I AM SO SORRY! I know I shouldn't have taken a week to update, but I got caught up in college and homework! Please forgive me! I had a ton of really big tests and projects all at once!

Also, thank you to everyone who reviewed!

To my anonymous reviewer: They arrived in the movie, I promise. I'll point out the scenes in the preface of the next chapter since they're in it anyways. A bit of an explanation to settle your, and anyone's, confusion.

Also, a very big thank you to my guest reviewer from the first chapter! I owe you for the basis of this chapter as well!

Iroh sighed with relief as at long last Anastasia seemed to be responding to some sort of inner need of hers. He wasn't sure what it was he had done, but he had at long last managed to make a small crack in the protective wall that she'd built around herself. He began moving and shifting around in preparation for firebending, and he was almost happy to be doing so when he felt a twinge in his gut telling him not to.

'Don't do it,' a tiny voice in his head said anxiously. 'Don't use firebending in front of her.'

Iroh pushed the feeling away and decided to use lightning for training. He could hear Anastasia's scream of alarm, and shot the lightning off back into a different direction of the sky. He turned to find her sitting in shock and alarm, but Pema was already on her way to comfort the young princess. With a rush of gratitude towards the nonbender, he turned back to his bending.

The voice came back stronger, telling him not to practice bending until Anastasia was ready and with him, but he again pushed it away. He sent a fireball into the sky, and let the stream of fire remain until he began performing new maneuvers and attack moves should he return to combat. He stopped cold as a bloodcurdling scream was heard from Anastasia's direction, and turned to find her trying to writhe away from Pema, who was looking over to him for help.

He rushed over to the duo to find that Anastasia's eyes were wide, dilated, and obviously seeing only what was in her mind. He put his hands on her arms, but she seemed to react worse to this, and she kicked him in the groin.

He couldn't help but double over in pain and clutch his gut, but managed to keep his eyes from watering just barely. The air nomads had also hurried over, and Tenzin was now asking Pema was what wrong and what had happened as Lin used earthbending to restrain the princess.

"I don't know," Pema huffed at last as she caught her breath. "She started screaming when Iroh started firebending."

"Probably just worried about him," Tenzin said with a sigh.

"She kicked Iroh in the groin when he tried to calm her down," Pema said shaking her head. "I think it's from her past."

And Pema was right. Anastasia was stuck in the past. All those years ago, when Rasputin had attacked the castle and the fire had broken out was the only thing that she could see when Iroh began performing a spinning fire attack. It wasn't just the fire that had scared her – it was the fire that had gone in her direction.

"Hurry!" a young Demitri yelled and rushed a younger Anastasia out through a secret door in the servant's quarters.

"My music box!" she yelled as she tried to get past him.

"Go!" he yelled and forced her to flee.

Right as she fell onto the ground with her grandmother on board the train, she saw that there was a new change of scenery.

Anastasia now found herself on the cobblestone bridge, with Demitri trying to hold onto her, and Rasputin's final attack going to her. The flaming orb was just behind her instead of the portal that his curse had created, and she couldn't contain the scream of fear any longer as a larger demon grabbed her by the arms from in front of Demitri. Out of terror, she screamed louder and rammed the demon as best she could where it would count.

To her relief, the demon doubled over and clutched its gut, as though it were trying to keep from letting its pain become visible in any other way. Other demons approached, some adult and some children, and she suddenly found herself bound by something as hard as a rock. She writhed and struggled against it, trying with everything she had until she saw someone standing in front of her.

"Demitri?" she asked confused and blinked a few times and shook her head to clear her vision. "Demitri? Is that you?"

Tenzin and the others heard her mutter a word before Anastasia finally blinked a few times and shook her head rigorously to clear it.

"Demitri? Is that you?" she asked confused as her eyes began to focus more on the firebender before her.

"What?" Iroh rasped as he opened his eyes to look into hers.

"What? How? I-you-Demitri-he-!" Anastasia sputtered confused as she realized just who Iroh was. "Damn you!"

She forced her hand through the rock, which cut it fairly badly, and rammed it against the side of Iroh's face, leaving a red hand print where she'd slapped him. Lin seemed to become interested in this fight and let the rocks down only to have Anastasia go to punch Iroh with her other hand.

To everyone's astonishment, fire came out of her punch, and Iroh had to literally bend over backwards to avoid from being burnt in the face. But to Anastasia's relief and smug victory he lost his balance and fell over onto his bottom.

"That's what you get!" she yelled before throwing a rock at him.

She was about to storm off when she realized that she had just performed elemental bending and had just attacked the only firebender that she knew about who could teach her how to harness it. Not that she wanted to, heck no, she was nearly killed by fire! She shouldn't be using it when it had been what had destroyed her family!

Just as she slammed the door to her room, she realized the full magnitude of what she had done. She brushed it aside stubbornly, furious at what had happened earlier. In her mind, Iroh deserved getting that rock thrown at him, he deserved to fall onto his butt, and he deserved to nearly get his face burned off! But had she really created that fire with her anger?

Yes, she realized, yes it had been her that had created the fire that nearly burnt his face off.

I think you guys can figure out everybody else's elements from here. Please forgive me, I will try to update more frequently!

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