Nobody's Listening
Chapter 13: Losing Grip, Part 1
By KirariSoldier

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Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby?
Right now I feel invisible to you, like I'm not real.
Didn't You feel me lock my arms around you?
Why'd you turn away, is all I have to say.
I was left to cry there Waitin' out side there

That's when I decided, "why should I care?
Because you weren't there when I was scared.
I was all alone.
You, you need to listen.
I'm startin' to trip, I'm losing my grip.
And I'm in this thing alone.

Avril Lavigne, "Losing Grip"

Katara studied his face. His experssion was one comprised of sadness and denial. She looked at him once more and shook her head. "What else did you do?" She questioned, her vocie cracked as she spook. Aang bent his head down, closed his eyes, and heaved a deep sigh. "You didn't?" She asked as her vocie trembled.

This time her tear ducts where dry, not tears rolled down her cheeks. "You lied to me." She said, point-blank. "You said I would be your first. That you loved only me." She shackily got up from her place and ran out of the room, out of the Inn. Katara ran down the street. The clouds over head looked as if they where about ready to burst. Gray seemed to surround the world.

She moved even faster down the steerts, the humidity beating down on her like breathing through a wet blanket. Katara's foot came into contact with a small stone, causing her to come crashing down to the ground. She fell face first to the pavement with a loud thud. This time an amazing amount of tears flowed from her eyes. She winced in pain as she slowly came to her feet. She had taken a good amount of skin from her knee, and was bleeding profusly.

She limped as she continued on her way. The darkening cluds over head burst. Letting cool rain flow from the skies. Katara slowed her pace, until it was nothing more than a trudge. The drops lashed against her face, soaking her hair and clothes. Blood ran down her leg, leaving a trail behind her as she went.

Aang sat on a window ledge, gazing out upon the star-studed sky. It had been hours since Katara had left, and she was still not back yet. He was filled with anger, rage, sadness all at the same time. He should not have said those things to her. 'Why did I bring that subject up? For all I know Katara may never speak to me again.' He mentaly scolded himself.

Sokka came into the room. "What's up, avatar?" He asked as he sat down on an over stuffed arm chair.
"Looks like you are waiting for what's her face to come home." He said in his usual tone. Aang turned away. "I see. You said some shit to her and now you think she hates your guts and will never speak to you again." Sokka said matter-of-factly. Aang gave a small nod in responce.

"Aang, Aang, Aang... You don't know how to talk to women do you?" Sokka asked, placing a fingers on his temples, messaging them. "When talking to a women, the only thing you need to talk about is her. How she looks, complement her, love her. But if you bring up the sebject 'past love', it's all over for you." Sokka said as he removed his fingers from his head.

"You make it sound like we are all little concided bitchs." Said a husky female vocie from behind the rice paper door. At that instant a women slid the door open. "SUKI!" Sokka yelled as she jumped up from his chair to meet the love of his life. "How? When? What? Why?" Was all Sokka could say or ask. "Well.
I asked the head of my village if he knew where the avatar and his friends where currently staying. And he said 'Elysion'. So i arrived her about a day ago, and asked around. Thus, I found where you are hiding"
A great big smile covered both of their faces.

"I've missed you so much!" Suki said with a slight giggle as she wrapped her arms around Sokka's neck.
"And what's this I hear about you drinking your self to sleep at night?" She demanded. "I- Well- He- They"
Was all Sokka could muster up. "You need to stop with the Sake. Or ELSE." She said, a meneancing look on her face.

Sokka gave a tragic sigh and hugged Suki tightly. "I've missed you so much. I'm just glad you are here"
He said in a soft tone. She blushed, and pulled away. "So. Where am I going to be staying?" She asked,
motioning to her bags with her head. Sokka's eyes grew wide. "Staying? As in here? With us?" Sokka questioned. "Yeah. I wanna join you guys. My earth bending needs some fine tunning, so It's perfect!" She said with a smile.

Katara walked along the edge of a small, man-made Koi pond. It was way past dusk, and the sun had set some time ago. She had a tragic look about herself. Clothes soaked through, blood seeping through her kimono, and eye liner running down her cheeks. Obvisouly caused from much crying. Her face a ghostly pale. Her look gave her off as a wandering spirit. Trapped between the present and the beyond. Unable to find peace.

She grasped the aqua-colored pendent around her neck. Suddenly several visions flashed before her.
Aang sitting on a window sill. Aang carrying Katara ashore when she had been attacked by the manta-raye.
Aang whisking her to her room after his avatar had been set off. Herself giving him a look of disgust as he tended the wounds on her arm, after she pulled her arm away. Herslef crying her eyes out over the thought of him with another woman.

She trembled and her knees gave way. She fell to her knees, sinking an inch into the mushy, dank mud ridden ground below her, moist from the heavy down-pour. Her head bowed, face shadowed by her bangs, tears fell onto the already wet ground below. Her eyes clamped shut as more visions came to her. "Stop... Stop... Please,
stop... " She begged pathectially. Was this the way the Oracle was supposed to act? To quiver in pain and fear?

To Be Continued...