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    In the scorching expanse of the merciless Si Wong Desert, two enemies find their fates unexpectedly intertwined. Prince Zuko, having finally abandoned his futile hunt for the Avatar and severed ties with his uncle, wanders the wasteland with nothing but regrets and his stolen ostrich horse. When he discovers Katara collapsed and dying in the sand, he makes a choice that defies everything he's been: he saves her.

    Now bound by a lie, the exiled prince and the waterbender must travel together to Ba Sing Se, navigating a fragile alliance built on shared loss, desperate necessity, and the slim hope that doing one right thing might matter in a world defined by war.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Instead of staying to fight Azula, Zuko follows Iroh when he flees - and everything changes. Without Iroh's help, Team Avatar never find Katara in the crystal caves. Now, left behind with no way of finding her family, Katara must turn to Zuko and Iroh for help to get to the one place that isn't safe for any of them... the Fire Nation... in time for the Day Of Black Sun.

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    20 May 2026

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    Zuko has not known real peace since the day he faced his sister in their Agni Kai many years ago. No matter how many times he tried to bury it, his feelings for Katara refused to fade. At every shared meal, every sparring match, and every return to the Fire Palace, he found himself hoping — just once — that her eyes would meet his and reignite the spark that had flared the moment he took Azula's lightning for her... but they never did.

    Her gaze always found Aang instead. And, in time, Zuko taught himself to look away — for their sake, for the fragile balance of their friendship. The Avatar and the healer, bound together as if by fate.

    But when Katara comes to the Fire Nation during a quiet break from Aang, the Fire Lord begins to notice something he hadn't allowed himself to see before. Whenever he looked away...

    She always looked back.

    (Set ~10 years after the Hundred Year War, Post-Canon)

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    20 May 2026

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    The Avatar’s Waterbender is left behind in the Si Wong desert. The disgraced Prince Zuko and General Iroh agree to escort her to the impenetrable city, Ba Sing Se. The White Lotus provides the three refugees with new passports, but also, unexpectedly, a marriage certificate for a certain Lee and Hua Mei. Fake Marriage AU. Zutara Week 2021. M.

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    18 May 2026

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    After the war, Katara loses herself in the rhythms of tribal life. In the South Pole the moon is sovereign. Deep in the ice and snow, and in the heart of her element, it is easy to forget that there is a land of fire, smoke and ash- the kingdom of sun and dragons. Her journey with the Avatar slips into memory: a strange past life, shadowy and ephemeral.

    But some things do not stay consigned to twilight, nor to history.

    She is 20 years old when she sees him again.

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    18 May 2026