"REGRETS" was written when I was wondering about what would happen if Zuko did not join the Avatar, and instead handed him over to his father. It doesn't say that in there, but it does happen. It's written like a letter, and when you see 5 dots, it means that time has changed, but when there's only 3, it hasn't. I think it was written around the same time as the others, but this one was the first I wrote, not the third. At the beginning, it starts on when Zuko was still sailing on the ocean, and at the end it's 21 years later.

Written: Unknown

Time: 6th period

Words: 503

POV: A girl from Zuko's past, present and future. He once dated her. IT IS NOT KATARA!

Regrets

Hey, Zuko.

Do you remember me?

Someone from your past,

And yet from your present.

I am here,

You see me in full view,

But you don't see me anymore.

You see someone else,

Someone different.

A girl can tell you know,

A girl can know all about you,

More than even you do.

A girl can look into your soul and see your spirit resting there,

But you just look right past me,

Like I'm the spirit.

- - -

What have I done to make us like this?

Or was it even me?

Please talk to me Zuko,

Talk, before I have to leave you.

Then again, you've already left me.

Why should I stay here?

For you? For me? For whom?

- - - - -

I've joined the Avatar now,

And while you stayed with your father,

We lost.

We could've won the war with you on our side.

You never wanted to join him,

But you never had the courage to say "No",

And now the world is destroyed.

You could've changed that,

Or could I have?

If I had stayed longer with you that is.

I would've made you see the right in this messed up world,

Instead of just the wrong, like your father did.

- - - - -

Sometimes I wish on a star that you would come back to me,

Whisk me off my feet, and we'd run away together.

But I know deep down that'll never happen.

You're too much like your father,

A monster at heart, a ferocious beast lives down there.

It's what drives us.

Yours was just too powerful, and you let it destroy the world.

Maybe if I'd have stayed longer…

- - - - -

Your memory from my past lingers,

These 18 years later,
But how could it not?

Your rule is too powerful,

It can't be overcome by shear force anymore.

You've sucked all the life from the world.

It now lives in total destruction,

All because of your grandfather, father, and you.

The guilt is on your shoulders now.

Do you feel proud of what you've done?

- - - - -

I now have two young ones,

And the worst part in being a mother

Is knowing that they have to grow up in a world like this.

That knowing that someone that I used to Love made their life a living nightmare.

I no longer regret I left you,

Because some things just can't be changed.

Fate brought us to this day,

And nothing that we said or did would've stopped it.

- - -

Look at how time passes and remember me,

When you ride through the streets,

Or when you look our your window at night.

You of all people should know

That the past and the pain lingers,

And that it stays until you're all but gone.

- - -

From a long, lost friend.