First burn
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  • Reads 206,544
  • Votes 7,343
  • Parts 90
  • Time 8h 48m
Complete, First published Sep 29, 2018
They never remembered each other when they where young, she was just some girl with her family visiting his home, he was just some boy who was there.

But years later when the avatar is found and retrieved by prince Zuko, he returns home as he dreamed, redeemed by his father after three years but it doesn't mean the wars over. In desperate need to protect both water tribes, yue is already engaged but the Chiefs daughter of the southern water tribe is forced to marry the eldest and only son of the fire nation for an alliance between the two, for the fire nation to stay away from the water tribe.

Katara hates it there, the heat, the red, the gold, especially the gold, it reminded her of the princes eyes, a man she hates she's forced to marry.

But what if he is just as miserable as she is? He just wanted to be home. He finally got it but is continued to be terrorized in his own palace.
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