Title: I'm here without you
Words: 500
A/N: a modern day AU
Summery: a lonely Zuko watches the rain and thinks.
A hundred days have made me older
Since the last time I saw your pretty face.
Golden eyes blankly gazed out of the window of their owner's penthouse apartment. Simply watching the steady trickles of water fall from the heavens. Each drop reminded him of the tears he watch fall from her eyes the last time he saw her. His eyes reread for the thousandth time the letter she left at his door.
'Zuko,
This is goodbye. I'm taking the offer in Omashu. I think it would be best if we didn't contact each other any more. Please forget about me.'
A thousand lies have made me colder
And I don't think that I can look at this the same
But all the miles that separate
Disappear now when I'm dreaming of your face
Memories of the last time they saw each other replaying before him.
"Why won't you let me in?" ghostly blue eyes pleaded with his gold.
"Leave!" he shouted as he threw a vase in her direction, barely missing her.
"I thought you said you said that you've changed." She uttered as she ran out the door.
"I have changed." He replied to the memory and placed his palm lightly on the window.
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight it's only you and me
"Katara" he breathed.
"Is that a smile I see there? I didn't know you could smile. You're always so serious. You have a beautiful smile. " A memory Katara looking brightly at him as they walked out of a movie theater together.
"I love you so much Zuko, I wish this could last forever." A ghostly Katara sat up in bed and laid butterfly kisses on his face.
"I don't care about this." She placed her caramel fingers on the bandages covering his eye. "What matters to me is that you are alive and that I love you." She sat down on his hospital bed and kissed him then his surroundings turned back to his apartment.
Everything I know, and every where I go
It gets hard but it won't take away my love
When it's all said and done
It gets hard but it won't take away my love.
He slammed his had to the window.
"You hand my every moment. You know that? I still love you." He told the rain.
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl it's only you and me.
He forced himself from the windowsill and picked up his cell phone.
"I need to get a flight to Omashu. The first one you got. I don't care the cost."