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Saku's drabble wars prompt: Zuko/(anyone you want- except Sokka) (One sided- Zuko/Sokka)- Sokka tries his hardest to hide his feelings. Day after day, every long night alone. Set to Three Days Grace song "Over and Over"
Warning(s)/Rating/Note(s): Shoune ai-ish. A little on the angsty side. Sokka's POV (3rd person). Open-ended. Post series (but nothing to do with Legend of Korra)/AU-ish. Drabble's rated very light M just to be safe. This was written for a drabble wars session. Enjoy.
Avatar The Last Airbender Chocolate Box Drabble Series
Drabble 3: Sokka 1
By Yo; Written 7.3.13; Posted to ffdotnet 8.20.13
He should be the happiest man alive today, but instead it felt like the worst day of his life. He was going to marry the most amazing woman. Suki should be filling up his thoughts. Not the noble, awkward Fire Lord brat Zuko…
He'd been there when the Fire Lord married Mai, and he still remembered the way his heart had shattered. And had been shattering every day since. But if he was honest with himself, his heart had broken every day for several years…ever since he first laid eyes on the man when he was just a banished prince of the Fire Nation…even as he had hated him that day Zuko threatened to annihilate his tribe…and steal the Avatar who had just awakened from over a 100-some year slumber. He'd fallen in love then, even when he hated Zuko. And every day after.
A never ending cycle of silent, heart wrenching agony. All those nights waking up drenched in sweat and his heart pounding and aching with longing. The nightmares and the lustmares…and everything in between. Even his dreams didn't give him release. He was forever on the edge of sweet heart breaking release and he would never, ever get it…probably not even in his slumber.
"And do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?" The priest's question dragged Sokka back to the present and to his beautiful wife-to-be.
"I do!" Suki squealed, giving him the most earsplitting grin, as he placed the silver ring on her right hand.
Granting her a fake smile, Sokka closed his hands over both of hers and gave a gentle, reassuring squeeze, his heart screaming at him that this was all wrong. This woman, as amazing as she was, was not who he was meant for—his heart screamed for the Fire Lord, going Mineminemine, like some horrid never-ending mantra.
"And do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?" The priest cut into Sokka's thoughts again.
I do hung on the edge of his lips for a frozen eternity. He meant to say the words that would bind him to Suki, but he couldn't. He just couldn't. He dropped his hands at his side and looked down at the ground…
"I can't," Was all Sokka whispered as he walked away leaving hundreds in shocked silence behind him and a very broken hearted earth bender…
He had no idea where he was going…or where he'd end up.
Owari