Title: Just a Savior Complex
Prompt: #098 Vulnerable
Notes: During 'The Painted Lady', there's the scene…well, you'll see. But for some reason it made me think that it could apply to the whole cave/Zuko/healing thing. It's probably one of my favorites so far, though I'm not sure why. Um…just read it. BTW, I have a ton of Little Things built up, but I never get around to posting them. I think I might have a small problem. o.O
Just a Savior Complex
People who know Katara know that she likes to save things. Boys frozen in iceburgs, villages in trouble, and bearded cats stuck in trees. It's her nature and despite her element it's pretty unchangeable.
This village isn't different. Katara sees it and just wants to save it. Not for the glory, but because she can and because she feels this constant, deep, nagging need to help. Maybe because it's part of her nature. Maybe because she's still reeling from the one person she couldn't save.
She doesn't expect it to end like this, watching a sort of immenent doom race toward the village while she argues with her brother. It's not what she expected at all.
"Well, what was I supposed to do?" she snaps, turning away from Sokka.
"Leave. Do nothing," he says. Like it's that easy. Irrationally, she wonders if he would have said the same thing about Zuko. If he would have said that she was stupid. If, if, if. Spirits damn it, she is going to save this village and she is one day, somehow, going to save Zuko.
She turns to face Sokka. "No! I will never, ever turn my back on people who need me."