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Matari and Aang sat across from eachother in the dim cell.

Matari wanted to weep so badly, but what Zuko had said about them taking turns wiping eachother's tears...well...that was just insulting.

So she sat there, a grim expression plastered on her face like she wanted everything to just disspear.

Aang, on the other hand, was so dissapointed in himself he wanted to punch a hole in the wall.

He should have known Zuko would be planning this all these years. He knew Zuko had loved Katara...but he didn't care. For once in his life he didn't

care about what the world wanted, just what he wanted.

He wanted his own revenge. He was not going to let Zuko hurt Matari. She didn't do anything to deserve this kind of treatment. What would Zuko

do? Kill her? The thought of it made him even more eager to ounch a huge hole in the wall. All Aang's life Zuko had been such a tight ass to him,

and now he was doing this? Aang didn't think so.

So now, as time slowly slurred in their cell, they silently stared at eachother...for at least over an hour, before Matari uncrossed her arms and

sighing deeply.

"I suppose that you and Zuko aren't friends, Aang?" she said in a dry voice.

Aang raised an eyebrow for a split-second. Matari was acting just like Katara...

"No. He hates me. I offrered friendship, but he decided that power was more imortant...I guess. Anyway, that little witch who kidnapped you is his

neice, Nori. Nori is evil, just like her mother. Don't trust a word she says, undertand, Matari?"

Matari silently nodded.

"Why does Zuko hate you so much?" Matari asked.

Aang shifted in his seat. "Well, two reasons, Matari. One: I killed his father. As you can imagine, that is a very demeaning action, but if I hadn't

done it, he would have destroyed the balance of the world; and two: He loved Katara too. Katara chose me though...I never thought something

like that could hurt and feel good at the same time...but it did. I only wish that Zuko could have agreed with me. Maybe things would have been

different."

Matari sighed again.

"Well...we still need a way out of here. What are we going to do though? The cell is locked and there aren't any windows!"

I know, Matari. Zuko may think he's held us in here permanantly, but he's truthfully wrong. Here, Matari. You may want to move out of the way.

Matari scooted away from the metal bars of the cell's door as Aang slowly walked over.

His hands lit with fire, he grasped the bars, and they started to melt. A few seconds later, and they were melted completley in a very small hole.

Aang looked at the hole he had made with serious eyes.

"Go, Matari." He said.

Matari looked at him like he was crazy. "But what about you, Aang?"

"The space is too small for me to make it through."

"Well...yeah, but can't you just make it bigger?"

"No, if I did that, then I won't be able to fix it."

"Well why would you want to fix it? We can get out of here...together, Aang!"

"No, Matari. I can't. I have to face Zuko. This is going to be the last time he threatens me, or you. I don't want to take the chance of you getting

hurt, though, Matari. So just do what I say and go, okay?"

Matari stepped away for a moment.

"But I don't want to go, Aang. I want to help you. I don't care how, I just do. I owe you my life, Aang."

Aang sighed at Matari. "I can't risk you, Matari. That's why I left the South Pole. That's why you didn't know who I was. I don't want to argue about

this, Matari. Just go. I'll be fine by myself, and then we can go to the North Pole together, alright? But right now, you have to trust me. Now go.

The guards will be here soon..."

Matari hesitated, but she climbed through the hole in the wall, and looked at Aang with worried eyes before running off down the hall.

Aang sighed again and looked down the hall.

Please let her be alright. He prayed.