Hello everyone

Hello everyone!
My name is Ella (DangerousDiamondDarling) and I am trying to write a one shot for every Zuko ship I've heard of no matter how crack it is or if it's boy and boy or boy and girl. I couldn't write smut to save my self so it's rated T but expect controversial pairing and enjoy ;D

This one is for Zuko/Ty Lee, a pairing with a small following. It was raining very hard when I wrote this so I guess I was trying to think of some place warm :D I did a little bit of research into the Lotus flower, which is so beautiful by the way, but don't count this as accurate flower information, I'm just gonna go with the defense of it's the Avatar world, it doesn't have to make sense :D R&R

Zuko/Ty Lee

White Lotus.

A warm summer wind swept through the courtyard that led to turtle-duck's pond. She sat idyllically in the grass beside the pond under the shade of a large tree, looking perfectly at peace for someone who usually couldn't sit still for more then five minutes at a time.

The baby turtle-ducks gave hopeful quacks as he drew closer but he hadn't come here to feed them today. She turned towards him with a smile as he sat down next to her, her plait swinging almost playfully when she turned her head. Her soft brown eyes were as warm as the summer day she sat enjoying, her cheeks nearly the same rosy pink as her favorite clothes, which were, according to her, almost a perfect pink to match her aura. He didn't believe in auras but it made her happy and for some reason that made him happy. "This is my favorite time of the year." She sighed contentedly to the silent prince next to her; not disturbed in the least by the fact he hadn't said a word yet.

Another moment passed in an almost relaxed summer silence. "Why?" He asked with true curiosity at his sister's oddest friend. "W-why is it your favorite, I mean..." He stuttered slightly, he never had been good with words.

"Just look around," She said, "Everything's happy and so full of life, and you can just sit back in the shade of a nice big tree and watch it all... Also," She added with a spark in her eyes pointing to the turtle-duck's pond, "It's the time of year when my favorite flower comes out..."

He looked towards the place she pointed near the edge of the pond where there were a couple of white lotus gathered around. And he didn't know why he did it, why it should matter to him, but he got up from his place on the ground next to her and walked to the edge of the pond, picking up a newly opened white lotus, it's petals edged with the pink she loved so much, it reminded him of her in a way he couldn't quite understand.

He handed it to her without a word, retaking his place on the grass. "Thank you, Zuko," She happily thanked him and wrapped her free arm around his shoulders in a sort of one-armed hug, her other hand holding the lotus which she was admiring delightedly.

He mumbled something incoherent about it being nothing but she wasn't listening and for a moment they just sat contentedly side by side in the warm summer afternoon, her head leaning on his shoulder as she held the pink tinged white lotus in both hands...

"TY LEE! Get here right NOW!" Azula's voice shouted from somewhere near by, breaking their one golden moment as the summer stillness was shattered.

"I should go and see what she wants..." Ty Lee stated as she slowly got up, and it was the one time he had heard the cheerful girl sound somewhat disheartened.

"Yeah," He murmured and she walked away to go find his sister. He sat underneath the large tree for another minute and somehow everything in the fading summer light looked different to all the times he had seen it before.

Standing in front of the turtle-duck pond he didn't know why this was the memory that he thought of instead of any others. Crickets chirped in the new spring night, it wasn't that late but the newly un-banished prince knew everyone else had retired to their rooms, everyone whose mind didn't weigh as heavy as his did this night.

Bending down to reach into the pond's cool waters the turtle-ducks eyed him warily at disturbing their slumber, pulling out a barely opening white lotus, it's edges painted just barely with a soft pink at the tips, he wondered it they were still her favorite, and he thought that just maybe it was time he paid Ty Lee a visit.