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1. What the Water Gave Me by MayimOr, SouthSideStory

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   16 Jul 2024

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Katara (Avatar)
   • Zuko (Avatar)
   • Sokka (Avatar)
   • Toph Beifong
   • POV Katara (Avatar)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • angst angst angst
   • Longing
   • Requited Unrequited Love
   • Diverges from Crossroads of Destiny
   • The Gaang without Aang
   • What if Katara uses the spirit water on Zuko
   • and it doesn't heal him
   • Azula’s lightning hits and there’s no Deus Ex Aqua
   • they lost the war au

   Summary

   Katara unstopped the bottle with her thumb. The spirit water answered her call so eagerly. It wanted to heal Zuko, it knew this was right.

   She tried to coat her hand with it, but the water coalesced into a shimmering disk beneath her fingertips. Brilliant, pure, glimmering. She pressed it against Zuko’s cheek, glowing bright before it disappeared into his skin. A moment; another.

   And the scar remained.

   ~ ~ ~

   Katara could have brought Aang back, but she’d poured her only miracle into an unforgiving scar. Lost forever, the way the world would be now.

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   English

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