As soon as they entered in her room Azula grabbed Sokka by the collar and said:

"Alright, listen," She looked furious, and even though her was voice in a calm tone, it sounded deadly. "I only agreed with that so Zuko and my mom would leave me alone, but if you start to piss me off, I'm going to turn your life into a living hell…" She pushed him away, and gave him a threatening smile.

"Uh… Do I have a say in this?"

"No."

He wasn't really sure how to talk to the princess. They had interacted many times before, he knew she wasn't the enemy anymore – she was even doing some good things to the nation, since she started working with Zuko –, but he obviously was never really confortable around her. She always looked at him as he was inferior and seemed to roll eyes to everything he said. And now he would have to spend most part of the days around her… Why did he even agree to that?

"I'm not happy with this either, I'm only doing this because Zuko is my friend."

"I don't care… Stay here, I'm going to wash up and get dressed for day." He just realized she was still in her nightgown and with her hair down… It was so weird to see her like that. "Don't touch anything." She said and left to the bathroom.

Sokka sighed and looked around. Her room was huge… she was such a small person, why did she need so much space? He spent some time walking around, looking at the princess' stuff. He saw a lot of clothes, make up, books… If it weren't for the size of the room, he would say it belonged to an ordinary girl.

After a while, already a little bored, he sat down over her dressing table and uninterestedly opened a small book he founded there. His eyes widened when he realized that was the princess' handwriting… Was that her journal or something? He almost laughed at how unlikely that sounded. But that was it seemed to be. Before he could actually read anything, someone closed the journal. He froze. Now he was dead.

"I said don't touch anything." By the Azula's glare, it seemed that she was deciding which kind of horrible death he deserved.

"I-I'm sorry, I didn't-" He stuttered, stepping back. "I just opened it… I-I mean… I was bored, I didn't read it or anything…" He swallowed hard, looking at her just waiting for the worst.

Azula just closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"You're not going to lit me on fire, are you?" He asked as a joke, but part of him was genuinely afraid of the answer.

She rolled her eyes at him.

"No, you idiot. If I wanted you dead, you'd already be. Now, we are going to my office, I have things to work on, and you are not going to disturb me, got it?"

He sighed.

"Got it."

Once they arrived there, she sat on her desk.

"Again, don't touch anything, don't talk, don't even breath. Just pretend not to exist." She said coldly, and started looking at a scroll.

He looked at her with disbelieve, now she was just being ridiculous.

"You can't be serious, right?"

The princess looked at him, confused for being questioned.

"I'm sorry, why wouldn't I be serious?" She said.

"Did you listen when I said that I'm also not enjoying this? Why are you punishing me? If there is anyone to blame it's your brother! It was his stupid idea after all…"

"Zuko is not here, I only have you to torture, now quiet." She said, turning her attention to her reading.

"That's not fair. And hey, you should be thanking me!"

Now he went too far. She thanking him? She laughed at him, looking incredulous to him.

"You are kidding, right? Thanking you for what? Wasting my time having this pointless conversation?"

"Well…" Sokka crossed his arms, looking seriously to her. "As far as I know, I'm here to keep you safe." He gave her a satisfied smile. "I mean, you are the one who need my help…"

She couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Oh, you really believe that? That I need your help to be safe?"

"Why would Zuko ask me to do that if you didn't?"

"Because since I came back home, Zuko thinks he needs to play the big brother with me?" She glared at him, she didn't know what made her angrier the fact that he was disturbing her work or that he actually believe that she needed his protection.

"Say whatever you want, Princess… Zuko asked me to do this, and I'm going to help him. So you don't get to discount your angriness at me just because you feel like it."

Sokka was leaned at her desk, looking directly to her face. He didn't know where that confidence came from, but he guessed that since she hadn't killed him yet she wasn't going to do it anymore. Plus, he was already getting tired of her attitude. He had come to Fire Nation to clear his head, now not only he had a horrible job, but also would be tortured by the princess? No way.

Azula's month was a little open, as she looked shocked at him. She didn't expect this, she was more than certain that he would be so afraid of her and that he would do anything she said…

"Alright, peasant, I'm not wasting more of my time discussing with someone like you…" She gave him a disgusted look. "I don't care about what you do, just don't disturb me, alright?" She said each word carefully.

"Right."

The day went on normally and Sokka followed her everywhere in the Palace. They barely spook to each other, but Azula used every chance she got to insult him in different ways. One thing Sokka couldn't stop thinking though, how was she so calm about the fact that someone tried to kill her? He heard she was very paranoid with those kind of thing, and he realized he wasn't the only to strange that. Everyone seemed to expect her to have a breakdown or at least to get nervous, but she was acting as nothing happened.

At the end of that day, they were both at her office again. She was writing something and he was laid on the couch playing with the boomerang.

"Well, I can finish this tomorrow. I'm going bed…" She said distractedly.

"Finally…" He mumbled. And they started walking to their rooms.

"So, Zuko gave me the room next to yours… But I guess I should guard your door the whole night, right?" Sokka almost crying, he couldn't believe he wasn't allowed to sleep either.

"Don't be ridiculous. Just stay in your room, I scream, if I need you to save me…" She answered, with a sarcastic laugh.

When they were almost at Azula's room's door, there was a loud sound of something breaking. She almost jumped to Sokka's side and unconscionably grabbed his arm.

"I'm so sorry, Princess…" The voice came from a young servant, who had dropped a vase. Then she walked away as quickly as could.

Azula sighed in relief, but forgot to let Sokka arm's go. He on the other hand was looking at her very confused, did she actually get that scared because of this?

"Uh…" He tried to say something. "Is everything okay?"

She finally came back to reality, her eyes widened almost in panic when she realized what just happened and she finally let his arm go.

"Uh, yeah..." She gave him a fake smile, trying to look chill. "Uh, I'm just really tired, and… well, I'll probably banish that girl in the morning. So, see you tomorrow, peasant." She said as quickly as she could, before getting into her bedroom and shut the door.

Sokka stood there for a moment, not sure of what had just happened.

"That was weird…" He said to himself, but then he shrugged and went to his room, right next to hers. What did you expect? It's Azula, of course everything is weird.