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Gone.
She was gone
Gone
And he just stood there, in front of the stone with a single word on it, although it had been empty before a certain young earthbender got to it. All that accursed piece of rock above the crashing waves held as her memory was a carving of her pendant (the same one he held before) and her name above it in curving letters.
Katara
Katara
She was gone.
No matter how times he repeated it, he still couldn't believe it. There was no body, there was no (visible) battle evidence, and there was no proof, save for the necklace, stone and those accursed letters, if his could even be called one. Still, he knew why she left (left, had to have just left)
Because of him. Because of what he didn't do, what he should have done.
Told her he loved her (didn't)
Ignored the blathering voices of the nobles telling him to marry Mai (shouldn't have)
Stopped at her door when he heard her crying after his engagement announcement (walking. WHY did he keep walking?!)
He hadn't been brave enough to look her in the eyes while he walking down the aisle, her azure pools a painful reminder of what he should've (didn't) finished. As the sun began to set and he saw the moon come out, he paid it no attention. Katara was never like the moon, she was always much more like the water she controlled with such ease, the moon was too delicate, scared to show her face when the sun was up. He almost laughed when he thought of Katara that way (almost), the same girl who had gotten in his face so many times, even when he had tied her to a tree.
'Go jump in the river!'
He did laugh at that, barely more than a scoff as that phrase came back into his mind. Funny thing was, he was actually considering it, but he was too stubborn for that. He frowned, Stubbornness. That was what had always been his problem
Stubbornness, which kept him from ever telling her how he felt
Stubbornness, that held his tongue when she told him the Avatar had proposed to her, and stayed his words when she accepted after his own announcement of engagement
Stubbornness, that kept him from falling to his knees now and crying out what torn bits and pieces of his heart she hadn't drowned with her
Stubbornness, that made him turn and walk away as the ocean seemed to rise and meet the falling sun, leaving only a single panda-lily in his wake
This goes out to all of my reviewers and BeckyRocks for suggesting it. If you guys think that I should write one from all the POV's, just pop it into a review!!
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