Author's Note: Sorry for the late update... My exams are finally over... Now I have about a year's worth of free time to write. And I'll finally be able to rewrite and correct the previous chapters... The thought makes me giddy with excitement... Anyways, I've decided to start writin' the number of days spent Ty Lee has spent on the island, that way I'll have time to develop the story the way I want... I apologise for any errors. My laptop is MIA so I'm writing this chapter with my phone... So yeah.

ON WITH THE STORY

Chapter 6 (Day 2)

Healing Sessions and Leafy Blankets

Ty Lee was exhausted. Her wounds were slowly dripping blood and her body ached painfully with every breath she took. Her eyelids felt unnaturally heavy and she found it was getting increasingly difficult to keep her eyelids up. She let out a small sigh and let her eyelids fall.

Aang was exhausted. It was hard work carrying Ty Lee's petite but surprisingly heavy body under normal circumstances. Carrying it with two severely wounded shoulders was next to impossible. His hands were probably numb. Aang tried to move his fingers and his lips creased into something that could vaguely be described as a smile when they responded, albeit slowly. Aang let out a breath and trudged on slowly to their cave. Aang stopped and looked at the place the cave was supposed to be. He saw nothing but trees. Aang was confused. He should have gotten to the cave by now. He pivoted his head slowly and surveyed his surroundings. The trees didn't look familiar. They didn't even look like the ones Ty Lee had been training with. These trees, from what he could see looked taller and slimmer. Aang looked around one more time before he realised that he was nowhere near the cave. Another turn of his head confirmed his thoughts; he was lost. He looked down at Ty Lee and saw her chest rising and falling at an uneven pace. Aang was worried. He had planned to heal her wounds with the water near their cave but now they were nowhere near their cave.

"This is bad. Aang groaned, "This is really bad."

Ty Lee opened her eyes slowly. Her body still hurt and her vision was blurry at the edges. She had been taught in Physical Study classes that blurry vision was a symptom of excessive blood loss. Excessive blood loss. Ty Lee wondered for a second how much blood she had lost; a cupful ? More like two cupfuls, she mused. Ty Lee tried to move her feet but they refused her command. She looked at Aang and realised that he had stopped moving. She managed a restricted look around and saw that they were surrounded by trees, not rock. Meaning they were not in their cave. Unless Aang had created a forest in the cave- Ty Lee halted her line of thought. Ty Lee let out a small groan before she used her voice.

" Aang ? " Her voice sounded weak in her ears. Aang's eyes met hers before she finished calling his name. He looked drained. The glow that Ty Lee had become used to seeing on his skin was absent. He looked deathly pale.

" Ty Lee ? Are you okay ? " His voice sounded hoarse. Worse than hers.

Ty Lee ignored his question and countered with her own, " Aang ? Where are we ? "

" I don't know. I think we're lost "

Ty Lee blinked. " We're lost ? How ? "

" I don't know."

Ty Lee swallowed before she asked, " What do we do now ? "

" We'll have to sleep out here. Then we'll get our bearings in the morning and try to find the cave. "

Ty Lee didn't know why she wasn't mad at him for getting them lost. Maybe it was because he had saved her life, or because he looked like he was going to drop dead at any moment. Ty Lee looked at his face and saw the exhaustion on his face. His eyes lacked their usual sparkle and his lips had lost their colour. Ty Lee felt a feeling she rarely felt at that moment; pity.

" Okay, we'll sleep out here. "

Aang nodded and then settled her on the wet ground carefully before he got to work building the tent. It was agonising work. Everytime he lifted his hands to bend, his shoulders would send mind-numbing pain through his upper body. Aang couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief when the earthen tent was finished. He was so weak he had to rest his hands on his knees for support.

Ty Lee watched helplessly as Aang constructed their night camp. The thought that she couldn't do a single thing to help made her feel bad. What made her feel even worse was watching the wounds on Aang's shoulders bleed anew while he manipulated the elements. His back was covered in discoloured blood and his wounds were still exposed and oozing blood. Ty Lee watched as he finished the tent. He was so tired, he had to lean forward on his knees. She was about to ask if he was alright when he fell face down into the wet ground.

Aang's vision was rolling around. He could hear Ty Lee pounding a large drum or was she blowing a sungi horn ? The next thing he felt was cold wet mud. It was on his face. His mind began to play tricks on him. Maybe it was Katara trying to heal his face. Maybe it was Ty Lee numbing his face. Maybe it was the ground. Then everything went black.

Ty Lee was shocked. Aang had just toppled to the ground. Ty Lee knew he was exhausted but she had not expected him to collapse like that. Ty Lee rose to her feet with a painful groan. Her injuries still hurt but she ignored the pain coursing through her body and walked slowly to where he was lying face down on the muddy ground. Ty Lee knelt down next to him then she put her hand on his back below his wounds and rolled him over and so they wouldn't touch the muddy ground. His face was covered in mud and it looked like he had stopped breathing. Ty Lee wiped the mud off his face with her free hand before she pressed his chest down slowly. She lifted her hand and his chest slowly followed it. She repeated the action until he started breathing on his own. His breaths were shallow and uneven and Ty Lee was getting worried that he wouldn't make it till morning. His wounds would probably get infected. Ty Lee groaned before she hefted his body on her shoulders. He felt light like a pillow. Ty Lee ambled slowly to the earth tent without falling. She slowly and carefully deposited him into the tent before she entered herself. She was freezing and she was pretty sure he was cold too but there was no fire to warm them. Ty Lee bit her lip and considered her options. The only way they would not freeze to death would be to cuddle together to conserve body heat. Ty Lee let out a breath before she threw her arms around Aang's sleeping form. It was going to be a long night, she mused. A very long and cold night.

Aang woke up with a pain-induced groan and sat up slowly. His injured shoulders were no more sending shards of pain soaring through his body. His shoulders were now numb, like they had tried to heal naturally and failed.

" I'll take numb shoulders over bleeding ones any day of the week ."

Aang smiled weakly and glanced over at Ty Lee to see if she had heard him mutter to himself. She hadn't. A frown crept into his face as he saw her body shaking. Aang's eyes grew wide. She was freezing to death. And she had been embracing him, so she would get warm. Quick as he could, he slipped out of her hands carefully so she wouldn't wake up. The rain had resumed falling and it made a loud and steady noise as it pounded happily on the roof of their tent. Aang couldn't help but wonder whether rain was the only thing that happened on this island. He peered out of the cave and looked around. It was wet, as expected, and cold. Despite that, Aang was grateful for the rain. It would make his plan so much easier. He put out his hands and slowly began to rotate them over each other. The raindrops that had been pounding happily at the ground slowed and stopped before following the movements of his hands. Aang continued to rotate his hands until he had a well-sized stream. It would be enough for his task. He floated the stream of water into the tent. Then he bent over Ty Lee. She was still shivering. Aang straigthened and rotated the water in his hands rapidly until it was warm. Then he bent over and began to heal her. Aang was surpisingly thorough, focusing carefully on each wound, making sure there would be no scars, just reddish skin that would eventually clear. After healing Ty Lee, Aang let out a breath and sat down. Slowly, he raised the water over his head. Then he closed his eyes and focused. His hands dropped but the water did not follow it. It stil floated behind him with a silent hum. Then it began to glow and heal and Aang let out a quiet moan. Sure, his wounds wouldn't heal as much Ty Lee's but they would heal nonetheless.

Aang opened his eyes. His healing session was over and the last of the water had dripped down his newly healed back. Aang smiled to himself and got up and he instantly felt better. He looked at Ty Lee again. She was still shivering. ' She must be really cold '. Aang let out a sigh before he left the tent. The rain had faltered considerably but it still fell contentedly.

Aang carefully ran to the nearest tree and looked around before he shot a gust of wind to the top of the tree. Then He waited. It would take a few seconds. Besides, the tree was a very tall one. Aang smiled as the first leaf fell. Then another fell. And another. Aang smiled again before catching the next blanket sized leaf that was merrily falling down. It would be enough. Aang ran back to the tent and bent the water out of the leaf. Then he laid down next to Ty Lee before covering her shivering body and his with the leafy blanket. Then he fell back to sleep with a smile on his face.

And this time, his shoulders did not hurt.

Author's Note : That's it... For now... I don't really know 'bout this chapter... Please review and tell me what you think... Your reviews keep me writing... Oh and if you want, you can follow me on Twitter. My handle is MichaelDrac... Follow (if you want) and I'll be sure to follow you back...

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