A/N: Well, here I am once again. Everyone gets a kiss from my cat, Poppy which is better than a scratch! Alex suggested making and Arnold Schwazaniger finger puppet and I wrote it on my brain storm!
JustPlainPeachy: I love kittens too! I'm supposed to be doing German homework….. oops!
Zukofan5 (): Ah no it's not over…o wait, the chapter is over. But now we have this one! Wahey! Dagger Sisters might be a little while, 'coz I know where I want to go with it but I don't know how to get there. I know! I got the idea last weekend when we went to Frensham, the pond had frozen over and we chucked ice on it and it made a pretty sound. Yeah, I've always had this kind of vision that I was going to have twin cats, one named Pickle and the other Gurkin, but I didn't think that I'd give a tortoiseshell cat the name Gurkin. It's great isn't it! Well yeah, but then I couldn't review could I? Coolieo!
SPIKIEGIRL: I KNOW! The 21st century is really scary. I'm afraid of it! But I wasn't born in it so I have an excuse. I was born in the 20th century so I have a right to be frightened! Ahem!
Disclaimer: well, erm yeah, I'm 'spossed to say summin here. Ok (Insert witty comment about not owning anything here)
She took him into the living room. Here was the TV and the sofa. She turned the TV on to show him how it worked. At first he was a little wary about the moving images but soon calmed down after he saw they couldn't hurt him. She showed him the phone and then rung the house on her mobile so he knew what would happen when it rang. It screamed shrilly and Zuko jumped before he picked it up.
"Hello!" Ebony's voice came from both the phone and next to him. She pressed the red button on her mobile and showed Zuko how to hang up.
They moved onto the dinning room next. It was quite a simple room with a table that could seat a maximum of 8 if her family came round. It was quite a self explanatory room so they moved onto the kitchen. She showed him how to use her gas cooker and micro wave.
"And don't cheat by using firebending! You don't know who's gonna come in here!"
She showed him the contents of her cupboards and fridge and explained that everything else he would need would be in the freezer in the little extension by the side of her house. She showed him the taps, hot and cold.
"It gets hotter with out you having to heat it up!" He exclaimed surprised.
"That's because I have a boiler above my cooker and it heats it up for me."
They moved on a little way. Ebony stopped.
"This is the cats' area. They get feed here and they sleep in their baskets here. The washing machine also lives. It basically washes my clothes for me." She showed him how to load the washing machine up and get it ready and explained the does and don'ts of clothes washing. "Just incase I need you to wash the clothes for any reason. This is the back door where we can go into the garden." She showed him which key to use and where it was found then they moved onto the bathroom. Ebony showed Zuko how the toilet worked and how the shower worked.
"We're going upstairs now," Ebony informed him. She took him on a quick tour of the upstairs, into the art room and the spare rooms and the store room and then came to her room. "You probably won't need to go in here. In fact, I don't want you to go in here ever. Always knock if you need me." She looked at her watch. "Oh god, is that the time? The kids are gonna be here soon!"
"Kids? What are…" Just then, there was a knock at the front door. Ebony rushed down the stairs to open it. Two women stood on the door step. One of the Zuko recognized as Megan. She had her little boy with her. The other, Zuko didn't recognize. She had two children with her, a girl and a boy. The girl was older than the boy who was just a baby. She had bright ginger hair and sparkly blue eyes. He had fluffy light brown hair and blue eyes.
"Hi Ebbie!" Megan called to her friend.
"Sorry we're a bit early, I wasn't sure of the traffic," The other woman apologized.
"It's ok Domieque. Do you want me to take them off your hands now?"
"Thanks again! I'll pay you when we get here later," Domieque said handing over the boy. "Bye Amy, bye Tom!"
"I will too," Megan said handing over Jacob. The girl walked through the front door "Bye Jacob!" Ebony closed the door.
"Zuko, could you take Jacob up to the spare room on the left of my room? I'll take Tom, could you follow us Amy?" Zuko picked up Jacob unsurely and carried him up the stairs as best he could, Ebony directly behind him. Amy walked beside Ebony.
"Is that Zuko from Avatar?" Amy asked, her eyes shinning with excitement of the possibility.
"I think it is," Ebony replied. They reached the room and Ebony transferred Tom on to her hip and opened the door. She put Tom on the double bed, on his back. Amy sat next to him, her legs crossed. Zuko put Jacob on the bed and sat down. But Jacob didn't want to sit on the bed. He wanted Zuko to hold him. He wined for attention.
"He wants you to pick him up. Put him on your lap," Ebony translated for him. He pulled the toddler on is lap and immediately the boy stopped making any noise.
"I'll just run down stairs and get the tape," Ebony said, mostly to Amy. The sounds of her foot steps faded slightly as she got down stairs. She came back up and put the black rectangle into a small TV on a dresser which faced the bed. She came and sat behind the children, next to Zuko and hit play. Katara's voice came to their ears as it started up. Zuko sat, speechless.