Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ Fire Flakes ❯ A Mother’s Love ( Chapter 14 )

Title: A Mother's Love

Author: Sephira jo

Rating: PG

Author's Note: For challenge #59 on theavatar100 over at live journal. This weeks theme: Judgment. Azula centric.

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar; I'm not making any money off of this.

 

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It's time for a talk, her mother had said as she drug Azula out of her older brother's room. She could hear him chanting like a mantra that she always lied. The beauty of a single moment of honesty: he'd never believe it. But it was the kind of judgment Grandfather was capable of.

 

Azula was firmly tossed by one arm back into her own room. Ursa's gaze was harsh on her daughter, “What, exactly, did you tell your brother?”

 

“Nothing,” Azula's voice was musical as she skipped over and sat on her bed, legs dangling over the red sheets. “Just the truth. You like him best, don't you Mom?”

 

At her mother's shocked look, Azula giggled, “By tomorrow, you'll have to like me best. Because Dad's going to kill him,” her eyes bright, she thought this a delightful game. “You'll have to love me best, because I'll be your only child. And you'll dote on me, just like Dad, because Zuzu will be dead…”

 

Anything else Azula might have said was cut off by a slap across the face, delivered without expression from her mother. Now, Azula sat stunned, holding on to her cheek.

 

“One day, you'll learn like I have the price of your Father's `affection.' I don't know whose child you are, but you aren't mine. I would never willingly carry and birth a demon like you,” Ursa turned on her heel and started to leave. Azula was ashamed of her tears. She shouldn't care what her mother thought, and she hated herself and her mother for that.

 

“Where are you going, Mom?”

 

“To talk to your father,” Ursa's voice was short, “I'm sorry, but you're not going to be an only child tomorrow.” She left and Azula took out her anger on the bed, burning it piece by piece.