It was always summer in the Fire Nation. The tropical heat dripped through the open windows. Sweat soaked into Zura’s shift and mingled with the liquid running down her legs and onto the bed beneath her.
She yelled as the baby’s head slipped free of her body, and he breathed, half shout of pain, half victory cry. The baby started to cry too, loud, healthy screams. Her courtiers all around breathed sighs of relief. Zura breathed deep. The world widened to include them too, and a knot of embarrassment pressed against her lungs. They had come to see their Firelord bring a new heir into the world. Her mother had done this.
Her mother had brought her into the world this way, surrounded by all these people, there to see something more than a child being born, to see a princess being born.
Her son was being born to a dead father. Lucky son.
Zura tried to smile, but she was just too tired, so she just lay there and panted as the doctors cut the umbilical cord and handed her son to her.
No one was ever going to try to deny her children their titles ever again.
It was easier this time, even with all the people; she wasn’t stuck in the middle of some swamp, she was home, she was...
Home was the part that mattered.
It was how Lan Min should have been born, but that didn’t matter anymore.
By the way, as to my Harry Potter Fusion, I wrote it with the idea in mind that Voldemort was Zuko’s dad (The kid can’t catch a paternal break, and who else would be Bellatrix’s baby daddy?) but I just can’t make the timeline work with Bella having Zuko in prison and Zuko starting school after the war. Did disembodied spirit!Voldy impregnate Bella? Kinky!
AU of Sun Child: Zhao's Child is Born
She yelled as the baby’s head slipped free of her body, and he breathed, half shout of pain, half victory cry. The baby started to cry too, loud, healthy screams. Her courtiers all around breathed sighs of relief. Zura breathed deep. The world widened to include them too, and a knot of embarrassment pressed against her lungs. They had come to see their Firelord bring a new heir into the world. Her mother had done this.
Her mother had brought her into the world this way, surrounded by all these people, there to see something more than a child being born, to see a princess being born.
Her son was being born to a dead father. Lucky son.
Zura tried to smile, but she was just too tired, so she just lay there and panted as the doctors cut the umbilical cord and handed her son to her.
No one was ever going to try to deny her children their titles ever again.
It was easier this time, even with all the people; she wasn’t stuck in the middle of some swamp, she was home, she was...
Home was the part that mattered.
It was how Lan Min should have been born, but that didn’t matter anymore.
By the way, as to my Harry Potter Fusion, I wrote it with the idea in mind that Voldemort was Zuko’s dad (The kid can’t catch a paternal break, and who else would be Bellatrix’s baby daddy?) but I just can’t make the timeline work with Bella having Zuko in prison and Zuko starting school after the war. Did disembodied spirit!Voldy impregnate Bella? Kinky!