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Disclaimer and all that: I don't own da avatarnesses. But, as my cat as my witness, I WILL :D (Cat goes to sleep)

Julia couldn't sleep. It was 10:00 and she had to have already been asleep; Katara was. She was fast asleep dreaming about the south pole, and her tribe. She wounderd what it was like to have a family waiting for you, she only had her sister, Katie now. Her necklace twinkled in the moonlight beside her bed on the end table. she laced it around her neck and left the room. Thinking that if she walked around for a bit, maybe she'd get tired and go to sleep. She heard someone in the football feild, but they sounded like they were fighting. when she walked into the feild, she saw it was Zuko. He was training with his fire blasts. Julia was quiet as she watched him train, he fought hard, and the fire blasts where constant. While watching him, he reminded her of her late father. He fought with much fire in his heart as well, and he was of the fire nation. Her mother had told her stories of how the two had met, She was of the water tribe, and he was of the fire nation. During a fire nation rade, he found her wounded in the snow. As if the moon had fallen down on him, his heart went thump, and he took her back to his ship. While nursing her back to health, he learned a great deal about her. Even though it was forbidden for a fire nation soldier to love a water tribe girl, they didn't care. They got married in secret, without the blessings of their parents, and had Katie. A few years later, Julia was born. They lived in the south pole, where they only believed in love, they didn't care about tradition or anything like that. Julia one day wounderd to her father's den and asked him what spring was.

"Spring is whatever you want it to be." He told her with a smile. It was never spring in the south pole, it always snowed. "Close your eyes." Julia did so, and her father told her what to imagin. "Imagin green grass. A warm sun, and many flowers, imagin the whole family playing in the grass, you, your mother and your sister wearing dresses with flowers on them, and picture yourself playing with the rose buds. That my little angel, is spring."

Even know, Julia could still picture what her father told her spring was. But when it did not come, she felt sad. She wanted to run in the warm grass with her father, mother, and sister. The whole family just having a good time. She was brought out of her thoughts when she noticed Zuko waving his hand infrount of her face. She blinked and snapped back into reality. Zuko had taken a break when he spotted Julia sitting there, either stairing at him, or had her eyes focused on him while she was thinking.

"What are you doing up?" Julia was hesitant with her awncer.

"I couldn't sleep." Zuko wiped the sweat off his face with a towel that he had hung around his neck. He let out a sigh of exaustion and replied that he couldn't either.

"Why were you watching me?" He asked, she blinked and focused her eyes back on his old standing spot.

"I was just thinking. I just happend to be focusing on you while I thought." Zuko's pony-tail flew forward from the slight 10:30 breeze of the night. To him, the breeze was refreshing. He had been working with fire for an hour and a half and the coldness of the breeze felt good. "Your pretty good." Zuko nodded. He figured it'd be a long walk back to his dorm room, the campus was bigger than it was on the map. He looked back at Julia and she seemed to be thinking again. "Zuko. Your going to be caught walking back to your dorm."

"How do you know?" Zuko asked sharply. But she had such a serious expression after he finished asking.

"The dorm adviser is going to catch you. Is your room on the first, or second floor?"

"Second." That was a stupid question, why would she care what floor his room was on? She took his towel and asked where he got it. "The storage closet." She went there and picked up about six of them.

"I can help you not get caught. But you'll have to do what I say in order for it to work." Zuko nodded. The Penalty for being outside after lights out is detention, and Zuko didn't want to have to deal with that if it wasn't nessisary. The two started to walk back to the boys' dorm building when Zuko asked how she knew. "I don't know. I just, knew." There was no way for her to just guess that he'd get into trouble; every move she made, she seemed to know in advance. She knew which tree they had to hide behind, and she knew the short cut was through the rose garden. But after she tied the towels together, she was confrounted with the problem of getting them up to the second floor. Zuko knew that was his window, and that Aang was up there, sleeping.

Zuko was right, Aang was sleeping soundly. He wounderd why Zuko couldn't go train outside more often, so he could sleep. But he heard a sound coming from the window. When he opend his eyes and saw that someone was throwing pebbles at the window, he growled softly to himself and after going to the window, and thrusting it open; he yelled.

"WHAT?" He was rather irritated by being woken up. It was against his personallity to be mad. But sharing a room with Zuko, and being woken up right when he got to sleep was on his nerves. Julia tossed a rope of towels upto Aang and told him to let Zuko in. Aang held onto the towel rope as Zuko climbed up, and Aang laughed to himself. "I could just as easily let you fall." Zuko narrowed his eyes and scowled.

"don't you dare." Zuko hissed. Julia was watching them untill Zuko was inside, and he shut the window without a "good-night," or a "thank you." Julia staired at him for a few minutes, and then lowerd her eyelids. She didn't know what made her think Zuko was going to be caught, and now, she doubted why she cared. Zuko didn't thank her, he didn't even say goodnight. It made her feel rotten inside. When you like someone, when they do something nice, it means the world to you. Zuko didn't like her. She didn't want to accept it though. She felt a flood of emotions gathering around her, and mixing together. Like a washing machine. Anger, sadness, love, and hate all mixed together like socks, shirts,pants, and underwear. Im making too much of this. She thought to herself. I should get back to the dorm before I get caught. She made her way back, and she had Katara get her up the window with the same rope of towels. Sleep was hard to capture that night,she kept trying to tell herself that she was making too much of Zuko not thanking her, but somehow, she knew that what Katara said about him was true; he was an ass.

"That was low." Aang barked at Zuko as he got back into his own bed. "You could have atleast thanked her." Zuko scoffed and got ready to sleep. This process included meditating for a moment, and then getting into his bed. On his bed, he put a fire nation blanket with a black flame insignia on it; to feel alittle more like he was on his own ship.

"So what?" Zuko barked back at him. "I didn't think it was nessisary." Aang couldn't believe what he was saying. It wasn't nessisary to thank a person that had helped him stay out of trouble and put her own reputation in danger? he surely would have thanked Katara. Aang staired up at the celine as he continued to scold Zuko for being so rude. "Shut the hell up and go to sleep!" He yawned. He wanted Zuko to know how much he could have hurt Julia, and how much she cared about him. But that was useless. Zuko's head was as thick as a drink made entirely out of syrup. But Aang's eyes had closed and he was sortly in dreamland. Dreaming about Katara, and how sweet she was.

wooo shorty chapter :D but oh so good. Trust me ya'll. Julia- AIN'T NO MARY SUE! Im slowly peicing together her past, and true personallity. so that it erupts in a frenzy of silly dogs and guinea pigs eating your toes! (doesn't talk anymore about master plan)