Anonymous: What if Azula has a miscarriage?
The royal physician confirmed it, the source of her strange and sudden illness.
She was pregnant?!
She didn't understand. How could she be pregnant? They'd taken the proper steps to prevent this.
"But the tea, I drink it every night!" Azula exclaimed, horrified that Daddy would think otherwise and be angry with her.
"The moon tea isn't one-hundred percent effective, Azula. I should have been more careful," he admitted.
"Couldn't the doctor be wrong though? I mean, am I even old enough to..?"
"More than old enough. You have been ever since you started to bleed. Only it would have been too dangerous, it wasn't worth the risk until you were older."
Then Daddy did something she didn't expect.
He smiled and took her hands in his.
"I know it's wrong of me but... I'm happy to have received this news. I'm happy we're having a child together. You'll be a wonderful mother."
A wonderful mother? She very much doubted that.
At least Daddy was happy. Things were easier when he was.
"And the timing couldn't be better. The Avatar is dead and this war is almost over."
Right...
"Now, how about we celebrate this most joyous occasion, My Dear?" Ozai purred.
He pulled her into an embrace from behind, his large hands cradling her still flat stomach, protectively.
Daddy didn't fuck her that night.
He made love to her. So tender and passionate, kissing every inch of her body, suckling her neck and then her breasts. Her nipples were so sensitive that she came undone beneath his wickedly talented lips and tongue.
In total, she came for Daddy more times than she could count. Whether clenching around his fingers or his cock, or bucking against his mouth as it worshiped her cunt.
"I think what I love most about this is not having to worry about where you are in your cycle anymore. I can just cum inside you whenever I want, and you love it, too, don't you?"
"Yes, Daddy, I love it."
...
Azula's pregnancy was fairly uneventful.
During the day, she relaxed. Her trips to the royal spa were frequent as was her ingestion of ginger tea, which at least somewhat abated her morning sickness.
Her nights were spent with Daddy, of course, in his bed. The bed he'd insisted they share for its primary purpose as well - sleep. Ever since they'd learned of her condition, it was as though he didn't want her out of his sight... which was fine by her, especially since he was being so nice.
He couldn't keep the smile off his face, so much so that it started to rub off on her. At first she'd been apprehensive, even scared, but now Azula was excited at the prospect of bearing the Fire Lord's child and becoming a mother.
However, something was amiss...
Although she herself hadn't told anyone, especially not Zuzu, she couldn't help feeling like people knew. Perhaps it was paranoia or perhaps her maidservants really were giving her strange looks, and their conversations really did come to a halt whenever she entered a room.
Even Lo and Li were acting strangely.
One morning, Azula decided she'd share her worries with her father.
"Did you..?" No, no, she couldn't accuse him. "I feel like people know... about me."
"Well, it's not as if this is really something you can hide. People notice things, Azula. You're ill, you're sleeping more than normal," he began to explain.
"I suppose you're right..."
Daddy smirked.
"And your tits are getting bigger every day," he added, shamelessly squeezing them for emphasis.
"I just feel like everyone's judging me," she said, as he continued to grope her.
"Unfortunately, that's to be expected when you're a young and unwed mother. It isn't fair to you, or to our child - which is why I've decided I will do the honorable thing and claim her."
Azula's heart skipped a beat.
"Oh, Daddy! Do you really mean it? Truly?"
"Of course, My Dear."
He kissed her forehead, and tucked a lock of loose hair behind her ear.
"We'll make the announcement tonight. How does that sound?"
"That sounds wonderful."
She looked into his eyes, positively enamored and the happiest she'd ever been in her life.
"Good, then there's something else as well."
He got down on one knee.
She could have died right there.
"When this war is over, I want us to be a proper family. I want to be your husband - if you'll have me."
"Of course I'll have you!"
And he had her, as a man has his wife, right there on the dining room table. Breakfast dishes clanking and falling as he pounded into her from behind, her cunt slick and hot from the vigorous tongue lashing he'd given it and her breasts before slipping that long, thick cock right in with ease.
...
"Don't you think we should tell Zuko? Before the announcement, I mean."
"Mmm," Daddy mumbled into her neck, in between kisses.
Then he was opening up her robe again.
"Twice wasn't enough for you?" Azula teased, referring to their tryst in the dining room not even an hour ago.
"I don't think I could ever get enough of you, Princess."
She shivered as her breasts were bared to the cool indoor air, her nipples hardening immediately.
Father was quick to warm them up, his mouth burning like fire upon her delicate skin.
...
Zuko didn't take it well.
At first he'd been convinced this was one of her sick jokes.
"Are you... okay?" he finally asked.
"What kind of a question is that? Of course I am. Father would never hurt me."
Daddy would never hurt her, she knew it to be true.
Even when he discovered she'd been lying (well, not technically, she just wasn't telling him the whole truth), and the Avatar was indeed alive.
He didn't even punish her.
Oh, he'd had some harsh words for her, sure, but at the end of the night, they still shared a bed. He still fucked her. With a bit more ferocity than she was used to, granted, and without the gentle kisses and touches she so craved.
It was okay, she told herself. He hadn't struck her, and she was only bleeding a little bit. Their first time had been far, far worse. She was just thirteen years old, and the blood had been pouring out of her, her insides burning. She must have done or said something to entice him, to get him to pounce on her like a wild animal... she just wasn't sure what.
...
"She's bleeding! Zuko!"
"Zuko?!"
"I'm... I'm pregnant," Azula managed to choke out, the water bitch's face fading away into blackness against the crimson sky.
...
"He deserves to know."
"He's the sick bastard who did this to you in the first place. You don't owe him anything. You're his daughter, he was supposed to protect you."
"Father always protected me! You don't know anything!" Azula screeched, clutching her abdomen instinctively.
The emptiness of her womb was like a knife to the heart.
"What do you care anyway, you left me here in this Agni-forsaken asylum to rot. How protective and noble of you, Zuzu. Are you going to have a go at me, too, now that I can't fight back?"
"...I'm sorry."
"You're sorry?! Oh gee, thanks, I'm all better now!"
"Azula-"
"Fuck you!"
He left without another word.
She cried herself to sleep that night, desperately clinging to the memory of that tiniest little flutter of movement in her belly. Her baby had been a firebender, she was sure of it. The royal physician had insisted it was impossible to feel the baby move at that stage in a pregnancy but she knew better.
Sometimes, just for a moment, she could pretend she was still pregnant. That none of this had ever happened. That she'd wake up next to Daddy. That it was all a terrible nightmare.
...
"They called it sepsis. Our baby had died days before that but I never even knew anything was wrong. I'm told I'm lucky to be alive... the fever alone should have killed me."
There was a terribly long silence before her father spoke.
"It's my fault. I killed her. And almost took you with her."
"No, no, the nurses said these things just happen. You can't blame yourself for-"
"I can. If I hadn't left you that day, you wouldn't have lost the baby."
"You can't know that."
"I should have been there to protect you both."
Another moment of silence. Azula spoke first this time, her eyes wet with fresh tears.
"How do you know she was a she? They told me it was too early to tell."
"I just know. And when I get out of this cell, I'm going to give you another baby, Azula. Another little girl. I promise."