A/N: Azula may be out of character. This is set 10 years later. Post the series finale.
Aang is 17 in the flashback.
Azula's POV
I sat in my room staring out my window as I watched my daughter playing with her cousin, she was bending.
No, she wasn't firebending, she was airbending.
I still can't believe it and it's strange, it was bound to happen though that she would come along five years after what happened.
What happened between myself and her father was a heat of the moment thing.
I had been let out of the mental facility five years after the War ended and into the care of the Avatar, my brother and his wife Katara, her brother Sokka, his wife Suki and the earthbender, Toph. As I was learning to recover, the Avatar was by my side helping me to slowly change and that I am grateful for. I'll never admit it to him, though not that I know where he is.
There were times when we fought, many times but gradually I think I fell for him.
I wasn't supposed to fall for the Avatar. The fallen fire princess of the fallen Phoenix Lord Ozai doesn't fall in love.
7 months into my recovery, Zuzu surprised everyone by allowing my firebending to be returned to me.
Just like father, I had been stripped of my bending but now, I had to prove to them I was making a recovery. I think the Avatar…Aang knew what Zuzu was doing because I caught them exchanging glances before the Avatar restored my firebending.
I wasn't perfect and Aang was able to help me gain proper control of my firebending until I was completely a firebender again.
I was curious throughout my times in rehabilitation as to why Aang had taken me away from the facility in the first place.
So one night, I confronted him about it.
I went looking for him after dinner and found him at the turtle-duck pond feeding the turtle-ducks. I had grabbed him by the arm and dragged him back into the palace. He had protested but I ignored him. We made it to my room, I had shoved him in and closed the door.
*Flashback - Five years ago*
I turned to look at him as he gave me a look that said 'I'm-completely-lost'
"I want to know something and I want your honest answer, no bullshitting" I began
"O-Okay" he agreed
"Why did you take me from the mental facility five years ago?" I asked him.
He looked confused about what I meant.
Sighing, I elaborated so he understood
"That day, five years ago, why did you take me from the mental facility? Why didn't you just leave me there to go crazy, sink into depression and rot there for the rest of my life like you knew I deserved to?" I asked.
I knew he understood that
"Is that was this is about?" he asked
"Yes, now answer the damn question" I replied
"I'm the Avatar and it's my duty to help people, nations to change for the better and so that's what I do. I believe I was able to help you to change, so I took you out of there and back here. Looks like I succeeded" he explained.
I stood there with a look I probably couldn't describe, taking in what he said, processing what he had said before deciding to respond to it
"That's it? 'I'm the Avatar and it's my duty', that's your excuse? That's absolutely pathetic, there has to be a real reason why you rescued me from that hell hole and brought me back here to the palace" I rolled my eyes
"I told you already, it's my duty to do so. I did my duty and you're pretty much better" he tried "I don't know what more you want, so if you're done I'm leaving" he added as he began to walk towards the door.
I knew that wasn't just it, there was more to it and I was going to get it out of him. I pivoted on my heel and hurried after him, grabbing him by the arm, I turned him around to face me and pinned him to the door
"Azula, what the hell?" he asked confusion in his voice
"You're not being truthful and I want the truth" I replied
"You've got to be kidding me! I already told you-' I cut him off
"No the truth" I growled
"Fine, you want the truth? I am the Avatar and it is my duty to help people, however you were different. I didn't save you from the asylum because it was my duty, I took you home because I wanted to. I felt sorry for you and I knew, with help, you could get back on your feet and change for the better. I was proud at what I had done and I never regretted the decision to rescue you from the hell hole" he explained.
I stood there letting everything he said sink in, he had really wanted to help me and not because he was the Avatar but he was sorry that I had gotten myself into this. I was touched and then it hit me, he was just feeling pity and I felt disgusted.
My hand burst into flame as anger coursed through me
"You didn't want to help me, you just pitied me and the fact of how I could sink so low that I was willing to kill people to try and rule the world. So you thought 'poor little Azula, she's going crazy but being the Avatar I have to help her. Even if that meant she could snap any time and start a new war.' You disgust me, I don't need your pity. That's what this is, it's all pity" I growled angrily.
Aang looked completely hurt by what I had said, good he deserved it. No one pities the Princess of the Fire Nation, not if they want to live.
I sucked in my breath and roared releasing blue fire at him, Aang blew back and kicked me off of him. I was sent flying across the room and crashed into my vanity mirror which smashed before I slid to the floor.
Growling, I got up. I sent a fire ball which he deflected using air before making a giant hand and capturing me in it. I used my firebending to get out of his grasp and ran at him, sending a flying kick to his stomach knocking him back and sending him flying into the door. Aang got up wincing slightly, I was aiming another flying kick at him but this time, he grabbed my leg spinning me around before slamming me into the ground. My back slammed into the ground, I groaned and suddenly found myself pinned to the ground. I growled at him
"Azula will you just listen I-'
"Don't want to hear it" I cut him off, I threw him off of me and onto the bed.
I ran over to him, pinning him to the bed, an evil smirk on my face
"Get out of this one" I snarled my hand igniting.
What happened next caught me completely off guard when he furiously and suddenly pressed his lips to mine.
I kissed back hard with all the passion and hatred I had for him, I shoved my tongue into his mouth and duelled his. It was a battle for dominance and, to my surprise, his tongue won.
Aang flipped us and I was underneath him as he assaulted my neck with his lips and teeth, biting and kissing it. I gasped and ran my hands over his bald head and down his back digging my sharp nails into his back and he accidentally bit a little too hard. Normally, I take control but for some reason I was losing it as Aang kissed me again. His hand slipped through my robes and grabbed my breast, squeezing it and making me moan.
He retracted his lips from mine and reattached them to my neck, I was going to have a hickey in the morning
"I hate you" I gasped out as his hand slipped lower down my body.
Aang stopped assaulting my neck and looked up
"I know" his voice completely husky and with a growl, something I never knew he was capable of before, suddenly, my clothes were gone.
*End Flashback*
That night we had sex; hot, steamy, passionate and hatred fuelled sex. That night, was something I was never going to forget because it was also my first time. I lost count how many times we did it that night, what I do remember was after that we were out of breath but as I succumbed to sleep, I had felt Aang's arms around me and I didn't protest. The next morning, Aang was gone by the time I roused from my sleep. I found a note though
*Flashback*
I opened my eyes as I felt the sun hit me and rolled over, hoping to hit a warm body but the spot beside me was empty. I sat up confused, had I dreamt the whole thing? No, because I was aching all over and I was naked when I checked. There were bruises on me, which I knew proved that last night was real. I turned my head and noticed a piece of paper on the pillow that had been Aang's, I picked it up and read it
'Zula,
I know you hate me. Last night was a heat of the moment thing but I enjoyed it. If you hate me for the rest of your life, I understand. Hope we can be friends in the future, whenever I see you again.
Love
Aang
P.S.
Momo's yours.
I looked across the room to see Momo, Aang's flying bat lemur, who was sleeping on my desk. I got out of my bed, grabbed my dressing gown and a scarf putting them on and made my way over to full body length mirror on my wall and I stood staring at myself.
I had bed hair, slightly black and blue bruises and a hickey, a big one. I smirked before walking over to my desk. Momo woke up and took flight before settling in my arms as I left my bedroom and went to breakfast.
*End Flashback*
Unfortunately, for me, Zuzu had spotted the hickey when I went to scratch my neck and confronted me. Of course, I told him nothing. Well, that was until four months later when an unusual small bump protruded from my stomach and something inside it began kicking. That's when we all discovered I was pregnant, fours months. I didn't tell them whose it was until I had the baby five months later and we realized that the baby girl looked like me, except she had grey eyes. Aang's eyes, and then, they knew.
As it turned out, she was an airbender like her father but I never told her who her father was and I don't plan to. He's been gone five years and I don't expect to see him again. I'll never see him, hear his boyish laugh, caress his tight abs and feel his d-
"Hi mama" a peppy voice called to me and I snapped out of my thoughts, startled.
I leant far back in my chair and fell backwards, chair and all, in surprise and hit the floor groaning.
Giggles filled the room as I sat up and glared at my daughter
"Ursa, how many times have I told you not to do that?" I asked getting up annoyed
"Several" she replied looking downcast
"Don't do it again" I chided
"Okay" she pouted.
Sighing, I crouched down and pulled Ursa into my arms
"I'm sorry, I love you" I told her
"I love you too, mama. Guess what?" she asked returning to her bubbly self
"What?" I asked excitedly and gently
"The Avatar is coming back to the Fire Nation" she replied.
TBC