Theres Too Much Angst In My Fluff System

It was bound to happen some time or other. Thank you, tag-all fics. 3

Set your mp3/media library to shuffle and write ten drabbles inspired by ten songs. You have only til the end of the song to finish your drabble.

Mix of pairings and characters here. I may eventually do more and separate them into clusters of 10 according to ship. (This is because a great deal of songs are love songs.) Right now, you get everything under the sun smoothied into a dull brown blob.

I actually wrote a lot more than ten, except most of them didn't get finished, so I had to leech them out…these were done intermittedly and then shuffled around because I'm stupid. And lazy.

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1: Kataang: 1000 Miles (Vanessa Carlton.)

"That's right," she encourages, and the Avatar grins as the water cascades around them. She smiles back and decides the lesson is over for the day. As she watches the lithe figure run off happily, she sighs.

Kuria is a wonderful student and she's learning fast, already extraordinarily precocious a Waterbender for a child of twelve—though only Katara and the village leaders know why. She doesn't yet feel the burdens of responsibility, and as she tackles her best friend into the snow, looks remarkably like Aang did when he was that age. Katara knows that he is near—only a few metres in front of her, blushing as Meku almost bumps her nose with his in sitting up—and yet can think of precious little she wouldn't do to look into grey eyes again.

Notes: For those that don't get it…Aang is dead, Katara's teaching the new Avatar to waterbend, and Meku is unknowingly being crushed on. I'm personally of the opinion that she's fairly elderly at this point—fifties or sixties perhaps. So don't worry, the Airbenders have not died out, and they did have many happy years. Or, if you like a bit more angst in your fluff, he died soon after the war ended and Katara's going to be heartbroken for the rest of her long life. Yes, I deviated from the theme of the song a lot.

2. Gaang: Work this out (HSM II)

Notes: Set before The Day of Black Sun.

Everything's a mess, Sokka complains.

And it's true. They're off schedule, running with megalomaniacs on their tails, Aang still doesn't have a Firebending teacher, and there's always the question of their next meal. Success is almost a foreign concept.

But on good nights, when the moon shines and the grass is soft and there's dinner in their bellies, the friends sit around the campfire, and they know it'll work out.

They'll make it work.

3. Ursai: Apologise (Timbaland/One Republic)

Notes: This feels OOC. But I like it anyway. Kinda.

He's pathetic, stripped of his bending, too weak to grasp onto his dignity. He fumbles when he sees her, spitting out something that sounds like an apology. Ursa almost laughs.

Does he think all he's done can be solved with a simple "I'm sorry"? He made her into a murderer. He lied to her. He ruined her daughter and left her son in tatters. He almost destroyed the world.

And he's ­sorry.

Her lip curls.

Too late, she mouths, and leaves.

4. Kataang: Here I Am (Bryan Adams)

Notes: Meh.

He might have been tentative once, but no more: lunging forward, he catches her on the lips, savouring the taste and feel of the kiss. His mind is reeling, every nerve ending is tingling, and he doubts he's ever felt gravity less in his life. The room spins around him, every colour ten times brighter, and vaguely he wonders at the back of his mind if the world has always been this wonderful.

5. Kataang: Stick with You (Pussycat Dolls)

Notes: I ship Tokka. And Ty Laru, for the curious.

Katara thinks the world is stupid.

Haru has just been dumped for being "too sensitive" (whatever that means), Sokka and Suki are going through another rough patch, and Toph is still stubbornly denying that there's a romantic particle in her body. And she laughs at them, because they're too dim to see what's right in front of them; too silly to savour the love.

Katara kisses Aang on the nose and is glad she's wiser.

6. Katara and Zuko: Loathing (Wicked)

Notes: Stupid time limit—this would be so much better with a bit more substance and flow to it.

Katara glances over at Zuko.

A wave of dizziness overcomes her; the blood rushes to her face, and her heart thuds in her chest.

Gasping for breath, she wonders at the intensity of the feeling; like tongues of fire, licking at her stomach. She frowns as she sorts through the sensations, searching for a name.

Hate, detestation, anger; all were tried and discarded in turn; none fitted. She glares back at the scarred figure, and the answer hits her like an ostrich-horse kick to the head.

Loathing.

7. Zuko: Lost Without You (Delta Goodrem)

Notes: I know the original is sung in a romantic light, but I want it platonic and romantic, so stuff you.

He's floundering, drowning in an ocean of indecision; he doesn't know which way to turn, the paths are moving across his vision like so many luminous ribbons and every other step brings him to another dead end. Always, he is wondering what to do, where to go, who to trust; and silently, he is thankful for all who have guided him in their turn—his mother, his uncle, Mai, Aang—because he isn't too proud to admit that he's utterly lost without them.

8. Maiko: Chemicals React (Aly and Aj)

Notes: Suggestive: don't read if you can't handle some innuendo. Because Zutara isn't the only ship that's great for hatesex.

He yells, she shouts; they're both angry and their relationship lies in tatters at their feet. They've forgotten what they're arguing about; both are going forward on pure frustration.

Mai brushes her sweaty bangs out of her eyes and wonders when Zuko ended up on top of her. Then she decides she doesn't care, and pulls him in for another kiss.

9. Tokka: Teardrops on My Guitar (Taylor Swift)

Notes: Yay Tokkangst! I love this song. The drabble…eh, well, it could be worse.

She hides it well. Too well, perhaps; she still isn't quite sure if he's twigged that she's a girl yet, let alone the fact that she was in love with him.

Sometimes she wants to be petty, wants to ask what does she have that I don't?, but she can't lie to herself and she already knows the answer—everything. Suki is pretty, kind, girly, patient; even she liked her; she was just that likeable.

Loveable too, Toph reminds herself, and draws her feet onto her chair; partly so she won't have to see the soft kiss Sokka gives Suki, and partly to hide the tears that threaten fall.

10. Tokka: Accidentally in Love (Counting Crows)

Notes: Well I don't think Toph LIKES being in love with someone who doesn't even realise she has ovaries where her balls should be.

She didn't plan it.

Heck, she didn't even want it.

He was an oaf, a bumbling buffoon, entirely too stupid for his own good. He couldn't even bend.

So she kills the butterflies that explode whenever he smiles at her, one by one, painfully. She silently orders the blood in her face whenever he hugs her to go back down. And when Toph can't deny it anymore, she still insists: It was an accident that she fell in love with Sokka.

It was.

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If you haven't done this yet, do it! xD It's fun, even if only half the ones you wind up with are decent. It's great for spawning ideas.