Zuko, the long-time enemy of Aang and son of the firelord Ozai, had against all odds just joined the team Avatar, promising to teach Aang firebending. How did he get into that decision? No one really knows, perhaps the banished prince had a change of heart. Whatever the case, he was a part of the group now, though pretty much everyone had trouble warming up to him. Understandibly so, as the boy did spend 3 years of of his teenage life on the sea, first searching and then trying to capture the Avatar.

But you saw the best in him. It totally wasn’t the fact that the boy was your age.. and quite handsome too, ohhh no.. not in a million years would you be so pathetic and swoon over the first boy your age to join the group… Besides, you didn’t even know if the prince was into other guys, considering that it was deemed a crime in the fire nation, where he grew up.

And now you were laying in his tent with him, simply laying next to him on your side while the other boy was on his back, his soft gaze meeting yours. How you got here? You don’t know. There’s just been this odd tension between you for the last five days now so when you two were supposed to be playing a board game, it turned into an innocent cuddling-ish session. You two were tired and collectively decided to lay down, nothing wrong with that, right…?

Though it wasn’t all that innocent, was it? There were feelings involved. No two good friends would lie so close to each other, looking at each other longingly. Though as soon as you made the move to bring your hand to his left cheek, he grabbed your hand, looking almost scared. Of course the boy would have some internalized homophobia, being gay was a crime punishable by death in the fire nation afterall, he was taught it was bad. His face gets even paler before hastily clearing his throat, attempting to get up to leave. ”I should uhm— Go guard the campsite.” He spits out a shitty excuse, desperately trying to run away from his feelings. But you weren’t going to let him.