A Love Like This 2: Child's Play
Chapter 5Scared
Zuko's Pov
We walked back to the palace in silence. I had sent all of my guards ahead to make sure those dumb asses who attacked the kids were locked away where I would never see them again. We were right outside the main entrance to the palace. I turned to Sokka and Aang and said "Go on and take the kids home, I want to teach my son a lesson."
They nodded once and continued walking, behind us Kan and Nya whispered, "good luck" to Azros and ran after Sokka and Aang. I moved off the path and sat in the grass, I looked behind me and saw Azros looking down at some thing on the ground I noticed it was his foot print inside one of mine. His foot looked half the size as mine, then I snapped my head around and looked back at the village, my back to the palace. "AZROS!" I said as stern as I could.
I heard him shuffle up to me and he sat beside me. I looked down at him and he gazed back and gave me a small smile, but I did not allow my scowl to fall, he dropped his head and looked at his hands. "Azros, I am very disappointed in you. You deliberately disobeyed me. You could have been killed, and what's worse is you brought Nya and Kan into this. You put them in danger." I said looking down at him, I saw a single tear fall down his face. I allowed my scowl to soften.
"I....sob...I just wanted to be like you. I was trying to be brave like you." He said looking up at me
I felt my face slip a little at his words, now I understood why he did it. "Azros being brave never means you need to go looking for trouble."
"But your never afraid of anything, you never go into battle with a scared look on your face." He explained looking at me confused.
"I was today"
"You were?" He said looking at me even more confused. I never admitted when I was scared, but in this case it was the only way I could teach Azros.
"Yes, I thought We might lose you. I was afraid I would never see you again, I thought of what it would do to your mother if anything happened to you." I said trying to push the thought of what Katara's face would look like if that happened out of my head.
"So even Fire lords are allowed to get scarred."
"Mhmm" I said nodding my head.
"But you know what dad, I saw the look on those guys faces when they saw you and they were even scarder." He said laughing at he memory, making me laugh a little too.
"Yeah cause nobody messes with your dad." I said pulling him in my lap and tickling him.
"No...hahahaha....Dad...Ha....No" He complained as he wiggled out of my hold.
We stood to go inside and I looked down at him and said "Also your grounded until your fire lord and wait until your mother finds out." Azros froze in his tracks at the thought of his mother. His face froze with horror.