Title: Spend All My Time
Rating: K+
Character/Pairing: Suki (Vaguely Sokka/Sukish?)
Summary: Suki has never felt so cold in her life.
A/N: Originally written for 31 days, theme: give me something to look forward to. It's hard to publish fic that's proven out of canon, but here you go. I'd written this before we learned of Suki's fate in Boiling Rock, and had assumed she'd been left behind in Ba Sing Se.
It's summer in Ba Sing Se and Suki has never felt so cold in her life.
She has no idea what's happened to Sokka and Katara but she knows they're still out there, judging by the way Azula taunts her on the occasions when she comes to visit. Originally the thought had given her hope - Sokka and Katara had escaped, and they couldn't have gotten far without Appa, and if what Azula and the guards were saying was true and Aang was truly dead then they would need all the allies they could get. Surely they would come for her.
So she sits in her cell, surrounded by the earthbenders, and waits.
Nobody ever comes but Azula and the servants, and then even Azula stops coming.
Sometimes late at night she can hear the other girls whispering in their cells - Suki has no idea why she's kept separate from them - and sometimes she fantasizes about suddenly developing earthbending abilities, and thus having no need of Sokka or her hope that he will come to help her.
Mostly, however, she sits in her cell and shivers in the night.
Originally published 12/05/2007