Title: Needs
Original Published: May 31, 2009
Word Count: 100


The message was simple: "I know where she is. Please come."

For an endless moment, you're frozen in empathy.

"He doesn't know if she's alive," you hear yourself tell Sokka as he tugs the letter from your unresisting fingers.

"He doesn't say that. How do you know?"

You shake your head. You can't really explain it. You just do.

"If you hurry, you can leave with the airship," Sokka suggests, instantly understanding that you can't get there fast enough.

He needs you there like he needs the sun's heat and, truthfully, you need to be with him just as desperately.