Thanks: YoungGrasshopper7 and lightbird (twice!) for their very kind words. :)
Request: JetxKatara. "Because I can." (for xwhomeverx on lj)
Backstory: I've plans for a future!fic in which Jet and Katara meet up on a battlefield in the Earth Kingdom and wind up working together because, um, yes. Anyway, this drabble is set in that universe.
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maudlin
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Late in the afternoons they drank cheap sake in teacups -- some days in silence, some days not.
He said, one late afternoon, "I don't deal with dead men."
Katara settled back. "How so?"
He shrugged. "Dead men can't do anything. Can't fight. Can't plan."
"Can't die."
"Given," he said. "Just. Want to know why."
"Why men die?"
"Nah," he said, "I've got that one figured out."
Jet looked to her.
"What I want to know is, why fix up a guy who's gonna kick it anyway?"
She cradled the teacup close to her breast.
"Because," she said. "I can."