When Worlds Collide

Saying Goodbye

Anastasia shot up in bed after a terrible nightmare. She dreamed the man had found her and raped her again. She reached for her phone to call Natasha then remembered two things. One, her phone won't work and two... Natasha's dead.

She pulled her hand back and got out of bed instead. She looked out the window and saw it was still dark outside so she decided to go outside for some air. She sat on the stone steps and breathed in the fresh air.

"Anastasia?" A voice said.

Anastasia turned and saw Zuko, "Zuko? What are you doing up?"

"I was gonna ask you the same thing," Zuko replied as he sat down next to her. Anastasia looked at the ground and rested her arms on her knees, "Nightmare?" She nodded, "Do you... do you wanna talk about it?"

Anastasia shrugged and stayed silent for a moment, then she said, "It was about that man... I dreamed he raped me again."

Zuko looked down, "I'm sorry..."

"It's not your fault." She paused before changing the subject, "Toph told me about what the others were fighting about last night. Can't they just get along with each other? I'm tired of everyone going at each other's throats because they feel a certain way."

"They were fighting?" Zuko asked. Anastasia gave him a look, "Uh... I mean, I'm sure they'll calm down after all the stress goes away."

"Maybe you're right..." Anastasia looked at the ground before looking at him again, "Zuko, promise me you won't let Aang overwork himself while learning how to fire bend. I know he beats himself up over what happened so just... make sure he doesn't exhaust himself."

Zuko nodded, "I promise."

Anastasia smiled, "Thanks." She paused, "One more thing..." Her expression became scary, "If you hurt Mel in any way, you'll lose the ability to make heirs to the throne."

Zuko gulped and nodded, "Understood."

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Allison and Sokka walked into the house holding hands. They didn't dare meet anyone's eyes as they walked in worried that it would expose them. Toph started making jokes about them but they didn't hear they just walked past everyone up the stairs and into the room they had shared.

Anastasia softly knocked on the door before opening it, "Hey... you both okay?"

They didn't respond.

Anastasia frowned and closed the door behind her, "I need to tell you guys something. I don't want to freak the others out."

Allison looked up and finally spoke. "I." She paused for a second. "I have something to tell you too. Do you want to go first?" Allison said, still not looking her in the eyes.

"No, you go first," Anastasia replied.

"Anastasia... I'm dying." She said, finally bursting out in tears.

Anastasia was shocked and quickly pulled her into a hug, "I think being here is messing with our biology." She said calmly.

Allison looked up at the younger girl. "You feel it, don't you?" she said.

"Yeah... my healing factor is being slow, and my spider-sense doesn't work." She replied.

"It's not like I'm losing power. I can just feel my life force that comes from the sea being torn away. I... I think I need to go home. I don't know how yet but I have to."Allison said looking at Sokka.

Tears formed in Anastasia's eyes, "I agree... I'm afraid losing powers isn't the only thing that's going to happen to me... or Ave and Mel. I don't think they've noticed yet."