Part II: daycare, divorce, rehab & theft
5. and she pretended she didn't cry when her little girl went to daycare
Ty Lee watches and smiles, and Azula snaps, "How dare you look so pleased about this!"
Azula does not remotely care that other people are watching them. She has fought hard enough to not be a horrible parent, and her daughter is wailing and refusing to leave her arms. And... maybe Azula is holding back tears of her own ad struggling to allow her daughter to leave her arms.
"I just love it when you have feelings," Ty Lee says brightly. At least feelings other than rage, jealousy, lust and whatever makes her act so icy now and then.
"I don't. Our baby girl has feelings and so we should leave!" Azula snaps.
"Mmm..." Ty Lee cocks an eyebrow and looks at the little toddler now trying desperately to escape Azula arms. She sees her cousin and their friends and wants to join them, but Azula is conveniently ignoring that fact.
"Shut up," Azula snarls.
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6. and she pretended not to care when she found out her girl was getting married
"I can't believe she invited me, is all," Azula says, turning a palm up and looking wholly disinterested. "It seems so presumptuous of her that I would even care, or want to go for that matter."
Zuko pretends that he does not see the hurt in her eyes as she complains to him.
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7. and she wouldn't ever get help because she hated looking weak
Azula hates it when she stumbles, because she always falls ever since her plummet so many years ago. Zuko says she could get any kind of help to fix it, and she snaps comments about painting her feelings or anything else snide she can manage to come up with while the sky is falling around her.
Ty Lee arrives in Azula's life and understands what Zuko and Ursa and everyone just don't. Azula won't ask for help, and so Ty Lee makes it seem like she is the one asking Azula for help, instead of the other way around.
It works like a charm.
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8. and one time she stole a glance that ruined everything
Azula dares to look at the girl walking down the aisle. She has been as cold and off-putting as she possibly can. But then she looks at Ty Lee and hates herself for how much she knows it must be evident that she wants the girl who broke her heart.
Ty Lee looks back at her, and almost falls. Worse yet, she has the sudden desire to run away from the altar and maybe drag Azula with her.
That little glance at a woman soon to be a man's bride shatters it all.
But rebuilding it...
That's the fun part.