A.N.
Hey Ruby of Raven here. I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender or the song "Circle" by FlyLeaf.
I suggest you look up that song and listen to it while you read it. Now enjoy the story.
I watched helplessly as Zuko jumped in the way of the lighting bolt that was headed for me. I could do nothing but stand there and stare as he fell to the ground in horrible pain with lighting still coursing through his body.
Circle encircles the earth
Chance and choice break his heart
His innocent arm moves to save me and I am spared
"Zuko!" I yelled as soon as I regained my voice. I had water in a glove around my hands ready to heal the damage dealt by his own flesh and blood, Azula. His arm was outstretched toward me as if to say 'help me.' I am sorry to say that I didn't make it to him, for I was cut off by Azula's blue lightning. I had to take out Azula before I could heal Zuko. So that's exactly what I did.
Azula was in chains and screaming her head off while spiting blue fire out of her mouth but I payed her no mind. I was to busy trying to heal Zuko. As I healed him, a memory entered my mind. One I wish I would have said, 'I believe you' instead of 'I don't believe you.'
It was after the Southern Raiders trip. Right after I told him that I trusted him and forgave him. That's when he said, "I love you." But the next part I regret saying and even thinking. I told him, "I don't believe you." From then on, he tried everything to show me he loved me but I still wouldn't believe him.
His beautiful arm
Is bloody and cut off
His heart ripped out to show me he loved me
But I would not believe him
He did all that he could
I still would not believe him
The sad part is that I wouldn't believe him. I wish I did sooner.
Now I was done healing him to the best of my ability. I started crying as I checked his pulse for fear that he didn't make it.
There was no pulse. He didn't make it.
I left his arms empty and tied
Outstretched for me until he died
Left his arms empty and tied
Outstretched for me until he died
I was now sobbing tears of sadness and pain, for I now realized that he truly loved me. No man shows greater love, than when a man lays down his life for his beloved. Why did that person have to be me? I don't and didn't deserve his love, for I did not return it. Now it's to late, I could not return his feelings now, even if do I love him.
No man shows greater love
Than when a man
Lays down his life
For his beloved
I left his arms empty and tied
Outstretched for me until he died
Left his arms empty and tied
Outstretched for me until he died
I'm alive and I don't deserve to be. I cost him his life. I should have died instead. I don't have the right to live.
Here I'm alive
And I don't have the right
He gave me the right
Costing him his life
New mercies in the morning
I believe him now. Could that change anything? Would it bring him back to life? No, that's just wishful thinking. Oh, I wish he would come back to life. There was so many things left unsaid. One of them was 'I believe you.' Another was 'I love you.'
I believe
What if I believe you now
Could it ever change this heart
Forgive me, believe me
Please come back to life
I believe
What if I believe you now
Could it ever change this heart
Forgive me, believe me
Please come back to life
Come back to my life
I looked at his unmoving body. With tears in my eyes, I said in a shake voice, "I believe. What if I believe you now? Forgive me, believe me. Please come back life."
I then closed my eyes, not wanting to see his dead body any longer.
"I forgive you," came a quiet husky voice.
I opened my eyes in shock and looked back at his body. My blue eyes met with his gold piercing ones. He was alive.
I smiled as tears of joy now filled my eyes. "I love you," I told him.
He smiled a smile that actually reached his beautiful eyes. "I love you too."
"I believe you." Then I kissed him, the kiss he has been waiting for since he joined the group. Even more so after the Southern Raiders incident. The kiss, I didn't know until it happened, that I was also waiting for too.
A.N.
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