"What does you heart tell you, my dear?" Kana stroked Katara's hair as she cried into her shoulder. "I don't know. Its just so confusing." Katara sobbed into her grandmother's shoulder. "Katara!" She could hear him calling for her. "Shh," Kana rocked her granddaughter. "He's calling for you, but do you want to go to him?" Katara cried harder, sobs wracking her body. "Are you sure that you want to leave?" Katara nodded, almost imperceptibly. "Listen to your heart my dear. If it tells you to go, then go, but if it tells you to stay, then stay." Katara's sobs grew louder, as memories flooded her vision.
Running over the beach...laughing with him...kissing...watching him smile. "Come, if you are absolutely sure that you wish to leave, then we must go now." Katara got up and put on the hooded cloak, her body still shaking. "KATARA!" she could hear him. Hear his anguished shout. Go, but you will never forget him, and you may regret this. Her heart urged her to do what she believed the best. Her grandmother hugged her tightly. Katara silently left the room.
As she reached the docks, she boarded the ship which was waiting. "You cut it rather close," remarked the captain. Then she saw him. "Goodbye Zuko," Her soft voice was drowned by the ongoing activity.
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"KATARA!" Her face was pale, her blue eyes full of love and sadness. He saw her lips move in a goodbye. He saw the tears trickle down her face. Her hair whipped around her face, obscuring her face. Her eyes seemed to say goodbye. The ship moved out of the docks. Zuko started to run. A cloud of smoke hid her from view. When the smoke cleared, she wasn't there anymore.
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Katara ran below decks. She couldn't bear it. Tears leaked out from between her eyelids. "I'm sorry Zuko, I'm so sorry." She buried her face in her pillow and began to cry.
He sat on his bed, watching the clouds go by. The sky was so blue, as blue as her eyes. She was gone, his world came crashing down around him. In a perfect world, this would never have happened, but the world wasn't perfect. He noticed something on his bedside table. It was her necklace. A tear dripped down. He didn't even realize that he was crying. He heard her voice so soft, singing.
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Hush now, my baby, be still now don't cry. Katara's sobs wracked her body, she had left, and she would never return. As tears streamed down her face, she could hear him saying "I love you,".
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She was gone. She was gone forever and she would never return. He realized that now as he saw the note which she had tied to her necklace. My necklace is my gift to you, for I will never return. The note made it clear that she was never ever coming back. A ring of finality struck him, she would never come back to him.
Toldja it was sappy. got insppiratin from listening to a song, which kind of boosted this drabble. reviews... i hope so.
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