Azula stared at the red painted ceiling, while thinking of any reasons to what was keeping her up. The medication? No. If anything that would make her overly tired but she's been like this ever since laying down. She sighed and switched to laying on her side, staring at the wall to try and ease herself. The Alpha forced herself to believe that it was probably because the upcoming court trials. She laughed to herself, loving how it took Zuko and other political leader this long to finally punish her for war crimes. But there was a little part of her that feared what was coming her way. Which was new, usually she didn't care about anything that happened to her. The medication was doing a somewhat good job getting all of her emotions back in check. Azula hated to believe that Zuko was doing a fantastic job with handling her.
"Stupid Zuzu, took you long enough."
She closed her eyes and relaxed her mind, feeling the urge to finally fall asleep. It also helped that the royal jail housing had top of the line beds for their prisoners. Azula considered herself lucky to be royal blood, since it got her into exclusive jail housing areas that felt more like house arrest. Even though at first Zuko might've pushed her into that crappy excuse for a mental hospital with their father, she still found herself getting the best of whatever she wanted. It irritated Zuko a little bit but since she moved to these new housing areas she hasn't nearly killed any workers. Azula let out another dark chuckle, this time laughing at how Zuko was still a childish ruler and an easy push over.
Upon finally getting comfortable and at the brink of falling asleep. The loud jingle of keys were heard from just outside the door. Azula groaned and tried to remember if she did anything to piss off the guards earlier. For once she didn't even talk back to them, so why were they invading her quarters at such an hour? Azula sighed and ignored them, coming to the conclusion that they were just checking up on her. She breathed in and out, noticing that it was an Alpha guard and not the usual Beta ones.
"Princess Azula, a report has been sent by Lord Zuko. He said there's an important event that you must attend to." The guard set folded royal robes next to her bed and lit every lantern. "I'll be back in thirty minutes to escort you to the Palace." Azula waited until she heard footsteps leading away from her to get up. She picked up the robes and laid them on her bed. They were beautiful, the fabric made of red silk and gold trimmings on the edges. The Fire Nation symbol embroidered onto the fine fabric of her robes.
"Important Event ? Well I guess if Zuzu went through all this trouble, it's only appropriate for me to join."
Azula She smirked to herself and changed into her fancy robes. Feeling at ease because it reminded her that she was still royalty. 'Maybe Zuzu will take that into mind during my trials… I'm the only other family member that could take over if he dies… and with all the uproar of the past war he might be fearing his life… He won't have a choice…' Azula finished off her look with a bun holding her hair ornament and the rest of her hair flowing downward. The door was opened once again and she made her way over, letting the Beta cuff her. With that, she was escorted to the Palace.
Nothing could've prepared Azula for what she felt upon arriving at the Fire Palace. Her mind was racing as the guards kept a firm grip around her arms. She had started thrashing around and screaming questions. What she didn't get though was that no one seemed phased by the harsh moment from Azula. Each moment she was dragged closer to wherever she was going, the feeling just kept getting stronger and stronger. Once they reached the actual destination, Azula was ready to rip someone's head off. Everything was becoming disorientated, she just wanted to find the thing she wanted so it would go away.
The guards knocked on the door and there was a soft "Let her in." behind it. They both looked at each other and nodded before entering then leaving Azula. The door slammed shut behind her and she paid no attention to it. Only focusing on the door that seemed to hold relief for her strange behavior. She launched towards it and started scratching at the wood, not caring if her nails broke from it. With Azula's brain completely flooded by this feeling,she didn't notice her brother and ex best friend observing her.
"You know I didn't believe Ty Lee at first, but seeing your sister act like this makes what she said true. Just never thought she would still be with Azula that way after everything she's done."
"You're telling me, I don't know why she ever bothered with my sister. I guess love has its ways of drowning the crazy out."
As the Fire Lord and his lady passed the time while talking, Azula grew more and more animalistic with each minute. Her fingernails were now beyond blunt and dark circles beneath her eyes began to grow. Until finally, after hours of waiting, the door finally opened and Azula's feeling disappeared. There was a man at the door that looked down at her with a small smile. "You must be the sire…" He helped Azula up from the floor and shook her hand. "Congratulations on the birth of your daughter, we have some things to discuss. Give us a moment and we'll talk soon." The door closed and Azula stood there motionless. Her brain hadn't even finished processing what the doctor had said.