Protected Princess || Zuko

12 || Lightning

It's been a little over an hour and I've been staring at the ground. The silence in the room was suddenly broken by the sound of coughing.

"Uncle?!" Zuko said, "Uncle."

Iroh's eyes opened for the first time and my face grew happy.

"You were unconscious." Zuko said to Iroh.

Iroh slowly sat up, holding his wound.

"Azula did this to you. It was a surprise attack." Zuko added.

"Somehow that's not so surprising." Iroh says, leaning against the back wall.

Zuko then started to pour the tea that's been sitting, into a cup.

"She got away too." I said.

"I hope I made it the way you like it." Zuko says as he gives the cup of tea to Iroh.

Iroh accepts the tea and brings the cup to his mouth, taking a sip. Suddenly, his face scrunches.

"Mm...good." Iroh says, contradicting his facial expressions.

Iroh takes another sip and gags, causing me to force back a laugh.

"That was very..um.. bracing." Iroh says smiling at Zuko, handing the cup back.

Zuko pours Iroh another cup of tea and Iroh accepts it. This time Zuko also pours some for me.

Seeing Irohs past expression I was a little nervous to drink it.

I took a sip and it tasted like how the rest of our tea tasted for the past few days.. are we bad at making tea?

"So, uncle, ive been thinking.." Zuko begins to talk. While Zuko pours his own cup of tea, I see Iroh take the opportunity to dump his tea out of the hole in the wall.

"PSH- Ahem sorry." I began to laugh but then shoved my face into my cup to hide it.

"It's only a matter of time before I run into Azula again. I'm going to need to know more advanced fire bending if I wanna stand a chance against her. I know what you're gonna say, she's my sister and I should be trying to get along with her." Zuko concludes.

"No. She's crazy and she needs to go down." Iroh says with a serious face, placing his cup onto the ground.

Me and Zuko nod our heads to Iroh's words.

"Argh!" Iroh groans in pain as he gets up from the ground, holding his wound again.

"It's time to resume both of your training." Iroh says with a serious face.

Iroh then begins to walk over to his bag. He reaches in and grabs out chamomile tea.

"Uncle, I have tea right here." Zuko says.

"Yes, but.. Hai would like to finish the rest of it." Iroh says smiling.

My face droops towards Iroh until I notice Zuko look over at me and my face turns into a smile.

"You can have the rest of it if you'd like." Zuko says, pouring the small bit of tea into a cup.

"Thank you." I say smiling, drinking the tea that I thought was pretty good.

Iroh sits back down in front of Zuko and starts making the tea.

"I'm glad you're okay, Iroh." I say, finishing my cup of tea.

Iroh laughs slightly before answering, "I knew I would be okay." Iroh replies.

I smile slightly knowing he was talking about my healing abilities.