Energy to Burn
"Hey - Aang! Hey, wake up!"
At the rushed whispers urging him to open his eyes, the teenager groaned before sitting upright, rubbing his eyes in slight aggrivation. He'd been having this really great dream where there was this wedding and he'd been waiting and then his bride had come walking down and he had pulled away the veil to reveal - "Katara?"
"Let's go waterbending," she said as she wrung her hands in front of her, fingers playing across themeslves as her blue eyes seemed wide and alert.
Lethargically blinking a few times, Aang rubbed his eyes again. "What?" he smartly asked as he looked back up to her. He noticed that even in her crouched position she was bouncing on the balls of her feet, her entire body going up and down in a jittery sense.
"I have all this energy," she said with a grin; "Let's have some fun!"
Aang looked up from her illuminated face up to the sky and realized: full moon. Of course. He looked back to her pretty face that seemed so eager and interested.
"Fine," he sighed as he stood up, his back still slumped in remaining sleep.
Katara gave a huge smile before taking his hand and leading him away from the other two still-sleeping people around the dead fire. As Aang tightened his fingers between her own ones, he thought that this wasn't so bad.
When she began kicking his butt without mercy, he felt that optimistic opinion diminish.
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Some years later...
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"Aang!"
"I know, I know," the one being called said as he sat up from his bed to look at the girl who was at the window sill; "Full moon, full moon. Let me just-"
He was cut off as he felt his body get flattened back onto the bed.
"Katara?" he asked as he looked up at her and felt a sudden shiver down his spine; was it just him or did her expression seem purely predatory? Her eyes were glazed and her hair loose, creating waves of brown that fell around his head that seemed to cut him off from the world and only see her.
The waterbender seemed to give a hum of ambiguity as she moved a hand from his side to his chest, using her index finger to splay patterns through the light cotton shirt. Katara's eyes moved from his face to the hem of the article of clothing, seeming suddenly vastly interested in it.
Shutting his eyes tight and realizing he was now fully awake as her fingers caught onto the end of his shirt, Aang shakily managed to get out, "S-So, waterbending? In the courtyard there's a f-fountain we could use..."
This stopped her action short and she moved her attention back to his face, which Aang could just assume was already bright red (in dark places, his cheeks seemed to become lights around her).
"I thought that we'd try... something different tonight."
Aang gulped before asking, "R-Really?"
"Oh yeah," she said as she rested her chest against his, "This is going to be lots of fun."
While Aang had detested the way he always got his pride shot when they spared on all those full moons, he felt a sudden change.
He used to dread the full moons, but now Aang immensely looked forward to them.