Fic: Of the Fruit (and not the Flower)

[recessional]

Title: Of the Fruit (and not the Flower)
Rating: Call it 14A; gen.
Content notes: Mental Health Issues (and attitudes towards same that are not great). Azula being Azula. First-person present tense.
Word-Count: 14266 words, give or take
Notes: Shares time with the rest of my A:TLA stuff (which can be found via the tag!). Written for thefairymelusine, for the savesnowssanity auction.
Summary: I commanded [fire], like an arm or a leg or a finger. The fire became a part of me. My father would search the archives later and discover that I was the youngest firebender ever who hadn't also turned out to be the Avatar. And my father swept me up into an embrace and said, My Azula, in a voice of so much pride, so much pride.

It was as if I possessed the whole world.