper towel, before it stained his red robes. When he came out, still finishing drying his robe with his fire bending heated hands, he found the mess on the floor gone, and Izumi at their table, enjoying a new plate of snacks.

Zuko sat down in a chair beside her.

"Sorry, about getting lemonade on you." Izumi said.

Zuko smiled at his daughter. "It's ok, Princess." He told her, and it really was. It was an accident. And he managed to get the lemonade out of his robes before it stained, but even if that hadn't been the case, he was glad he was at the dance with her, regardless of if his robe got stained.

"Do you want to dance some more?" She asked.

"Sure," he responded, standing up, "Come on." He held out his hand for her to take.

Izumi grabbed his hand and they walked out onto the dance floor. He put his free hand around her waist and she put hers around his back. They began to dance gently from side to side. After a minute, Zuko spun her around, looking down at her smile as he did. She seemed happy and Zuko was glad for that. The two of them had been going to these father daughter dances since Izumi was little, and he planned to keep going to them for as long as she wanted him to.

"I want to go play some games in a little bit." Izumi said, looking up at him.

The hallway and the outdoors area had various games that the girls could play to win prizes. Izumi usually always left the dance with her arms full of toys and stuffed animals that she had won.

"Ok." He said, pulling her close to him for a hug and then spinning her around again.