Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Aang left with the sunrise. Although unsurprising, it hurt nonetheless. Alone in her quarters, she stared at the betrothal necklace wondering if she'd have reacted the same way a year ago; part of her whispered no.
They'd been so happy and she'd ruined it for what? A crown she'd never wanted? A responsibility she'd dreaded? Or was it being Aang's wife she feared?
She was Katara, master waterbender, and a solider that'd fought to change the world, an ambassador who worked towards the continued peace they'd bled for; but if she married Aang she would become just the Avatar's wife.
