Trigger Warning: Abuse.
I wanted to make this prompt sweet, but this idea was stronger than any fluff or sexiness.
RAGE
Even Ty Lee's friends say that she is a fool. Zuko advises against it. Mai shows concern, acts like she cares when Ty Lee knows she must just be jealous because Mai does not care about anything.
Azula is perfect.
Ty Lee knows she is perfect and she can handle the perfect Princess Azula perfectly fine when she gets into her mentally ill fits of rage.
Unless that rage is directed at her.
At the moment, she stares at the bruises in the palace mirror, the sink filled with drops of blood from her lips and crushed glass.
This is it. This is the breaking point. She is leaving Azula and going back to Kyoshi Island.
This isn't right. Everyone was right to be worried and Ty Lee was wrong to accept this as normal or romantic. It needs to end no matter the cost.
Ty Lee jumps and her heart flutters at the sound of footsteps behind her.
"Ty Lee," breathes Azula softly from the doorway. "Are you okay?"
She never says she's sorry. Ty Lee doesn't really care because she never has been good at apologies either.
"I'm fine," lies Ty Lee. "Are you feeling better?"
"Yes. Much calmer. And I just want to help you clean up. Are you hurt?"
Azula strides in. She reaches into the bathroom drawers and withdraws a healing salve.
As she kisses Ty Lee's bloodied lips and gently, tenderly applies it, Ty Lee forgets about that breaking point. She chalks her doubt up to the anger that every relationship sometimes has.
There are more good times than bad times, right?
They are in love.
Ty Lee is madly in love.
And she never will leave Azula, even if Azula would let her.
