Title: Save You from You
Prompt: #081 Relieved
Notes: Going way, waaaay back into the time machine to 'The Waterbending Scroll'. With the scene that made most people Zutarans. Oh yeees. "I'll save you from the pirates." (I don't like this one as much as the next one, but that doesn't really say much.)
Also, I was way shocked (and excited) by the sudden up-shoot in reviews. Thank you so much and keep it up peeps! :D
Save You from You
Fear is slamming through her veins. Bile claws at her throat. Her limbs move without volition. A water whip that she's too scared to acknowledge. And she's running, running and looking and praying. Praying so hard. It's a sort of numb terror. She finally looks ahead. Sees Prince Zuko. Unconsciously speeds her feet. Gasps as his hands close gently over her wrists.
Katara dimmly acknowledges she should be afraid. He clearly expects her fear. But she feels a vauge sort of half trust toward him that she doesn't for the brute behind her. He is honorable, honorable to a fault. And she knows that he won't hurt her.
"I'll save you from the pirates."
Katara breathes a sigh of something that could be relief. She believes him.