She was hit by a fire blast. She turned into fire.

Remi spotted a group of children. Looking at the blind girl, Remi smirked at the easy target. He stood up from his Pai Sho table, and strolled casually. He bumped into her, and apologized with enough charm that would make most girls faint. He was about to walk away when he found himself buried up to his head.

"So, flighty fingers, did you think I was a good target?" the little girl ask with a smirk and hands on her hips.

"Well, my dear, you did just prove how bad of a target you are for anyone, not just Remi," said the man with the maximum amount of charm he could ooze out.

The girl smirked as her friends surrounded him. "Well, you're not too bad yourself. If only you had not picked the world's greatest earth bender as your victim," Toph said dramatically. "Pay up."

Remy grumbled as his chest and arms became free. Reaching into his pocket, he gave Toph back what he stole. She motioned for him to give her more, and he grumbled as he put a few coins into her outstretched hand before she fully released him.

"That's more like it." The girl turned to face her friends as the other girl in the group talked to her, and Remy sighed. He walked towards a Pai Sho table, and looked at the old man sitting there.

"Would you like to play a game?" Remy asked. Looking the old man in the eye, they played the ritualistic game for a messenger of the order addressing a higher ranked one.

After the clacking of Pai Sho tiles stopped and the pattern formed, the old man looked Remi in the eye and said, "It would be best if you delivered the order form to my shop."

Remi nodded and followed him, avoiding the watchful eyes of those around him. Perfumes of unnamed desert flowers assaulted him as he entered the flower shop that hosted a White Lotus pit stop. Following the man to a secluded area, he noted all of the plants and where they were. It surprised Remi that people bought plants in this dried up hole.

He gave the man the papers, and sighed as the man looked them over. The man looked at Remi and asked, "How long will you be here for?"

Remi responded, "For two days; Remi will be leaving on the next cart to Ba Sing Se. Remi assumes it will be a transport for plants as well?"

The man nodded. Then, the man asked, "Why did you pick pocket in that bar?"

Remi smiled. "How do you think Remi gets important information from places no agents can reach? Remi is an accomplished thief; although that blind girl was amazing. Remi has no idea how she managed to tell that Remi was stealing from her."

The old man rolled his eyes, and sighed. "While you are here, you can work for me. This old body is not as strong as it used to be."

Remi agreed to help, and waited around. It was going to be a long two days.

People brought food to the woman who made their crops so bountiful. The area had not suffered a drought in years.

An old man, a scarred teenager and an apparently blind teenager arrived and were led into the back of the flower shop. Remi followed them, and waited with the two teenagers as the White Lotus members had their meeting.

Looking idly at the two, he asked, "What's your story?"

The one with brown hair spoke up first. "What's yours?"

Remi rolled his eyes. So they were going to play that game. Putting on his second most charming smile (most charming was reserved for females only), Remi told them a fantastic lie about the Earth King, a harem, turtle ducks and red bean buns. The teenagers only stared, one managing it without opening his eyes.

"Well, now that I told you that story, why don't you tell me yours?" Remi asked.

The scarred teen rolled his eyes. The teen with his eyes closed sighed, and began to talk.

"When I was little, my town was raided by the Fire Nation. Parents died to get me and my brother out of there, brother disappeared, hit on back of head and now I can't open my eyes without blowing stuff up. My name is Sying, by the way."

Remi mulled over it. The clipped tone indicated that he was used to telling this tale, at least recently, and the way his face scrunched at the touched upon memories showed the truth of his story. Remi nodded.

"Are you like Remi, then? Able to make things explode?"

The scarred one looked up at Remi, and Sying managed to do his best to stare in shock without opening his eyes.

Sying began to rush his speech. "What do you mean? There are others like me? What exactly can you do? How-"

"Hold your ostrich horses, Remi can only answer so many questions at once. Remi just touches things, focuses on making them blow up, they get all weird, and in a short amount of time they go boom. It is enough time to throw a pai sho tile at someone's face. And Remi's met a few non benders who can do some interesting things."

This time, the scarred one asked the question with sharp interest. "How does it work? I mean, I thought that one could use their chi to bend an element. How can you do something completely unrelated to an element by accident?"

Remi frowned, and stroked his chin. "We are nothing like benders, and we are called 'mutants' by most people in the know. But many don't know, because they would react badly, no? Remi did once run into a professor in Ba Sing Se who knows much about our kind, and explained it to me once, but Remi forgets exactly what he said. All Remi knows is that Remi, like other mutants, are born differently than others. By the way, Remi did not catch your name. What is it, hnn?"

"…Lee. I was burned by a fire bender and have not been able to return home since." Remi frowned; the way his eyes looked up and to the left showed that he was telling the truth, but there was much more to the story than he was telling. Remi nodded; after all, everyone had secrets they wanted to keep, no? And Remi never said how he came to be a member of the White Lotus. A messenger, but a member none the less.

Although Remi apparently was not a high ranked enough member to be in that meeting. Or maybe Remi was there to keep those two from nosing around or listening in. Whatever.

Sying was the one who spoke next, with an oddly serious tone that seemed distantly familiar. "What is your story? The truth, this time."

Remi mentally cursed; Remi hoped they would have been amused and forget about it. Ah well; Remi could do what Lee did.

"Remi was a thief and part of a thieving family, and Remi ran from them a few years ago and ran into the White Lotus. It is good to have allies who will not manipulate or use you." Remi then looked over at the two boys, and tilted his head. "It is also good to have friends, no?"

Sying smiled. "Meeting others like yourself helps."

The door then opened, and the old man and the flower man stepped out. Then flower man spoke.

"Remi, you will be taking a cart today to Ba Sing Se. You will be sitting up front with Sying, and Lee and Mushi will hide in large flower pots to hide from bounty hunters." Flower man then looked towards Sying. "As for you, there is a professor who is currently in Ba Sing Se who works with non-benders who have abilities like yours. You may also be able to find a stone cutter who can make you lenses for your eyes. You leave now."

Despite his uncharacteristically dopey smile, Sying managed to get all the plants on and help set the cart up for travel. Due to the lack of posters with his face blazoned on them and nobody paying attention to who those on the wanted poster were traveling with, nobody stopped them or started a fight. Remi smiled the way only a conman and thief could.

If you thought I gave up on this story, be pleasantly surprised! I'm just ridiculously slow~

Thanks again to Vampiric Dragonrider for being a good beta!

Previous breaks were: Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Wolverine (Logan, he of many names), Ice Man (Bobby Drake), Pyro (John Allyerdyce).

Only name changes you need to know for this chapter are:

Sying- Scott Summers aka Cyclops

Remi- Remy LeBeau aka Gambit (Yes I was lazy and just changed the 'y' to an 'i'. If there are other names I can get away with something like that or names that are already Asain, I will.)