A/N: Zuka walks among the flowers of the royal gardens. Genderbent!Zuko. I always love to write about Zuko and turtleducks...
Submission for:
Gender-Swap Boot Camp: Flowers
It was a fine afternoon day and Zuka chose to spend it outdoors instead of locked in the maproom. She walked alone through the royal gardens surrounded by the beautiful firelilies and all the other wonderful flowers there. The smell of the cheery blossoms brought her back to a simpler time, a more peaceful time when she would spend her time outside with her father by the turtleduck pond.
Her father was a peaceful man, quite unlike those who thirsted for blood and war. He loved the quiet walks and sunny afternoons, the sunrises and the sunsets, the animals and the earth. Zuka had wondered as a child how he and her mother ever got together, but in later years she found out - the marriage was arranged and there was no true love between them.
Once the war was over and Zuka had assumed the throne, she vowed that whomever she decide to take as her husband would be for love. She would have what her father had always wanted but was unable to get. She would find the one for her, that could make her smile and laugh, and enjoy these quiet walks among the firelilies with on a lovely afternoon.
Zuka pulled the hem of her long robes up as she waded in the shallow turtleduck pond. She would also have a little girl to enjoy the turtleducks with, just like her father had.
