Zuko's mind was in a whirl. He had wasted, and would unfortunately continue to waste, so much time. The Avatar was free on the ship, and although Zuko could easily find him at a moment's notice, he had no way to restrain the airbender - and even if he could, no way to deliver his prize to his father
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Why had he accepted that responsibility again? What could a peasant not even from his world do to help restore the Fire Nation?
"I didn't say you could come in."
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"Go away."
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"Uh, Zuko? When did you decide to go back to the topknot?"
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"I don't want to talk about it."
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"Zuko, what's wrong?"
She puts a hand on his shoulder - they're in private, after all.
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"The Fire Nation is gone. The Avatar is right here, but I don't even have a country to take him back to."
And physical comfort from no-longer-estranged girlfriends is for people with HONOR. He stands up, moving restlessly.
"Without the Fire Nation, I'll never get my honor back - and I've just been sitting around, not doing anything to fix it!"
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Unfortunately, this daze caused him to fail to realize that the podroom was already occupied when he went to open the door, Zuko's singing suddenly far more audible and clashing harshly with the music he was listening too. He jumped back, ashen-faced. Pulling out his headphones he began to stutter, "S-sorry, I d-didn't..." He looked confused for a moment, studying his teacher's face, slowly realizing that it actually was the same person, "Z-Zuko?"
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Zuko sits hunched over in the podroom, brooding intensely to what sounds like guitars being murdered.
Again, the audacity of these peasants angers him. "Prince Zuko, peasant. You forget your place."
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"I-I... S-sorry, Prince Zuko..." The anger was worse than it usually was with Zuko, and Alex stepped back for fear that it might attack him. "Wh-what happened... You're acting s-strange..."
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Seriously, he's a jerk all the time. How does Alex not know this?
"I have thinking to do. Get out."
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