Choices | By : syndromia Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Slash - Male/Male > Zhao/Zuko Views: 4824 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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A/N: Band camp sucks. And the rookies don’t know anything about tornadoes. Swirly clouds do not equal tornadoes. They equal swirly clouds. Cut to the scene of me trying to comfort a group of rookies on a dark bathroom floor…But since camp is over, we won three trophies on our first competition and seven on our last! We rock; this is our first winning season in seven years.
The helmsman still doesn’t get a name. I like having him nameless.
Disclaimer: I finally own Avatar, oh wait, that’s not the rights; it’s just a restraining order… My mistake. Any references to the drug Zhao used on Zuko belong to Mystic. She gave me permission to use it. Thank you Mystic!
Warnings: AU, rape, child abuse, violence, torture
Spoilers: selective use of cannon up till Secrets of the Fire Nation
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Chapter 5: Awakening
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Zuko walked into the room where Zhao lay. He watched as the man turned to face him. He saw the panic in Zhao’s eyes.
“Shh, I’m not going to hurt you,” Zuko whispered. Zhao stared at him, still afraid. Zuko went and poured out a glass of water. Zhao cringe back at Zuko’s approach. Zuko walked toward the frightened man. “Here, take it,” he encouraged. He held out the glass and Zhao hesitantly stretched out a hand to take the glass. He slowly drank the water, never taking his eyes off of Zuko. Zuko smiled. “You’re safe here.”
Zhao stared at the prince in silence. Zuko alerted the doctor that he was leaving and fled to Ji’s room.
When he arrived he knocked on the door. The helmsman opened it. “Yes, my prince?” He asked, still not with the respect Iroh got, but with far less insolence than he’d first received.
“I need to talk to Ji in private. The man nodded and kissed Ji gently. He stepped from the room and Zuko approached the older man. “Do you think he’ll recover?” He asked bluntly.
Ji looked away. “I don’t know.”
“When you treated him…how did he act?”
Ji couldn’t seem to meet Zuko’s eyes, “He just went stiff, he wouldn’t fight, but he wouldn’t help. He was so stiff that we couldn’t work, so the doctor had to drug him like I told you.” Ji paused and then he did look Zuko in the eyes, “He was afraid of us.” He said seriously, somberly.
Zuko closed his eyes.
Zhao pulled out of the limp body of his partner. Zuko moaned in pain. Zhao collapsed next to the four year old. Zuko closed his eyes and tried to cringe back. Zhao reached over and lazily played with Zuko’s manhood. Zuko tried not to respond, but with Zhao’s drugged tea it was too hard…
Zhao smiled maliciously, “I see you like that.” He gave a hard pinch to the child’s nipple. Zuko’s whimper was part despair and part pleasure.
“Prince Zuko?” Zuko tore himself out of his past, Zuko turned, pulling his face into a mask of calm.
“Yes?” He asked.
“What did that wretch charge you?”
Zuko looked away, “A slight price for what I gained.” He said finally.
Ji nodded his acceptance. “If you need to talk about this, slight,” he spoke the word with distaste, “price, you are always welcome to talk to me, Sir,” Ji had most definatly softened towards the Prince.
Zuko couldn’t think of what to say to that so he left, ‘running away,’ a voice, one that sounded remarkably like Ozai, whispered.
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Thanks so much for the reviews.
Thanks Tesqura, the last chapter was a hard one to write, so was this one. I’m glad you liked it.
I’m glad you liked it too Tugera of Deviantart, but you thought the sex scenes needed to be longer? I can probably oblige later on…Thanks for reviewing.
Thanks for your honest criticism, Sexy Spork. I don’t think that Zuko would normally allow it either, but he was on a ship full of dangerous people, with a severely injured and frightened man. I think that he could have fought his way back to his own ship, if he hadn’t had Zhao to contend with. Zhao doesn’t trust Zuko either, in his mind, there’s no clear difference between Zuko and Yau so he’s not going to be real keen on fleeing with Zuko, and he’s certainly not up to fighting. Though I do agree with you, both Zuko and Yau were a little too mild. I’ll fix that when I can think of how.
And as to Iroh being proud of Zuko and not pursuing Yau with a vengeance, who’s to say he’s not. We’ll be seeing more of Yau, for all I loath that man entirely. And he’s proud of Zuko because Zuko was able to make the choice to save a hated (or at least disliked) enemy. He was telling Zuko to protect the weak and those placed in his care, no matter the cost to himself.
Thanks again, you did make some very good points, and I’ll be sure to clean up the finished chapters, and/or fill the holes with later chapters.
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