I don't Own ATLA
ATLA AU modern times
Zuko-17
Azula-15
Katara-16
Sokka-17
Ty lee-15
Mai-17
Zuko is getting ready for the Halloween party at Sokka's house, he is dressing as Freddy Krueger and all he had to do was to apply the make up, so he sat in front his mirror and started to work.
He just finished the make up on his right ear and around his eye when the door of his room suddenly opened , making him jump, Zuko turned and saw his mother
"Mom, you gave me an heart attack! I almost ruined my make up" he protested
"Did you see your sister?" Ursa asked in a panicked voice, ignoring him, Zuko sighed and said crossing his arms
"Isn't she in her room? If I remember right you grounded her for coming home completely drunk"
"She is not in her room and nowhere in the house! Her cellphone is dead" the woman is obliviously worried to death
"I am sure she went to that dammed bar again!" yep Ursa looks like she is going to have an heart attack at any moment, Zuko got up and placed his hands on his mother's shoulders and said serious
"Calm down mom I will get her and take her home before something bad happens" a this Ursa started to cry a bit
"please Zuko get her home, before she..." the older woman couldn't finish the sentence without crying more, her son hugged her
"It's ok mom, it won't happen again I swear, I will get her home before it does" he said with a reassuring tone
"I don't know what to do with her anymore..." Ursa whispered, Zuko had no idea neither.
Zuko is driving to the most dangerous place in the whole city, a Bar, in which criminals of all types reunited, on his journey he thought about what happened to his sister one time she went there...in short a fight broke out between two rivals gangs and Azula was in the middle of it, just thinking about it made Zuko's blood boil in rage
-one would think that after that, she would learn to stay away from that place but no she continues to go in there, aware that she could get beaten up again at any time!- he thought angry then ever and in the meantime he arrived , so he stopped his car and got out , he looked for only a moment to the building before entering with determination.
Zuko ignored , all the people in the local and focused his attention to a single girl drinking at a table
"Azula" he said going to her, she just looked at him and then kept drinking her vodka, she is wearing a simple red T-shirt and a pair of jeans, her eyes are red and she looks like she hasn't slept or eaten in days, however it was the black eye and the cuts on the right side of her face that caught his attention
"What happened to you face?" he asked
"not of your business" she answered and kept drinking
"Stop right now" Zuko said firmly taking her arm
"leave me alone" Azula said in a tired tone
"No, I am getting you home" he retorted and then dragged her outside, leaving the rest of the drink inside.
Zuko is driving silently to their home, Azula is staring at him, then she asked
"Why?" the boy looked at her for a moment before concentrating to the road
"Why what?" he asked back, his sister just turned to the window and said
"Why didn't you leave me there?" Zuko sighed and answered looking at her bruised face
"you could have gotten hurt, more, and I don't want you to get hurt, I wish I had gotten there sooner so you wouldn't have gotten hurt at all" Azula frowned
"that doesn't make any sense, you hate me" she said, her brother suddenly stopped the car and looked at her with anger
"Who gave you that idea!" Azula is a little taken back by such an angry tone
"Dad always said that" she answered, at this Zuko calmed down and said
"Why don't you understand?all that man has ever said to you is a lie, I don't hate you"
"Dad was the only one who loved me! You are a liar " Azula answered with rage then Zuko said dead serious
"Is that why you go to that dammed place? Because you feel unloved?" his sister stayed silent
"Azula, that man you call father, he didn't love you, he only faked to love you and messed around your head for his amusement" he continued, Azula looked at him with tears in her eyes, but Zuko didn't stop there
"Mom is worried to death about you, she is probably going to to flip when she sees your bruise, and she is not the only one, I am worried, Ty lee and Mai are worried, the gaang is worried about you, and even if you won the music competition they sacrificed so much for"
"I don't understand what you are getting at brother" Zuko closed his eyes and sighed
"Why don't you play the piano anymore?" he asked
"what do you mean?" Azula asked back completely confused by the odd question
"you may have been a psycho bitch to people, but just listening to you play with such passion makes all your insults tolerable" he said, the girl looked at him with a raised eyebrow
"are you saying that they love my music?"
"quoting Aang: such beautiful music can't come from an evil heart" Zuko said and added after pause
"you know we really miss your music"
"...I am sorry maybe you should have recoded some" was the cold reply, now Zuko knew he had to change method
"you are going with me" he said with determination, as he started the car
"excuse me?" Azula questioned
"I am going to Sokka's Halloween party and you are coming with me" the older sibling answered
"First I don't even have a costume, second mother grounded me and third they all hate me"
"First they don't hate you, second I will convince mother and third right now you are scary as hell...seriously when was the last time you slept or eat?" Zuko said concerned
"...Thanks for the compliment..." she said ignoring her brother question
"I should warn you, when Ty lee and Mai see you like this they might as well tie you to chair and force fed you, maybe Katara will join in" he said with a little smile
"oh joy"
"Zuko where..." Sokka, dressed like Dracula, started to say but cut off when he saw Azula along with Zuko, all the people inside stopped too and stared in awe even the music stopped.
"see I am not wanted there, I'd better go away" she said and started to leave, only to be stopped when someone grabbed her hand, she turned and saw to her surprise that it was Mai, dressed like Morticia, the one who caught her
"What no sense are you saying, get your butt in there!" she said and pushed her inside, Zuko smirked with his arms crossed at the whole scene, got inside as well and closed the door.
"Good costume it looks so real! Really good makeup" Sokka said and poked Azula's bruise, making her scream in pain
"It's not a costume idiot!" she said grabbing her face with her free hand, Mai is still gripping her other hand, at this Katara, dressed like a witch, said
"I will get some ice" and left to the kitchen, while Ty lee, dressed like...Majin bu?, got closer and said in a worried tone
"Zula what happened, you look like a mess"
"..." Azula stayed silent
"You have gone to that dammed bar again, didn't you?" Mai said furious
"so what if I did?" she answered coldly, at this she got slapped so hard that Mai's nails cut a little Azula's left cheek
"...are you trying to make my face even?" Azula asked winching in pain, Mai grabbed her shoulders and said
"you almost got beat up to death in that place, and you are still going to it? WHY?" Mai almost shouted
"I got the ice" Katara said going back with a big bag of ice,
"...Sokka get a first aid kit..." she said slowly to her brother, who did as told, Mai decided to throw roughly Azula to an armchair just then
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME" she shouted in protest rubbing her back, before something cold touched her bruised face, making her flinch
"keep it pressed to your face like this" ordered Katara, Azula did that and murmured a "Thank you" then Ty lee said
"Look lets just have fun tonight, we will talk about this later...there Azula have a pumpkin sucker!" and offered to her one
"...no thanks" she said
"common I know you love those!" Ty lee insisted at the same time Sokka arrived with the first aid kit
"I will give it to her, after I treat her wounds" said Katara, taking the first aid kit from her brother and the sucker from Ty lee.
When Azula's cuts were all bandaged, Katara almost showed the sucker in Azula's mouth, the scene was so funny that almost everyone was rolling with laugher
"Ha ha ha very funny" Azula sarcastically replied pulling the sucker out her mouth, Katara gave her an creepy look as she did that and said with a too calm voice
"do I have to put it in your mouth..again" the bruised girl looked at her oddly before putting the sucker back in her mouth
"Good girl" the witch said and petted her head
Second later the music started again and the party continued
hours later
"So did you have fun?" her brother asked as he drove to their home
"not much...especially when Mai Ty lee and Katara agreed to come together to your house tomorrow to talk" Azula answered in a tired tone
"They are just worried about you, and that means they care" Zuko said
"..." no answer
"Azula?" Zuko turned and smiled, his sister had fallen asleep.
Meanwhile Ursa is worried to death because someone forgot to warn her.
To be continued...?
AN: I wrote this for a contest on Deviantart...It took more time then necessary to write and I had to cut parts of today's chapter of Destroy your sister life, however thsi is not related in any way to it
Is it just me or I got the strange hobby of torturing poor Azula in every fic I write o.O