i need a fic where sokka did not realize his feelings towards zuko until the exact moment he heard zuko call another man attractive.
i need him to spiral. why did something hot and ugly twist in his stomach the moment he heard it? he questions his own sanity as he flicks through all his memories, starting from the first moment he met zuko as he and his fire nation troops invaded his village.
sokka spent so long hating zuko. he was his worst enemy.
and when zuko came to them, asking for a chance, it was not easily given. how could it be? his people were killed en masse by the fire nation. he can’t even remember his own mother’s face, because she was murdered at the hands of a fire nation general in the name of the war they created.
and yet, as the war raged on, and zuko continued to show his fierce dedication- a dedication sokka had once seen directed toward restoring his honor, now turned toward restoring balance to the chaos created at the hands of his own bloodline- something changed.
sokka found comfort in the small moments they shared. their quiet, late-night conversations left him feeling warm in a way he didn’t know how to name. safe in a way he hadn’t felt in years.
however, there was no time to reflect on those moments during a war. and when all was said and done, zuko returned to the fire nation as the rightful heir and began the long-winded road toward repairing the century of damage his nation had caused.
so sokka kept those moments tucked away, only for them to come crashing down on him like a tidal wave with one small comment from zuko:
sokka had found a 112-year-old child avatar in ice, had his first love turn into the moon, solved an ancient planetarium calendar as a building collapsed around them, and somehow, none of that compared to realizing he might be in love with zuko.
meanwhile, zuko has been desperately and undeniably head over heels in love with sokka from the moment he charged him on that snowy beach of the southern water tribe.
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