somariel: (Zuko)
Written for [livejournal.com profile] avatar_500, Prompt #33: Trust

Rating: K/G
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Zuko and Aang
Summary: Zuko is surprised by the first person to trust him after he changes sides

Unexpected Trust

Zuko was honestly surprised by the first person to truly trust him after he joined the Avatar and his friends. The first person to trust him without having an outside reason wasn't Katara—no surprise there. It wasn't Sokka. It wasn't even Toph—she had the whole "living lie detector" thing going for her. It was Aang. The person who probably had the least reason to trust him.

When Katara had objected to letting Aang go off to find the Sun Warrior ruins alone with Zuko, it was Aang who had insisted that she stay behind with the others. Not Toph—Aang. When Zuko asked Aang why he was so certain that he could trust him, Aang had shrugged and said, "Because everyone has the potential for good in them. It just takes some people longer to find it than others. You've proven that you've changed."
somariel: (Firelord Zuko)
Title: Now and Then
Rating: K/G
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Aang and Zuko
Summary: Aang and Zuko think about how their relationship has changed.

Now and Then )
somariel: (Zuko)
Title: Lessons Learned
Rating: K+/PG
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Suki, Toph
Summary: Zuko shares the story of how he got his scar.

A/N: This is set during the episode “The Phoenix King”, between Zuko teaching Aang how to redirect lightning and the Gaang’s practice for taking out the Firelord.

Lessons Learned )

Hope

Jul. 18th, 2011 06:56 am
somariel: (Iroh TOM)
Title: Hope
Rating: K/G
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Iroh, Piandao, mention of Zuko
Summary: At the Order's camp outside Ba Sing Se, Iroh finally gets word of Zuko.

Hope )
somariel: (Zuko)
Title: A Voluntary Prisoner
Rating: T/PG-13
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Chapters: Four, plus an epilogue
Characters: Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, minor appearances by The Duke, Teo, and Haru
Summary: What if the Gaang had accepted Zuko's offer to become their prisoner?

Epilogue )
somariel: (Zuko)
Title: A Voluntary Prisoner
Rating: T/PG-13
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Chapters: Four, plus an epilogue
Characters: Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, minor appearances by The Duke, Teo, and Haru
Summary: What if the Gaang had accepted Zuko's offer to become their prisoner?

Chapter Four: Probation )
somariel: (Zuko)
Title: A Voluntary Prisoner
Rating: T/PG-13
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Chapters: Four, plus an epilogue
Characters: Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, minor appearances by The Duke, Teo, and Haru
Summary: What if the Gaang had accepted Zuko's offer to become their prisoner?

Chapter Three: New Information )
somariel: (Zuko)
Title: A Voluntary Prisoner
Rating: T/PG-13
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Chapters: Four, plus an epilogue
Characters: Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, minor appearances by The Duke, Teo, and Haru
Summary: What if the Gaang had accepted Zuko's offer to become their prisoner?

Chapter Two: Following Through )
somariel: (Zuko)
Title: A Voluntary Prisoner
Rating: T/PG-13
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Chapters: Four, plus an epilogue
Characters: Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, minor appearances by The Duke, Teo, and Haru
Summary: What if the Gaang had accepted Zuko's offer to become their prisoner?

Chapter One: The Offer )
somariel: (Zuko)
Written for [livejournal.com profile] avatar_500, Prompt #32: Empty

Rating: K/G
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Zuko
Summary: Zuko realizes why he felt unhappy after siding with Azula in Ba Sing Se

Realizations

Zuko should have been happy, but he wasn't. Finally, after three long years, he was going to return to the Fire Nation. He had redeemed himself and restored his honor—Azula had told him so herself. That was what he had wanted, wasn't it? But if it was, then why was he so unhappy? Was it because he had betrayed Uncle? No, that couldn't be right—Uncle had betrayed him, not the other way around.

After the war meeting, Zuko finally understood why he had been so unhappy. He had betrayed Uncle, but more than that, he had betrayed himself. In siding with Azula against the Avatar, he had done what he thought his father wanted him to do, not what he wanted to do.
somariel: (Zuko)
Written for [livejournal.com profile] avatar_500, Prompt #29: Travel

Rating: K/G
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Zuko
Summary: Zuko muses on the differences between traveling with Iroh and traveling with the Gaang

Differences

Somehow, for Zuko, traveling with the Avatar and his friends was different from traveling during his banishment and as a refugee. It wasn't just that he had had Uncle with him for most of the time during the latter, although that was part of it. There was an entirely different dynamic to traveling with the Avatar's group.

Whereas Uncle had been the responsible one during their travels together, now Zuko found himself taking on the role of the responsible one, being the oldest one present. Given that Katara was the other person filling the role of the responsible one, there had been quite a bit of tension between them before she had forgiven him. Once she had forgiven him, though, they found that they could split the responsibilities between them with little need to talk about it.

Aang was like a little brother, always looking up to him, and Toph was the little sister he should have had. Sokka was the best friend he had never had, someone around his own age who had similar interests and who was willing to talk about things he wasn't comfortable talking with Uncle about. In many, many ways, the Avatar's group was becoming the family he should have had. It was actually fun traveling with them.
somariel: (Zuko)
Written for [livejournal.com profile] avatar_500, Prompt #28: Free

Rating: K/G
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Zuko
Summary: Zuko feels like a new person after confronting his father

A Free Man

Zuko had never felt more free than he did during the eclipse, when he finally spoke his mind to his father. Just knowing that his father couldn't stop him was wonderfully exhilarating. The moment he announced his decision to join the Avatar, it felt like all of the worries and concerns he'd been feeling and the troubles he'd been having since his supposedly triumphant return simply evaporated. He no longer felt weighed down by uncertainty. He was finally doing the right thing and his spirit knew it. Shedding the lies he had been taught like a lizard-snake shedding its skin, he walked out of that encounter with his father as a new, freer man, certain of himself and what he was doing.

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