AN: This is my Tyzula Week entry and it will be two chapters with four prompts in each. They're going to be flashfictions like I did last year.


don't make me cry by myself
i can't hurt anymore
don't make me fall on my knees
when i'm begging you for more
"
Nothin' but Trouble" — Lily Lane


part one


001. trouble

Ty Lee knows that Azula will never change.

She is not that stupid, and even if she were, she has known Azula long enough to see through any promises of being a changed person. Yet, she sometimes does feel like an idiot for trying and trying. It is a night like this, when she is crying by herself in the bedroom she shares with the woman she loves, the woman she wants to one day marry, and knows that she got herself into this mess.

Zuko knocks on the door and Ty Lee mumbles, "You can come in."

The Fire Lord accepts the invitation and sits down across from Ty Lee. She thinks for a few moments about what a mess she must be.

"I should know better by now." Ty Lee wipes her tears with the side of her hand and dries the dampness on the cloth of her clothes. "She's trouble. She's if trouble was a person who was embodying trouble and strife and misery."

"You can go home, you know," Zuko says. "Before she comes back."

Ty Lee takes a slow, rattling deep breath. Zuko waits for an answer, wishing that Ty Lee would make the right choice.

"I love her, and I would really be nothing if we aren't in love. I dedicated my life to her, Zuko, and if that got me into this…" Ty Lee averts her eyes.

Zuko does not pressure her further.

002. wild

They kiss so passionately that an internal fire consumes Ty Lee's body. Their lips crushing against each other wildly, too messily for the princess, which makes Ty Lee think that perhaps this could work out. She stops being able to think about that when Azula presses her up against the wall and pins her wrists to it.

Ty Lee smiles into the next frantic kiss.

003. kittens

Mai and Zuko have a baby; Azula and Ty Lee adopt a kitten.

It struts around and meows and cuddles up against its humans while Izumi wails and cries all night.

"We made the right decision," Azula says, making Ty Lee laugh.

Their kitten settles on Azula's lap and she knows that this is way better than a baby.

004. mountains

"I can't make it to the top of every fucking mountain," Azula hisses, lowering her hands—she was tearing at her hair—and digging her nails into her knees. It is not a better change.

Ty Lee stands there, very calmly, and lets Azula go off on her, because she's good at this, and that's how she got Azula to be a semi-fuctional member of society.

"You climb most of them, and no one expects you to be perfect," Ty Lee says softly, as if speaking to a tiger-monkey at the circus.

"I expect myself to be perfect and I believe that my expectations outweigh those of others," Azula snarls. "Get out."

Ty Lee feels her legs twitch. That tone has an affect, but she sits down, solidifying her palce in the room. She stays at enough of a distance that it will not make Azula uncomfortable for whatever reasons she does not want to divulge.

"I'm not going to make you feel this by yourself," Ty Lee whispers.

She means it.