random night time times

[screwthejewels]

[Somewhere on the island, months and months before the actual posting of this post, in a Secret Base, there is a boy lying in bed. For some inexplicable reason, perhaps a recent event or another is distracting him, he cannot sleep!]

...

[After a few tosses and turns, he decides to roll out of bed and see if that will help.]

A-Ah-- Oof! ... Now why did I think that was a good idea?

[He sits up and looks both ways, then another brilliant idea comes to him. He tiptoes across the floor of the base and, very gently, pokes the figure in the other bed a few times.]

Hey, Katara. Kataraaaaa.

Are you asleep?

Comments

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

That's good. It must be a nice feeling.

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

I honestly have no idea what I would do if I didn't have my bending.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

Really?

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you'd find something!

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

But bending is such an important part of my life.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

... Sorry. I shouldn't have made light of it.

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[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's alright. It's really hard for me to explain anyway. But...

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

Without it, I don't know what use I would have been to Aang and the others back home. Sure, Sokka doesn't have bending either, but he's a really good warrior otherwise. And he can be pretty smart when it comes to battle tactics and inventions-- but what about me? Would I have just been in the way during our travels? Or maybe I wouldn't even have gone along in the first place.

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[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

Well, um... I don't think there really is a way to know that kind of thing. But, Katara, you are who you are. Maybe you wouldn't have had the same usefulness, and maybe you'd need to compensate to make up for it, but you're still the same person, right?

2/3 oops

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

... Though I guess I am being a little bit hypocritical and speaking out of place. Sorry.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

Anyway, like I said, you are who you are, and forgetting what might have been, I'm sure the end result would have been just as beautiful all the same!

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

...

Thank you.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. ♥

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I know that I'd be pretty different. I haven't told anyone this yet, but...

If I wasn't a bender then my mom would still be alive.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

Your mom would...? *going to be reaching for her--* What?

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

A long time ago, the Fire Nation started doing raids on my Water Tribe. They would capture all the benders and take them away until there was none left. But then I was born, and they eventually found out about it, so one day they came back. My mom lied to them and said that she was the bender so they would take her instead.

... they didn't intend to capture the bender that time.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

... That's...

*orz orz hugs*

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

[I LOVE HUGS]

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

*AREN'T HUGS GREAT*

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

[YES VERY]


I like to think that she'd be proud of what we're doing though, and if I regret it then she would have died for nothing.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

I'm sure she's very proud of you. I would be, if I were your mother!

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

I think that I'm more of the mother in this relationship.

[screwthejewels.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[usedwatergun.livejournal.com]

-- ah, nothing.