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Ty Lee will come back. She has to, she already promised me that!

Azula had been feeling uneasy since her visit from Ty Lee. She had been thinking about it the whole night before until she fell asleep. Now she knew that today would be another visit. It felt like every hour was stretched out into three. Azula couldn't tell one emotion from another. She didn't know whether she was horrified or angry that Ty Lee was going to talk to her again, perhaps she was just confused. Anxiety then slowly began to overwhelm her. Azula was staring into the door as if she could make it burst open simply by thinking about it.

She heard footsteps. Some talking perhaps? No it's just footsteps. A slight clinking at the door.

The door's window opened. Her heart began to pound.

"Prisoner your friend has come to visit again. I assume you will behave same as yesterday?"

The door opened. It took a couple of seconds but Ty Lee walked in eventually, hesitant again.

Azula knew she had been waiting for this moment. Now that it happened she couldn't figure out what she wanted from it.

Ty Lee stood there looking down at Azula, who was lying on the cot facing directly upward. They stay like that for several more seconds in complete silence.

Ty Lee spoke first. "Please don't make me start the conversation."

Azula let out a breath.

"Well since you haven't acted up yet I guess you aren't too mad about me coming back. Are you?"

"I'm sick."

Ty Lee showed some relief that the other person in the room was speaking.

"Oh. Do you want some medicine or something? They will probably let you have some tea if you want."

"Not that kind of sick Ty Lee"

She got on her knees so that she could speak to Azula's face.

"Oh."

Azula finally decided to look into Ty Lee's eyes. It made Ty Lee jump back a little as if she were intimidated.

"What exactly do you want me to tell you? I have no information that could possibly be important to you."

"I don't want anything from you, really. I just figured you need someone to talk to. When do you get to talk to someone in here?"

Azula made to attempt to hide her anger as she spoke. "Never."

Ty Lee looked sympathetic. "Well I guess you can tell me whatev-"

"If you want to talk to someone then I suggest you go with your new friends. I assume you are friends with the Avatar and his girlfriend and Zuzu and all of them. Hmm? All of them! You don't care about me, traitor, you have real friends!"

She was covering her face with her hands while screaming out. Ty Lee looked around nervously.

"Shh. Calm down Azula! Be quiet or they are gonna restrain you."

A guard opened the door rather than talking through the window. "What's going on in here?"

Ty Lee turned around. "It's all right. She's just getting riled up. If something bad is happening I'll call you."

The guard seemed very reluctant to, but he left and closed the door again.

Azula was muttering some things to herself.

"Azula I'm sorry. Please calm down. Don't let me being here mess up the good streak you had going on."

Azula didn't want to look at her anymore.

"You don't deserve to talk to me! After what you've done. You don't talk to me…"

Ty Lee sighed.

"I can't believe you're still mad about what I did. After all this time you still haven't reflected on yourself? How can you still believe in your father so much?"

Some tears started to trickle down Azula's face.

"Father? He'll get me out of here. I'm sure of it. How could he though? How could he just leave me behind? He left me for dead… if it wasn't for the waterbender…" Her voice was falling into a whisper.

Ty Lee felt looked very uneasy now. Azula muttered some more things to herself then became quiet.

"So… how has it been going this long without firebending? It's good that you managed to stop yourself from doing it this whole time."

Azula answered immediately. "I can't"

Ty Lee turned her head to its side. "You can't what?"

Azula did not answer this.

Ty Lee seemed to ponder about this for a while before continuing the conversation.

"So what was that you said about your father before? What do you mean he left you for dead?"

Azula got up from her cot and stood on the other side of the bars.

"What do you expect me to do now Ty Lee? "

Ty Lee let out a nervous chuckle. "I already told you, I don't expect anything from you."

Azula grabbed onto the bars and leaned into then.

"You see, I don't think that's true. You only come here because you think that somehow I'm going to not be a monster and then we can all apologize and be happy friends for the rest of our lives. That's it isn't it? Well it's ridiculous. I am a monster and I know it. The only person I thought I needed was my father but now I don't know, but most importantly I know you don't really want to be friends."

Ty Lee was becoming frustrated.

"Azula I don't know what I have to do to prove to you I want to be your friend. I came back here after what you did to me. No matter how much you want to deny it, you betrayed me Azula! You tried to hurt Mai. You feel so sorry for yourself because we supposedly betrayed you but in fact you were the one who was wrong!"

She turned around then breathed in and out several times to cool off. Azula was thrown back by the sudden rant of the girl who always seemed so cheerful.

When she was calm again, Ty Lee turned back to her former friend.

"And you're not a monster Azula. I have no doubt that your mother would take anything she said back the first chance she got. Zuko still believes in you, he even gave your father a chance by letting him live. I want to believe in you, but you make it hard for me. I guess asking you to change everything you learned in your life is asking a little too much."

Azula stayed standing there, looking at her. Ty Lee was looking away from her face. Azula reached out with one hand.

"Let me grab your hand."

Ty Lee looked at her in surprise. "What?"

"Don't think too much about it. I haven't felt the warmth of another human being in I don't know how long. Just give me this one thing."

Ty Lee looked at the open palm, considering it. Azula could tell what she was thinking.

"I promise I won't hurt you, if my promises still mean anything to you."

Ty Lee swallowed then slowly reached for the hand. As she put her hand in the palm, Azula immediately grabbed onto her.

Azula caressed her hand for a second then simply let it sit there for a moment. Ty Lee looked to Azula's face, she had her eyes closed and seemed to be concentrating.

After what felt like several minutes but in reality was a couple of seconds, Azula let go of the hand and withdrew her arm.

Ty Lee stood there awkwardly. She didn't know what to say about that. Azula sat down on her cot and let her head hang. The long unkempt hair fell down her face, concealing it.

"You know… when you guys… left me, I felt lost. I can't really explain what I was going through close to the end of the war. I guess I just want you to know that you guys, the closest things I had to friends, did mean something to me. I'm glad that you turned out fine and my anger didn't let me get you killed. I don't have much else to say.

Azula fell onto her back and stretched her arms upward.

Ty Lee lit up with delight at these words. She let out a slight grin.

"I'm kind of tired and I feel like taking a nap." Azula's voice was muffled from behind her hair.

"Okay 'Zula. Whatever you want."

She knocked on the large iron door and left the room. Before they closed it she quickly poked her head in for some parting words.

"I'll come back. Remember, we're all on the same side."

The door closed shut. The sound of vibrating metal rang through Azula's ears and eventually subsided. She was there again, sitting all alone. Only now she wasn't the same. Something was different inside her. Azula scratched at her tunic, for once she didn't mind how uncomfortable it was.