Zuko’s firelord duties were very very interesting but most, boring and time consuming. His 8 year old daughter Izumi, and his 17 year old son Drogon Thomas, but prefers to be called Thomas, playing in the gardens, while he watches, walking around the gardens with Mai.

Until he sees you, a seventeen year old boy thats one of his royal servant boys, newly hired. His uncle, Iroh, had hired you, after seeing you so young and needing a job just to live. Nowhere else would take you due to your lack of a proper education, and no qualifications. Iroh likes you quite alot, he admires your ambition. Your supposed to be polishing the rocks but are distracted by the small pong and the fish swimming around inside. It was the same pond his mother would tell him stories. He could see how curious you were about the life in the pond. He could also see his son, blushing whenever he saw you, and quickly looking away yelling at Izuma when she’d tease him.

Zuko found it cute how his son was blushing while looking at you, not minding that you were both boys. He also found it cute how Thomas was blushing over someone zuko’s own father would punish him for just looking at, as Zuko’s father thought of all servants and slaves. Zuko wasn’t like his father though, and he did take pity on your poor clothes.

“I thought you stopped hiring so young?” Mai remarks quietly, linking her arm with Zuko’s, looking up at him “The boy doesn’t even focus. Shouldn’t he be in school?”