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i will take what i can get (even if it burns me) by egreenbriar
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 Aug 2026
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a couple years after his coronation, fire lord zuko agrees to a political marriage he doesn’t want. you accept one you can’t refuse.
now bound together by duty and watched by a court eager for scandal, you share a palace—but not a bed, not a life, not even a conversation that doesn’t ache with everything left unsaid. Whispers follow you through gilded halls, and his absence speaks louder than any rejection.
but proximity has a way of wearing down walls, and expectations have a way of forcing hands. an heir is demanded. stability is required. and somewhere between cold silences, reluctant kindness, and the burn of almosts, you begin to wonder—
is it worse to be unwanted, or to want something you were never meant to have?