[fic] Something to Hold Onto, Chapter 12: So Clear Now
Title: Something to Hold Onto [12/13]
Word count: 8,900
Pairing: Jet/Zuko
Rating: A very hard R for language, violence and sexual content
Summary: Since the day the walls of Ba Sing Se fell, the Freedom Fighters have struggled to protect what remains of the city and its people. Jet and his second command, a mysterious boy named Li, have spent the ( Read more... )
Word count: 8,900
Pairing: Jet/Zuko
Rating: A very hard R for language, violence and sexual content
Summary: Since the day the walls of Ba Sing Se fell, the Freedom Fighters have struggled to protect what remains of the city and its people. Jet and his second command, a mysterious boy named Li, have spent the ( Read more... )
Where to start. At the beginning of the chapter when Jet was all "he has never really been mine, woe!" I was just like "oh Zuko, just propose already, a ring may be called for here, he's not going to get it until you do" so thank you Zuko for at least giving him your promise dagger there. Awww.
Also I somehow totally thought that because things happened differently in Ba Sing Se in this timeline that Aang was somehow going to defeat Ozai at the eclipse - don't ask me how or why, but I was just totally stunned at "Aang lost", and can I just tell you how completely fucking brilliant that is, that, basically, you made *canon* a plot twist? So much tension waiting for that hawk, too. Which, again, is tension *about canon*. DUDE.
I love Jet being the one to tell Zuko he has to go be Firelord.
... but it didn't really work for me that Jet didn't just go off with Zuko to find Aang at the end. I had to reread a couple of times to figure out why he wasn't... it's not an internal thing, he seems to have sorted out his own denial and angst about it, as per his conversation with Smellerbee, and then, what? Iroh decided that one more person would be too many? Who exactly is in the "us" of "it will just be us at first"? With Jet having handed things off to Ping so neatly, he doesn't seem urgently needed... I just didn't see a compelling reason separating them here, except that the plot wanted them to have to part. (The "Amber Spyglass" problem...) Sorry, maybe I'm missing something.
Otherwise, however, I like this with the firey squee of a million Sozin's comets.
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