This is the second chapter (obviously), this one is from Sokka's POV. The lyrics at the bottom are from the song "Dirty Little Secret" by American Rejects. There is some quite graphic stuff in here to do with the death of Sokka and Katara's Mother, you have been warned.
Wow, I actually updated this quite quickly. Katara and Aang are coming up soon, their already written, I just have find the time to type them out and upload them. Katara will probably get done on Sunday/Monday and Aang on Tuesday (GMT).
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Sokka has a secret.
It was one he had never told anyone, ever.
One so painful to him that he didn't like to think about it.
It was a worse secret than the fact that he liked Suki. Katara knew that anyway, she hadn't said anything, but she knew.
It was better kept than his hidden stash of seal blubber jerky in his snow fort, which only Gran-gran had ever known about.
It was worse than the fact that he didn't think that the fire nation as a whole was that bad, just a select few.
It was about his Mother.
It was that her death was his fault.
If he had just trained harder after his Father had left (although Katara said it wasn't possible), if only he had been quicker to avoid the fire ball which hit his shoulder the day the Fire Nation attacked his village, his Mother wouldn't have had to protect him.
The Fire bender wouldn't have engulfed her body in flames and she wouldn't have screamed and collapsed, burning black in death.
No-one else knew how much her body had been damaged. Sokka had wrapped her in a blanket and no-one else had seen her body.
He had picked up her necklace which had been thrown free in the attack, and cried until Gran-gran had found him.
He had carried her body despite his shoulder and placed it in the water at her sea burial.
Katara had worn her necklace. She thought it had been quick, a small blast, leaving little damage. After all, the necklace was unmarked.
He let her think that, kept the slow burning horror of his nightmares to himself, so she wouldn't have to know.
Sokka has a secret.
He keeps it.
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I'll keep you my dirty little secret (dirty little secret)
Don't tell anyone
Or you'll be just another regret (just another regret)
Hope that you can keep it
My dirty little secret
Who has to know?
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