Nobody's home

Aang, Katara, and Sokka quickly became fast friends with the warmwort orphans.Sokka and Katara could relate the most to Hilda and her sisters' situation in the past. They heard eachother's stomachs growl. Hilda laughed and told them that if they stopped, she could make them some dinner. She was rather good at it, having to cook for her sisters all the time. Even when her parents were alive. Aang stopped Appa in the middle of a forest as everyone got off. Hilda asked them if they had any noodles, sauce. They didn't. Hilda had to go to the shop in town and look for some of the ingrediances she needed.

It was at this time while she was doing so, that Prince Zuko finally woke from being knocked out for a few hours.One woken, he orderd his soliders to find that girl.

"What about the avatar?" The solider asked. Zuko fumed.

"Who are you to question my judgment?" Zuko hissed at him. For that second, he had actually completly forgotten about the Avatar. But he coverd up his own stupidity wtih a hiss. That girl was a worthy opponit. Smart and resorceful. Strong and graceful. No one, not even his uncle was able to easily throw him over thier shoulders, and put such force into the throw. She was definitly unlike anyother opponite that he had faced before.He was looking forward to fighting her again. The solider had informed him that they had gotten to an island and asked him if they should search it. "Yes." Zuko awncerd. "Ready the rhynos."

As Hilda shopped in town with her sisters, she felt someone do that finger thing to the back of her neck and knock her out. Zuko did that, to the sisters as well. When they awoke they were in the cell again.

"Damn it." Hilda mumbled to herself. Her sisters where still sleeping on the one cot in the cell. She put her youngest on the cot and the middle on the floor trying her best to make a bed for her. She shiverd. She wasnt able to grab anything to keep herself or her sisters warm, but she felt someone throw a blanket over her freezing shoulders. She looked up and saw Iroh smiling back at her.

"Hello there. I apoligize for my nephew." Iroh told her, looking at her sisters, he admired how a girl at such a young age cared so deeply for her siblings. "Your sisters?"

"Yeah. A 10 year old and a 13 year old." She informed him, gazing at her younger siblings which she had taken care of sence they were too small to remember. But, she rememberd all too well. It was the day she found nobody would be home, no one to give her a hug, she would always be giving them out to her siblings when they needed them. She grew strong with the time passing by. She's lost inside.

"I admire how caring you are tword them. Would you like some green tea?" Iroh asked her, she nodded. He left for a moment and then came back with four cups of tea. "The other two are for your sisters when they wake up." Hilda took the tea and drank it. She rather liked the tast of green tea. But she could never really afford it herself.

"Thank you. I only wish I had known I'd be on this ship sooner, I'd have gone home and gotten my guitar." Hilda informed him. Seriously. She would play guitar when things got bad or depressing.

"Oh? You play?" Iroh asked her. She nodded.

"Its how I made the money to support myself and my sisters. We'd have to struggle before I could get a job. I'd play guitar and we'd wash our hair in drug store bathrooms with the sink." She told Iroh, missing her guitar. She was miles away from it now. Iroh looked at her with a conserned expression. "They never thought I was scared. I was their Miss.unafraid. Infact. That cot is the most luxury we ever had. Our family was poor and my middle sibling and I slept on cardboard. It may not sound like a good life, but we enjoyed it none the less."

"What happend to your parents?" Iroh asked, she got quiet.

"I dont want to talk about that." She slightly hissed, she finished her tea and felt her baby sister hug onto her arm.

"Hilda...who is he..? He is that man from the fire nation.." Ashli whisperd to her sister, Hilda smiled and gave her some green tea.

"Drink it. You'll feel better." Hilda told her littlest sister, stroking her hair as she drank it.

"Its good." Ashli mumbled to her. She nodded.

"It is."

"I quit!" yelled the cook after Zuko had orderd him to cook something large for only him and his uncle. Now, Zuko had no cook. Where did he turn when he needed more help on the ship? To the prisoners. He walked to the cell that his uncle sat in with the three girls. Giving them tea. Zuko opend the cell and saw Hilda shoot him a cold glare.

"You. You will cook for us." Zuko declaired pointing at her. Hilda almost stood up and shouted, but rememberd...

"I will. For a price." She told him, leaning on the wall. Zuko sighed.

"Of course, what will it cost?" Zuko asked her. She grinned.

"You have to turn this ship around and go back to my island and allow me to get my things." Hilda snapped at him. He sighed, he was hungry and it was almost dinner time. He agreed.

"Cook dinner and I'll turn around and get your things." Zuko told her, she grinned. She and her sisters walked out of the cell and into the kitchen. She turned to her sisters and smiled as she tied an apron around herself.

"Okay girls. Pasta Puttanesca" Hilda told them, looking through the cabnits for tomato sauce. "Hmm..no sauce. Looks like we have our work cut out for us. Okay first. Violet." She said pointing to the middle child "You get some olive oil, 1 medium onion,4 cloves garlic,tomatoes,12 basil leaves,2 T chopped fresh oregano,fennel seed,and sugar. Ashli, you get me anchovy paste, red pepper flakes,capers,basil leaves, and kalamata olives. Violet, when you get the ingrediances for the sauce put them on the counter, I'll make the sauce once I find a strainer." Her sisters did as they were told. Once she got all the ingrediances, she began to cook pasta Puttanesca. Italian. Once it was all cooked, she put the sauce on the Puttnesca and on the dinner table. "Dinner is served." With that, Zuko, his uncle, and Hilda's two sisters were seated as the dinner was served."Puttanesca."

"What did you call me?" Zuko snapped.

"Its pasta, Pasta Puttanesca." Hilda clarified.They all took a bite and a grin passed her sisters' faces and Iroh's. Zuko's face remained bitter. Hilda couldnt believe him.

"Its good." Zuko told her. "Your going to be the new cook. As I promised, I'll turn the ship around." Hilda had intintionally planned to run when he got the ship back to the dock of the town. She relized that this ship would be the closest thing to a home that her sisters would have. Usually, they lived on the streets, washed their hair in the drug store bathroom, had to eat off of the tiny tips Hilda got for playing the guitar. Which would barly make into ten dollors. She and her sisters walked back to the cell and got a place to sleep. Hilda found a way for both her siblings to sleep in the cot, she slept on the floor. The cold cell floor. She didnt mind. Im not going to say that she liked it. Because she didnt. She'd much rather be sleeping on a cardboard box. Those at least were sort of comfertable. All she could do was keep her sisters warm with the blanket Iroh gave her earlyer. She had nothing, but she just wanted to sleep.

By the time she awoke the next morning, she saw that a warm fire bender blanket was thrown around her as she slept. Was that how she fell asleep? Ah well. She woke up and saw they were at the island. Her sisters' first thoughts were to run and try to get away. But Hilda stopped them and had them pack what little they had.

"Its useless." Hilda told them. "That cell is the only home we have. We can continue sleeping in this tent, or we can go into that ship and actually have one cot to sleep on. Look you guys. Remember when we would play and make all the bad things around us good?" Hilda asked her sisters. They nodded. "Lets play again. We can make that icky old cell into a nice little home for us." Hilda said to them smiling. They nodded. They knew that their sister knew how to make a terrible situation into an easy to live in situation. They grabbed what little things they had and Hilda grabbed her guitar and returned to the ship. They walked back into the cell and put their things in it. They returned to find three cots. They grinned, now they would all have a place to sleep and not have to share or sleep on the floor. They spread out the cots so that there was room for their stuff. They put an end table in between the beds and put the photo of their parents on it. They put their bags under their beds and Hilda played a song. It felt so good to play her guitar again in the mist of when things looked hopeless.

It was at twilight when Hilda went to the deck with her guitar and played her song. She just played the notes in the cell. This song wasnt like her. It wasnt like her usual 'Miss.Unafraid' title. She had served everyone dinner before coming up to the deck. She sat on the railing and strummed the first few notes of the song.

"I couldn't tell you why she felt that way,
She felt it everyday.
And I couldn't help her,
I just watched her make the same mistakes again.

What's wrong, what's wrong now?
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

Open your eyes and look outside, find the reasons why.
You've been rejected, and now you can't find what you left behind.
Be strong, be strong now.
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

Her feelings she hides.
Her dreams she can't find.
She's losing her mind.
She's fallen behind.
She can't find her place.
She's losing her faith.
She's fallen from grace.
She's all over the place.
Yeah,oh

She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh
She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh yeah"

Song Nobody's home by Avril Lavigne