Whiskey Lullaby
A/N: This is a fanfic based off a song called "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley. I do not own the song or Avatar the Last Airbener.
I sat in the dark, quiet old bar. No one came here for it was tucked away in the very back of the Royal Palace's Plaza. I downed my 5th glass of whiskey and ordered another. I couldn't stop thinking about her. Her blue eyes and coffee skin were tattooed into my brain. During the battle with Azula she had been wounded badly, she healed me though not herself, me. She managed to stay alive long enough for her to give me her necklace and for me to tell her I love her and kiss her for the first and last time. I came here every afternoon and tried to drink my pain away a little at a time. But I had been doing so for the past 2 years and I never could get drunk enough to get her off my mind. Then the doors of the small bar burst open, letting in an unbearable amount of light. "There you are! Your drinking AGAIN??" it was Mai, now my wife by arrangement. I threw my full glass of whiskey across the room. "No I'm not." she strode over to me and yanked me off the stool. The sharp movement caused me to vomit all over Mai and then I passed out.
As I was unconscious I saw flashes of the dreadful battle. I saw myself holding her broken bleeding body close to me, crying. I saw her before the battle, promising me she would survive. Me burying her beneath the willow tree. I also saw her face. Over and over again the image repeated itself. After a long while the image started to get fuzzy around the edges, then I awoke. I was in my room. "Zuko?" Mai said. "So your finally awake." She leaned over and kissed me on the forehead. "Zuko, Sokka told me why you're doing this." she looked at me seriously. "Drinking wont help. Besides she was just a water peasant after all." She said in a careless voice. "Don't you ever say that. She was better than anyone I've ever met. You don't know what I've been through Mai! We had so much in common! I loved her. She cared!" I was standing up at this point. She got up and put her hands on my waist. "Baby! Think about it. Rich hottie like me, or poor healer Katara. Who is better for you." at this I slapped her across the face and stormed out of the room. I went outside to my mothers garden and sat by the turtle-duck pond. I reached in my pocket , pulled out Katara's necklace and buried my face in my hands and wept. "I love you Katara! (sob) I would do anything to be with you again." Then the idea hit me. It was a gruesome idea but one that would save me from my suffering. I went into my room picked up a piece of paper, a pencil and my broadswords.
"And then...(sob) I found him dead with his face in the pillow. Bleeding from his chest and his broadswords covered in his own blood." Mai was shaking with sobs while she stared at Zuko's corpse. She was telling the official about what had happened with her and Zuko the previous night when another came up to her. "Miss, we found this note with him. He was clutching it in his hand. I think it was meant for you." The note read. "I love her until I die." She laughed humorlessly. "This wasn't meant for me. This was meant for someone he lost a long time ago." Mai walked out to the willow tree where Katara was buried. "Bury him here." she pointed next to Katara's grave which was adorned with flowers placed there by Zuko. "He needs to be with her.
THE END