Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. Nor am I French. So, Ceci n'est pas une pipe (As the French so foppishly say). Look it up. I dare ya.
"Daddy?"
Zuko looked at his daughter sadly.
"Daddy, why'd He take Momma away?"
Zuko smiled half-heartedly. How do you explain to your young child—not yet older than ten—that her mother is dead? That she'll never be here?
Forcing the tears back, he told his daughter—in what he hoped was an unwavering voice—what his uncle had told him when his own mother died. "Agni wouldn't let her live. Her heart was just too big. Too full of love and kindness for life itself."
It wasn't a lie, Zuko knew this. And yet at the same time, he knew it wasn't the truth either.
A tear slipped silently down his cheek as he turned back to the picture frame.
A/N: This is the alternate sequel to Chapter 27: Damned. I like this one better, but like I said before, my sister won at odds and evens and so we had to put the other drabble before this one. Or else we'd be tempting fate.
Which one do you like better? REVIEW!!
By the way, Ceci n'est pas une pipe, according to a French, online translator, means "This is not a pipe."
I take Spanish so if anyone speaks French, and that's not what it means, please tell me.
