Title: Dance Inside
Chapter Title: Control
Word count: 207 Rating: G Warnings: none, except for the pairing (which may be one you don't agree with)
Notes: I've been reading some drabbles recently and decided to do some of my own. Here's one I thought of on my way home from school today. (There will be many more—some continuing this one, some not)
Update: 8/19/08: Recall that practically all of these drabbles in this set were written before season three or possibly even most/all of season two. That might the characters' emotions, thoughts, and words more believable.
Control
The girl blew a hair out of her eyes angrily. She hated the idea of control. She blinked angry tears away as she thought.
She had no control over the war.
She had no control over the fact that they only had a few months before the comet would come.
She had no control over the fact that they had those little months for Aang to master both Earthbending and Firebending.
She had no control over Azula and her crazy friends constantly chasing them.
She had no control over how many people were dying in the war.
She had no control over her own mother's death.
She had no control over the fact that she was miles away from home and wouldn't return for a long time, depending on the outcome of the war.
"What the heck do I have control over? What?" she murmured softly, glancing at Zuko.
She smiled as she saw the look in his golden eyes. They contained sorrow as though he had heard her words and thoughts, but something else as well that was distant and in the background. It was longing. She then knew what she did have control over.
"This," she thought as she brought her lips to his.
She had control over her life, her fate.