Song Name: One Thing
Singer/Band: Finger Eleven
Story Title: One Thing
Rating: T
Pairings: Zutara/Kataang triangle, I guess.
Disclaimer: I do not own the song by Finger Eleven, nor do I own any characters or themes from Avatar: The Last Airbender by Nickelodeon.
A/N: Okay, this one is pretty good I guess. Is it just me, or are my drabbles getting smaller and smaller? Oo Anyways, this one is about Aang's out-look on Zutara. I really would love it if someone left some reviews so I know what I can work on! Any suggestions for songs?--I need more guy songs. Anyways, enjoy! -Solar Beam
One Thing:
Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line
Gray eyes watched sadly. The monk knew that he had made a mistake agreeing to let the fire-bender join their little group; he had known that the fire-bender had been up to something. He had eyes on something constantly, that fire-bender. Golden eyes filled with fiery passion always watching the water-bender with interest. The way he looked at her…it made the monk angrier every time. The Water Tribe boy noticed the changes in the breezy Air Monk, and always tried to release the boy's tense muscles by making him do exercises when he saw them bunch up. The Water Tribe boy never disagreed with the monk, he had never said that he was happy his little sister had a thing for the fire-bender. He didn't want to believe it. But now the Water Tribe boy wasn't there, he was out fishing…leaving the monk, the water-bender, and the fire-bender in the camp.
It's nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line
The water-bender laughed cheerfully at something the fire-bender said. The monk sneered slightly at this, leaning against the tree and playing with a butterfly with gusts of wind from snapping his fingers. So cheerful…he used to be the one to make her laugh like that. He didn't like to think about it, about how they used to sneak about. It had been her idea to get the fire-bender to join…the excuse was that he could teach the monk fire-bending. But the monk needed to learn earth-bending before hand, which he had already began. Again the laugh, but it was added with another girl's laugh and the monk noted that the earth-bender was now standing beside the water-bender, facing the fire-bender and laughing. The monk felt his heart breaking slowly. The water-bender should be laughing at his jokes and should be listening to him talk…not listening to that fire-bender talk and not laughing at his jokes. He had loved her longer than that damn fire-bender! So much longer…he could remember the day he woke in her arms after being freed from the iceberg. He remembered when he asked her to go penguin sledding with him, and how she agreed with a confused look on her face. He guessed now that he looked back on that memory, that it was kind of weird that his first words were: 'Will you go penguin sledding with me?'.
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn't that be something
The monk watched sadly, wondering all the while that if he wasn't supposed to save the world if they would have had a chance. Wondering all the while that if he hadn't been such a kid back in those days if he would have had a chance with the water-bender. Wondering that if he had not been the Avatar if he could have made her look at him like the way she was looking at the fire-bender right then. The monk's hands clenched into fists as the girl jumped up and wrapped her arms around the fire-benders neck in a laughing fit, and the earth-bender just smiled knowingly. But then the earth-bender's head swiveled and living grey eyes met those of dead sleight-grey ones. The earth-bender took on a serious look, but it vanished when the water-bender said something excitedly to her. They had become closer friends than before, when they fought often. The monk shook his head…they had become closer ever since the fire-bender had showed up.
I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time
"Aang, come over here!" yelled the water-bender, waving to the monk in enthusiasm. The fire-bender followed the water-bender's gaze to look over at the young monk, and his eyes flickered challengingly, possessively. Yes, the monk definitely did not like the way the fire-bender looked to the water-bender. Like she was some kind of fruit, like she was a toy that he could pick up and then put away. A 'thing'. The water-bender was a person, not a fruit nor a toy. She was just a person, a powerful water-bender with her hopes set high. The young monk looked at the small, expectant group on the other side of camp. He looked down and though a moment, and then finally he stood and walked over. He wasn't going to let that fire-bender get his hopes high, he wasn't going to let that pompous prince think that the water-bender was easy to get at. She always falls for the bad guys, the monk thought as he stood beside the earth-bender with his arms crossed across his chest, looking at the water-bender beside the fire-bender.
Even though I know
I don't want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds