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200 word drabble: What Can’t Change
Nov. 14th, 2010 07:21 amWritten for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
avatar_500 prompt #16, Mad.
Summary: Everything changes after the war.
What Can’t Change
They both went, but they never went together. When they walked the road to the hospital, they were always alone, even when it was full of people. And they always walked. Zuko and Mai couldn’t be Firelord and Fire Lady, not for Azula.
They never went together, but Zuko knew the look Mai got, deep in the back of her eyes when she had been there. They always held each other afterwards. They always needed to be held. Mai held Zuko while he tried not to cry, her face still and stuck, masklike and hard. Zuko held Mai while she couldn’t cry, and he wished he could cry for her, and that it would somehow make her stop hurting.
They never went together; they couldn’t be together, not for Azula. But they had to be together afterwards, for Zuko and Mai.
They never went together, but sometimes Azula still saw them together, and those were the hardest days of all. On those days, Azula cried.
They never went together, and Mai sometimes forgot they were. She remembered when she had first met Azula, and they had been so scared, and unable to show it. Azula couldn’t stop showing it anymore.
avatar_500 prompt #16, Mad.Summary: Everything changes after the war.
What Can’t Change
They both went, but they never went together. When they walked the road to the hospital, they were always alone, even when it was full of people. And they always walked. Zuko and Mai couldn’t be Firelord and Fire Lady, not for Azula.
They never went together, but Zuko knew the look Mai got, deep in the back of her eyes when she had been there. They always held each other afterwards. They always needed to be held. Mai held Zuko while he tried not to cry, her face still and stuck, masklike and hard. Zuko held Mai while she couldn’t cry, and he wished he could cry for her, and that it would somehow make her stop hurting.
They never went together; they couldn’t be together, not for Azula. But they had to be together afterwards, for Zuko and Mai.
They never went together, but sometimes Azula still saw them together, and those were the hardest days of all. On those days, Azula cried.
They never went together, and Mai sometimes forgot they were. She remembered when she had first met Azula, and they had been so scared, and unable to show it. Azula couldn’t stop showing it anymore.
