My prequel to Beautiful Surprises that I wrote last year. There's a lot more to come (trust me)!

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender or any of the characters

What does someone do with a girl like Azula? Spending time in the Fire Nation has led me to one conclusion: whatever is done with her, it has to happen soon or Zuko is going to go bald pulling his hair out.

She's difficult, to say the least. She is, to some degree, like a lion-turtle. She was so powerful and strong, and then when everything around her fell apart, so did she and she crawled into a shell and refuses to come out. She spends most of her time in her room, she will only see her brother and only when she wants to, and she doesn't speak. Any attempt he's made to coax her out of her shell has failed, although I know she isn't his first priority. To be honest, I don't blame him. A person just doesn't forgive and forget fourteen years of misery.

Still, she can't continue to live this way. She'll commit suicide eventually. There must be some place for her in this new world that isn't locked in a tower.

(p.s. the title is French for "why this is beautiful." I sort of stole the title from the song, Pourquoi C'est Beau, by Christophe Mae. I don't own that either...)

(in addition to that, I suggest you go and listen to this song and look up the English translation because it's really awesome)