Disclaimer: Avatar isn't mine. And how cosmically depressing
that is!!  SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! WHOAAAAA!! You've been warned.
MAJOR SPOILERIFIC GOODNESS for Chapter 316, "The Southern
Raiders", that aired on Thursday, July 17th. Yeah, I've got mad,
mad uploading skillz. This story was eating at me when I saw the
preview, so naturally it didn't take much to come into its full
form after I saw the episode. Twice. Hooray for recordings!
A/N: Well, hello, Avatar fandom, long time no see! This week has
been epic so far, and I'm hardly able to contain my giddy
enthusiasm for the series finale! It's intense, and so, so EPIC.
Needless to say, because it's been awhile, I might have tripped
over details; i.e., how old is Zuko in the flashbacks in "Zuko
Alone"? I don't know. I'm pretending he was eight. Pretend along
with me!  A/N the second: If you don't understand that
flashbacks are in italics or couldn't figure that out from a)
context clues or b) without FLASHBACK scrawled in bold (and I
deeply loath people who do