Tamaka's POV

I was literally in a cage.
My arms were above my head chained to the top of the cage, so I couldn't move my arms or hands without straining them, and I was in a kneeling position so my legs were chained to the bottom.
My neck still burned.
I knew I wouldn't get out of here, but I still had to try. What waited for me on this ship was pain, humiliation, and anger.
I didn't know where I was going to end up, or if I would even live to see the next morning.
I didn't know anything.
The guard outside of my cage was watching me, eyeing the rips on my dress.
Off course I got the pervy guard, and on that note no one else is here since that stupid ass told them to lock me up away from everyone else.
I didn't even have a friendly face near by, I'm completely alone.
I hang my head, my hair hiding my face so I could let the terror of this situation show on my face without the guard seeing me.
And then I hear the door open. I don't look up.
"Leave us alone, wait outside the door," His voice is indifferent, like he really couldn't care less. But he still raddiated authority.
I hear footsteps and then the sound of the door opening and then closing.
"Look at me," He commands. But I don't want to see his face.
"I said look at me. Now!" He demands.
I look at him.
He's very tall, with dark curly hair, and eyes that had a hard glint to them. Nice lips, not to big or to small. He had freckles all over his face, and two sideways scares on both of his cheeks.
A short sloping nose, and really long eye-lashes.
So all together he was very handsome.
But he was Fire-nation, so his good looks were lost on me.
"What do you want from me?" I ask.
He smiles, his sharp features softening.
"I want to ask you a few questions, like, who taught you how to Water-bend?" He says, and I freeze, I can't tell him my mother taught me, the little kids need her.
"My neighbor taught me," I say.
He laughs.
"No, I have reports saying that your mother was a Water-bender, so try again," He says on a laugh, I hang my head.
I'm trapped.
"Well it looks like you already know then, doesn't it?" I say, my sarcasm getting the best of me.
"I guess I do, but I do need to ask you some question's, when did you start training? where do you originally come from? are you really a master?" He assaults me with questions.
"Like I would tell you, you arrogant ass," I say to him, my voice rising with each word.
He comes closer to my cage and opens the door, and steps inside and bends down, his face inches from mine.
"If you don't then something very bad will happen to you." His voice was dripping with ice, I cringed.
"I started training when I was four," I tell him, my voice filled with defeat.
"And?" He says, a smile tugging at his lips.
"I have always lived in Betherill, and yes I am a master," I tell him.
He nods at me.
He reaches up and undoes the chains around my wrist, and ankles.
"Don't get me wrong, I don't trust you or anything, but I also know that you could never defeat me so you are not a threat." He tells me, arrogance in his voice.
He steps out of the cage, and makes a gesture for me to fallow him, and so I do.
He sits in a chair, that I hadn't noticed before. There's another one across from him and I sit.
"So, can your siblings bend?" He asks.
"No," I answer to quickly.
He just looks at me, his face not betraying anything that he's thinking.
My hands fidget at my sides, I feel so nervous. He could kill me, he could kill my family.
I can't tell him about anyone because he could use it against me.
My heart pangs, I miss my home, I miss my bed, I was supposed to have a fun day to day. I was supposed to cook Aiba his eggs, and then I would help Kauro with his bending, lay, sleep, eat.
But now I'm going to be beaten, caged, and treated like an animal.
"I hope you appreciate what I'm doing for you, the other benders are under strict orders to not be unchained, ever." He says to me, like he's given me a gift or something.
"Well why aren't I locked up just like them, I mean we are all the same to you aren't we? just something to take over?" Hostility drips from my voice.
He looks startled at that, as if he didn't expect an answer like that. But then his startled expression changes, his face lifts up, his eyes shut, and his mouth opens and a laugh bubbles up from his throat.
Now I'm the startled one.
"You are just a piece of work aren't you?" He keeps on laughing. My cheeks heat up and the warm sound of his laugh, its almost as if its a promise that he's not completely evil.
"Well I'm just being honest," I growl at him, he finally settles down and I see a tiny change in him, his eyes not so hard, his expression not so guarded.
"You're acting like a cat that I splashed water on or something, I mean I let you sit in a chair like a civil person, I might even be nice enough to give you good food," He looks as me curiously, a smile curving his pretty lips up.
"Well if you really want to do me some favors you will replace that pervy guard with someone else," my tone is light, teasing almost. I have no clue but I don't feel as uneasy.
But at my words his face grows serious.
"Did he do something to you?" He asks, he leans forward, but then seems to realize what he was doing and leans back.
"Uhh, no, he was just staring at the tears in my dress," I say, looking down, and seeing my dress was ripped up to my upper thigh, the little tares on the fabric along my color-bone letting the top of my chest easier to see. I see Rin looking, his face bright red.
"I'll make sure you get some new clothes, but we must continue with the questions," He says, all business.
"So what do you know of the Fire-nation?" He ask's, his eyes searching mine.
"That there trying to take over the Fricken' world," I huff at him. I mean what? did he think I knew Fire-nation secrets or something?
"Well I don't have any other questions for you at the moment, but I will be back in a few hours to bring you food and new clothes.
And I will also have more questions for you," and as if on qui the guard came in.
Rin turned and left the room, and I had to get out of the chair and go back into the cage, and as that man chained me up, I could only think about how I should hate that boy, that stupid, evil boy, but I couldn't stop myself from missing him after he had gone.