(A/n) Since I thought it took so long for the last chapter I decided to write a chapter with flashbacks. It´s kinda cute. 8D
Chapter 3: Lost Memories
.:Flashbacks:.
I was crying over my mothers dead, burnt body. It was then I heared someone sobbing close to me. It wasn´t Sokka since he was hunting with father and will come back in an hour or so. I looked around, but (even through my tear stained eyes) I knew nobody was there.
"Hello? Is someone there?"
Suddenly the sobs stoped and a shoked "Who´s there?" came as reply.
"That´s what I´ve been asking you!"
It was obivous that it´s a boy who I was speaking to.
"How do I know I can trust you?"
"Please, I´m only seven. What could I do?"
"Okay, my name is Zuko. Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation."
"Oh great, the PRINCE of the idiots who killed my mother!"
"Hey, I can still hear you!" He sounded hurt. "So, what´s your name?"
Still not knowing if I could trust him I said "My name is Lisa. Lisa of the Water Tribe."
"Oh, I´m sorry that your mother..."
"Thank you... But why were you crying?"
"My mother got ... poisend..."
"I´m so sorry. But that kinda explaines why we can hear each other."
"How come?"
Taking a deep breath I started
"There´s a legend that if the almost indentical tragidy happens to two people in the exactly same moment they have a special connection."
"Well, then let´s make the best out of it and be friends."
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"Lisa, may I talk to you?" My voice was quivering with fear.
"Zuko, what´s wrong?" Her voice was full of worry.
"What would you do if... if you went in your ..fa...fathers warchambers ... and said that the general was... wrong and you get t...told that you have to fight an Agni...Kai, and thinking you´ll... fight the old... general...and say you´d had...no fear?"
"Zuko, who´s your oppoitend?"
"Lisa... It´s my ... father..."
"You ... I...fighting...suicide..."
I didn´t have any more time.
I started to appolegize... without result...
The last thing I heard from my friend before I blacked out was
"Zuko!"
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I could hear every single word my friend was saying to his cruel father. There was fear in his voice. A fear you can´t ignore – a fear of being killed. Zuko said that in the Fire Nation fear was like a crime. But your not alive if you can´t show fear – or your tears. Not showing your feelings is weak – not the other way around. Showing no fealings is like taking your life for no reason or betraying yourself or not having a true self. It´s like having no reason to survive at all.
And still it means being weak to show your feelings in the "oh-so-great-and-mighty" Fire Nation.
Those guys have issues. I hate their lord.
There are very nice people (A/N: Zuko, Iroh and Ty Lee, for excample), I guess. The people love their life and get killed for war.
Suddenly I heard my best friend scream in pain.
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"Lisa, I was wondering if..." as I was speaking this my mind was wandering off. I was asking myself this questions for weeks now. It took me a lot of time to decide if i should ask her. I hope she won´t be mad at me asking this...
"You were wondering what?"
"I wondered iftherewouldn´tbethiswarandwewereevenabletomeetifwewouldbemorethenjustfriends?"
Silence.
Oh why did I have this question, those 23 words?
More silence.
"Maybe if ...we would have known each other..."
"I shouldn´t have asked" I was a little disapointed of her answer, but didn´t show it.
"To be honest I was asking myself the excact same question."
I was smiling to myself after she had said that.
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"Zuko,... what is your situation over there?"
"I...I don´t want to talk."
"Please, it can´t be soo bad!"
"It is! I´ve got a scar plastered over the left side of my face! Lisa! I liked my life... but it´s so dark now! It can´t be so bad! Your right! It´s worse!"
Every single word stung deeply and you could hear his anger grow bigger by the word.
I was still searching for something comforting to say, but all that came out was
"What´s going to happen now?"
Nice job Katara, very comforting.
"What´s going to happen know, what´s going to happen now! I´ll tell you what´s going to happen now! I´m banished! Exiled! E-X-I-L-E-D! I´m supposed to catch the Avatar now!"
"Shh..."
"Shh? SHH! ..."
I interrupted him.
"Zuko, listen"
Then I started to sing:
" The summer days are gone too soon
You shoot the moon
And miss completely
And now you're left to face the doom
The empty room
that once smelled sweetly
Of all the flowers you plucked if only
You knew the reason
Why we had to each be lonely
Was it just the season?
Now the fall is here again
You can't begin to give in
It's all over
When the snows come rolling through
You´ll be frowning too and you still suffer
Will you think of times you've told me
That you knew the reason
Why we had to each be lonely
It was just the season"
"Thanks Lisa, I feel much better now."
"Your welcome, my Prince." (A/N: I wrote that on purpose)
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"Lisa I feel...guilty." I was reproaching myself all day.
"Why that?"
"I had to think about the waterbender. I shouldn´t have done that. I should have given her that necklace back when she was twenty inches in front of me. But no, I had to be so arrogant and selfish again." I sighed thinking of what I had done. (A/N: Zuko may seem a little AU but I know why I´m writing this, so don´t worry)
"Give her the necklace back and say your sorry."
"You make it sound so simple. I honestly would like it to be so easy, but she travels with the avatar."
"So what?"
"You don´t understand, do you? The avatar would try to kill me if I come a step to close to her."
"Do you at least know her name?"
Her voice sounded a little annoyed...
"I think it´s something with a K ... Kathleean,...no...Kora?...no, that´s not right either...Katara...Katara, her name is Katara! Do you know her?"
"Yes, we lived in the same village. She was the only waterbender and as she found the avatar in an ice bubble, she freed him and went with him and her brother to north pole."
"Wait a minute... did you just said that you live in the same village as she did? That means I attacked your village? I´m ...I... have to appoligise... I didn´t realize..."
"It´s OK, at leat know I know you like her..."
"That´s not true!"
"Whatever Zuzu..." (A/N: O)
"Don´t calle me like that!"
Suddenly we both had to laugh.
.:End Flashbacks:.
(A/N) So what do you think, besides that it took me an eternity to write? I´m already working on chapter 4&5.
R&R please
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Well, till soon
Katie