Crew Bending

Chapter 16: Another Interrogation and a Surprise?

*Jessica's Location (3rd person PoV)*

Jessica sat in her chair, stilled tied to it. But at least now she was no longer in her broken state. Although she was quietly scolding herself for being weak and breaking. She regretted telling them about Evanz, because they seemed to be interested in the benders without special properties... Evanz and herself.

As she was in the middle of yelling mentally to herself, the door to the room opened, revealing Kyle.

"Hey." Kyle said.

Jessica said nothing and glared, mainly because she wasn't going to tell these people anymore than she already has, and she was quite angry with Kyle.

"You look terrible." Kyle commented, gesturing to Jessica's black eye, and slightly bloody nose.

"Oh, why thank you. I would look better if, oh, I don't now, YOU didn't let the snot get beaten out of me." Jessica replied, with venom in her voice.

"Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for it to reach that point. I didn't want him to get suspicious, or the people that were clearly watching."

"Pff, you could have stopped it."

"I would have been killed, if not that, tortured!"

"A sacrifice you should have made."

"What?! I'm your ticket out of here." Kyle said, a bit more quietly than usual.

"Hmm? If you're my way out, then let me out."

"I will... But I need something from you first."

Jessica began to laugh, after her little fit she responded, "Like I'm going to do anything for you. The guy that let me go through that torture yesterday."

"I'm not asking you to tell me anything, I just need help bending. You see, I'm a fire bender like yourself and well, I never was trained, meaning I don't know very much on the bending level..."

"Hmm, since you are a fire bender, you are slightly more tolerable. But since I'm tied to a chair, I can't help you very much on the training." Jessica said, while smirking.

"If I untie you, will you train me?" Kyle said casually, although his eyes were begging.

"As much as I want to say 'no' because I don't trust you at all, I'm going to have to agree if I want these things off, aren't I?"

"Yes."

"...Fine.."

"Great, I'll go get a key to unlock the chains, and I'll bring some food." Kyle said as he was leaving the room.

Once he was gone, Jessica was contemplating whether or not he was speaking the truth. But then she regretted her choice of agreeing to help.

So Jessica sat there, trying to think of a way to get stronger. After a while of concentrating on the floor, she generated a fire. Which she quickly put out, because she heard someone unlocking the door.

Jessica was greeted by Kyle, who held a box of pizza, and a key in his hand. Kyle then quickly closed the door back up, and looked at Jessica.

Once he confirmed the door was closed, Kyle took a step away from it. As he did, Jessica caught the floor behind them on fire.

"PUT IT OUT!!" Kyle commanded.

Jessica did as she was told, and put the fire out. She then looked at Kyle with a smirk on her face.

"Don't do that again! Someone could have noticed!" Kyle scolded, then relaxed and said, "Now you promise you won't try to leave once I untie you?"

"Yeah, yeah. It's not like I would know how to get out of this place, even if I did get out." Jessica replied.