"I know we've already been out many times, but we have to try at least one last sweep of the city." Aang prompted, and Y/N nodded in agreement.
"Let's all go together this time." She said warily. "People disappear here, and I don't like it."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Katara asked, raising an eyebrow. "You were fine with us going out until now."
"That's right." Y/N nodded, brushing out her hair and styling it out of her face. "It's just something I've seen. The guy I met up with was taken, haven't seen him since. I started paying attention to the people that talked about the war with me. All that I spoke to in public? Gone. Ba Sing Se isn't safe, not for people like us."
Jet had been taken about a week ago now. There was still no sign of him. Or Appa, for that matter.
"You failed to mention that your date a was kidnapped." Sokka pointed out, but everyone now seemed onboard with the all-together idea. "This was like a week ago, and now old news, why didn't you tell us sooner?"
"He wasn't my date, he was my good friend, and I don't want any of us suffering the same fate. There wasn't any use in telling you guys at the time, I needed to figure more stuff out."
"Anything else you forgot to tell us before we leave?" Toph asked, arms crossed and listening expectantly.
"..." Y/N thought for a few moments, then sighed. "Toph the lie detector makes this harder. I'll be brutally honest." She turned from the mirror, leaning against the dresser to face the group.
"Zuko is in town."
Immediately, everyone was on their feet, yelling different things. Aang looked genuinely concerned, while Sokka was saying something about trusting them, while Katara spouted insults and Toph laughed her head off.
"SHUT UP!" Y/N screeched over the racket, effectively silencing everyone, save for a few snorts from Toph.
"So that's where you'd been all those late nights!" Katara spat, shaking her sister's shoulders. "Y/N why? Why do you keep doing this??"
"YOU THINK I KNOW?" Y/N yelled, ripping her shoulders away from her grasp. "YOU THINK EITHER OF US KNOW WHY WE TEAR EACH OTHER APART?!" That made Katara fall silent again, and Y/N took a few moments to breathe.
"We can't be apart, not when we're so close. Just the hour we get away to have dinner- or watch street performers... have tea? It's enough. We both know what's coming, and what the other will do depending on choices made, but we need time to get away from thinking, alright?"
"I've had some of the best hours of my life with him, let me enjoy the fact that we can spend time together, the fact that we can laugh, ignoring the war outside the walls!" Y/N tried to hold in tears at the pitying looks she was getting. "Because we both know it will have to end soon, and we won't have these hours ever again."
"Y/N...?" Sokka asked quietly, reaching out to put a hand on her shoulder. It was comforting, and she leaned on her twin brother, breathing slowly.
"I think I know what he will choose." She whispered, wiping away a few tears and regaining her composure. "And when he does..." She looked up, straight into Katara's eyes. "I will have to kill him."
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