After Zuko and Lady Ursa are fitted with new clothing for the play, and Aya has yet to return, they decide to look for her. Lady Ursa decides to check the house while Zuko looks for her around the shop. After walking around for a few minutes, he stumbles across Azula still in the city.
"What are you doing here?!" Zuko roars at Azula.
"I decided I'm not ready to leave my city," She shrugs out.
This puts Zuko on edge and alert, for Azula never does things like this without a plan of some sort in action.
'What is she scheming?' he wonders to himself.
"You lost an official Ag-Ni-Kai, the conditions were u leave and take your troops with you," He growls out at his sister.
"Yeah? And who's going to make me Zu-Zu? You? Or that brat that beat me? HA HA! She's going to die and then noone will be able to defeat me. This is MY city! I WILL NOT leave it," Azula retorts.
Zuko takes a step back, "Where is she?? What have you done to her?"
Azula laugh shrilly, "Why do you care? She doesn't care about you. She doesn't even want to be near you."
"You're wrong Azula, even if she doesn't care... I do," is all Zuko says before walking off to look for Aya more knowing Azula won't answer his questions.
By some odd happenings, Zuko ends up down the very alley where Aya is lying unconcious. She's shivering and obviously in pain.
"Aya, hold on. We'll get you help," he whispers to her uncoincious form before picking her up and running back to the house with her.
Once at the house, Lady Ursa calls for a doctor who spends several hours trying to stop the pain and heal the wound, when suddenly, Aya wakes up.
"All I need is water," she groans and huffs out.
"Young lady, you need more than water, I don't think you're going to live," the doctor says rather crassly.
"Just bring me the damn water, and don't touch me anymore," Aya demands with a wheeze.
The doctor brings the water and Aya sticks her hand in the water. When she pulls back, the water is swirling around her hand and glowing blue with it's healing power. She puts her hand to her side where the water flows into and over the wound. Once the water is gone, a dark scar is left in it's place.
Aya sighs and falls back to the bed and right back to sleep.
When the doctor announces she'll be fine, he takes his payment and leaves. Zuko rushes into the room and sits at her bed side just watching her sleep. Lady Ursa smiles when she sees that Zuko has an interest in Aya and leaves the room.
A few hours later, Aya wakes again to find Zuko asleep slumped on the side of the bed. Aya gets out of the bed and gently shakes Zuko awake.
"If you're going to sleep, get in the bed. I'll get you some warm milk," Aya says softly as she walks from the room.
When she returns with the warm milk, Zuko is already fast asleep again. She shrugs and drinks the milk herself. She leaves the room and goes to sit on the couch in the living room. Soon after sitting down, she falls asleep and like most nights, she has no dream.