the thief and the airbender

nightmares

{for Angelic915}

He was falling like a shooting star, just as brilliant and bright, smoke trailing from him... Her heart got jammed in her throat. Tears sparked in her eyes. "KAI! No..." No no no...

Jinora woke up shivering in the dark, her heart hammering. It took a few seconds for her to regain her bearings. She was in bed, she was safe, not on the bridge, not in danger, not looking up at Kai who was falling to his death. Jinora wiped her eyes. It had been almost a year, and she still couldn't get the image out of her head. It was almost worse now, because she and Kai had become even closer since then.

The airbending master tried to slow her breathing and fall back asleep, but to no avail. Every time she shut her eyes, the image of Kai falling reappeared. And she hated it. Maybe he would be up...? He got up sometimes to get a glass of water. She needed to see him, talk to him.

Crawling out of her bed, she made her way to the boys' dormitories as quietly as possible. Although initially at the Northern Air Temple, all of the boys had slept in one dormitory together, the temple on Air Temple Island had been greatly expanded, enough so everyone shared a room with only one other person. (She and her family were the exceptions.) And Yung, Kai's roomie, was currently taking care of business in the Earth Kingdom.

Already feeling guilty about surely waking her friend up, Jinora knocked quietly on his door. "Kai?" she whispered. There was some creaking, shuffling, a groan, and then his door creaked open. Kai was obviously tired, disheveled, his hair even messier than usual, eyes bleary. But when he looked at her it was with only concern. "Can I come in?"

Nodding slowly, clearly trying to figure out what was going on, Kai stepped back to allow her into his room. Jinora, hands shaking, flung her arms around him, gripping him tightly. Taken by surprise, it took Kai a few moments to wrap his own arms around her and he patted her on the back. "It's okay Jinora," he said, tripping over his words. "It's okay. What's wrong?"

"Nightmare," she muttered, burying her face in his chest.

"Oh. Something to do with me?" Kai could feel her head move up and down in a nod. "The fall?" he guessed. She nodded again. In response Kai tightened his grip around her. "You're not getting rid of me that easy."

Kai didn't know when they had ended up sitting on the floor, Jinora pressed against him with his arm over her shoulders, her head on his shoulder, her fingers loosely laced through his other hand's. He just wished the first sight of his morning hadn't been Tenzin's angry red face glaring down at the two of them. "Just what do you think you're doing?!"

Hi guys! I cannot express how grateful/happy for all of you, my lovely readers. 304 reviews. And to think only a couple months ago I thought hitting 100 was the biggest thing ever!

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