Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender,or any of the characters used in this fic. They all belong to Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. I only own any of my original characters that I choose to include, as well as any of my own original plot ideas.
Through The Storm To You
A/N: Requested by a friend with the prompt "take your breath away;" set during the group's escape from the Boiling Rock.
There she was, drifting further away with every breath he couldn't take. One moment, her face was there, watching him. The next, it was only her outline, the colors red and black, staring up at him through a crowd.
This was right, going against everything he'd known, but she was being left behind. A betrayal, she'd called it. She must have thought him an idiot to walk away from the life of prestige he'd fought to reclaim.
Maybe, instead of locking her within his cell, he should have brought her along, saved her from being trapped and stranded on this rock. But without her, none of them would have escaped.
So he had to say goodbye, promising through silent, empty air that this wasn't the last they'd see of each other.
But he knew that the only way back to her was going to be through hellfire.