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Hello! I'm back! Now don't yell at me for this but… -runs and hides- I gave emo girl feelings! I really can't seem to do Mai in character but I did my best so here goes. Also I would like to point out the Boiling Rock and say that she was almost crying there (so was Zuko XD) therefore she must have been angsting for awhile when he was away. Hope you guys like this chapter better then the last one :D

Ella

Mai/Zuko

Daydreams and Nightmares.

Golden… That was the one thing she loved the most about him. The way his golden eyes shined as he held her in his arms, his warm, comforting arms… Not that she would ever admit how much comfort she found in them, but he knew anyway.

Her hair had been let down and he was threading his fingers through the loose, silky, black strands as she leaned into his embrace. Brushing aside his open shirt and placing the side of her face against his bare chest she listened carefully to hear his strong, steady heartbeat and sighed in contentment for once as she listened to the constant rhythm, a warm reminder of his presents.

His hands stopped playing with her hair and moved down, snaking their way to her bare stomach and back, below her lightly clothed chest and above her abnormally short skirt. Fixing his arms around her waist he pulled her closer still, to which she happily obliged by wrapping her arms around his neck, making quick work of ridding him of his bothersome and in the way Fire Nation red shirt and running her hands along the muscles of his back. For a long while the two scantily clad Fire Nation teens simply held each other.

Bringing their faces closer and leaning their foreheads against one another she spent a minute simply staring into his golden eyes. Then slowly they brought their lips forward, in a leisurely gentle kiss that rather hastily turned into a furiously passionate one.

Regretfully they finally broke apart to breathe. Leaning against him, bodies so close together, lips only inches apart and heads connected at the temples, she could feel him underneath her fingers, smell his exotic scent, taste him on her lips.

Speaking so softly it was a wonder he could even hear her, her voice sounded fragile, without a trace of her usual bored monotone tones. Only Zuko had ever managed to get her to open up so very much, to feel so very vividly, only he could make her whisper like this. "Don't leave me..."

He kissed her so softly their lips barely touched as she waited for his refusal to leave her, but it didn't come. Instead she heard a low whisper brush by her ear, light and heavy at the same time, and it crushed her. "I'm sorry, Mai..."

Then she woke up.

Chest heaving, tears that she point blank refused to let fall welling in her eyes as she regained consciousness and comprehension, remembering once more that his arms around her were nothing more than a memory. Waking to this stark reality her pleasant dream now feels more like a nightmare with the pain it evokes.

She tells herself to stop being so ridiculous, to show such weakness because of one boy is foolish. She will not let the tears stinging her eyes fall just because of one stupid, stupid, idiotic boy... her stupid, angry, idiotic boy.

Watering eyes blurred her vision, blurring the view of her dark wooden bedside table; his letter rolled and tied on top of it merely a speck of white in her bleary vision. Agni, how she hated him, and yet she didn't...

Refusing to let him make her cry she tried to clam herself, but for the young Fire Nation nobility lying in a bed made with satin sheets in one of the most expensive mansions on her street, right next to the palace of the Fire Nation, it made no difference. Even knowing she had enough money in her room alone to buy a small village, with the way she felt she may as well have been sleeping on the dirt ground without a copper piece to her name, because none of the rich elegance of her station made her feel any better. Her dreams had turned to nightmares that simply mirrored reality.

Sitting up alone in her bed she finally let her tears fall...

Because her dreams were sweet and reality was so very cruel.

-Fin-

Is it wrong that I'm so happy I finally managed to fit the words "Scantily Clad" into a fic? I laugh every time I see it XD I've wanted to use it ever since I heard Irwin ask Mandy to run through the woods scantily clad with him on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, God it was funny XD

What Zuko said in her dream is what he said when he left that note in her room :D I couldn't resist :D

I had a dream my dead cat was alive once, I was sad when I woke up and remembered he was gone again :( RIP Charlie :(

Jin/Zuko is probably next :D

Please review! I could use a bit of critique :D

Ella