TheLifeOfEmm

Quastvert looking up at the stars



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    A Harry Potter fusion set in France, beginning in the year 1981; the author wanted to answer the question, what is happening elsewhere in the wizarding world during the wars with Voldemort? I am told that this AU is accessible to Harry Potter fans and non-fans alike - if you aren't into HP, but you like fantasy AUs, this may still be for you.

    Javert/Jean Valjean is the primary relationship; others are mentioned in passing.

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    Zuko’s a different person when they’re alone like this.  He’ll talk to Aang, quiet and serious, his dark hair falling in his eyes.  He is patient with Aang’s mistakes, and his hands are gentle when he guides Aang’s faltering movements. He isn’t anything like Aang thought he would be as a teacher.

    If only the others could see him like this, Aang thinks with a pang.  They’d like him.

    Written for ATLA Gen Week 2022.

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    21 May 2026

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    "So, I've been thinking," Aang suddenly blurts one morning, completely unprompted. "Wanna explore the temple with me?"

    Zuko gives up on meditating and fixes the Avatar with a withering glare.

    "What about any of this," Zuko gestures to himself, to the Avatar, and then to the still rising sun, "makes you think I'll say yes."

    Aang doesn't lose his smile. If anything, it grows infuriatingly wider. "You did yesterday!"

    When Aang and Zuko return to camp after their expedition to the Sun Warriors' island, Aang believes he's found a new friend on top of a brand new bending teacher. Zuko, on the other hand, still needs a little more convincing on the former.

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    "Sokka turned a stick through the embers and said, as casually as he could manage, “You know… you don’t have to sleep alone.”

    He felt Zuko go still. There was a pause.
    “I don’t think your sister would appreciate me joining you.”

    Sokka barked out a quiet laugh. “That wasn’t exactly what I meant.”
    Zuko looked at him then, wary but listening. Sokka rubbed the back of his neck. “I mean…” He nudged a piece of wood into place. “You could stay in your room. I could join you.”"

    - Zuko stays up past everybody else. Zuko also gets up first. When his exhaustion turns into lack of concentration and losing his temper at Aang, Sokka notices that Zuko only ever falls asleep with someone near him

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    He never asked for help.
    He never complained.
    He just kept going—until one day, he fell.

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    “But you just said honor is about doing what’s right. You must have known that wasn’t right,” Sokka presses.

    There’s a long moment of silence. Then, “I knew it didn’t feel right. But I always told myself that if I knew the first thing about honor, I would still be home.”

    “I don’t understand."

    “I didn’t, either,” Zuko sighs.

     

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    Of course Sokka has seen the scar. It’s kind of hard to miss.

    …It just hadn’t occurred to him that it meant anything.

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