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Happy Fortune

Ominous Clouds

Katara had settled down, but only so much. She was still on the stone floor, she hugged her knees close to her chest, her face wet with tears.

Sokka slowly walked up to her and kneeled down beside her. "What's going on with you and Aang?" he said softly. "First I see your future selves going on a date, and now you two seem close," even as he said that he knew it was an understatement, for heaven's sake his sister looked like a wreck and a couple of minutes ago she professed her love.

Katara turned her head, her eyes narrowing into a glare; it was colder than any water she ever waterbended on him.

"Don't you dare, Sokka," she said in a hoarse voice, caused by all her crying. "Don't you go all protective brother on me and say I'm too young or I'm a baby. Just don't."

"I wasn't going to do that," he said. "I know I can be difficult sometimes, but you're my sister and...I love you," he said giving her a gentle smile. "I just want you to be happy."

Katara eyes instantly softened, she looked close to breaking down in tears again. "We were getting close, or so I believed," she said weakly.

"He does care for you," said Sokka. "Even I can see that now."

"Does he?" she choked out. "Then how can he do this to me!"

"I kind of thought the same thing," he said," when dad was leaving for the war, and he told me to stay behind. He did it because he loved me...us. But it didn't make it hurt any less."

Katara leaped forward and threw her arms around her brother, she wept into his chest. "He can't do this! I won't end well, I just know! It's like a feeling. You feel it too, don't you? He was meant to wait out the war, we were meant to find him!" She held onto her brother tighter. "I want him back!" she sobbed. "I want him back!"

Aang stared at his reflection in the water as he sat on the rim of the fountain. The pain and angst stared back at him, his frown got deeper, he slapped the water in frustration. He was out in the open, but he doubted anyone would notice him, they were all in classes. Not that he cared if anyone saw him, he really couldn't give a darn about anything, except...

Katara.

Why? It wasn't fair. He had waited so long for her to return his affections. It had felt like centuries, and finally it had happen...and he let it go or more like threw it back at her. He slammed his face into his palms. He hated himself. She cried and he had ignored her, but only because he knew the minute he wrapped his arms around her or looked into those beautiful sapphire eyes, his resolution would melt. He felt so lost, wasn't he doing the right thing? Was he sent here somehow to erase his mistake?

He would admit, partially he wanted to stay because he had missed his home, this home and the people in it. But most of all he didn't want people to suffer through a war because of him, he didn't want Katara to suffer. But it would seem he had made her suffer anyway. Did she truly care for him that much?

I love you.

Her voice, those words, would not stop echoing in his head. When she had first said it, he thought he had hallucinated it, but no he couldn't mistaken how his body reacted—how his heart reacted. His heart felt like it would burst for joy to have the love of such a girl, no a young woman. And at the same time felt like she just ran a stake through it, because he would have to let it go. He had never felt so alive and dead at the same time.

He turned back to stare at his reflection in the water.

She would eventually understand, forget him and move on, he wasn't that special, he wasn't unforgettable.

One of his tears dropped causing a ripple in the water.

Unfortunately, she was unforgettable.

Meanwhile, back in the future.

Aang sat under the roof of the Jasmine Dragon with Katara. They held hands, as they leaned on one another just enjoying being together on this clear day; the sun shined warming their faces like a gentle kiss.

"Do you think they made it back okay?" said Katara.

Aang shrugged his shoulders. "I have no idea. I was really surprised to see that it actually worked," he said. "Hopefully, they made it back." He looked down, furrowing his brow.

Katara caressed his ear to draw his attention. "Something is bugging you, I can tell."

"It's just that, just as I was trying to send them back, I couldn't help but think of the past, of when I was just an air nomad," he paused. "Do...do you think that could have affected anything?"

"I don't know," said Katara.

Aang looked up, his eyes then narrowed in speculation.

"What is it?" asked Katara.

"It looks like the clouds are changing," he said. The clouds started to shift, thunderous clouds loomed overhead, the sky turned dim causing a shadow over Ba Sing Se.

Katara's hair whipped around from the gush of winds. "That storm came out of nowhere." She got an uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach. Aang suddenly clutched his stomach. "What's wrong?" she asked with concern in her eyes.

"I don't feel so good," said Aang, his face looking paler than usual.

Katara helped Aang up. "Let's go inside. You should lie down, I'll make you some herbal tea maybe that will help. You'll be fine, everything will be fine," she said more to herself then anyone. She took one final glance at the storm, before getting Aang inside. "I hope," she whispered.

Countless raindrops fell from the sky, causing many ripples in the puddles of water below.

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