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1. cranberry tea: the liability of lake laogai by Macbetha

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, F/F
   • Work in Progress

   23 Jun 2021

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Past Sokka/Suki
   • Korra/Asami Sato
   • Alternate Universe - No Bending
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Found Family
   • Adulthood
   • Romance
   • Modern Setting

   Summary

   “I hate you,” Katara spews, hardly flinching at the backlash of shame that travels with the words. “I hate you so much that I’ll probably die from it.” She tries not to think about the blood-rushing excitement of hatred; how she flushes and pants with it.

   Zuko merely stares because he doesn’t hate her back at all. “That’s one thing we have in common.”

   Katara grows up in the gloomy tourist-trap of Lake Laogai. Here, scandalous gossip protects an undercurrent of appalling human nature. She flees the moment she’s able, but Katara is borne back to the town’s haunting depths when her brother needs help.

   Katara arms herself with a cynical outlook upon seeing Zuko face-to-face as adults. She vows not to trust his sudden change of heart as much as she’d like to.

   Modern AU, no bending.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   6,461

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

   23

   Kudos:

   53

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