Hey ya'll! Right, so I'm new to , though I've been writing and posting fanfiction for years over at . I finally figured that I should start posting some of my non-Star Wars fanfiction over here so I could get better responses.
So this is my very first Avatar: The Last Airbender piece, so I really hope I got the characterizations right. This story was inspired by the song "Tears of an Angel" by Ryan Dan, as well as my own recent break-up. I hope Mai doesn't seem too OOC, but I figured that even the toughest girls need to have a moment to mourn the end of a relationship.
So yeah, enough rambling, I hope ya'll like this! Oh yeah, and I own neither the song nor the show.
Mai had heard tales from other girls about what it was like to break up with a boyfriend. These tales usually involved explanations of all the feelings the girl had gone through. Anger, sadness, disappointment, confusion, sometimes hatred, and once elation at being "free." At the time Mai had wondered what she would go through if it ever happened to her. She knew she wouldn't become one of those crazy ex-girlfriends who did nothing but stalk the boy who broke her heart, but she couldn't see herself just accepting the fact lying down either. After all, she was a Fire Nation noblewoman, not some delicate fire lily. She had her own unique fiery spirit when she chose to show it; a spirit she was sure the imaginary boy would come to fear if he ever wronged her.
But then Zuko had come home and things had fallen into place so perfectly with him. She was truly happy for the first time in her life. She couldn't begin to describe the feeling of knowing that Zuko loved her just as much as she loved him.
And because of their perfect relationship, she had naively assumed she would never go through any heartbreak because of him.
How wrong she had been.
She wanted to shut out the words that continued to echo across her mind, but she couldn't seem to tear her eyes away from the scroll in front of her. She didn't want to believe them; she wanted them to be a lie. But they wouldn't be ignored. And she couldn't ignore the fact that they were in Zuko's handwriting.
Dear Mai,
I'm sorry that you had to find out this way, but I'm leaving.
Zuko was gone; he had left her. No real explanations, or at least none that made any sense to her. Just empty words.
She knew she should be angry with him. How dare he leave her a mere note? Did he not have the courage to face her directly? The coward.
But shouldn't she at least feel hurt or abandoned or…something? Shouldn't she feel something other than this sense of numbness? Time seemed frozen as though she would wallow in this moment forever.
Get a grip! She mentally scolded herself. She knew she was stronger than this; she was Fire Nation after all.
She glanced once more at his words and felt her walls crumble. Fire Nation she may be, but she was still a woman with a heart. A heart that had been torn out by the one man she truly loved. She wasn't familiar with this pain and therefore didn't know how to handle and control the emotion. But for a few seconds she let the emotion control her. She let herself succumb to the pain and the hurt.
And she let the tears fall.