Song Name: Forever Love (Dígame)
Singer/Band: Anna Nalick
Story Title: Forever Love
Rating: T
Pairings: Mai/Zuko
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Anna Nalick's songs, nor do I own any characters or themes from Avatar: The Last Airbender by Nickelodeon.
A/N: Okeedokee, here is my fifth drabble. Its Mai/Zuko based...unfortunately its to a song I've never heard. Someone sent me the lyrics and song and singer via a request, and I made it into this! Its a little scratchy, because its my first Mai/Zuko drabble. I wanted to put in memories that Mai might have, so I did. The base of the story, which is that Zuko and Mai had been "dating" before he was banished, came from a conversation I had with my cousin on a site based on Zuko. So here it is! Enjoy, and please review! -Solar Beam
Forever Love
On the ground
With my world
Upside down
I got a vision of your face
And I must get me out
For so many memories we've yet to make
God don't send to me your angels
I just wanna hear you say again
The girl sat near the fire, gazing at the flames. The night was late, but that did not stop her or her two best friends from talking about the day. The Princess had so cleverly chosen to attack the Avatar and his friends, including the banished Prince, at the same time. Unfortunately, she had not expected her dear old uncle to still be alive after her attack on him from the last battle, and they had failed miserably. Mai had once more gone head-to-head with the water-bender brat, but she had not quite expected to be intervened by the Prince. Soon, her old feelings flared to her cheeks and as she fought against both him and the water tribe girl. Now Mai stood as Ty Lee started to mutter something about that boy getting cuter and cuter every time she saw him and headed toward her tent. The Princes had separated from the two to think a new plan, and Mai had no intention on speaking to Ty Lee about her own emotions.
"It was nice seeing Zuko again, wasn't it, Mai?" the girl piped up, looking up right as her dark friend stood and turned. Ty Lee smiled knowingly as she saw that Mai had stiffened up. Memories were probably coming up in that sacred head of hers, old memories of how she and Zuko used to play a lot. It had really been Ty Lee's and Azula's doing, putting those two together. After the Flaming Apple incident, Mai had gone to apologize to Zuko. Who knew what went on during that time, Mai had said not to follow. So Azula just shrugged it off, muttering something about foolish hormones.
Forever love
Say you'll love
Dígame, Dígame
Tell me so
I can hold you in my soul
If I go
I'll know
Mai stiffened up, fingering a blade in her sleeve wondering how quick it would be to silence her friend for good. She thought better of it, deciding not to end up like Zuko and become banished and an enemy of the Fire Nation. She shrugged, still stiff as memories flooded back. She turned back around and lay on the ground near the fire, basking in its warmth as she rested her head on her arms and looked up at the starry sky. "It was as good as can be expected." Then she was silent, but Ty Lee smiled cunningly. Mai remembered the day she had gone to see Zuko, the Flaming Apple day. She had found him in the library, trying to memorize some attack on the Earth Nation from a few years back, and Mai had sat across from him at the table and watched him. He had been muttering something about crazy girls, and hadn't noticed her sitting there. She cleared her throat, and he nearly jumped out of his skin. And then he was looking at her with those dark, gold eyes of flame and his eyes narrowed. Still, he asked, 'Are you okay?' That's when she realized she had been blushing the deepest crimson color and she looked away and nodded. 'I wanted to make sure you were alright,' she admitted. He shrugged. All Mai wanted to hear was his voice and that was all. 'And that I am sorry.' She had been such an easy talker back then. All she wanted to hear was him talk. She couldn't remember when her crush for Prince Zuko had began, but all she knew that it was completely against the rules to date the best friend's brother. Azula had firmly stated that.
"Mai?" Mai looked up. Ty Lee had been talking, and her frown turned into a sad smile. "I asked if you were alright. You've been quiet ever since we came back. …What did Zuko say to you when you two were fighting?"
When you smile
With those eyes
Baby it's like
You place a finger on my heart
And your lips next to mine
Make me think that maybe heavens where you are
God don't send to me your angels
I just wanna hear you say again
Mai shut her eyes and listened to her thoughts. Her mind traveled back to that day once more, after she had apologized. She had been surprised, to see Zuko smile like that. It was a smile she had never seen on his face; it was better than the one that he gave his mother. It was much better; his eyes were golden rays from the sun, and his face was like an angel's…his face light and bright. He had just been waiting for someone to apologize. 'Its nothing to be apologizing for,' he said with a shrug. And then he shut the book and looked at her, and Mai found herself twiddling her fingers and looking at them as if they were the most curious thing in the world. 'You seemed really mad,' Mai had pointed out. He didn't answer that, and instead became quiet as he fingered the face of the book. 'You're really pretty today.' Mai looked up in surprise; had she really heard that? He didn't seem like he had said anything. He was still fingering the book in silence.
Mai opened her eyes and looked over at Ty Lee cautiously. Anything she told Ty Lee, Ty Lee told Princess Azula eventually. She bit her lip and shrugged. 'Nothing that's important.' He had said, in a mock kind of way, that she was still pretty and that she hadn't changed. Mai remarked how he looked nice as well, but then she had attacked him with some of her ninja stars and it pinned him to a tree…like his little water-bender friend.
Forever love
Say you'll love
Dígame, Dígame
Tell me so
I can hold you in my soul
And if I go
I'll know
Mai and Zuko had been secret buddies ever since. She would find him in the library, and they would talk for hours. No one knew—or so she had thought. Ty Lee had spotted her sneaking off one day when Mai was nine, and then Ty Lee had told Azula and they both had followed her into the library, watching the two as they talked. Mai had learned a lot about Zuko and his beliefs and what he wanted to do as Fire Lord. She loved his fantasies—sometimes they evolved them both together. She loved the thought of them two being together forever. She had loved spending time with him, but then Azula started pestering her when she wasn't with him making her show her some attack that she had learned, and Ty Lee had pushed Mai into silence for reasons that she rather not bring up.
'Really? You looked pretty red when I saw you.' Azula grinned maliciously at Mai's silence as she plopped herself down beside Ty Lee. 'And what with him being with that water-bender…I thought it mighty strange how he had jumped in to save her. Must've really broken the heart, eh, Mai?' Ty Lee looked over at the Princess in silence, not wanting to stick up for Mai and wanting to at the same time. Azula's eyes turned to Ty Lee, as if saying: 'And don't think that I missed your flirt with the Water Tribe boy!'
Forever love
Say you'll love
Dígame, Dígame
Tell me so
I can hold you in my soul
And If I go
I know
Forever love
Say you'll love
Dígame, Dígame
Tell me so
I can hold you in my soul
And if I go
I'll know
Honestly, Mai didn't really care what they thought. They were her best friends, but she didn't always have to agree with them. She stood slowly; the picture of Zuko's smiling face still fresh in her mind as she went to lie back in her tent. She stared up at the red cloth of the tent, watching intently at nothing. She remembered as if it were yesterday the day Zuko had received that dreadful scar. She had been sitting away from Azula, in the back. She had been terrified, and scarred as Zuko screamed in fear and heart-breaking pain. She had been led quickly away by Ty Lee, of course, the scream still echoing clean in her mind. Mai sighed heavily and rolled over; longing for him to tell her how much he cared for her. It was a silly crush, but it had meant more to her than her friendship with Azula. It bothered her, his reaction to her about to pin the girl to the tree earlier that night. It was so easy to foil the water-bender's ability, but then he had bended fire past her ear. He had interfered with her attack, and then they had fought her off together. Until she had finally managed to pin him. She sighed heavily once more and rolled over onto her other side. Say you'll love me…