And now the reveeeeals!

But first, I want to take a moment to thank (and thank deeply) my super-excellent pinch-hitters for the exchange. Who didn't just write the fic they were assigned, but picked up slack elsewhere too.

So, thanks escalove, ali_wildgoose, and soleil_de_lune for being amazingly awesome. And special thanks to squarewhore, sahara_storm, and cobaltink for volunteering as well ( Read more... )

So, the last fics submitted have officially been posted ( Read more... )

Title: Life on Either Side
Rating: PG-13.

For: cobaltink

I. Introduction

Mai is very small, and her mother tells her that she will make a new friend. This friend will be the most important friend she will ever make, and Mai must be good and quiet and do whatever she is told. The walls of the palace loom, and Mai girds herself for an unpleasant task.
( 3017 words )

Title: The First Knot
Rating: PG-13

For: rawles

"Is this really necessary?" Mai deadpanned, and shifted closer to Zuko so that she could use his shoulder as a cushion for her head. Her voice was soft and hollow in the vastness of the throne room.
( 3400 words )

Title: The Cute and Innocent
Rating: G

For: swan2swan

"Remind me again," Zuko sighed, rubbing his hands over his face. "How did we end up babysitting your little brother again?"
( 1375 words )

Title: Interlude, with Brooms
Rating: PG

For: jlh

In which Zuko and Mai make out. In a closet.Zuko wouldn't call the feeling entrapment; not after living through the months after the fall of Ba Sing Se under Azula's psychopathic thumb. That was almost as bad imprisonment, and this entrapment came out of obligation - to his people and to the ( Read more... )

Title: The Net
Rating: PG

For: soleil_de_lune

For Zuko and Mai, love is constant bickering and awkwardness, a steady drone of her hundred thousand complaints from morning to night, and because she never complains about him, he tries, always, to please her.
( 1025 words )

Title: Hearts and Shells
Rating: PG
Notes: An AU of ridiculousness, because I can.

For: mekosuchinaeThe day dawned chill and crisp, and Mai shrugged her way out from under her sheets half-heartedly, awake in the weak winter sunlight of her bedroom. It was still twenty minutes before the alarm went off. The house was silent - her mother and brother were asleep ( Read more... )

Title: the four corners i see
Rating: PG

For: invaderk

Zuko looked into the opened wardrobe doors and frowned. Nothing would ever endear the sight of the Fire Lord robes - any version - to him. They were heavy and stiff, and above all unbelievably hot. He was cranky just thinking about his impending detainment in the hot midday blaze. The robes always ( Read more... )

Title: A Good Place We Could Start
Rating: PG-13

For: teh_lobster

"It is up to you, Nephew," Iroh said. "If you think the time is right, the time is right."
( 1750 words )