"I can't believe you ruined my shirt." muttered Zoe as both she and Zuko walked through Ember Island's town, both draped in rich red cloaks.

Zuko threw her a sideways glance. "I can't believe you care so much about a stupid piece of clothing. I think it was worth it."

Zoe blushed, "It's not the clothing it's the fact that Sokka is now following me around like a-" She stopped suddenly when a young man with blue eyes and brown hair appeared in front of her. "Uhh…hi Sokka."

"I would like you to tell me exactly," said Sokka in his 'therapy' voice and Zoe wondered where his fake beard was. "How an imprint of a hand was…burnt into your shirt?"

Zoe rolled her eyes. "Zuko has hot hands." She said simply, temporarily rendering Sokka speechless. She pushed past him, Zuko following whilst slapping a hand to his forehead. After the embarrassing handprint incident Toph had forced Katara to tell her what had happened and she had been calling Zuko 'Mr Hot Hands' ever since.

Sokka quickly gathered himself, reforming his features to impassive and appeared in front of Zoe once more. "And why were his… 'hot hands' touching your…shirt?"

Zoe raised an annoyed eyebrow at him, "Gee Sokka, maybe because they wanted to."

Sokka frowned, "And you allowed that?" he demanded, his voice back to normal.

"Yes." Said Zoe haughtily, "Zuko may touch me where ever he so pleases." And with that she stalked on once more.

Zuko stared after her retreating back, as did Sokka. "Well…" said Zuko, "that's news to me."

Sokka turned to frown disapprovingly at Zuko, "You need to gain some self control."

Zuko pinched the bridge of his nose, "I have self control." If he didn't, there probably wouldn't be any shirt left.

"Ooooh yeah, I can see that." said Sokka sarcastically.

Zuko scowled, "Look, what does it matter to you what she and I…do alone together?"

Sokka's brow furrowed, "it matters to me because she's like a sister to me."

"So?" demanded Zuko, not understanding what brotherly affection over a sister was supposed to feel like.

"So I feel like…I should protect her."

"From what?"

"From getting herself pregnant!"

Zuko stared at the boy beside him. He had honestly not thought about that.

"I don't know what it's like in the Fire Nation…" continued Sokka, "but in our Water Tribe, conceiving a chid out of wed-lock is seriously no go."

But, Zuko was still silent. His mind was suddenly filled with he and Zoe surrounded by children, some flying about on air scooters and some creating fire with their hands.

"Zuko…?" said Sokka, raising an eyebrow at the fire bender whose eyes had just glazed over.

"Ok, I have a new shirt." Said Zoe happily, walking back up to the two boys. Zuko looked at her; she still wore her cloak so as to cover her face and hair, but the new piece of attire was easily noticeable underneath. It was strapless and made of the same red material as her previous shirt. Zuko decided he would try to be much more careful with this one; he liked it. If he actually cared to remember he would have realised it was very similar to the shirt Ty lee wore at that stupid party he went to on this very same island. But he did not. All he was noticing right now was the slightly more obvious amounts of exposed flesh.

"Is that really very practical?" demanded Sokka, eyeing up the top with father-like disapproval.

"Absolutely." Said Zoe with a hint of finality, "Now really I think we should be heading back, Toph said she'd be finished with Aang by noon, then Zuko can have him."

"Finished with Aang?" repeated Sokka suddenly, "What's she doing with him?"

Zoe raised an eyebrow, "Uh…earthbending training."

"Oh," said Sokka, "yeah I knew that…"

Zoe rolled her eyes while Zuko took her hand, "Let's just get back shall we?"

"I win!" sang Zoe happily from Zuko's back where she had latched herself.

Zuko scowled, grabbing her legs so that they hooked around his waist. She leant over his shoulder, her hair brushing his face lightly and she kissed his cheek. He tried to ignore this. "You do not win." He snarled.

"Oh yes I do."

"You ran away then somehow managed to attach yourself to my back." said Zuko, narrowing his eyes at the bit of her face that he could see over his shoulder. "And you classify that as beating me?"

"Yes." Said Zoe simply, "you can't get me from here. I have complete control." She tightened her legs around his waist and Zuko decided that perhaps she was right as he felt his heart speed up. He was struggling not to grab her and bring her round so that she was attached to his front instead of back.

She began kiss along the side of his jaw from just under his ear to down his neck, her hair falling over his shoulder and her scent engulfing him. He closed his eyes, breathing in quickly. But, then Zoe nipped his skin lightly, but sharply and his eyes snapped open. His golden buds quickly darted around the courtyard to check everyone was still out and he grabbed her leg and swung her around his waist remarkably fast and Zoe was now in front of him, eyes wide in surprise.

He smirked, his heart pounding and heat already building in his head and his hands moved boldly down her sides to hold her more securely, one on the small of her back and the other on the lowest end of her hip, bordering crossing the line to softer flesh below.

"No, I really think I win." argued Zuko, his smirk growing larger.

"Oh really?" challenged Zoe, raising an eyebrow. She tightened her legs and linked her arms around his neck then lent forward to kiss him temptingly on the lips. "Still?" she whispered, her eyes fluttering open to meet with his topaz ones.

"Perhaps…" replied Zuko huskily, "if you don't stop that is."

Zoe smirked slightly, then without hesitation she quickly brought her lips back to his. Her tongue skimmed the inner edges of his lips, forcing them to part and allow her entrance to his mouth. Zuko groaned in satisfaction and immediately began to kiss her back with heat. His hand moved from her hip to travel lightly down her leg cause Zoe's heart to speed up as well as her breathing. His other hand became lost in her hair while the other made a trip back up her leg, this time along the bottom of her thigh where the skin was even more sensitive and Zoe's muscles tightened around him. His hand slid off the end of her leg and travelled up to rest on her firm, but soft rear.

Zoe pulled back from the kiss, gasping for air, her head spinning and Zuko assaulted her neck. He trailed his tongue and lips along the soft expanse of skin till he found the heated pulse point where he began to suck and kiss the flesh. Zoe tilted her head to the side, her hand moving into his hair and gripping the locks desperately while her stomach clenched and flipped, her skin tingling.

All of a sudden, Zoe's stomach lurched and her world seemed to spin out of balance and she thought perhaps the dizzying kiss had messed with her oxygen supply. That was until she found her self tumbling on top of Zuko while becoming completely soaked in the courtyards fountain. She could hear cackling laughter not that far away and she looked to Zuko who was far wetter than she, seated below her in the water, his hair sopping.

Zoe turned around to glare at the two figures now running away high fiving each other. Toph and Sokka; masters of the pranks. Oh she would be getting them back alright. She glanced to the ground where she saw an uphill landslide that was obviously the cause of hers and Zuko's current predicament.

Zuko placed his hands on either side of her waist and she looked back to him, laying her own hands on his chest that was breathing heavily. "Do I still win?" he asked sheepishly, struggling to sit up.

Zoe pressed him back down firmly, "I don't believe the fight is yet over." She told him.

"This is ridiculous." muttered Zoe in disbelief, fixing her scarf that covered her hair in agitation.

"You're telling me!" snarled Zuko, "what is the point in seeing everything we've been through in our lives thrown back at us by actors? It will just be all of my mistakes again shoved in my face again."

"We don't have to go." offered Zoe, "we could let these guys go and do something ourselves."

"Don't even think about it." piped in Toph, jumping in between the pair and grabbing a hold of their arms. "If I have to sit through this and listen to it then so do you."

"Oh, but Toph this is it jus-"

"No 'buts' Fancy Pants."

Zoe pouted in frustration and Zuko sighed, "I can't believe this…"

"Well, hello there pretty lady." Zuko could not believe his eyes. They were in the foyer of the theatre and had come across none other than Ruon-Jian from Zuko's previous trip to this island. And he was hitting on Zoe.

"That 'pretty lady' would be my girlfriend." snarled Zuko stepping forward menacingly, anger flaring and his golden eyes glinting from under his hooded cloak.

Zoe's stomach flipped as Zuko called her his girlfriend and she couldn't help the small smirk that crossed her face. She should be disapproving of Zuko's blatant displays of jealousy, but for some reason they filled her with a strange sense of elation.

"Whoah man," said the guy, flicking his hair annoyingly. Zoe thought he looked like a complete idiot. "I was just saying hi."

"Well you can go say 'hi' to some other girl." hissed Zuko in response, and Zoe placed a hand on his forearm gently, struggling not to laugh. "This one's taken."

The guy, Ruon-Jian, peered forward curiously all of a sudden, "Have we met before?"

"Definitely not." spat Zuko, but Ruon-Jian did not look convinced.

"Come on, Lee." said Zoe quickly, "let's go find our seat. I think the others are waiting."

Zuko allowed her to lead him away, but he didn't break his icy glare with idiot-boy back at the entrance. Zuko scoffed finally and looked away, "He still thinks he's just so great."

"Still?" repeated Zoe, "so you have met him before?"

"Unfortunately."

"You don't like him."

"He's a womanizer."

"Really? I thought he just seemed like a bit of an idiot." shrugged Zoe.

"I told you you're perceptive." Said Zuko, trying to hide how happy that sentence made him.

Zoe rolled her eyes. "You flare up very easily at other men."

Zuko scowled again, "he had it coming. Didn't you see the way he was looking at you?"

"I didn't even care to notice him."

Before Zuko could answer, they came up behind the others who had indeed been waiting for them and had to enter the theatre. Zoe stayed beside Zuko; sitting down next to him while on his other side was Katara. Zoe tried to remind herself not to get jealous over this. She looked up only just noticing Aang standing frustrated in front of Zuko. Apparently Zuko had taken his seat.

"What's the big deal?" snapped Zuko, "just sit next to us."

Zoe had a feeling what the big deal was as Aang's eyes flickered to Katara and back to Zuko while he stuttered. Zoe was about to pull Zuko over so that Aang could sit down, but before she could open her mouth he'd plonked himself next to her sadly.

Zoe laid her head against Zuko's shoulder, pressing her fingers to her temple as the lights dimmed; she had a feeling this was not going to be a good play.

As soon as the first scene began however, Zoe's boredom turned to hysteria. Katara and Sokka were rowing through frozen seas in a canoe and Zoe couldn't help the bubbling laughter that erupted from her mouth at the actor Katara's first whimsical words.

Katara swung round Zuko to glare at her after getting over her own initial shock and Zoe stuffed her fist in her mouth, slumping down in her seat, eyes watering. Zuko looked at her as if she were insane.

Actor Sokka started to continuously make bad jokes about meat and how starving he was and Toph was cackling along with Zoe.

"This is pathetic!" complained Sokka, "My jokes are way funnier than this!"

But, Toph's laughter grew louder, "I think he's got you pegged!"

"I have to say Sokka," said Zoe giggling, "Toph's right about that."

Sokka glared at her, as did Katara, and then they both huffed in agitation and let the play continue on. And it just got worse and worse. Aang was being played by a bald woman, Zuko's scar was on the wrong side just as in the poster for the play, Katara continued to burst into tears and Sokka was still a lame, carnivorous idiot.

Aside from the insane, outrageous and completely exaggerated acting Zoe was learning a lot about the gang's past. She was just wondering when exactly she would come in after the gang had met Suki when the scene changed back to Zuko sailing on his ship, scouting the skies.

Zoe sat up a little straighter as she heard maniacal, girly giggling echo through the theatre and suddenly a new actress flew across the stage and Zoe's jaw dropped in horror.

The first thing she saw was her hair. It was enormous. The top half of her body was framed by this voluptuous, curly mass. Then she saw two wings protruding out of her back through her hair. Wings! Everyone around her was grinning smugly, throwing her pompous glances.

Then actor Zuko threw his red ribbon that was apparently supposed to be fire at her crying, "The Sun Spirit! Knock it down!"

Actor Zoe gasped dramatically and fell from the sky, landing on her knees before Zuko. That was when Zoe noticed her clothing and she nearly retched. You could hardly even call it clothing. More like pathetic scraps of white cloth barely covering her body.

She felt Zuko chuckling from beside her and she turned to glare at him. But, then quickly snapped back to the stage as her actor began to speak.

"Oooh, Prince Zuko!" she swooned and Zoe's eyes went wider in abhorrence, "Oooh, you've captured me, how romantic!" And with that actor Zoe clung to actor Zuko sickeningly making a sound that sounded horribly like purring.

Zoe jumped forward in horror, clutching the banister in front of her. "That is not what happened!" she cried disgusted as the whole group cackled behind her except for Zuko who had grabbed her from behind, both hands on the sides of her waist, trying to pull her back to her seat. "I am not like that!" she continued furiously, "My hair is not that big! And I don't have wings! And I DON'T…swoon like that!"

"No wonder Zuko kept you captive if that's how you greeted him." teased Sokka from the row behind them and Zoe growled furiously, but Zuko managed to finally pull her back into her seat gently, a smile playing around his moth.

"Calm down." He whispered, placing a hand on her thigh and Zoe glared at him too.

"You have wings?" demanded actor Zuko from the stage, pointing at the two butterfly like wings on Zoe's back.

"No, silly." laughed actor Zoe girlishly and Zoe cringed. "This is my friend Huan; she attaches to my back and helps me to fly!"

At this point Huan peeped out from under Zuko's cloak (forced in there by Zoe) where she had been hidden and she clucked agitatedly.

Zoe's hands gripped her hair under her scarf outraged. "This is insane!"

Toph cackled even louder, "Ooh this is priceless!"

Zuko's hand squeezed her leg gently and he placed a hand under her chin to tilt her head towards him. Zoe struggled for a moment, but then lifted her head to face him, her eye twitching.

"That is not what I am like!" hissed Zoe ferociously.

Zuko bit back a laugh, "I know that." He said, "Though I can't say I wouldn't have minded if you turned up in those clothes."

Zoe eyes widened in fury and she spluttered incensed for a moment, "I can't believe you!" she hissed finally, and then she threw his hand off her leg and glared back to the stage.

Zuko bit his lip, a smirk tugging his mouth and the play continued on.

A/N Sooooo sorry for the late update! That doesn't normally happen, stuff is just getting busy =O I'm sorrry! But, thanks SO MUCH for your reviews guys XD XD they make me the happiest person in the world. Thanks to all you anonymous reviewers (Jo, PhantomXangel, Mia, Rhea, avatarfanfromtheuk, whitewolf, zukoismine, and readinfromphone) you all made me giggle like crazy XD (and gave me an ego boost) I wish I could reply to yours, but as I can't I'll say a MASSIVE thanks here XD XD and readinfromphone thanks again so much lol XD you're really gonna make people think I'm crazy with the random laughing fits you make me go into. But, then again I really am crazy so...meh :D

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