Prompt: # 06 - Past
Title: Reminders
Word Count: 291
Rating: PG
Summary: They both have pasts. Some are just worse than others.
Author's Notes: Another short one. It would have been longer but school started up and with it AP English and trying to write an original story for Creative Writing (a new chapter due every two weeks. YIKES!).
They have both done things in the past. Things that burn in the back of their minds and others that make them smile and laugh when brought up again.
Katara's past lies in the necklace that hangs around her neck. It is both a gift and a burden. When she's sad or thoughtful, she traces the familiar etchings carved into the smooth blue stone, and remembers the brief moments she spent with her mother before her death. When angry, she rips it off and thinks of the so-called 'prince' who stole and bribed her with it. She glares at the it, the tears in her eyes and anger on her face reflecting in the blue stone, and hopes that he can feel her hate and pain wherever he is.
Zuko's past lies in the scar on his face. It is nothing but a cruel reminder of his exile and multiple failures to catch the Avatar. Of his betrayal to his uncle and to the girl who offered to heal it (he swears he sometimes feels the daggers of her glare on his back). Zuko knows he has already lost the only two people who have ever accepted his past and that no one most likely ever will again.
All he can do is look to the future and hope that someday they'll forgive him.
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