Night Fifteen: Trust

Azula and Ty Lee sit in the stunning dream world. The colors keep shifting and at the moment the trees are a hue of gold unseen in nature and the sky a crimson red with fluffy pink clouds.

Their lips crush against each other for the hundredth time before Ty Lee realizes something sickening that makes her blood run cold. She hates it, and she hates how it makes her pull away from her dead-alive-dead-alive wife.

"We have lives. We have lives that we need to go back to. We need to go home," Ty Lee whispers, closing her eyes.

"I think we is the wrong word. Because I am exactly where I need to be." Azula kisses her deeply.

Ty Lee's eyelids fly open, revealing baffled orbs. "Don't you trust that I'll come back?"

Azula replies without hesitating, "No."

Ty Lee says with all of the honesty in her soul, "Of course I will. I always will. I'd rather be here than anywhere else in the world."

"I want to call that romantic, but I think the person making the decision is whoever wakes one of us up first," says Princess Azula.

"So, whoever wakes up first has to come back," Ty Lee whispers before giving Azula kiss.

"I agree," replies Azula. "I will try to trust you."

"Why don't you?" Ty Lee asks, snagging Azula's hand and taking it in both of hers. "Why don't you trust me?"

"Because I never have."

"Because of when we were teenagers. Because of me betraying you?"

Azula corrects, "No. See, for there to be betrayal there would have to be trust first."

"Can I make you trust me?" Ty Lee inquires, letting Azula's hand fall limp.

"Probably not."

"Not even after death?"

"I do not even trust myself. Stop worrying; it is not attractive."

Ty Lee tries her best not to be offended and rests her head on Azula's shoulder.

睡美人的镜子

Azula wakes up first. She would have bet her royal fortune that someone would need Ty Lee before someone would need her, but she sees Mizuki above her.

The little girl pleads in her little girl voice, "Mother, mother, mother, please wake up."

Azula's eyes flutter open and then droop down again. The medicine has made her weak, but she only wants more of it. More and more and to spend an eternity in that surreal world behind her eyelids where her wife is alive.

"I'll be with you in a minute," she whispers, and slowly sits up.

Mizuki wraps her arms around her only remaining mom.