Avatar: The Last Airbender
The loveless love the sweetest
by Kara_luna
Part two of a small series. Zoka was not created to be loved. She was created to either burn or erupt and she's hellbent on doing neither. The southern watertribe is new and beautiful and different, and now she has these three children who care for her. Who want her for whatever reason and that fire in her breast that once smoldered for her daughter, is now alight again for the same purpose as before. Azula burned, but these children won't. Not this time. And if she has to burn the fire nation to the ground single handedly to do it? Win a war? Sell her freedom? Her soul? She'll do it, because Zoka's a protector and that's the only thing she's ever been proud of being. But she won't have to do it alone. It takes a while, but eventually that wall of "I have to do this by myself" is broken down in one shattered mess and a wolf comes stalking through, his pups tumbling over themselves and the song bird that they've adopted, on their way to her. It takes her a while, but she finally realizes...She's. Not. Alone.