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Okay first things first. I don't like swearing. But. Sometimes people in these stories gotta swear, you know? So. I made up swear words. See of you can see what they are :)
Second. In this story it is Very Illegal to marry people out of your nation. But. Sorta mostly by accident, Ozai does, and then Aang's an airbender. Oops on that one... His wife Mysteriously Disappears, but he decides to keep his son for... some reason? The sake of the story? Idk. And Aang... has a hard life. Zuko, his older Pure brother, likes him, and he has friends at his public school (he's known as an airbender there), but his dad... yeah. Oh also I made him an alcoholic, so that's fun. In the end I have him leave his friends because he and Zuko move; then he has to pretend to be a nonbending Fire Person; then he meets Katara and Sokka; they eventually become friends; he decides to leave his terrible family to marry Katara; they run away together and live (mostly) happily ever after. In this story, he's still at his first school with his airbending friends, 'cept he's actually on his way home.
Gorming idiot; who do you think you are? You think you can just show up here, and I'll just let you in this house, my house? Not when you're a gorming winapi. Get back outside! You want me to tell everyone the winapi you are? You want me to kill you?
He shivers. It's raining, and he's gorming freezing, but he'd rather be out here than in there. His brother won't be home for another hour, and he can't-won't go in there alone. It's not like he'll be missed, and with how yesterday went, it might be colder in there than out here.
He has stuff to do, but he's not sure it's safe to do homework in this rain. He's under his neighbor-who-is-always-at-work's porch, but he still doesn't want to take it out. And what if he gets home? He doesn't want it to be ruined from a wrong push.
Also, his left hand is burning, and he can't find the will to make his right hand work. He landed on it funny in training, and it was already tense from earlier. He hopes it heals quickly, because he really hates using his right hand (gorming winapi, why can't you just use the right hand), and if it takes a long time, it might mean something is sprained or broken, which would stink. A lot.
But he doesn't need to think about that, because in the end it'll probably be fine, just fine, just like he is now. He leans against the wall of the porch of his neighbors house and sighs. (You always say you have homework from that trashy public school, but we both know they don't teach you blick. Stop lying to me.) He can come up with something else to do, probably.
He wishes he'd asked to stay after school and dealt with it already. Then he wouldn't have to be here, in the rain, waiting for his brother who is taking literally forever. He's never tried bending (gorming winapi, you want me to tell them you're a bender?) in the rain before. It'd be cool to try it with some of his friends (you don't have friends; anyone who says anything different is lying).
But it's not like he's against being here either. Except that it's cold, and he's not allowed to do anything about it (I dare you. Bend. Just now. DO IT! GORM YOU, I TOLD YOU TO BEND!) so he's not going to not going to not going to bend (DO IT! GORMING WINAPI, when I TELL YOU TO DO SOMETHING you DO IT!).
He shivers. It's gorming freezing, but he's not going inside. Not until Zuko comes home. He can feel the stucco through his jacket and his shirt, and he can feel a fierce wind through his jacket and his shirt, because even the wind has decided it hates him. Which. Fine, whatever, it's allowed to do that. It can do anything it wants.
He tries to think about something productive (you can't even think, can you. When I ask what you did at school you get nothing. THAT'S ALL YOU LEARN THERE.) but all he can remember was that his teacher stared at him weird during math and it spooked him. Scared him, maybe. He shivers. It's gorming freezing.
A car pulls up in the driveway. It's not Zuko's car. He flinches. He forgot that today Zuko'd be gone until he'd gotten home. He needs to get inside. It's cold, afterall. He needs to get inside.
