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An anthology of 'deleted scenes' between Katara and Zuko
Filling in those spaces between scenes/episodes/seasons/comics.
Will turn into it's own not so canon fic later on.
Part 1 - First Stitch - takes place during 'The Waterbending Scroll' - Complete
Part 2 - Healing Iroh - Post 'The Chase' - Complete
Part 3 - Blue and the Healer - 'Lake Laogai' (Breaks canon) - Complete
Part 4 - Mirrors - 'The Crossroads of Destiny' - 'The Western Air Temple' -
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When Katara stays behind in Ba Sing Se to help plan the invasion, she ends up running into a familiar face in the Upper Ring of the city. But Zuko insists he's changed and that he's not trying to capture Aang anymore. And the crazy thing is, Katara believes him. With everyone else on their own adventures for the time being, Katara finds herself spending more and more time with the exiled Fire Nation prince. Days begin to include nights, and she wonders how in the world she is going to explain things when her friends return, but before she gets a chance, Ba Sing Se falls to Azula's hand, Zuko is captured, and Aang is nearly killed.
Katara decides not to say anything until they can rescue Zuko, but a discovery made while hiding out in the Fire Nation might force her hand.
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Canon divergent from the end of the episode "Lake Laogai" with an extended timeline.
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“No, not this time. I saw the Blue Spirit. I swear it. He was majorly scary, like nightmare fuel. I swear, this guy teleports for something. I looked away for one second, and he was gone. Either that, or he flew away.”
“C’mon, man. You probably just imagined it.”
Katara bent down the newspaper just enough to get a view of the two men talking to themselves. More of the Blue Spirit. Great.
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Let Me Pretend; Your Soul is Winter Fire by Fly09Fire
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
23 Jul 2021
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“You think I’d get away with that in house?” Zuko bites down his frustration. Agni, he really can’t do anything nice for her. Yes, it’s back-ended by motive, but she doesn’t know that.
Then, to his utter shock, Katara laughs. Soft, restrained. So like all those times he’d say something that amused her on his ship. “You still haven’t learned to smile when you do that.”
He’s spent months living off the memory of her smile, turning away like it was the suns glare and he only deserved to be burned. Now he stares at it, lungs shriveling the longer he forgets to breath. Wasn't he supposed to be doing something? He can’t remember. Can’t remember his own name, let alone pay attention to a nagging voice that sounds a lot like Azula’s. Not with Katara’s laugh still ringing in his ears.
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What is Katara supposed to do when she receives a secret note from Ba Sing Se's masked vigilante pointing her towards Pao's Family Teashop and the Fire Nation's most wanted fugitives are bussing tables and serving tea?My continued take on the series if Zutara were the series endgame. Feat Book Two canon-divergences, aged-up characters, secret plots, mature themes, pining, and Two Idiots in Love.
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- Part 2 of My Heart Burns
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I wanna see the sun rising anywhere but here by LJF for SeleneMoon
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
23 Jul 2021
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Iroh had received an offer that was too good to be true.
Meanwhile, Aang Katara, and Sokka had an encounter with someone they'd met in the past-- and discovered some very concerning things
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- Part 21 of we all want love/we all want honor
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As far as General Iroh is concerned, even a member of Ba Sing Se's totalitarian, brainwashing, extremely dangerous secret police deserves to meet a special someone. It all leads to a wonderful, crazy, painful, confusing summer for one Hong Yan-the Dai Li agent that dared to differ. NOT complete!!!
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"Ichariba-chode"
An Okinawan saying and approach to life, meaning "once we meet, we become brothers and sisters."Zuko goes to Ba Sing Se with Iroh and begins an unlikely friendship with Jet and Jin. Cue gossiping over tea, late night vigilantism and Zuko learning how to be a real kid.
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- Part 1 of Ikigai
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Bathed in Moonlight, Cloaked in Darkness by Neva_Borne for thesavagedaughter0627
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
22 Jul 2021
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Katara's managed to keep her identity - and her true nature - a secret as she's traveled the Earth Kingdom. She doesn't draw attention to herself and arrives in Ba Sing Se under the guise of a refugee. But when one of her nightly adventures takes a deadly turn, she finds herself at the mercy of the mysterious man who rescued her: a man that she can't quite figure out, and one who sets her wolf instincts on edge for a reason she can't understand.
Until she does.
Zuko's lived in Ba Sing Se for most of his life. About 200 years of it, at any rate. He lives a quiet life by day, emerging only when the sky is overcast or beneath a broad-brimmed hat and clothes that cover as much of his skin as possible. At night, he's taken to roaming the streets, taking care of various nefarious characters who seek to cause pain or suffering to innocent victims. When he happens across an injured young woman one night, he saves her life. But his vampire instincts are telling him to run, and he can't figure out why.
Until he does.
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"Ichigo Ichie"
A Japanese idiom that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment. The term has been translated as "for this time only", and "once in a lifetime".After Azula's attack on Ba Sing Se fails, Zuko decides he needs to stop his father. Zuko, armed with his new friends, Jin and Jet, stumble through season three a bit differently.
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- Part 2 of Ikigai
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On her morning walk, Katara discovers a charming tea shop owned by a friendly man and his nephew.
(AKA a fluffy one shot in which Zuko and Katara meet for the first time while they both are in Ba Sing Se, and Iroh and Zuko are still going by their fake names "Mushi" and "Lee".)
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Just to clarify, this is an AU where Zuko and Katara haven't met before. Katara doesn't know what Zuko looks like, and Zuko doesn't know what the Avatar's friends look like or what their names are. Sorry for any confusion!
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Zuko and Jet meet the way banished Fire Nation princes turned fugitives meet rebel leaders turned refugees- on a ferry to Ba Sing Se.
Jet is instantly intrigued by a boy with a scar and fighting skills that rival his own. Meanwhile, Zuko just wants to survive the boat ride without getting found out, but somehow, manages to get caught up in Jet's bright eyes and clever plans anyway.
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Canon-divergence AU where Jet never sees Iroh warm his tea and how such a small thing can change everything.
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Lee wants nothing more than to go back to the way things were. Jin wants nothing more than the chance of opportunity. While she dreams of exotic lands, he only seems to have nightmares of dragons.
In the city of walls and secrets, proper guidance is important.
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Zuko wakes with the sun, practices his firebending in secret, and opens the tea shop, hoping to see his new favorite customer. It's a beautiful day, and everything is peaceful and orderly in Ba Sing Se.
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Zuko's Long, Long Day in Ba Sing Se by Caput_Mortuum
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Jul 2021
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Exactly what it says on the tin. Zuko has a very, very long day in Ba Sing Se, and he CANNOT figure out why this is happening to him. Luckily, this is going to be a long one, and he's got plenty of time to figure it out.
Featuring fun, funky side adventures with wacky fan favorites.
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The Wisps Sing by itsmoonpeaches
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
16 Jul 2021
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“So,” the mysterious woman started, her back to him, “you have found me at last, Avatar Aang.” Her voice sounded regal, as if she had been a ruler once, and yet it was still kind. She turned to him and he was struck by the brightness of her irises. They glowed just so, like a light was shimmering behind them.
“You know me?” Aang stuttered out, a little wary.
Her lips quirked and she replied, “I know all of you.”
He did not know what to say except, “Who are you?”
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Or, when the Earth King invites Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph to celebrate over a thousand years of Earth Kingdom Unification, they find out there was more to the invitation. There could not be more to find in the Dai Li's old hideouts, could there?
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A Train Ride through Ba Sing Se by devilinthedetails
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Jul 2021
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Roku and his first train ride through Ba Sing Se.
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- Part 7 of Fire Burns Everything It Touches
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Weather This Storm Together by Concerned_Brown_Bread
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 Jul 2021
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Toph could feel the tension mounting inside her. Like a coiled snake, coiling tighter still as it got ready to bite. She hated the feeling, one that she thought she’d left behind in Beifong Manor. The feeling of helplessness. Because they were arguing and Toph just wished they’d -
“Toph,” Katara said, coming to sit beside her, “What’s this about?”
Lightning struck outside. Toph’s feet flinched away from the ground in a knee-jerk reaction. When she touched back to earth, she found that Sokka had shifted closer to her as well.
Toph shrugged, “It’s no big deal … just reminded me of my parents arguing.”
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It's storming in Ba Sing Se, and Toph's hatred (and fear) of arguments comes to a head as she deals with losing Appa and figuring out where she stands with her new-found friends.
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- Part 11 of Tales of the Gaang
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“Well?” Jet presses, prodding his hook sword closer and closer to Sokka's throat. “Are you covering for him? Working with him? If you’re not friends, then what are you?”
“He’s my,” Zuko says, and visibly has to force the next word out, “boyfriend.”
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- Part 51 of AtLA Podfics
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What does it mean when you’re living through a pandemic, suddenly find yourself in Ba Sing Se with absolutely no explanation, and the only thing you have going for you is an uncanny knowledge of your Spotify playlists? Escapism during quarantine just got a whole lot more epic. OC Self-Insert.
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SI/OC insert. The whole rebirth shebang never really interested me, until I was involved. As a waterbender during the Siege of the North with the memories of my past life, things go quite differently than in canon. Some things though, stay exactly (frustratingly) the same.
Fair warning: Not much humour, mostly dark themes, social critique. Originally Posted on ffnet.