the thief and the airbender
fear
{for Nadogirl18}
[au of episode 4: the calling]
Jinora blinked - she had to be seeing things, he couldn't be here, how could he be here - but looking up again, she saw it was him. Lanky and tall, in the wingsuit, with wind-tousled hair and a lopsided smile.
She forgot all about finding her siblings, having been separated from them when the vines had pulled them down into the swamp, she forgot that the swamp could play tricks on the mind: she just ran to him.
"Kai!" she exclaimed, opening up her arms, ready to wrap them around him - when they curled in on herself, instead. Kai had vanished. "Wha-?" She turned, looking around. Where had he gone?
And then she saw him lying face down in the water a few inches from her, not moving. She rushed to him again and dropped her knees, not caring that her clothes were getting soaked. "Kai," she turned him over, her hands grasping at his cold chest, his cold face desperately. "Kai! Please, please you'll be okay you have to be okay don't you dare die on me Kai!"
She wept as the body faded into water, and she realized that it had just been a hallucination, but it didn't stop the flow of tears. She trembled, her shoulders shaking as she curled in on herself.
Her worst fear: him, dead.
She tried not to think about it, it was too painful, but the thoughts crept up more than she would like to admit. Who knew what would happen, if a mission went wrong, if the worst possible outcome happened, if he wasn't fast enough or safe enough -
When Jinora finally found her siblings, stony-faced with eyes rimmed with red, they had enough tact to not say a word about it.
It's been a while since I updated, and for that I am truly sorry, my lovely readers. I'm afraid I'll be unable to really write/update over the course of the next 5 days, but fear not. As soon as I can, I'll be posting more Kainora and a "To Fall" update is on its way as well! :)
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