Love of Fire and Water

by Yemoya

Book Two. Stealing to get by becomes necessary to Zuko. Never did he think he could make a friend like that. The waterbender Kilara seems to accept him like he is. But will Kilara stay on Zuko's side, after Ba Sing Se gets conquered? While standing on two sides of a war can their friendship survive? Or will Kilara fight for her nation's freedom? Izumi's mother fic, canon compliant

25. Chapter 25

Chapter Twenty-Five

Hope Crushed

Hi everyone!

To read chapter twenty-five of Love of Fire and Water, please go to my written stories and click on Hope Crushed. This is especially for everyone who is not following me, as those people would have got a message that I had published a new story.

This chapter had too much dark content for my taste to publish it in a T rated fic. However, I wanted to leave the fic rated T, so this chapter is now treated like an M rated published one shot.

There aren't very violent things happening, as I tried to keep it down, but it seemed like too much to me. So, there is some physical torture, mental torture, and allusions to rape. And nothing close to rape happens! Nothing! There's just a sadistic person talking about it. But I tried to write around it, and simply describe it as if it had happened twenty years ago. I could have gone into a lot more detail, but I first wanted to keep it child friendly, because this fic is rated T. However, I think the sheer mentioning of rape, and describing of torture in any way makes a fic definitely not T rated.

I hope you don't mind, and that it doesn't cause too much trouble for you.

(I just realized that the title of this chapter and simply seeing the author's note seems kind of like a very sick joke, as if I had decided not to keep on writing :D… I laugh, because I would never abandon this story! And I'm sorry if some of you got a wrong impression, it's just the chapter title. It was not my intention to mislead you.)