The Last One. Generally the 'canon party' groupings came in under 400 words, while the 'AU/other' came at closer to 600 words each. Personal thoughts are that most of these are good because they were specific/plausible enough, but the vagueness of any Azula connection meant that that one should have been tossed out: the entire idea of the epilogues are to give an idea of where the relationships/connections are going, but that one was a distinct 'unknown.'

I like this one, though: a mix of plausible AU and established character. Also, happy. Good way to end off.

Epilogue

When Sokka is closest to Yue, it is because she has survived.

The reasons and manners how rarely matter. A young Fire Nation Lieutenant dies in the desert, unknown and forgotten, miles away from the Spirit Library. Captain Zhao, having sent his letter mere minutes before losing the Avatar, is disgraced and demoted. Hanh, in his suicidal charge, succeeded. Admiral Zhao and his men are caught well before reaching the Spirit Oasis.

General Iroh, just once, persuades the man of the enormity of the crime he is about to commit.

It doesn't matter. What does is that fate is broken: the Moon Spirit no longer depends upon Yue's own life force to exist, and so its gift comes with no cost. The Princess lives, the prior engagement has been broken by death itself, and she could not deny her affection for Sokka if she wanted to.

And she does not want to. Not that night, not the next, and not any moment before he must leave.

She doesn't leave with him, of course. She remains a Princess, and the face of her people. But she kisses him farewell, and he promises to return, and she promises to wait for him, and without another man's marriage necklace around her neck. Her father doesn't even try to arrange another match while she busies herself arranging for the reconnection with the Southern Water Tribe.

Sokka himself continues his journey with a lighter, moonstruck heart, much to his friend's annoyance, teasing, and slight jealousy. There are hardships: the swamp's cruelty strikes in completely different ways, there are temptations across the Earth Kingdom, and Suki remains the hardest of them all.

But there is joy as well. Joy in love, and being loved back. Relief in support, in acceptance, and in the shared experience and gentle coaching which, despite such a brief reunion before the Eclipse, allows him to stand proud and announce his strategy to all the men to his father's approving eye, and strikes a good impression of the man who will grow up to become Chief in the eyes of all the allies.

And it goes without saying that there is love itself, both carried with him as something to fight for, and waiting for him when he returns.

Perhaps it is cruel to say that no others could have competed with her. Perhaps it is a romanticized view, and the temptations might have overcome, might have persuaded him to change that course.

But then, Yue would claim that Sokka has always been a romantic soul.

After the War, Sokka quickly returned to the Water Tribes, where Yue awaited him. While duties at opposite poles of the world, as well as the occasional crisis, soon and regularly split them, it was only for a short while before Sokka returned from one such adventure with a necklace as remarkable and unusual as himself, made of precious materials from across the lands of the four nations. The necklace became as legendary as their romance itself, and Yue's acceptance of his proposal marked the beginning of a long, happy union of not just themselves, but a Golden Age of the long-split but reunited Water Civilization.