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72. I know it's the most overused line in Avatar fanfiction (maybe all fanfiction, who knows?), but…c'mon. I had to.

73. And this is the most overused plot in Avatar fanfiction. But just because of all the fun we authors can have with it :P

071. Have It All

As the Avatar, he had four elements at his fingertips, thousands of years of knowledge in his head, an unbendable spirit, and connection to another world.

Yet with so much as a look she could render him powerless.

072. Sunrise

Somehow, her brain shook her awake at this ungodly hour. She tossed and turned in bed, trying to fall back asleep, but to no avail. In defeat, she finally sat up and opened her eyes, to be nearly blinded by the blood-orange of the rising sun.

When the white dots finally faded away and the room came into view, she focused not on the sun but the man watching it, the man who had most likely risen before it had. He too was bathed in the peachy red light, shining like the new day itself.

Aang turned away from the window to smile at her.

"Good morning, Katara."

073. Friends

Aang looked at him in amusement. "I can't believe you are stooping this low."

"Neither do I," Toph growled, clearly not agreeing with this idea at all.

Sokka scowled at her. "What Toph really means is…pleasepleaseplease help us!" He dropped to the ground and clutched at Aang's shoe. "You're the Avatar, it's your job to help the unfortunate, not to mention your best friends!"

Aang sighed and tugged his foot out of Sokka's grasp. "I am not getting in between you and Katara. It won't be pretty. Besides, it's your fault that you two got wasted last night. You have to deal with the consequences, including having Katara throttle you into the Spirit World."

"Exactly!" Sokka interjected, "If you just calm her down, you'll save us from certain death!"

"Please, Aang!" he cried again, clasping both hands in a begging gesture. "You are the only person who can handle an angry Katara! Will you distract her for…" Sokka did his best impression of a baby moose-lion. "your old pals, Sokka and Toph?"

Aang rolled his eyes and walked out of the room. Toph flicked Sokka in the head.

"Nice plan, Meathead. Sugar Queen's still going to kick our butts across the Great Divide for the drinking, and now even more so when Twinkletoes lets it slip we tried to bribe him."

Sokka stood up, rubbing the spot she flicked. "Hey, it's not my fault he went and picked her over us." He stuck out his tongue in the Aang had left. "Some friend."

074. Start

The floor underneath her feet bucked and she went flying through the air. Just when she thought she was going to be implanted face-first into the ground, she felt her fall slow before she gently came to rest in strong arms. She sighed in relief and opened her eyes to Aang's smiling ones. "My savior," she said praisingly, before sweetly kissing him on the nose.

In the background, an annoyed voice rang out, "Toph! Stop making it so easy for them to have a moment! It's not as if they don't start enough of them!"

075. Finish

The girl was incredible. In the last hour alone, Pakku had watched her defeat all of her fellow pupils, some twice in a row. She finished all the boys off with a powerful stroke of the hand, becoming one of his quickest and best students by beating everyone.

Well, almost everyone. Pakku supposed even Katara couldn't win against the Avatar, young as he was, with lifetimes of waterbending to his advantage.

But as Pakku watched the two in the next duel, Katara clearly wasn't putting up much effort to resist as the boy easily froze her arms to the ground. And the Avatar even looked like he was taking it easy on her…

076. Stand

He backed away, rising to his feet. "I really should be going."

She frowned, still holding to his hand. "But you don't have to," she whined.

"But I should be," he persisted with a tired smile. She responded with an enticing one of her own.

"But you don't want to." She tugged harder on his hand. "So why should you?" Slowly, she pulled him back down until his stand crumbled.

077. Tall

"No fair," she pouted, grabbing his shoulders and standing on tiptoe. Even so, they weren't eye level. "It was easier for me to kiss you when you were shorter."

He laughed, and ducked his head to hers, their faces just inches apart.

"Well, now it's easier for me," he replied before proving his point.

078. Real

He raked his hands through her hair, as if to convince himself she did exist and she was with him.

079. Truth

Katara twirled the end of her braid around her finger. "Well, I was just nearby, and I heard you were in Omashu, so I figured, why not stop by?"

Aang laughed and shook his head. "My earthbending is nowhere near Toph's, but I can tell you are downright lying."

She blushed and he laughed harder. "Alright…would you believe…I heard you were in Omashu and rode four different ships and an ostrich-horse to get here because I really really missed you?"

He looked at her expectantly. "Fine, it was only two ships and I took a carriage, but…" She took his hand in both of hers. "I really did miss you."

Aang smiled and pulled her into another tight embrace. "Believable. I would've done the same."

080. Reflection

He had been meditating for so many years, it was almost a habit. He could sit down, close his eyes, and be in a completely mindless state in mere minutes.

Well, he was supposed to be mindless. It was getting increasingly difficult to concentrate.

This was exactly Katara's plan as she traced her hands down his shoulders and chest, around the edge of his collar, over his eyelids and lips. Nope, still no response. She leaned in from behind him and began to kiss a line from his temple down his neck, fingers still stroking along his torso. Stupid Avatar wasn't moving. She shifted, shrugging her arms around his waist and hugging him tightly while she skimmed her nose around the curve of his ear, breathing deeply.

One gray eye peeked out at her.

"That is very distracting."