Fire & Rain: Book 2 (slow updates)

The Confession

Y/N's POV
My parents looked between each other and back to me, rather concerned.

My mother then asked,

"Okay... what is it, Y/N?"

I fidgeted with my thumbs before beginning,

"Firstly, I know that I was adopted."

I watched as their eyes both widened, they were lost for words.

"I've known for a while now."

My mother cleared her throat and explained,

"Y/N, listen, we were going to tell you but-"

"I'm not angry, mother... not anymore... but there's more you need to know."

She sat back in her seat and gestured for me to continue as I scanned both her and my father's concerned expressions.

How do I tell them?

I cleared my throat and explained,

"I think it would be best if I showed you."

I saw my father scrunch his eyebrows in confusion and my mother look between myself and my father.

I sat up straight and eyed a glass of water sat on the table, my heartbeat accelerated as I streamed the water from it around the room and back into the glass.

When I hesitantly turned back to my parents, they were both staring at me, wide eyed and speechless, before my father spluttered,

"You're a water bender!? Since when!?"

I gulped,

"I- well, my whole life..."

My mother was massaging her temples as she sharply responded,

"And why are we only finding out about this now?"

If looks could kill, her's would've burned me alive.

"I'm ashamed to say that was afraid and embarrassed. I thought that you might be angry with me or that perhaps one of you two were secretly a descendant from the Water Tribe, I didn't want to put any strain on your relationship if that was a secret that one of you was keeping."

She pinched her nose before bluntly replying,

"Who else knows?"

"Oh, umm- Prince Zuko, team avatar, Princess Azula found out and that's why she labelled me as a fugitive. Fire Lady Ursa knew-"

"You told Ursa but you couldn't tell me!?"

For the first time in my life, I saw my mother appear vulnerable to emotion, she was hurt.

"Mother, I- I'm sorry... I thought you'd be furious, I-"

"YOU'RE MY DAUGHTER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!"

My father wrapped his hand around her shoulder to calm her down but she shoved him off.

"You should've told me."

"I'm sorry, mother."

My father then suggested,

"Well it's only fitting that we find you a master, then."

"Actually, father, I am a master."

My mother glared up at me,

"What?"

"Wait, it's not what you think! I didn't do anything wrong, I learned from the moon."

My father scrunched his eyebrows,

"The moon?"

I nodded.

My mother stood up to leave and bluntly asked,

"Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?"

I hesitantly stated,

"I'm going to meet my birth-mother."

She huffed and stormed up to her bedroom.

My father tried to call after her but she didn't respond, he looked over at me and assured me that she'll get over it, but I wasn't sure if he was right.

As I laid in bed that night, staring at my ceiling, I realised I had truly lost my purpose in this world.

Fighting in the war was all I was good at, it was all I knew.

Without it I'm just the Fire Lord's girlfriend.

That's it.

Perhaps, in the future, I'll be a general.

But for what?

I wanted people to tremble at the sound of my name.

I wanted to be a war hero.

And maybe that makes me a bad person, but I guess Mai was right... I am empty.

What am I doing if I'm not training? If I'm not following Zuko around the world interrogating people searching for the avatar? Who am I outside of the war?

I rolled onto my side and stared at the wall instead.

I want to be known as more than Fire Lord Zuko's girlfriend. I want a purpose.

I sighed.

I wonder what mother and father will do now that the war is over.

Should I continue my service to the military?

Without the war, it'd be unfulfilling and meaningless.

Perhaps I'll ask my father about it in the morning.