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A powerful bender.
That's all I got. A powerful bender is who I'll marry.
I always imagined what it would be like to fall in love and get married. Happily ever after is always what a little girl wants. But in my village, there weren't exactly many options. If the war ended before it was time to get married, I figured I'd have to travel to find him. But that's a big if.
Then we found Aang. Traveling was suddenly dropped right on my doorstep. Imagine me, some nothing girl from the South Pole, traveling all over the world. Going up to the North Pole, learning how to bend. I wondered if I would find someone up there to fall for.
Then we met the fortune teller, and she answered all my unspoken questions. I could never let anyone know how much I wanted to fall in love. I'd look weak, like I needed some man in my life. In actuality, I just wanted love. I wanted what my mother always felt for my father. I wanted kids to pass down the love I feel from her everyday, even after she died.
That day, my world was shaken. I knew I'd have to suppress that yearning. Because I knew, as soon as Aang saved the town, that he was the one. He was the powerful bender I was meant to fall in love with.
Of course I love him like family and he's already my best friend. And maybe, one day when we're older, more mature, and don't have to worry about this horrible war, I can see being with him. But I can't talk to him about it now. I know he likes me, and I think he knows I like him. But right now he needs to save the world, to be the Avatar. And I need to be by his side and have his back as he does it.
Then, while trapped down in that prison of Ba Sing Se, I felt my world being shaken again.
What if I was wrong? What if it's not Aang. What if I completely conjured up those feelings for him just because some old woman told me it was meant to be. Because I know he wants me to feel like that?
Powerful bender. That can mean anyone who truly harnesses the ability. I'm a powerful bender, at least according to Pacu. No where near what Aang will eventually get to, but that doesn't mean he's the only powerful bender.
I can see that now, after going face to face with someone I never thought would confuse me like this. Someone who is just as, if not more powerful than me. Someone I know I shouldn't be letting get into my head like this. Someone who would absolutely use this unsteady foundation of my emotions against me.
And then I saw him fall, and I knew everything running through my head was a distraction. I knew I couldn't love someone who was so evil, someone who would turn their back on the world just because their nation told them to.
I knew I couldn't let love be a distraction.
So why is it, late at night when I can't fall asleep, like right now, I can't stop thinking about Azula.
