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After the tournament, Katara and Zuko along with Uncle, Lu Ten and Jun all returned home immediately. It had been two months since then and Azula was now beginning to show slightly. "Uncle where are you taking us?" Azula asked for the tenth time. Uncle had called Azula, and Zuko the day before and asked them to meet him at the Jasmine Dragon. Upon arrival Uncle ushered them into his car and had been driving ever since. "Do you two remember when you were little," Iroh asked as he took a left hand turn. "I remember fighting all the time," Zuko mumbled, and Azula kicked his seat from behind. Iroh chuckled. "Yes nephew, but I also remember you wouldn't let anyone bully your sister, which is very similar to what your doing now..." the atmosphere in the car got heavier.
Azula's secretary had informed her of her father terminating her from the business. Their father was attempting to smoke her out of hiding. Uncle Iroh pulled into the drive way of a familiar large house with an even larger attached garage. "The outside needs some TLC but I assure you the inside is in mint condition." Iroh chimed as he exited the car. Azula and Zuko got out wide eyed, it was the home that they had lived in with their mother for almost three years. Memories flooded back to the siblings as they ascended the stairs. Iroh produced a key and unlocked the front door. Everything was as their mother had left it. With the exception of the furniture and windows covered to protect against the dust. "Your mother left it in her will for the two of you... it was to go to whoever gets married first... but Zuko I think you'd agree that you're sister should receive this house for herself and her offspring." "Can we not refer to my baby as offspring, I'm not an ostrich-horse." Azula muttered as she wiped her eyes.
"Zula you OK?" Zuko asked as he moved closer to his sister. "I'M FINE! DAMN DUST IS IN MY EYES," Azula exclaimed. Zuko cast his Uncle a smirk before embracing his younger sister. "It's alright Zula, I miss mom too," Zuko sighed in his sisters ear. Azula sobbed into her brothers shoulder, "She didn't even care that I left Zuko! She didn't even fight for me!" Zuko rubbed small circles on her back, "she cried for days after you left Azula... I think she believed you were angry at her for remarrying and adopting Toph." Azula hiccuped, "I was... but living with father wasn't much better... " Zuko smiled and pulled back to look into his sisters eyes. "The house is yours Zula. Jet will even be able to convert the garage into a studio." Azula began to sob again and latched onto her brother. "DAMN HORMONES!" Iroh beamed as he watched the siblings with mirth. "Don't ware yourselves out my dear niece and nephew, we still have on more stop."
The trio retrieved a package from a safety deposit box and returned back to Zuko and Katara's apartment. "Alright everyone have a seat. Now Zuko and Azula I need you two and Toph to sit in the middle of the couch..." Everyone situated around the couch with Toph, Zuko and Azula in the middle. "What are we watching pop?" Lu Ten asked as he pulled Jun onto his lap on the recliner. Iroh smiled and popped a tape into the player,
"all will be revealed." He pressed play and sat down in the love seat next to Katara and Suki.
A beautiful woman appeared on the screen wearing a hospital gown in an enclosed garden. Her slender nose and gentle cheeks were enhanced by the slight graying of her hair. "That's mom!" Zuko exclaimed. "Is it on darling?" her honeyed, age weathered voice asked. "Yea." a man replied. "That's dads voice," Toph spoke. "I'll leave you to it then..." Toph's fathers voice strained. The woman nodded and seemed to wait for him to leave. Her naturally smiling face smiled more. "My darlings, if your watching this then I suppose I'm not longer with you..." She paused to cough. "...But before I left you I had to leave a small message for each of you. Toph, though you are not my blood daughter you've always held the title of daughter in my heart. When I met you, you had such spunk with no place to put it, never lose that inner fire that you hold. I love you my dear and don't worry there will be someone out there for you..." Toph had leaned against Zuko's shoulder and wept silently. Also she wiped her tears on his shirt.
"... My son Zuko. You are the sun in my sky, all that is bright in the world. My hope is that you will marry and start a family, that as your watching this your with someone special. I love you so much, never forget who you are, no matter how things seem to change..." Zuko sat quietly and hugged Toph closer. Azula stared at the screen, almost hungry for some type of affirmation. "And my sweet Azula..." Ursa teared up. "I'm so sorry I allowed our relationship to become to strained over the years. I need you to know how much I love you as well. How proud I am of you. All you've accomplished, all that you will accomplish when I'm gone. You were one of my greatest achievments, please be good to your brother and sister..."
"Be good to each other all of you, you three are my legacy, and I couldn't be prouder as a mother. I love you." She wept openly as she wheeled the chair to the camera and shut it off. Azula wailed as the screen went black. "I NEVER GOT TO TELL HER! HOW SORRY I WAS! MY STUPID PRIDE! ITS MY FAULT! ITS MY FAULT!" Zuko grabbed his sister in a fierce hug along with Toph. "She knew!" Toph wept int Azula's shoulder's. The three siblings wept as the other occupants of the room watched in tearful silence.