The reason why

Little did she know that someone was watching her. From some place where they could not be seen. While everyone else ate, this person was able to get out unseen. She kept strumming even after the song was over. The song said all that was in her heart. She wanted to go home, but no one would be home. She hides her feelings from her sisters and everyone around her, she can't find her dreams, having to take care of 2 sisters at the age of 6. Normally, you'd think she would have gone to an orphanage. They didnt want to, so they relied on eachother. She played guitar untill she was fourteen, it was at that time she was able to get a job at the diner where karma gave them a good kick in the...

This person stood out of sight. Untill they found it was okay to bring themselfs into sight. So this person did. Hilda saw this person and nearly fell off the side. But luckly, she fell off the other side with the hard metel deck.

"What do you want?" She hissed at this person. He was silent.

"Its my ship, I can come up here when ever I want." He hissed right back at her. "You play well."

"Thanks but I know. I had to feed my sisters off my tips from playing for 8 years." She hissed, not wanting to take in his artificial kindness. Only because he felt bad for her. "I dont need you're pity."

"Fine then." He hissed. Unable to think of a better responce. "Its funny how you can hide it."

"Hide what?" She snapped. He chuckled to himself.

"The fact that you like me." He told her.

"What makes you think that?" She hissed. He didnt smile but anyone could tell he was being an ass.

"The way you seem to hate me so much." He told her. "I've seen girls be mean to the guys they like. When I was younger." Hilda was glaring at him.

"I anything but like you." She hissed. "I hate you." With that, she got off the deck and walked down to the hull where the cell was. yuck. She thought to herself. Like him! No way.He is so not my type. I like the type that doesnt destroy families. She ploped down on her cot and staired up at the metel celing. Self important basturd... She thought to herself as she saw her sleepy sisters walk into the cell. She grinned and put them to bed. She was a regular teenaged mother. Except with more responcability. She put the blanket Iroh gave her over Violet and let Ashli have the blanket that was already on the cot. She kissed her sisters on the forehead good night and lied herself down on the cot. Now that they had their things, she had a jacket to throw over her shoulders. She was used to not having a blanket, she always gave them to her sisters. Her jacket was black and not very thick. Just one of those jackets that you throw over your arms when it isnt very cold but still cold. This is the only jacket that she had, even when it was winter she'd wear it and try to keep warm. But she would always make sure her sisters were the warm ones. They were both too young to remember, esspecially Ashli. But she rememberd all too well. She rememberd their life on the streets. If they can survive on the streets they can survive on a ship with a jackass. She fell asleep on her cot with her jacket as her only blanket.

She woke early so she could make breakfast that morning. She didnt wake her sisters or anyone. She just walked into the kitchen and began cooking.

"Whats for breakfast?" A voice asked from the door way. Hilda sighed.

"Pasta Puttanesca." She told him. That was actually all she had the ingrediances for.

"again?" He asked. She nodded. She didnt say anything more to him. He walked into the dining room where he was accompanied by Hilda Wormwart's siblings, and his uncle. Zuko didnt talk much,but Iroh did conversate with the siblings.

"Do you play Pai-cho?" Iroh asked the young siblings, they shook their heads. They never had any money to learn even if they wanted too. "I will teach you later if you wish." to that, they nodded. Zuko was silent untill the puttanesca was served. Even while he ate he was silent. When breakfast had ended, The young Wormwart orphans went onto the deck and bended some coal, while Hilda went down to the hull into the cell and began to play her guitar. Zuko figured to get into the mind of the eldes, he had to talk to the youngest.

At this time, Violet was playing Pai-cho with Iroh and Ashli was bending some coal to get better. Zuko approched the youngest Wormwart orphan as she did this, she was instantly on guard, ready to attack if needed. Zuko assured her he wasnt going to harm her.

"Tell me. What happend when you were little?" Zuko asked the youngest Wormwart. Ashli stopped bending and sat on the hard metel deck of the ship.

"I don't remember. You have to be more spacific." Ashli told him, not sure if she should say anything or not. "You should ask big sister Hilda."

"If I did, she probably wouldnt tell me. Try and remember. What happend lets say...when you were...three?" Zuko told her. She was silent.

"All I remember is the drug store bathroom. Big Sister Hilda telling me to quickly wash my hair. Then I remember having to help my sisters steal from a shoe store so we didnt hurt our feet on the pavement.Big sister Hilda told me that she would take care of Violet and myself." She told him, Zuko sighed. Not a real big help.

"Okay." with that, he walked away from the youngest Wormwart orphan.Really irritated that he couldnt find anything out about the eldest. He decided that he'd try to ask her but it wouldnt work, he had a feeling in his gut that it wouldnt work. When he got to her cell she was playing her guitar, while singing a new song.

"Try to tell me what I shouldn't do
You should know by now
I won't listen to you
Walk around with my hands
Up in the air
'Cause I don't care
'Cause I'm all right
I'm fine
Just freak out let it go
I'm gonna live my life
I can't ever run and hide
I won't compromise
'Cause I'll never know
I'm gonna close my eyes
I can't watch the time go by
I won't keep it inside
Freak out let it go
Just freak out let it go
You don't always have to do everything right
Stand up for yourself
And put up a fight
Walk around with your hands up in the air
Like you don't care
'Cause I'm all right
I'm fine
Just freak out let it go
Let it go
On my own
Let it go
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Just let me live my life
I can't ever run and hide
I won't compromise
'Cause i'll never know
I'm gonna close my eyes
I can't watch the time go by
I won't keep it inside
Freak out let it go
Gonna freak out let it go

Gonna freak out let it go

Gonna freak out let it go" Hilda sang, Zuko leaned on the cell door. It was when she finished that she noticed who was lisoning to her. "What do you want?" After her hiss, she saw him walk into the cell. She gave him a cold glare.

"Just wanted to know what was with that depressing song last night." Zuko told her bordly. Making a flame apper on his finger and playing with it as he awaited an awncer.

"I don't think its any of your damn buisness." She hissed. Strumming the strings as she told him. He knew it wasnt going to work.

"I dont know why you hate me so much. I didnt do anything to you." He hissed right back. Little did he know she had her reasons.

"Yes you did. You killed my family!" She barked at him. Relizing what she had done, she went back to playing. "I mean. Just go away."

"How could I have? I just met you!" He argued, she gave him a cold glare.

"Fire nation, Your a member of the fire nation. Correct?" She glared. He nodded.

"Yeah Im the prince." He told her. That just made her hate him more.

"Your fire nation ruined my life! I had to take care of my sisters all alone at six years old. Because of you I've seen hell!" She hissed at him. She continued to yell at him untill he was out the door of the cell, and then she shut it and began playing her guitar louder. Zuko just got angry and stomped out of the area where the cells were. After she played two more songs, Iroh came down to her cell with a cup of green tea. She thanked him and took the tea. She drank it and set the cup beside her cot. "Your nephew is a basturd." Iroh just laughed.

"Dont be too angry with him. He is just fustraited." Iroh explained. "We've been at sea for two years, trying to find the Avatar."

"He is still an ass." She told him, sipping at her tea. Iroh just laughed.

"I know." He joked as he drank his tea.

"That god damned.." Zuko cursed while he paced the deck. How could I have killed her family? I didnt know she existed untill I walked into the diner! How the hell could I have...? He thought to himself as he paced the deck. Before him stood the middle Wormwart. She just stood there stairing at him. "What do you want?"

"You asked little sister Ashli about what happend when we were little right?" Violet asked. He nodded.

"And your older sister." Zuko told her. A bit angry that he didnt get any information, and now he doesnt know how he could have killed her parents when he didnt even know her. "I didnt learn anything."

"Big sister Hilda doesnt like to talk about it." Violet told him. "She was the only one of us that rememberd what happend. Ashli and I were both really little. I was three and Ashli was two months."

"That would explain why she didnt know much about what happend." Zuko said, nodding to himself about how he could understand. "Do you remember?"

"Alittle. I remember that it was really dark when my sister woke me up. We heard momma scream and Hilda gave Ashli to me and ran down stairs. We heard them running up the stairs after her and then Hilda dragging us to a safe place. We had forgotten to grab Ashli's binki and that was all that would stop her from crying. So, Hilda went back to the house and came back with her binki, a family picture, and two blankets. She was bleeding really bad. She used the blankets to kep the blood inside of her while I got her and Ashli away from the house and to our neibors." Violet told him. Of course it wouldnt be odd if she rememberd so much, it was tramatic. Zuko suddenly felt alittle bad. Not alot, but alittle.

"Why does she hate me though?" Zuko asked Violet, she shrugged.

"Fire Nation." With that, Violet left him to pace again, She walked over to her little sister and practiced her earth bending. Zuko stood there where he was. He thougth about what Violet had told him. He didnt understand why the fire nation would do that though, of course, he was six years old as well, so he probably wouldnt understand alot from back then. He figured there was one person who would know the awncers to his quesitons.

"Uncle." Zuko said approcing his uncle once Iroh had left the cell Hilda was in. "Why did the fire nation attack Hilda's home ten years ago?"

"Hmm...ten years is a long time ago. I think that was when the fire nation would go to certain islands and charge the people who live there. If they were unable to pay, the whole family was killed. Mothers, fathers, and children. Sometimes pets. But times have changed Prince Zuko, they dont do that anymore." Iroh explained.

"Why did they do that?" Zuko asked him. He wanted to know why they would, maybe it would help him understand why she hates him so much.

"I dont know." Iroh told him. A thought passed his mind. "Why are you asking?" Zuko was silent for a second.

"No reason. Just curious." Zuko told him, walking down to the hull.

Freak out by Avril Lavigne