Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Zuko's eyes were sad. Wordlessly she closed the distance between them, slipping her hands into his. Breath escaped her lips in shaky resignation as she leaned her forehead against his. "What are we doing Zuko?"
She felt him smile, his thumb tracing light circles against her palms. "Going to see the Mother of Faces."
"Why?"
"So you can go home."
Her breath hitched, strangling the question she didn't want to ask before it left her lips. She knew what he would say. The answer terrified her. "Alone?"
He shattered her with one word. "Yes."
