A/N: I wrote this for the Tyzula Month 2016 prompt "learning."

Zuko loses patience. He wants his sister to learn like he learned, because he does not know another way. Much like Ozai, but Ty Lee does not say a word.

You had Iroh, and Azula will have me.

Ty Lee thinks they have a lot in common. Zuko doesn't get it, but the night Azula opts to die over live like he did, Ty Lee will not let him say no.

They are all that matters in this world. Of that, Ty Lee is certain, and she also certain that the world would end without Azula. That almost happened. The world almost ended because this dreadful, terrible, heartless girl almost left it and Ty Lee will not let it happen again.

"I won't leave you," Ty Lee whispers, as if it makes a difference. "I promise I will never leave you."

They lie in bed in a locked up cabin of a ship and Ty Lee realizes she has voluntarily imprisoned herself.

"Never again?" replies the icy fire princess.

They lie about their feelings and Azula has never learned how to tell the truth.

"Never ever, never again, never. I won't leave you ever," she whispers, and her words fade slowly into nonexistence. Her eyes begin to close, but they open again. "And you'll be here when I wake up."

"Of course," Azula answers, and Ty Lee falls asleep.

She falls asleep and dreams of blue. In her world, everything is red. Blood, sheets, those lips, the flags that no longer mean what they used to mean. In her dreams, everything is blue. Fire, waves, those candles, the skies that no longer feel as vast as they used to feel.

When she wakes up she wonders why they say people can't tame monsters. People tamed dragons, didn't they? Because they loved them.

When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.

Azula wakes up and does not know what to do or where to move or how to breathe. She just lies there until someone else wakes up for her.

She used to have so many servants, then captors, and now she is supposed to operate on her own. But how could she learn? How could she learn to live a life she was never meant to live?

When Ty Lee asks, "Can you help me make this bed?"

Azula replies, "No, because I never learned how."

"Do you want to learn?"

"No. I shouldn't have to. Just get my brother and tell him I won't become him by being forced to live like him. I should have died, like he should have died," Azula says.

"He had help. That's why he lived."

"You're far sexier than his help ever was."

"I know," Ty Lee says.

She teaches Azula how to make a bed, like she once taught her to climb a tree.

She pulls Azula out of yet another wildfire she trapped herself in, because Ty Lee does not give up that easily.

As long as there are pieces of that princess, Ty Lee will keep putting them back together.

One night, "I'm sorry," Azula says.

She learns apologies like she is learning her first words.