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Katara and Zuko's mission on board The Southern Raiders goes badly wrong, and they are captured and imprisoned in the unforgiving hull of the ship.
Katara now finds herself locked in a small room with a boy that she refuses to trust, and nine years worth of trauma and guilt swimming in her mind. She is resolute in her hostility towards Zuko, but as the horrors of their captivity unfold, an undeniable bond is formed in the quiet moments between their captor's torments.
When they find themselves safely back with their friends on Ember Island, they are both sporting deep scars – old and new, seen and unseen. Katara struggles to reconcile all the pieces of herself and figure out who she truly is. And Zuko continues to battle with his past guilt, and the new guilt that arises from his growing feelings towards Katara.
As their bond deepens – it may be the lifeline they both so desperately need to pull them from the dark waters of their past.
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Canon-divergence from Book 3 Ep 16 The Southern Raiders. Eventual Zutara.
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22 Feb 2026
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Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.
The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.
All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.
Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.
“I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”
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19 Feb 2026
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Seven years after Sozin’s Comet, the child of Zuko and Katara faces the world his parents created. Sequel to “The Sparrowkeet Series”.
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- Part 18 of The Sparrowkeet Series
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19 Feb 2026
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"Significant pulmonary contusion and multiple rib fractures, and there's very likely a subdural hematoma in there too,” Garcia says grimly, sounding like she's citing it to herself rather than to anyone else in the room. “We’re lucky it's most probably small, but given her fluctuating GCS it still concerns me quite a bit. Also, besides the shard of metal, the bruising and swelling along her abdomen suggests the possibility of internal bleeding as well, but we need to get in the OR to fully evaluate the severity of it."
“Jesus King,” he murmurs. “You were supposed to have the day off.”
or: there's a car accident on mel's day off. she ends up at the pitt anyways.
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14 Feb 2026
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Unapologetically, Greedily, Desperately. by ReadstheRoom for ani_meg_us
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Mar 2025
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“Listen witch.” She freezes and he feels the warning bells ringing as a part of him that he has tried very hard not to let her see, let her know, buzzes beneath his skin. His voice deepens, hands flexing at his sides, and he barely resists striding across the office and hauling her from her chair and towards the floo.
“You are going to go home. You are going to pull out one of the meals Molly leaves in your deep freeze and heat it and then you are going to fucking eat.” He scrubs his hand across his jaw, feeling a day's worth of dark stubble, keeping his green eyes glued to her gold. “Then, you are taking a bath, a long soak, with the lilac bubbles that Luna gave you last Christmas, and then bed, where you will stay until at least seven a.m.” High spots of color are forming in her cheeks, her mouth hanging slightly open as she waits, undoubtedly unsure if he is quite done.
“Is that clear, Mi?” He leaves no room for her to argue and the part of him that begs and keens and demands that he take care of her, settles.
Or the one where Harry is sick of Hermione not taking care of herself and finally acts on his hidden romantic feelings for her, by telling her exactly what she needs to do.
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16 Oct 2025