Fandom:
Avatar: the Last Airbender
Title: If
Only
Prompt: # 84. Flower
Word
Count: 225
Rating: PG-13
Author's
Notes: Love to my beta, Irene.
If only I had given her that rare panda lily.
Humans were prone to make mistakes; it was expected of them. It was a natural spoken and unspoken law that everyone in the universe was well aware of and agreed upon.
So why was it that Aang was having trouble accepting his?
Maybe it was because Aang couldn't tear his eyes away from the two dark figures in front of him, sitting side by side on the small, grassy cliff and staring out at the expanse of dark water before them. His hand was on hers.
If only I had managed to pluck one of those flowers from the mountain before I went down to warn the people in Aunt Wu's village.
She turned to face the boy beside her (he was much older, much stronger, much of everything he wasn't) and Aang could see the faintest glimmer of a small smile in the moonlight.
If only I had given it to her before she realized that there was another powerful bender who loved her... Maybe she would've chosen me instead.
It was hard to see properly in the darkness, but Aang's cruel imagination created visions to make up for whatever his sight lacked as Zuko pulled Katara in for a kiss.
If only I had turned to the right on my way back from collecting firewood.