Black Sun Thoughts:
1. Yes! 'Go Zuko! It's your birthday! Go Zuko!'
For the last year or so, since I've watched Avatar… I've not been a Zuko fan. I've paired that pansy up with Toph (yea Toko!) and I mostly refer to him as angst pants, or Zuzu or the stupid whiney prince… but TODAY…. Today I am a Zuko fan.
It's finally happened. Not only did Zuzu conduct lightening – he went to find Iroh and now is going to be Aang's firebending teacher like I always wanted. Ahhhh…
2. And the Kataang was real this time!!! Yay!
3. And the best part about the Black Sun – Teo has FINALLY joined the group!!! I love Teo and I can't wait to see him doing some cool stuff at the western air temple.
4. Haru's mustache. Seriously. He's the man.
I could keep writing notes about the last two episodes and how they were the most awesome eps of the season (Yu totally rocks) and enough to make me remember why I liked Avatar in the first place… but I'm going to get on with it here...
This is what happens after the Black Sun (do I really have to disclaim after I've gushed like that?)
A Silent Journey
The wind whipped past them as the fire nation became a distant speck in the background. The trip was almost in total silence, except for the times that Sokka, grew tired of replaying in his mind what went wrong again and again and then went on to complimenting Haru's facial hair.
Katara looked around. The Duke was clinging to Toph, and Toph didn't seem to mind. Haru and Teo were playing a silent game of elements and Sokka exchanged between paying them attention and looking like he was about to knock himself out, having a silent but very disturbing battle within himself over the outcome of the day.
Aang was beside her, their arms touching as he looked into her eyes. Neither of them spoke, but their gazes meant more than words could have expressed.
She was glad he kissed her, but there was a hundred other things that Aang had yet to do. He had to learn firebending, he had to plan another attack before the comet and he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. She couldn't become a distraction. Not now.
It was almost the entire journey, and then Katara heard herself barely whisper to him, "Well, you came back."
She meant it to sound like the one positive outcome of the day, like she didn't think that he failed, which she knew he didn't. Aang nodded and ventured out to interlock his fingers with hers. Sokka was too busy beating himself up and Toph was too busy keeping the Duke out of the wind to notice.
For the last ten minutes before they hit the Western Air Temple, everything they had to say to one another they said with their hands – switching pressure, grazing fingers, holding tightly whenever they thought someone else might notice.
It pained Aang to finally let go. It was a sore consolation prize that Katara returned his feelings after he didn't accomplish anything else they'd set out to accomplish that day – but Aang would take what he could get and he just closed his eyes and asked for a third chance to be able to make Katara proud again without failing this one last time.
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