Healing, Hurting, and The Way It Gets Better

Series Metadata

Listing Series

• You Can Stay by orphan_account

  Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  27 Apr 2024

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Sokka/Zuko (Avatar)
  • Toph Beifong & Zuko
  • Sokka (Avatar)
  • Zuko (Avatar)
  • Past Sexual Abuse
  • Zuko Has PTSD (Avatar)
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Parent/Child Incest
  • Zuko Has Nightmares (Avatar)
  • Protective Sokka (Avatar)
  • Non-Sexual Intimacy
  • Touch-Starved Zuko (Avatar)
  • but also touch averse
  • Bad Parent Ozai (Avatar)
  • Abusive Ozai (Avatar)
  • Nightmares
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck
  • Sharing a Bed
  • Cuddling & Snuggling
  • Past Rape/Non-con
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Big Brother Sokka (Avatar)
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide

  Summary

  Zuko still has nightmares sometimes about his father, and Sokka is more than happy to comfort the people he loves, even if he's not quite sure how. As for Zuko, he's just learning how to be normal about it. Plus, friends cuddle, right?

  Or, the two times Sokka found Zuko after a nightmare, and the one time he didn’t.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Healing, Hurting, and The Way It Gets Better

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  8,967

  Chapters:

  3/3

  Comments:

  22

  Kudos:

  485

  Bookmarks:

  45

  Hits:

  6,982

• Deserving Me, Deserving You by orphan_account

  Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  10 May 2024

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Sokka/Zuko (Avatar)
  • Katara & Sokka (Avatar)
  • Sokka (Avatar)
  • Zuko (Avatar)
  • Katara (Avatar)
  • Bad Parent Ozai (Avatar)
  • Past Child Abuse
  • Parent/Child Incest
  • Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck
  • Protective Sokka (Avatar)
  • Nightmares
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Zuko Has Nightmares (Avatar)
  • Zuko Has PTSD (Avatar)
  • Firelord Zuko (Avatar)
  • Non-Sexual Intimacy
  • Cuddling & Snuggling
  • Zuko (Avatar) Needs a Hug
  • Post-War
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Katara is a Good Sister (Avatar)
  • Past Rape/Non-con
  • Touch-Starved Zuko (Avatar)
  • Sharing a Bed
  • Friends to Lovers
  • No Smut
  • little bit of gory imagery

  Summary

  Getting better is hard, and Zuko is struggling to let Sokka help him, scared he’ll lose him if he lets him get too close; Sokka is having a hard time not feeling rejected every time Zuko leaves him alone. At least Katara gives good advice.

  Set a few weeks after You Can Stay

  Series

  • Part 2 of Healing, Hurting, and The Way It Gets Better

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,923

  Chapters:

  1/3

  Comments:

  10

  Kudos:

  70

  Bookmarks:

  6

  Hits:

  1,280