As much as I wish otherwise, A:TLA isn't mine.
A/N: Written for the Avatar_500 community on LiveJournal, Prompt #32 - Empty.
Title: Realizations
Author: Somariel
Rating: K
Words: 125
Genre: Gen
Char/Pair: Zuko
Warnings: None
Summary: Zuko realizes why he felt unhappy after siding with Azula in Ba Sing Se.
Realizations
Zuko should have been happy, but he wasn't. Finally, after three long years, he was going to return to the Fire Nation. He had redeemed himself and restored his honor—Azula had told him so herself. That was what he had wanted, wasn't it? But if it was, then why was he so unhappy? Was it because he had betrayed Uncle? No, that couldn't be right—Uncle had betrayed him, not the other way around.
After the war meeting, Zuko finally understood why he had been so unhappy. He had betrayed Uncle, but more than that, he had betrayed himself. In siding with Azula against the Avatar, he had done what he thought his father wanted him to do, not what he wanted to do.