A/N: I don't own ATLA, just this plot. If I did own ATLA, it would be over the top Zutara and it wouldn't be TV7. SOLAI.
Chapter One: Ba Sing Se
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My mother stands behind the table, talking to my grandfather. My blue eyes shoot back and forth between them, like the words they exchange. I hide behind a trunk. The big one I used to hide in back when Dad was here. But things change, the trunk is now my shelter and Daddy is gone.
"What do you plan to do know? You ruined your life! Your daughters life as well!" Grandy slams his hands onto the table and the vase of wildflowers rocks.
My mother looks towards him, but not in the eye, as she speaks, "I didn't ruin her life!"
"She has no father! Her mother can't afford rent! Where are you planning to go now?"
"A friend of mine said I could stay with her. She has a house in Ba Sing Se."
Grandy glances up, hurling an unapproved glare at my mother, before saying, "She shouldn't stay in Ba Sing Se. Too many criminals. She'll get hurt, no, she needs some where safer."
My mother wipes tears from her face as she stares towards her feet. She nods.