Yuki listens to Uncle for a moment and then nods as he said she should go ahead and go to sleep. "You need to get some sleep as well Uncle. Please don't up too late." She goes to her room slowly after quietly checking on Zuko. She wanted to lay with him but she figured he would think that it was weird. She gets to her bed and curls into a small ball as the storm comes.
Uncle smiles and says, "I never stay up to late." Zuko jumped up as he heard the storm he put on his uniform and then goes up to the command deck and starts barking orders so that people knew what to do to keep the boat afloat. He then thought about Yuki. He turned and walked to her room he opened the door and could barely tell she was in the bed until after he spotted the little ball she curled up into. He walks over and sits on her bed besides her and says, "Is everything alright?"
Yuki shakes in her bed as the storm rage on like an angry bull. She looks up at Zuko fear in her eyes from the storm. She was about to say something but another crackle of thunder and lightning was heard and she jumped in his arms. Tears go down her face as she says, "Please don't let him get to me…" Her father use to beat her and her mother during storms. So she relates storms with the rage of her father.
Zuko not knowing what to do embraced her and says, "You are safe nothing will hurt you." He held on to her tightly as he walked out of her room and into his room. He lays her on the bed and strokes the side of her face and says, "Everything will be fine just relax and don't move." He sat by her side the whole time.
Yuki looks at him a moment as he carried her off to his room and put her on his bed. She says as she cuddles up to him, "I hate storms." She cuddles into him uneasy as her body continues to shake rapidly. She jumps as the storm gets louder as it goes on. She keeps repeating "I hate storms" over and over. Fear stuck in her eyes.
Zuko not sure of what to do started to rub her back and says, "I use to fear storms too but my father would come in and take me outside and make me stand in them I learned to see storms for they really where very loud clouds that rain. He lets go of her and uses his hand to lift her face up and shows the first smile he has shown since his eye was burned. He finally says, "You have nothing to worry about as long as I am here."
Yuki looks at Zuko a moment and relaxes some as she sees him smile for the first time. She says, "Okay thank you. You know you look more yourself when you smile." She strokes his cheek tenderly her touch gentle and calm. She cuddles into his chest and goes to sleep, her body gently pressing into his warm body. The storm continues to rage on through the night.