Revolution!
Title: Angel of Death
Word Count: 326
Warning: Deaths
Challenge: 50

There had been many proud moments in Jet's life.

Jet remembered the moment he had first kissed Katara, his fiancée. That had been a moment he would treasure forever. Walking alone in the forest, they had broken all laws of propriety and laughed about it. She inflamed the rebel spirit inside of him. She was his first love and she had led him to his second love: the battle against tyranny.

Jet remembered the march on Versailles, when the women of Paris finally rose up to bring the hated king and queen back to Paris. How the nation had risen up against the tyranny of the monarchy. It had been a moment he would savor forever, the smell of the unwashed bodies underscoring the rot of the old regime.

He remembered the trial of the king. Jet had triumphantly denounced the excess of the kings. One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper," he had proclaimed, as he convinced the court to send the fat Capet to the guillotine.

Jet was the youngest revolutionary, yet it was he who was made president of the Convention. As he stood there, all his dreams of righting all wrongs seemed within his grasp.

He had his enemies. Zuko L'Egalitie, a revolutionary of royalist background had said mockingly said of Jet: "He carries his head like a Holy Sacrament."
Jet laughed and replied that he would make him carry his like a Saint Denis, in a basket. The threat was not vain: Zuko joined his hated royal relative under the bite of the people's justice. Jet had enjoyed watching the last member of the hated dynasty lose his head. That had been a proud moment too.

Yet, at this moment, as he journeyed in the tumbrel to the face the same justice he had sent so many others to, Jet wondered why his proud life should end in humiliation.

For Whomever's birthday.It's based on Louis Antoine Leon Florelle De Saint Just, a dictator, a French revolutionary who was known as the Angel of Death. For more information: google him!