A rather short chapter again but it just felt right to make a cut here and resume the action in the next chapter. And hopefully that will come soon. I have seen the final by now and some of my predicitions seem very odd in the light of the facts but what the heck! If that makes the fic officially AU I can live with it XD
Slowly Azula regained consciousness but she still felt weak and it did take her some time to open her eyes. It didn´t help that everything around her was white and every time she tried to open her eyes the brightness hurt. Finally she managed to overcome this and to look around. "Where am I?" she asked herself shutting her eyes again. "You are at the south pole, in an igloo, on a bed. That´s enough information for you?" a disturbingly familiar voice came from some side of the igloo. Azula once again opened her eyes and looked around, "Sokka! What are you doing here?" her words expressed surprise but her voice did not. "Well I´m living here but the real question is, what the heck are you doing here?" Sokka asked in a rather blunt tone. "Well I kind of searched you." Azula replied. "Looks like you found me.". "Yeah..." was everything Azula muttered. Sokka had to smile, some things never change and Azula confusing him to no end seemed like one of these things. "So there is nothing you want to tell me? No specific reason why you appear out of nowhere after almost a year? Nothing that happened in that time that is worth mentioning?" Sokka tried to tease her. "Nothing that is of your concern. Would you please leave me alone for some time, I need rest." Azula answered in a harsh manner. "How do you need rest? You slept for ten hours!" Sokka bursted out and stormed out of the igloo. Azula was furios... at herself. Why was it impossible for her to keep her emotions out when he was around. Why couldn´t she just say that she was still exhausted and that she would talk to him later. Why did she even care and why in Agni´s name was she even here?
Sokka was furious... at Azula. He couldn´t believe that after all that happened on their journey she behaved like they were strangers. When she left to start her new life in banishment he was sad to lose a good friend. And now upon her return she mysteriously changed back to her old arrogant and demanding ways. But he wouldn´t allow this he endured her antics before but this time he would get back at her. He would get his apology and he would not change his mind in the last minute like he did the last time. So Sokka turned around and entered the igloo again. He was ready to face her and get her to say sorry. He was destined to learn about the reasons for her return. He was primed for any mean thing she could throw at him! He... he just was not prepared to see Azula asleep and cuddleing her pillow. She looked so sweet and fragile. Just by the looks of her sleeping he could see how exhausted she was and that although she had slept for ten hours she still needed rest and someone to care for her. And so again Azula had made him forgot all his anger and his resolutions and he couldn´t care less. Because somehow her petite frame lifting and sinking with her breathe, the innocent smile on her face and her scent soothed him and comforted him. It evoked feelings in him he had not felt since the night she left and that he still could not understand.
So hope you liked it, I´m a bit at odds with myself right now because I´m not really into writing in english and into this story again just yet. But it´ll come soon enough