My Heart Bleeds For You PT.6

(AU Kataang FanFic)

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I knew I would have to tell Aang eventually, but I had hoped it wouldn't be until much later.

Like maybe 15 to 20 years down the line, after we are married with children?

Because maybe then he could look past it. But could he really look past it at this moment?

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He looked at me with pleading eyes, the look broke my heart. He wanted to understand, he needed me to explain, "Katara?"

"Yes Aang?" I ask.

He took a second to respond and it gave me a chance to gage how much I would have to explain. So I say "How much did you hear?"

"All of it, I heard everything" He said with a confused face. "What did Sokka do?"

I can't lie to him. I love him to much to do that, I have to tell the truth. So I did, "The fortune teller village…. He… h-he killed everyone" I say with tears forming.

He can't seem to find words, he sits there for a while before finally stuttering out words, "tell me everything".

So I did, everything… from the cave to all the 'disappearances' to Haru and what happened to him, I told him everything… including about Jet.

He was stunned, I have never seen Aang at a loss for words, and it hurt to see it. Not knowing how he saw me now.

Eventually I broke, I leaped onto him, and hugged him crying, begging that he would forgive me. "Aang please… I'm so sorry, I…. I love you to much for you to leave me".

"I know Katara, I know" he said with complete sincerity "and I won't leave you".

That was enough to make me smile, "you… you won't?"

He looked at me while putting on a slight smile, "No Katara, I won't… what happened was terrible…. But I know that you are sorry".

He was right, I am sorry. But a question still remains that I have to know. "But how can you forgive me, I've done such terrible things"

"Well, to be fair I'm not the one who needs to forgive you" Aang said.

"You're right, like always… but still you should hate me." I respond.

"Well, I still care about you even with your faults, I mean after all…. Isn't that what love is?" He responded.

"Aang? Are you saying what I think you're saying?" I ask with a hopeful look in my eye.

"Yes…. Katara, I- I Love You" he says with a smile.

At that moment I can't think of anything else, Aang… the brightest light in my life…. Loves me. I can't help myself to smile, I don't want to mess this up. Words were never my strong suit, I was always more into action. So I leaned in and kissed Aang passionately, and he gladly returned it.

We stayed there for what seemed like forever, and I was ok with it. I was ok with it because for the time I was kissing Aang, I forgot about the war, I forgot about Sokka, I forgot all the people.

Eventually we did break apart, due to the lack of air, we rested our foreheads together and sat in content silence, until Aang finally spoke.

"Katara, I love you… but that was a mistake" he said solemnly.

"You mean you don't wanna kiss?" I said sadly.

"No I definitely do… I mean letting Sokka leave" he clarified.

"But why, he just killed people, he isn't the person we should have around us… he brings down everything" I say confused.

"You're right Katara, but I fear all we did… was just write a lot more death sentences" he said with concern.

"What do you mean?" I respond.

"At least when he was with us, he was somewhat contained… but now he is by himself without anyone to hold him in check" Aang says.

"Oh no" I say simply. "We have to go after him."

"No we can't, we have to get to the North Pole. We have to worry about finding us a master, it hurts me to say it… but the war has to come first".

"Are you sure Aang?" I ask.

"Yes, and maybe while we are there we can find a way to help you with your problem" he says.

That thought brings me joy, I have spent to long with this hunger… the thought that maybe I can be free of it. It's almost to good to be true.

"Do you think, I can actually be free of it?" I ask.

"It's worth a shot" he responds.

Yeah it is worth a shot, maybe everything will be ok, I'll master waterbending, get rid of this hunger, then me and Aang will end this war.

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Looking back on it… I should have known better, I wasn't wrong necessarily… but destiny is a funny thing.

But me and Aang didn't think about that, we decided to get moving, so we got on Appa and rode North. To the The Northern Water Tribe.