markofthebrave: (Accepting Against My Will)
Katara ([personal profile] markofthebrave) wrote in [personal profile] generalflirt 2012-04-22 05:24 am (UTC)

[ School ]

[There were several times as he was speaking about 'him' and 'her' and 'killing' where she would have interrupted - but she was glad she didn't, because then she wouldn't have gotten to hear him say that he was at peace with that, with doing what she still remembers felt like killing her, with doing the right thing.

And she's proud of him, then. She's fiercely proud, that he's stepping up and stepping into the possibility of who he could be, and it twists with the pain that he'd ever thought himself worthless in the first place and then--

--and then he's stepping closer (no, don't do that) and he's whispering so that she has to strain to hear (no, don't say that) and she takes a half-step back and she wants to tell him, "No, you don't" and raise a hand between them to reinforce the distance, or tell him not to say it, don't say it, let it be undone--

"You keep me balanced, Katara. You're everything I love about the earth in one person."

She shut her eyes tightly against the sudden onslaught of tears. And she whispers:]


I wish you didn't - I wish you hadn't said that.

[How is she supposed to not hurt him now?

What is she supposed to do?]

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