Title: Dance Inside
Chapter Title: Wish
Word count: 200 Rating: G Warnings: the pairing and constant repetition
Notes: I was trying to write a Zutara drabble for my Zutara 100 set of drabbles but was failing miserably. I found that I'm much better at writing feelings and thoughts than writing action. Thus this is what came out—and instead of fulfilling my Zutara 100, I fulfilled another drabble for this drabble set. Enjoy.
Update: 8/19/08: Recall that practically all of these drabbles in this set were written before season three or possibly even most/all of season two. That might the characters' emotions, thoughts, and words more believable.
Wish
She had wished for a change of pace from the boring day-to-day routine she had in the South Pole. What she had gotten was a whirlwind journey that brought her to new realizations that changed the way she thought and made her rethink her place in the world.
She had wished for her mother back. What she had gotten was the surfacing of bad memories and a terrible hole reopening in her heart.
She had wished for Aang, the Avatar, to save the world. What she had gotten was a fragile world that would most likely never stabilize from the hundred year war.
She had wished for peace. What she had gotten was a post-war world in which war was always threatening to break out and an overworked man struggling to keep the peace between the nations.
She had wished for a tall and handsome powerful bender to marry. What she had gotten was the last possible man she had ever thought she would end up with.
Reality, she reasoned, was nothing you could ever imagine, nothing you could ever dream of. No, she thought, reality was so much better than dreams, her newborn twins in her arms and the Fire Lord by her side.