Remember Tamara and Leon from Reincarnation? Please go back a couple of prompts, in case you need to refresh your memory. Like I said, they make a reappearance in this prompt. This was one of the prompts that gave me a real hard time. I finally had to take help from these two to get me out of trouble. Hope you enjoy this piece.

As usual, R&R.

Lilac

"Earth calling Tamara," Roja's harsh whisper started Tamara and she gave a small jump. Sitting across the table, the Waterbender Sena giggled.

Tamara scowled at her friends and hastily looked down, fighting to keep her blush down. She couldn't help it! Whenever he was around, her eyes seemed to develop a mind of their own, getting drawn to him. He did things to her, things she was completely unprepared for. Not only did he send her heart palpitating, he made her fingers go cold and quickened her breath.

It didn't help that ever since she'd met him, she had been plagued by odd dreams. Dreams that made no sense. She would often see a man, a Firebender, with a large scar on the left of his face.

Over and over she would see the scarred man lying on scorched ground, twitching while the hot, humid air was rent with maddened, agonized screams of a woman. Curiously, every time she saw this dream, the sky would be red. But the strangest bit about the whole thing was that she saw herself as a Waterbender who tried to frantically heal the injured Firebender.

Shaking her head, Tamara forced herself to focus on her work. However, she seemed to be acutely aware of him. After that first day, two weeks ago, Leon had not approached her again. And yet, Tamara couldn't stop thinking about him. He was a presence she would feel always. He was always on her mind, lingering in the periphery, waiting for the moment when he could overwhelm her. Which, much to Tamara's chagrin, was quite often.

"Love is such a complex thing," Roja sighed, earning a grimace from Tamara.

"I know," Sena added in a sing-song voice, her grey eyes dancing with amusement. And then, to Tamara's sheer mortification, the two girls began singing in hushed voices.

"Tamara and Leon sitting in the tree,

K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

First comes love…"

"Shut up already," she cried and slammed her book on the table. The loud action earned her several glares from all the other people in the library. Giving a sheepish grin at them, she buried her head lower while her friends dissolved into silent laughter.

About an hour later, the three girls stepped out of the library. Mercifully, Roja and Sena had stopped teasing her about her ridiculous crush and were now discussing a professor. They had barely made it past the corridor when someone called out.

"Tamara, wait."

She turned around to find Leon striding towards her, with Jaq trailing behind him. Leon's face was carefully neutral while Jaq's held a suppressed amusement. From the corner of her eyes, she could see her friends take a couple of steps back – far enough to give her some privacy but near enough that they could listen in. Ignoring them, she focused on the approaching Firebender. He stopped a couple of paces away from her, while Jaq lingered behind him, clearly waiting for a show.

"I… I wanted to talk to you," Leon said, his eyes looked everywhere but her.

Ignoring the loud thudding of her heart in her ears, she strove for a normal voice. "Yes?"

He dug into his pocket and pulled out a pouch. "Here," he said, handing it to her. "This is for you."

"What's this?" she asked, a confused frown on her features.

"Just something that you need," Leon said confusing her further. She blinked in confusion and looked from the pouch to him and back to the pouch. Uncertain, she upturned the pouch and a small, metal object dropped into her palm. She turned it around to find a bluish disc shaped pendant tied to a choker.

"Umm, I need a pendant?" she asked, ignoring the way her heart seemed to be doing somersaults.

"Yes," he said emphatically. "Wear it. You look incomplete otherwise."

"Excuse me?" Tamara's voice raised several notches as she heard Jaq's palm meet his face. Behind her Sena was sniggering while Roja groaned.

"What?" Leon looked surprised. "I'm not lying."

"You… you dare… how…ugh!" Tamara stomped her feet in frustration. "How dare you presume to tell me that I'm incomplete somehow? What's wrong with you?"

With that she whirled around and strode away angrily. As she walked, she heard Jaq's incredulous voice asking, "Do you purposely fuck up every conversation you have with her or is it a special case?"

Later that night, alone in her room, Tamara reached into her bag and brought the pouch out. She withdrew the pendant and gently thumbed it. There was something familiar about the weight, the width, the size and the overall feel of it. It felt as though she had finally found something that she had been looking for all her life.

Struck by a sudden inspiration, she leapt from her bed and walked over to the mirror. With slow, trembling hands, she lifted the choker and strapped it around her neck. The small circular pendant sat squarely at the hollow of her neck. Under the bright light of her room, Tamara realized that the pendant wasn't bluish as she had originally thought, but a mix of blue and red – lilac, to be precise. She tied the choker and dropped her hand to admire the view. It sat on her perfectly. As if it belonged there.

"He was right," Tamara whispered. "I was incomplete."