.14. Goodbye

"Goodbye Picnic Date!" Ty Lee cheers, waving the basket.

Azula cannot remember why she agreed to this. Maybe because she does not want to part ways with this girl again like they always do. Azula hates picnics, but she will tolerate it to have a few more hours.

She cannot believe what a disgusting person she has become.

In love? No, Princess Azula does not love.

Maybe a little bit.


They sit there, secluded, not far from the city.

Ty Lee did not do a good job of putting a picnic together, but Azula does not care much for what kind of food is there. She cares an awful lot more about the eyes she is looking for, the eyes that she is ashamed to be transfixed by.

Maybe they should leave each other forever before it gets too serious.

The thought of that makes the monster in Azula howl. And so she cannot let herself be as cold as she is with everyone else.

Everyone has a weakness, even the most powerful of people.

Azula supposes she found hers in a person who put a half open drink into a picnic basket and drenched everything they were supposed to eat, therefore defeating the purpose of the picnic in the first place.

"I'm so stupid!" Ty Lee wails so loudly that Azula thinks they might be able to hear her at the North Pole.

"It's alright." Azula touches her arm. It feels extremely awkward. "I don't love you for your intelligence."

Ty Lee hesitates. Azula wonders if that was more offensive than she intended.

"You love me, do you?" Ty Lee asks, smiling. Her tears vanish as if they evaporated. "You love me."

"Yes, I suppose I do," Azula says, shrugging. She might as well embrace the horror of her situation.

"I love you too," Ty Lee says, leaning forward and kissing Azula.

Their hands and lips stray.


When their time together ends Azula only wonders one thing:

Why is 'I love you' so much easier to say than 'goodbye'?


AN: This wasn't a real tease. I'm sorry. I just liked this as it is.