A/N- Drabble request for Mistress Dizzy; sorry it took so long.
Everybody's Fool
Does she know? Can she tell? These questions rush through my head, too fast to be able to think clearly. And that in itself is deadly.
For I must always be on my toes; always one step ahead of everyone else. One slip-up will be the end of me, one pause and everything will come crashing down upon me.
Everyday I live in fear of someone finding out. I cower behind the walls I so carefully put up, though no one would ever know. They see what I want them to, a person they believe to me. But she isn't. Maybe she was before, but that girl is gone. Gone with the old clothes I discarded, what was left of the old Ty Lee.
But then there is her. She is different. She is not stupid, is not easily fooled. She is cunning and clever. The girl is cold and her aim is dead on. If anyone could see through me, it would be her. When we were separated all those years ago, I breathed a sigh of relief. And just as easily, I forgot. Forgot everything. And as they say, 'those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.'
She came back, she sought me out; and just as easily, she found me. The past suddenly repeated itself and there I was, back on her side and off on a mission with her and Mai. But this time is different, the stakes are higher. We are not the same girls we were all those years ago. She is forcing us into a future that we did not pick, most especially a future I did not pick to have.
We are off to capture the Avatar as well as her brother and uncle. And I am here waiting for the moment in which she finds out, the moment in which she breaks through my walls and figures out I am not who she thinks I am.
My fate is no longer in my hands, the little control over my life slipping away with ever passing moment. But I've got to say that if there's one thing I can always count on; it's my will, my determination, my attitude.
And I'm sure as heck not going down without a fight.
A/N- For awhile I've thought that Ty Lee was just acting; especially that moment when her 'facade' slipped when Azula was like, "Before I leave, I'm going to catch your show' and Ty Lee was all of a sudden all nervous and jittery.
I know that anyone would be nervous in that situation; but Ty Lee, for every single moment in the show but that one is pretty much perfectly composed, all cheerful and a bit ditzy. And so I decided, maybe she is acting after all. And then the plot bunnies multiplied without my control, making this drabble and another Ty Lee drabble I have on my theory. So I hope you enjoyed it; it certainly was different from all the drabbles and fics you see out there.