Urzai Week: Day Four - [Fic] Phoenix in Ashes
Urzai Week
Yesterday:
- I wrote a fic
- spyridona wrote Safe (NWS)
- alexb49 wrote Abides
- alpha_hydra wrote Too Late
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Title: Phoenix in Ashes
Characters: Ozai/Ursa
Prompt: Afterwards
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200+
Spoilers: For the end of the series
Summary: Ursa cannot go to visit her husband in his cell.
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Phoenix in Ashes
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Her husband is broken.
Her magnificent, foolish husband is broken.
Ursa stands outside the door of his cell, hardly daring to breathe. If he hears her, if he calls out to her- She would go to him in an instant. Even after all of everything he has done. She would curse him as she wrapped her arms around him, and burn him as she kissed him, but she would still hold him and kiss him.
She cannot go to him.
After he scarred her son, she could not go to him. Not without the heart of her fire flaring to white and fury in her heart. They would have fought and fought until one of them was dead, and she did not think it would be him.
She couldn't do that to Zuko.
(She couldn't do that to Ozai.)
She turns away from his cell before his slumped form draws her in. The Avatar said he gave her husband mercy by taking his firebending.
Ursa's hand still stings from the blow that sent the boy crashing into a wall.
She cannot bear to let the lack-of-fire in Ozai touch her, or she will forgive him all his horrors in a heartbeat.
-End-
Yesterday:
- I wrote a fic
- spyridona wrote Safe (NWS)
- alexb49 wrote Abides
- alpha_hydra wrote Too Late
---
Title: Phoenix in Ashes
Characters: Ozai/Ursa
Prompt: Afterwards
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200+
Spoilers: For the end of the series
Summary: Ursa cannot go to visit her husband in his cell.
---
Phoenix in Ashes
***
Her husband is broken.
Her magnificent, foolish husband is broken.
Ursa stands outside the door of his cell, hardly daring to breathe. If he hears her, if he calls out to her- She would go to him in an instant. Even after all of everything he has done. She would curse him as she wrapped her arms around him, and burn him as she kissed him, but she would still hold him and kiss him.
She cannot go to him.
After he scarred her son, she could not go to him. Not without the heart of her fire flaring to white and fury in her heart. They would have fought and fought until one of them was dead, and she did not think it would be him.
She couldn't do that to Zuko.
(She couldn't do that to Ozai.)
She turns away from his cell before his slumped form draws her in. The Avatar said he gave her husband mercy by taking his firebending.
Ursa's hand still stings from the blow that sent the boy crashing into a wall.
She cannot bear to let the lack-of-fire in Ozai touch her, or she will forgive him all his horrors in a heartbeat.
-End-