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Mpreg Meme
I'd intended to toss one of these out there someday, only to find I was not alone, and held off to enjoy the others^^ So- if it please you, toss me a pairing/person and a prompt, and I'll see what I can cook up. Avatar fandom only, please, although if it's something I recognize I'll see what I can come up with.
Let's say two prompts per person, promise of one ficbit.
Don't be shy, it's all in good cracky fun!
(Standard warning about not being superfast applies.)
Let's say two prompts per person, promise of one ficbit.
Don't be shy, it's all in good cracky fun!
(Standard warning about not being superfast applies.)
Re: Ozai/Zuko, This Shouldn't Happen (4/4)
Change has come.
The once- Phoenix-King lies where his pains have tossed him, crouched low like an animal and fighting not to make noise like one. He is flushed and feverish, or perhaps it is the room that grows hot even as he himself goes pale and gasping.
He growls at the sight of his son, and even louder when Zuko orders the room cleared, only to cut off as a cramp ripples through him, vicious and hard.
“You wrought this on yourself,” his son says, voice small and flat. Ozai knows it, too late he knows it. There are things he would say, cunning words and the kind of despairing laughter that cuts both ways- but he cannot bring them forth. Only when the pain passes does he collapse on his mat, gasping after breath.
“Is this how you meant to live forever?” Zuko asks, looking down through the bars at the looming monster that has once more shown itself only to be a fool mortal man.
“I- I cannot abandon this flesh- your Avatar wrought better than he knew-!” Ozai grits out.
He is dying. They both know it. His body will tear itself apart trying to birth what it should never have carried, a too-mortal remnant of a failed attempt to gain immortality. The egg’s power that he had thought he might tap- he contains it, but without his bending he cannot touch it, nor bring it forth to free his spirit from its prison.
The next pain hits, and Ozai screams.
Zuko watches his father’s spine arc, his swollen belly straining horrifically. He reaches through the bars for the grasping hand that scrabbles at the stone, because that’s just what you do. The older man clings to him, willing to hold even to his despised son in this fatal hour.
Never in his life has Ozai asked for mercy.
Now he pleads for it.
And Zuko- being himself, and not the man his father sought to raise- grits his teeth, and gives it to him.
…
When the embers have died down at last, there is an egg in the ashes. It is warm to touch, and glows like amber around its shadowed center. The sages swarm the room and inspect it in every way short of cracking it open, seeking its spiritual significance and if it must or must not be purified with flame.
Zuko stands aside, cinders smudged on his hands, his face as he stares at the ground. He stays that way until the senior sage places the egg (it is heavy, and warm, so warm he can feel it through his clothing) in his arms, and the rest of them begin funerary rituals to lay to rest the spirit of one who dies in childbirth, to keep them from haunting.
He feels the pulse of flame below the surface, and it is neither malevolent nor shiningly holy- it is simply alive.
He wonders if he should shatter it, or place it far below in a vault, or simply hold it close and see what hatches.
Re: Ozai/Zuko, This Shouldn't Happen (4/4)
Wow. WOW. Completely different I expected and in a really frakking GOOD way.
Aafgdgjk.
Re: Ozai/Zuko, This Shouldn't Happen (4/4)
I'm so glad you liked it^^ That's one I've been *wanting* to do.
Re: Ozai/Zuko, This Shouldn't Happen (4/4)
At first I was like: Oh shit, I meant Zuko preggers (very surprising, coming from me) but then I read along and I was flabbergasted. It was so bloody good!
Re: Ozai/Zuko, This Shouldn't Happen (4/4)
Re: Ozai/Zuko, This Shouldn't Happen (4/4)
Re: Ozai/Zuko, This Shouldn't Happen (4/4)