I would like to know why was her miscarriage taken so lightly in this chapter? Shouldn't there have been more emotion to the fact that she lost her first child?

I’ve read both stories. All I’ll say is that I haven’t read a good story in a long time! I loved everything about this story! I know I’ll come back one day and reread this amazing story again!

I am so in love with this story. I'm a sucker for a beautiful, well written, love story that I just couldn't put down & even as fast as I read took me a few days to get through for which Ibam truly greatful. Thank you for sharing your imagination & creativity.

Great! I cried again 3

Oh my god, I cried.

i can not stop thinking of Zuko teaching her some water bending moves, since he paid so much atention to katara, and imagine her reaction to him having such knowledge.

Okay so i'm new to this story and i'm going to be 100% honest with you. I finished slow heat and i loved it! well until katara died because i died when that happened. i think you wrote both endings fantastically and i was so excited to read that you wrote a sequel. I started it and i didn't really like it at first. but now i absolutely love it. i love the story because it's so different from anything that i've read before. i've read another zutara fanfic that had to do with reincarnation but it was a little different. the only thing i have a problem with is zukos characterization. i just don't see this as the same zuko that i've not only grown to love through the show but through your previous story. i feel like this is a completely different person. i see glimpses of the zuko i know and i love those moments but then he goes back to being this character that i don't really like. and also it completely dumbfounded with the way he interacted with his son. i would expect zuko out of all people to treat his own son better. i know that i'm not that far into the story and i'm definitely going to read this story all the way through but just right now i'm a little confused with the way things are going. but i love your writing and i can't wait to read your other works after i finish this

I am so glad I found this story. I really felt the need to just keep on reading, just like I had with the GoT books. Great work!

Are you sure that child is five years old?

Yes! Zuko sees Katara after 17 years...wow...such a long time

One of my top favorite Zutara fanfics... Love it so much... This should have been canon. Thank you so much for sharing!

Such a wonderful story! I can tell you put a lot of work in to this story and I promise it definitely shows throughout the entire story! I hope to see more Zutara stories from you soon! I'll definitely be following your works

Thank you so much for writing this.
You are very talented.

Since this story was first published nearly ten years ago, it has always left me with mixed feelings after reading it.

On one hand it is a wonderfully written piece of fiction, one that could easily be tweaked and published not just as fanfiction but as an original story that can stand on its own merits. Your sense of description is simple yet highly illustrative, giving the reader a clear picture of each chapter without forcing them to digest paragraph after paragraph of endless descriptions as many fantasy stories tend to do. You're characters are well-written and believable, not only as characters but as human beings, rich with complex personalities, passions and emotion.

However, your portrayal of Zuko is perhaps the one thing that prevents me from placing this story among those that I consider to be my favorites. I've read many different Avatar fanfictions over the years and I have yet to read one with a more hateful portrayal of Zuko than what you've presented in these chapters.

I realize the emotional drama between Zuko, Miumi and his son represent a major part of the story's central plotline, but no matter how many times I've read this, I just can't wrap my head around how anyone can act the way he does towards his family and think they're justified. His treatment of Muimi is almost disturbing at times, between his use of threats and blackmail to force her into marriage, to the way he practically claims ownership of her body and forces her to share his bed before they are even married. Everything about their relationship during those first 20 chapters is enough to taint my opinion of him for the rest of the story, both as a character and as a person.

His treatment of other women is almost just as bad. He claims to mourn the loss of Katara and yet he has no problem taking other women to his bed for no other reason than to satisfy some sexual itch before discarding them without ever giving them a second thought. Sure he makes sure that they are taken care of financially, but that hardly changes the hypocrisy of what he is doing.

He claims to have no affection to give to a son he sired not out of a longing for the companionship of family but as an obligation to continue a family line he has little to no regard for and yet he can lavish affection on a young woman whom he has only just met. It seems in his twisted sense of logic, so long as he's not burning his son's face he's alright with how he treats him.

His response to Katara's memories resurfacing in Muimi is also a serious point of criticism I have for the portrayal of his character. On one hand, he chooses to make a complete stranger his wife and Lady of all the Fire Nation becuase he is convinced that she is his lost love reborn, to the point where he refuses to acknowledge her actual name, and yet he does everything he can to hinder the natural resurrection of her past memories. His actions make absolutely no sense and the fact that they result in the miscarriage of their first child only makes it worse.

To put it simply, Zuko is a selfish and hateful narcissist who believes the entire world owes him for his past sufferings. He tells Miumi that he is not a terrible man, but one has to wonder whom he's trying to convince when he says that.

Really, when all is said an done, the only thing that makes him seem less hateful is when he's compared to the likes of Enkie and Ozai. And when the most favorable thing one can say about your character is that you're not as bad as your genocidal murderer of a father, you have a serious problem.

I realize I've been going on about this for this entire review and I just want to make it clear that my feelings regarding Zuko's character in no way reflects my overall opinion of your abelities as a writer and story teller.

I would like to end this by offering some suggestions, if I may.

1. Change Zuko's tactics when he proposes to Miumi. This includes doing away with the blackmail and his unwarranted sense of entitlement whe it comes to her affections. There are better ways of kicking off an arranged marriage story.

2. Make Zuko less hostile towards his son. The way he treats Kuzon is borderline abusive at times and even though he comes to his senses after 22 chapters, the bad taste left from those first interactions still lingers. If you want a good example of a strained but endearing relationship between a taciturn father and his estranged son, the relationship between Worf and Alexander from Star Trek TNG is one that I would choose to use as inspiration.

3. Chapter 19 needs to go. All of it. It needs to be burned and the salted and scattered to the wind, becuase everything about it just cements Zuko's hateful image throughout the rest of the story. I'm glad that you were at least willing to drop the part where he rapes his Miumi in a fit of lust-driven rage (yes, it was rape)

4. Include a scene where Zuko is truly put in his place, by both his wife and his advisors. With the exception of being burned by his son, there are no real consequences for Zuko's actions which results in him enjoying a happy ending that he really doesn't deserve.

I think that's really all I have to say about the matter. If you're still reading this, I appreciate you taking the time to do so.

As I stated earlier, you have an incredible talent for story telling and I do believe this particular pieces has the potential to be published as its own original story.

Please tell me there's going to be a sequel ... something a couple of hundred years, maybe a couple thousand years down the line. You know, like another ice-age has passed and it's the start of a new world. Old technologies gone, nations starting again. Something bringing our faves back together in a somewhat similar situation to the original.