Fire that helps Chapter 2
Sokka on top of Mia, his shirt was off and his hands were under her shirt, while her arms were draped around his neck. He had been making out with her. Zuko blushed harder and harder. He heard scrambling in the room and Sokka opened the door, fixing his shirt. Mia looked to the side, bit her lip and ran her hand through her hair. Zuko shot up quickly. His best friend under that water tribe boy? He tried to repress the memory. It wasn't working. He got out of bed and sat in the corner. He meditated, trying to get ride of those images. " What are you doing?" Katara asked him She was awake now, propped up on her elbows. He opened one eye and looked at her.
"Meditating, now shut up so I can concentrate." He said. She rolled her eyes as and got up. She spotted some water and began to practice her water bending. Zuko finally finished and flopped on his side, muttering things under his breath.
" So, you and Mia were best friends?" Katara asked him, trying to start a conversation with him.
" Mia? How do you know her?"
" Well, umm I met her, we were both captured, then separated for having two much fun. She looks like my twin or something." Zuko smirked.
" Maybe I was, maybe I wasn't."
" Give me a strait answer."
" No."
" Yes!" Katara snapped, getting angry
" Go to hell." He told her
" Meet you there." She gave a satisfied grin. She had won. Zuko sat up and looked at her standing there. She looked a lot like Mia, same skin tone, and same features. But Mia had bright brown hair and deep, dark, almost black brown eyes. Plus Mia was older by about a year. He thought about it. She had just turned 16 recently. He always remembered her birthday now; he was banished that same day. He sighed. Katara was still grinning at him. The two teens heard a noise. They looked up and saw a guard, holding Mia behind him, dressed in a purple dress down to her knees with black pants under it. He held another set in his hand. He threw it at Katara.
" You have been requested to work in the custodial department, to keep you out of trouble. This is your uniform. Knock on the wall once you're in it." The guard snapped and began to pull Mia the other way. She had been gagged, so she couldn't talk. She had a very angry look on her face because of this.
" But what about…"
" Not my problem." The guard pushed Mia out into the hallway and closed the door.
" I'll turn around and close my eyes." Zuko said and turned to face the wall. He closed his eyes. Katara changed as quickly as she could. She banged on the wall as instructed. The guard reached in and grabbed her wrist. He looked the door and dragged Mia and Katara down the hall. He pushed them into a room full of people in the same attire as them, but in black dresses and black pants. He pulled Mia's gag off.
" Why don't they have to were this?" Mia snapped angrily.
" So we can tell you apart from the servants. Now go and wash something." The guard closed the door and left.
" He is such a little…" Mia started angrily, her hands began to glow.
" Don't waste your energy on him." Katara interrupted her. Mia sighed and her hands returned to normal.
" Ah, girls. Here, go wash the main deck." A man dressed in the same thing as the others, but with a red trim said. Mai and Katara sighed and took the bucket of soapy water and a sponge. Mai worked fast at washing. She and Katara talked about their childhood's went. Mai had a hard upbringing with six older brothers who believed discipline was the way. She had learned to fight and firebend with her mind through this. Katara talked about how much it sucked to be the only waterbender in the South Pole. The girls finished at dark. The guard came back and took them to their rooms. Zuko was meditating again, without a shirt. She plopped down on the bed. That was hard work, she never released how big the deck was. She also didn't want to look at Zuko, she knew that she would stare. She sighed. Zuko came up behind her.
" You okay?" he asked. She nodded.
" Just tiered." She said. " Those decks are big." She said with another sigh. Zuko let out chuckled. Katara rolled over and looked at him angrily. " What?"
" Just thinking about how stupid you and Mia look in those dresses." Zuko laughed again. God, what am I saying? She looked so great in that dress. Zuko's conscious tortured him. He stopped laughing and shook his head.
"That's mean." Katara frowned at him.
"So? Have you looked at yourselves?" he asked. He snickered and flopped down on the floor.
"What are you doing on the floor?" she asked him
" I'm going to sleep."
" Well, I told you last night that I can't let you sleep on the floor because I'll feel guilty." She said.
"Fine." He mumbled. He stood up and dropped onto the bed and went to sleep. Katara had to roll over. He had forgotten to put his shirt back on and he smelled so good. If she stayed over there any longer then she would of snuggled closer and freaked him out. She let out a long sigh and fell asleep.
"Is something burning?" Katara sat up at these words. Zuko was Already up, and smelling something. Katara smelled it to and looked around. Zuko got up and stuck his head out the side of the bars on the door. " Its Mia! Mia wake up! It's a dream!" he yelled, getting louder as her went.
" What's going on?" Katara kneeled down next to him and asked.
" Its Mia, when she has a bad memory dream, she lilts up the place." Zuko said. "Mia wake up!"
" How dose she do that?"
" When she was little, she was in an accident that temporarily blinded her. She still has the skills that she learned to use then, which consisted of setting things on fire that she wasn't touching or pointing at." Zuko answered her." Get back!" he pushed Katara back. She sat on the bed, confused " Mia Wake up now or you'll miss the Agni Kai!" he yelled at Mia. Mia jumped up.
"When where who?" she yelled and looked around. " Huh?" she saw the walls that she had scorched. "Ops. My bad" She said and fell back onto the cot. Zuko rolled his eyes and went back to the bed and flopped down.
"What just happened?" Katara asked him
"Mia woke up, there for the fire ceased. You really should learn to control that temper of yours!" he yelled over at her. Then lighting bolts came out of nowhere and pushed Zuko off the bed onto the floor.
" Look who's talking!" she snapped at him Katara put a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing. He huffed and lay back down on the bed. He closed his eyes and fell back asleep. Katara joined him.
Mia threw a lighting strike at a firefly, successfully killing it without splatter. She smiled happily to herself and sat down next to her best friend, Prince Zuko. He smiled at her. She smiled back. She remembered the incident from earlier, 'She was walking down the street in town, and Zuko had walked off to get something. A group of boys about 16 were following her. She tried to lose them. They continued to follow. They looked drunk. 'Oh great, drunks are so pleasant' she thought to herself.
" Hey gorgeous! Where ya going?" one of them called. 'I'm 13, I don't have time for this shit.' She thought. She turned to go down and alley. 'Dammit, dead end.' She thought and turned. The boys had caught her. " Nowhere to run." The one who had asked he earlier said. He was most likely the leader. They advanced at her. He started making suggestive comments at her. She was petrified, the usually brave Mia was gone, and a coward was here to replace her. The boy pushed her against the wall. "Well beautiful, looks like I got you right where I want you." He said. She began to cry. She was afraid. She tried to bend, but she couldn't, she was too frightened. She couldn't scream, bend or even talk. She felt weak. Then, he started to run his hand up and down the side of her body. Some of the boys started to scream. He placed a hand on her chest and pushed her harder into the wall and turned his head. Fire, it was everywhere. The boy got scared and dropped her. Mia grabbed her stomach and fell. She continued to cry. The boy started to leave, but Zuko appeared and pushed him into the wall.
"Don't you ever touch her again!" he yelled at the boy.
"Okay, okay, I wont." The boy said. Zuko released him, then hurried to Mia side.
" Did they hurt you?" he asked. She shook her head. He put his arm around her. "Shh." He said, trying to calm her down. She had been scared. She gathered herself.
"Come on, let's go train." She said. He nodded and left.' "Hey, thanks for sticking up for me." She said. He smiled.
"Well, I care about you like a sister, and I don't want you to get hurt."
"Oh crap, I'm late!" she cried and sprung to her feet.
"I think I'll stay here longer." Zuko said. She nodded and dashed off. Mia came to her back gate. She swung it open and entered. She slipped quietly across the garden came to the training top, with its four metal poles surrounding it. She looked at the house; all the lights were out. She slipped quickly across the training top. The n a strong hand grabbed her and pushed her into a pole.
" You dirty girl! Where have you been, its late!"
" I was training Zhao." She said quickly, ignoring the pain she felt on her back.
"Well no one trains this late you little slut!" he barked at her. She didn't answer." Ha I knew it. You were doing that. Give me the money you got or did you do it for free?" he snapped.
"I wasn't doing that Zhao, I told you, I was training." She said calmly, trying her best not to break out in tears in front of her oldest brother.
" Stop lying you dirty hoe! You proberly went for free." He snapped at her. His hands, which were gripping her wrists, were burning into her flesh, and the smell was disgusting. She held in her breath, trying to not throw up.
" I wasn't doing that Zhao." She repeated.
"Of course not! It as proberly for that prince wasn't it. Yeah, I see the looks he gives you when he comes by."
"You mean concern for how I got all those bruises you give me." She snapped. He responded by burning her wrists harder. She winced at the pain. The weakness that she had felt earlier that day came back. She was scared. He pushed her harder into the pole.
"You little brat. Give me the money!"
" I don't have any money."
" Yes you do!" Mia had just awoken from that memory. She hated it, she hated Zhao for doing that to her, and most of all she hated herself, for letting the bastard live instead of killing him in his sleep. She shivered as she pushed the memory once again to the back of her mind. A guard came into the room and grabbed her. He took her to the cell next door, where Katara and Zuko were. He opened the door very loudly. Katara woke up. "What's going on?" Katara asked the guard. He glanced at her.
"Princess Azula insists that Mia bunk with you two. She says she doesn't want her to burn down the ship." The guard pushed Mia in and left.
" Little…" Mia was swearing under her breath at the guard. Katara got up and walked over to Mia. Zuko sat up as the weight of the bed shifted.
"When did you get in here?" He asked her, rubbing his head. "So, which memory was it this time."
"Wrists." She said. Zuko nodded. Katara looked from Mia to Zuko to Mia again.
"Huh?" Katara asked.
"Don't ask." Mia said coldly. She sat down on the floor and crossed her legs. She placed her hands in a meditating position. "I'm meditating, maybe that will that get ride of those memories." She said with the same cold tone. She closed her eyes. Katara looked at her. Zuko sighed and lay back down to go back to sleep. Katara took a last glance at Mia and went back to sleep.
Chapter 5
'Wake up. Time to go back to work." The guard shouted at them. Katara got up and walked over to the gate. She knew that if she put up a fight, then she would be burnt or forced to. Mia sighed and got up and joined her. "Wow. Not talking? That's new." The guard said to Mia. She bit her lip, forcing herself not to insult him back. Katara sighed as they were handed brushes again. "Here, today you will do the dishes." He said. He directed them to the kitchen and left. Some of the other guards were behind them. She was sure that Katara couldn't hear their remarks, but Mia could. Being blind for almost 8 years had given her excellent hearing and feeling skills. She began to turn red at some of the comments. They were making such, disgusting comments. She sighed as she scrubbed the food off of a plate. She was used to these kinds of men by now. The men left and Katara started to talk to her.
"So, where did you learn that trick you did to Zuko?" She asked. Mia smiled.
"When I was 5, I accidentally hit myself in the face with a fire blast and accidentally blinded myself. I had to learn how to see all over again, but with vibrations, like your friend, the earth bender. Then when I was 13, I started to see. I freaked and my brother took me to the doctor. He couldn't explain how it happened. It just happened. I can still use vibrations to attack. I send the static that builds up in the ground and release it upward at an object" Mia looked down at the dish she was washing then out the window. The sun was setting. "That bastard should be back soon." Mia said with a sigh. Sure enough, the guard showed up to take them back top the room.
"Tomorrow you do not have to work." The guard announced to the girls and he grabbed their wrists to drag them back to their rooms.
Zuko tried to concentrate, but he was unsuccessful. His mind kept wandering to Katara and how beautiful she looked in that dress, it promoted all her curves. She looked so great in that dress. He sighed. Mia was a few months younger that him, Katara looked about the same age. She was hot. He couldn't think of Mia that way, she was like a sister to him. But Katara, he could think of her that way, and it was not disturbing in any way. He sighed. It was so hot in there. He pulled his shirt off again. The guard entered with Mia and Katara again. Mia looked pissed. She quickly shook her head and her face turned into a look of no expression. She sat down. "Maybe Zuko should sleep on the floor and me and Mia should use the bed." Katara suggested as she sat down on the bed.
"I hate beds. I want to sleep on the floor." Mia said. Zuko shrugged and sat down on the bed. " Zuko, put a shirt on." Mia groaned. "People will wonder." Katara blushed and lay down.
"Mia, You little pervert." Zuko snapped at her. " I'm not putting a shirt on, it's too hot in here."
"What ever." She groaned and leaned back, closing her eyes. Zuko shrugged and lay down on the bed, next to Katara with his back to her. She sighed and turned her back to him. She fell asleep.
When Katara woke up, she felt something heavy across her. She opened her eyes and gasped. She and Zuko must of both roll over last night. He had draped his arm around her waist. She looked at his bare chest in front of her. It looked so warm and inviting. Her eyes darted up to his face; he looked asleep. So she snuggled closer just for a second, than she pulled back again. He smelled so good, but she didn't want to scare him. She slipped out from under his arm and sat of the edge of the bed. She sighed. Mia was asleep, leaning against the wall. Suddenly her eyes shot open.
"Someone's coming." Mia announced. Zuko heard and sat up at this, putting on his shirt. They heard a faint argument.
"Do you wanna blow the lid off the place… … What the hell! …. Don't light up…. No! … Oh Shit." They heard a guard say. Then came a very