My Heart Bleeds For You PT.3

(AU Kataang FanFic)

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The next couple months merged together in a smear of, traveling, fighting that Fire Nation teen with the scar who we found out his name was Zuko, and then Sokka losing his inner battle with his own hunger.

Most of the time it was fire nation soldiers, but every once in a while, he slipped and some unlucky soul would pay for being in his general area.

One such slip was after when we met this earthbending teen named Haru, we had helped him free his dad from a Fire Nation prison.

I guess he was coming to our camp site to thank us or something, but unfortunately for him Sokka hadn't eaten in more then a week. Really just the wrong place at the wrong time.

It took a lot to convince his family we didn't know what happened to him, and even more to convince Aang it was just a bad dream.

However my hunger never seemed to go above a slight thought, Aang was still subduing my hunger, and I was grateful for it.

It had seemed like Aang had been reversing my experience in that strange cave, like he was wiping away my hunger, wiping away my sin. I hoped that it could stay that way, that maybe I would never know this hunger again.

But during those two months my hunger did come out, just once.

We had been flying around on Appa and stopped to make camp, and Sokka the idiot he is, starts talking about his instincts tell him we shouldn't be camping there.

Of course looking back maybe I should have listened.

But I didn't, and it lead to us meeting Jet, he was a very interesting individual, I might even say an attractive individual…. How wrong I was.

Because after a few days of us staying with him and his freedom fighters, he told us about a plan to fight the Fire Nation. Which of course intrigued me.

But weirdly enough, it didn't interest Sokka, he told me and Aang that his instincts told him something was wrong about Jet, which I didn't believe.

So he refused to help.

Me and Aang had decided to go along with it, and low and behold…. Sokka was right.

Jet planed on blowing up a dam, and flooding an entire town of civilians, killing them all in the process.

Now since the cave and since before I met Aang, I probably wouldn't have cared, but Aang had changed me. So I was furious.

And in that moment my hunger emerged, it probably didn't help that it was the full moon, the time where my hunger and waterbending power were greatest, I told Sokka to take Aang to go get our stuff then come back for me as I had 'some business to take care of'.

Sokka knew what I meant, and I knew it brought him a sick twist of joy to see it, Aang of course was clueless about it, so he and Sokka left me to do what I had to do.

In my entire time with this hunger, I was never the one to actually kill, it was always Sokka.

Expect that night, that night it was me, and a big part of me doesn't regret it

Jet screamed, like I've never heard anyone scream before. But it didn't matter, my hunger was satisfied as life drained.

After that night my hunger didn't return for a little while, like all it needed was to be released, after that I felt free, though I guess Aang was a major part of that, he kept me in high spirits after that episode.

After that are travels continued, we traveled around some towns that needed saving, Sokka lost control a couple times, and Zuko kept chasing us.

But then the worst event of Sokka loosing control, all came down to a small village….. with a fortune teller.