DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas! And for all of those of you who DON'T celebrate that, um, I hope you enjoy YOUR holidays instead!

Chapter 13: Sneaking

Zuko sighed. The stillness of the forest, that wretched scent of pine, and his wife's infernal singing was getting on his nerves!

"KELLIE! STOP SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROLS!" Zuko looked over his shoulder to see Aaron glaring at his sister, and Kellie laughing at her brother.

"So that's why her singing is so annoying." Zuko muttered. The former Fire Lord narrowly missed a blast of fire.

"I heard that." Kellie snapped teasingly.

"Good, now stop singing." Zuko replied. Kellie glanced at her brother. She grinned, and caught up to Zuko.

"Stop singing what?" She asked slyly. Zuko grunted.

"Those Christmas things." Kellie smirked.

"Yes, your Highness." Zuko growled. Kellie was annoying.

Am I more than you bargained for yet

I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear

Cause that's just who I am this week

Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum

I'm just a notch in your bedpost

But you're just a line in a song

(A notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)

Drop a heart, break a name

We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

We're going down, down in an earlier round

And Sugar, we're going down swinging

I'll be your number one with a bullet

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round

And Sugar, we're going down swinging

I'll be your number one with a bullet

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

Is this more than you bargained for yet

Oh don't mind me I'm just watching you two from the closet

Wishing to be the friction in your jeans

Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him

I'm just a notch in your bedpost

But you're just a line in a song

(Notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)

Drop a heart, break a name

We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

We're going down, down in an earlier round

And Sugar, we're going down swinging

I'll be your number one with a bullet

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round

And Sugar, we're going down swinging

I'll be your number one with a bullet

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

Down, down in an earlier round

And Sugar, we're going down swinging

I'll be your number one with a bullet

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round

And Sugar, we're going down swinging

I'll be your number one with a bullet

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down (down, down)

Down, down, (down, down)

We're going down, down, (down, down)

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round

And Sugar, we're going down swinging

I'll be your number one with a bullet

A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

"Good lord, Kellie, you ruined the song!" Aaron wailed. Kellie grinned.

"You mean to tell me they still play that song on the radio, even after all these years?" Aaron smirked.

"It's just like the Rolling Stones." Kellie sighed.

"I miss the old music." She said dreamily. Zuko raised his eyebrow.

"What about our music?" Kellie just stared at Zuko.

"Your music sounds like a dying duck trying to play 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' on the recorder." Aaron couldn't help but snicker.

"What's so funny?" Zuko snapped. Kellie grinned.

"Buuuuurrrrn…." Kellie said, getting in Zuko's face.

Farewell to your bricks and mortars,

Farewell to your dirty lies

Farewell to your gangers and your gangplanks

To Hell with your overtime

For the good shake rag a muffin;

She's lying at the cave

For the take a bath

With a shovel on his back

To the shores of Botany Bay

Aaron laughed.

"You still remember that song?" Kellie smirked at her brother.

"That's the only part of the song I can remember." Aaron shrugged. Zuko scowled, why was he being left out?

"What about me?" He whined. Kellie looked up at him.

"What about you?" She asked. Zuko grinned.

"You're forgetting that I'm here." Kellie placed a light kiss on Zuko's cheek.

"And now I haven't." Aaron huffed.

Kierra watched enviously as the three travelers made their way to Souzen. The Master watched humorously.

"Jealous?" He asked coyly. Kierra glared at him from over her shoulder.

"I'll take that as a yes."

"Kellie, do you remember any other songs from back home?" Kellie looked at her brother.

"A couple." Aaron's gray eyes pleaded at her.

"Sing them for me?" Kellie nodded.

The sun shines

And people forget

The spray flies as the speedboat glides

And people forget

Forget they're hiding

The girls smile

And people forget

The snow packs as the skier tracks

And people forget

Forget they're hiding.

Behind an eminence front

Eminence front-it's put on

Come on join the party

Dressed to kill

Won't you come on and join the party

Dressed to kill

The drinks flow

And people forget

That big wheel spins, the hair thins

And people forget

Forget they're hiding

The news slows

And people forget

The shares crash, hopes are dash

And people forget

Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front

Eminence front-it's a put on

Come on join the party

Dressed to

Come on join the party

Dressed to

Come on join the party

Dressed to

Come on join the party

Dress to kill

Dress yourself, dressed to kill

"Are all the songs you remember written by The Who?" Aaron asked. Kellie grinned at him.

"Not that I'm aware of."

Don't you wanna go for a ride

Just keep your hands inside

And make the most out of life

Now don't you take it for granted

Life is like a mean machine

It made a mess outta me

It left me caught between

Like an angry dream I was stranded

And I'm steady but I'm starting to shake

And I don't know how much more I can take

This is it now

Everybody get down

This is all I can take

This is how a heart breaks

You take a hit now, you feel it break down

Make you stay wide awake

This is how a heart breaks

Don't you wanna go for a ride

Down to the other side

Feels so good you could cry

Now won't you do what I told you

I remember when you used to be so shy

Yeah, once we were fine

You and I why you gotta make it so hard on me

And I'm sorry but it's not a mistake

And I'm running but you're getting away

You're not the best thing that I knew

Never was never cared too much

For all this hanging around

It's just the same thing all the time

Never get what I want

Never get too close to the end of the line

You're just the same thing that I knew

Back before the time…

When I was only for you

"Rob Thomas." Aaron sighed. Kellie nodded.

"Yup." Zuko spotted something, through the underbrush.

"Get down!" He hissed, and dragged Kellie and Aaron to the ground with him, and covered their mouths.

Out of her peripheral vision, Kellie saw a Fire Nation soldier walk past them. He soon disappeared. Zuko let go of her and Aaron's mouth, and sighed.

"Close one. We've reached the Palace."

Kellie, disguised as one of the Lords of the Court's daughters, walked through the garden. She bent down, and examined the fire orchids. A personal favorite of hers.

Out of the corner of her eye, Kellie noticed three guards, all the right sizes. She walked up to them.

"Hi." She said timidly. Kellie sounded just like one of those stuck up royal Daughters, she was a shy person from the start.

The guards turned towards her. And each felt a little drool at the corner of their mouths. The girl before them had shiny black hair, warm brown eyes, pale skin that looked almost white, and the most perfect figure.

Kellie forced back a grin. Most of her disguise had come out of her, Zuko's, and Aaron's packs. They had used charcoal to turn Kellie's red hair black, Aaron's contacts to change her green eyes to brown, and Kellie's skin had just paled naturally from the two years spent in the Fire Nation.

One guard finally came to his senses.

"You should run on home, young lady, it's getting late." Kellie cocked her head.

"I don't want to go home alone! It's almost dark! And all the bad people, who would just like to prey on innocent girls like me, they could hurt me the moment I step outside the Palace gates!" She wailed.

Zuko and Aaron, watching from the bushes, did not feel nervous.

"Your sister's good." Zuko whispered. Aaron nodded.

"Thanks."

"Did you hear that?" One guard asked. The others shook their heads.

"Nope, what?"

"There's something in the bushes." The first guard said, and made his way to the bush where Zuko and Aaron crouched. A second one followed. Kellie, beginning to get nervous, clutched the third guard's arm.

The two guards stood right in front of the bush. One reached out a hand to push away the branches, when a two pale hands shot out, one was erupting in fire.

The guards were dragged into the bushes. The third guard moved forward, but was stopped when Kellie sent a high kick at his head. He fell to the ground unconscious.

About five minutes later, after a lot of rustling and yells, Zuko and Aaron stepped out, wearing Fire Nation armor. While Kellie just stood there, holding her guard's armor in her arms. Aaron and Zuko just stared at her.

"Well?" She asked. Aaron and Zuko looked at each other, than at her.

"Well what?" They replied.

"When are you leaving?" She asked coldly. Zuko and Aaron were confused.

"Not until you change into-" Oh. That was why she hadn't changed. Zuko and Aaron walked away. Leaving Kellie to change.

About 10 minutes later, 3 guards, one walking lamely, entered Zula's Palace.

Woo! Two stories updated in one day! What an accomplishment!
Inner Devil: (rolls eyes)
DISCLAIMERS FOR SONGS USED(in order of use): I don't own Sugar, We're Going Down, it belongs to the Fall Out Boys, don't own Botany Bay, that belongs to, hmm, I don't know who that belongs to, just not me, don't own Eminence Front, it belongs to The Who, and I don't own This Is How A Heart Breaks, it belongs to Rob Thomas

R&R please, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!

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