This chapter was a real pain for me. This is where all of the emotion for the story has to be captured. I'm still thinking of how to fix it. Please give some honest feedback on this one.
By the by, I do not own Avatar The Last Airbender or any of it's characters. It would be quite sad if Bryke decided to sue some random fanfic that didn't give credit.
A light burned through her eyelids.
"Huh?"
Azula opened her eyes lazily and could see the square hole on the iron door was opened letting in a ray of light.
"Princess you have a visitor, stay against the wall and do not attempt anything."
Some metal clinks and the door slid open. Azula was too tired to stand up from her corner. A small slim silhouette walked in. Azula squinted to try and see who it was.
"Just give the word if you need something."
"Thank you." It was a gentle young voice. The familiarity of it made Azula's heart start racing,
The door closed but the small hatch was left open. Azula's eyes were wide open now. She felt a sudden wave of emotions and her chest felt as if it would burst.
The thin figure walked close to the iron bars that separate half of the room.
Azula could hear nervousness in the voice. "He-hello."
Azula breathed in deeply. Then she started humming loudly to herself. The sudden wave of emotions that swept over her was too much to bear. She hummed as loudly as she could to block out the world.
"' 'Zula are you okay?"
The voice was unmistakable. She looked up to confirm her fears. Azula immediately turned to her corner and shoved her face into the palms of her hands.
"Do you remember me?"
No response.
"It's me Ty Lee, we used to be friends. Can you even hear me?"
Azula wasn't thinking when the word slipped from her mouth, "No."
The dark figure knelt down, obviously hesitant about getting close to the bars. Azula stopped humming and looked down at her hand; she could barely make out its shape.
Azula looked towards her tiny window. It was dark but not dark enough for it to be night time. Must be a cloudy day.
"I guess this is kinda awkward huh 'Zula. Well just so you know I didn't come here to hurt you or be mean or anything. "
The images were coming back. Azula had almost managed to stop thinking about them. Now she had to come here and mess everything up.
"Are you mad? If you are, please tell me. I don't like it when you're quiet like this."
Azula could now feel the anger rushing in, the hot flames whirling around in her mind.
"Shut up. Get out right now Ty Lee. You shouldn't be here."
Ty Lee fidgeted a little.
"So I guess you still remember what happened. Okay 'Zula I didn't really come here knowing what to say. This is kind of a difficult situation to-"
"Get out get out get out!" Azula was now yelling with her back still turned to the room.
A guard called in through the hatch, "Is everything all right in there?"
"Yeah we're fine, everything's fine." Ty Lee answered nervously.
She stood up and looked down to Azula.
"As I was saying… I wanna help you but I need to know how you feel about everything's that happened. You should know by now that you made some mistakes. You need to let go of what your father told you okay?"
Azula rolled over onto her back and looked up to Ty Lee's face. It felt like she hadn't seen the familiar face in years. She could make out the gentle, round curves of her face. The beauty had made her feel jealous several times.
"Did any of that get to you? Well I guess I'll take your advice and leave. You obviously aren't feeling well. How about I come back sometime? Tomorrow?"
"How could you? How could you come back here like this? You little traitor! You filthy tease!" Azula was letting all the rage and confusion meld into each other.
"Tease?" , Ty lee gave a confused look. "Well you still remember that huh? I'll let it slide this time, there are worse things you could've called me."
Azula felt tears dripping down her face. She turned immediately to conceal her exposure.
"I'll come back tomorrow okay? I wanna help you 'Zula, but you need to be able to help yourself. If you won't try to see how things really are then there's no point."
Azula could hear Ty Lee's footsteps all the way to the door. There was some whispering and then the door opened. Then the door closed. It was dark again. Many things were going through Azula's mind. It was hard for her to take the battering of all the thoughts. She let herself cry so that she could let some of the venom in her mind out.
At least in here I can do whatever I want without having to worry about someone seeing me. I wish those clouds would clear up.