Another writing challenge, this time: faith. I flipped through my favorites and found this link to a song called Until the Day I Die and, though the genre of music wasn't at all what I was used to, I decided that it matched my topic and I just wrote. You can see that I attached some of the lyrics to the end of this fic. I'm guess that happier with this fic than I usually am with my others, considering my writing environment was so perfect and I just kind of 'let it rip' (line courtesy of the Ripping Brothers- what ever happened to that show? Oo). At any rate, I won't be around a computer for the next four days, so I promise a fic when I get back. Please review, as always, my readers.

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Time binds us, but that is all that is doing so. Once I have completed my task, what will become of our company? Seasons have passed, days are running low. Though we know this, we veil the knowledge behind unconcerned eyes.

Another night watching you sleep, another step waiting for the silence to break. One more sunset and rise, and once again fate tests us. A goodbye, a goodnight. We have become accustomed to this routine, and acknowledge it with a small smile, for we still have each other.

We make the same mistakes, and remedy the other's pain with soft conversation spent in faith of tomorrow. Your arms obscure reality, and we merely sit, content with the other's unspoken thought. It is not needed, for our reverie run in sync. We do not question or comment on this factor, for perhaps one day it was lead us once more to the warmth of this moment again.

Our speech plays over in my mind. These days it has become less, but I catch you offering me an inquiring glance often and I grin in reply.

Your eyes carry a plastic sheen shared with the water, but you train over your fatigue and pay it no heed. I do not speak of how you worry me so. The water licks at our bare feet, and together we push and pull it to our desire. It only we could shift through our memories as we do the ocean current, and play back the prior months for a few more hours together…

I have faith this is not the final chapter in our adventures. There will be another chance to fight beside you, hand in hand, orbs ablaze and fixed on our future.

And until the day that I die, this heart will be set on only you, Katara.

As years go by
I race the clock with you
But if you died right now
You know that I'd die too