Fic: "Country Feedback"

[redbrunja]

Title: Country Feedback
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: PG
Author’s Note: Exactly 100 words.
Summary: “Zuko wants to feel warm again.” Post “Crossroads of Destiny”

Zuko watches the horizon, and waits for his homeland to come into sight. He is tired of seas, of deserts, he wants sultry air and heat and honor.

He didn't watch when they took his uncle, encasing him in earth and dragging him away, and that small turn of his head, Zuko decides, was his worst act of cowardice.

He remembers Katara's wrists in his hands (I'll save you–) her skin cool, like her bones were made of water, and later her fingers against his face (–I'll heal you).

When Mei kisses him, her lips are like ice.

Zuko wants to feel warm again.

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Note: I'd strongly recommend listening to REM's "Country Feedback" pre- or post- reading. That song came up on iTunes and I write this in under six minutes. Can you tell?

Comments

[praiseofshadows.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3 (because Zuko can never angst too much! :D)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

He really can't.

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

Aww... I always feel bad for Zuko and his angst, but... this was awesome! :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And I love Zuko and his angst. Even when I feel bad about finding it amusing.

(I mean, standing on a mountain top in the rain screaming for the lightning to strike him? I laughed, but I felt really bad about it.)