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Katara and Zuko's mission on board The Southern Raiders goes badly wrong, and they are captured and imprisoned in the unforgiving hull of the ship.
Katara now finds herself locked in a small room with a boy that she refuses to trust, and nine years worth of trauma and guilt swimming in her mind. She is resolute in her hostility towards Zuko, but as the horrors of their captivity unfold, an undeniable bond is formed in the quiet moments between their captor's torments.
When they find themselves safely back with their friends on Ember Island, they are both sporting deep scars – old and new, seen and unseen. Katara struggles to reconcile all the pieces of herself and figure out who she truly is. And Zuko continues to battle with his past guilt, and the new guilt that arises from his growing feelings towards Katara.
As their bond deepens – it may be the lifeline they both so desperately need to pull them from the dark waters of their past.
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Canon-divergence from Book 3 Ep 16 The Southern Raiders. Eventual Zutara.
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lovely bitter water by janadoesstuffwrong
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 May 2026
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“Why are you looking for medicine in the middle of the night?” Katara seeks out Zuko’s face again, but it’s simply a vague outline in the dark. There’s no reply. She forges ahead, regardless, genuine worry mounting.
“Zuko, what’s-” She’s cut off by a sound halfway between a sob and a frustrated snarl. Katara wastes no more time, striding straight up to the shadowy figure and groping for his arm in the dark.
“Zuko, give me a light, now.”
“Katara, just go.”
“Now.” Throughout this unexpected encounter, Katara has been whispering, but now she injects command into her voice. The single word brokers no argument, and Zuko doesn’t give her one.
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25 May 2026
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The War rages and leaves a trail of broken things in its wake. Swept out with the raging sea, Hermione and Draco must learn to live with themselves and each other. Violence begets violence in an endless loop that they will either break from or beneath. Survival is the goal but not necessarily the destination and regardless of private desires, they'll have no choice but to weather the storm together.
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1998: Pansy Parkinson is a ghost in the corridors of Hogwarts. To the rest of the school, she is the girl who tried to sell out Harry Potter to save her own skin—a coward, a traitor, and a social pariah. She expects the vitriol and the isolation; what she doesn’t expect is the way Neville Longbottom looks at her.
1997: The Carrows have turned the castle into a slaughterhouse, and Neville is their favourite target. He is the boy who refuses to break, the leader of a rebellion that seems doomed to end in blood. Everyone remembers the choice Pansy Parkinson made in the Great Hall when the end was nigh. No one knows what she was doing in the shadows when the lights went out—the secrets she kept, and the wounds she healed.
A novella about the weight of forgiveness, the roles we are forced to play, and the line between being a villain and being a hero.
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13 Apr 2026
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