100 Days, 100 Drabbles (#57: The Waterbending Scroll)
Genre: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Title: 100 Days, 100 Drabbles
Chapter Title: The Waterbending Scroll (057/100)
Author:
catalyst283
Word count: 284
Rating: PG
Warnings: SPOILERS for The Western Air Temple!
Notes: This is another of my drabbles that uses (and has its basis) in the episode it’s named after; but isn’t set in this episode. This drabble instead is set during/post-WAT. :3 (Oh, Katara. *le sigh*)
EDIT: Zuko's eyes are light, I know, but it's more a metaphor than anything with the "hauntingly dark eyes" description. XP
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The Waterbending Scroll
I'll save you from the pirates. These are words of my nightmares, words that have been in my head ever since that day oh so many months ago. It doesn’t help that every time I see my mother’s necklace, I see his face. The hauntingly dark eyes, the mouth permanently set in that cruel scowl. The blatant red scar across his eye, the scar of a terrible past I can see hidden just behind his eyes.
And we keep meeting, he always with those words that trap me, those bits and pieces of a story that creep into my mind and refuse to let me forget them.
I’ve changed. He says it again, as if I’ll believe him again. As if I’ll trust him again. As if I’ll think of him as anything more than what he is-a liar and a cold-hearted bastard who cares about no one but himself and his precious honor. Oh, he tells us all about how he’s different now-how he knows what having honor is and how he’s finally realized his destiny is to teach Aang firebending and how he wants to join the group and blah blah blah.
He’s got a new haircut, maybe, and some different clothes, and he’s not with his uncle anymore (which makes me only suspect something is up even more so) nor with his psychopath of a sister. And he’s changed his way of thinking, trying to make us believe he’s on the good side now, that he’s on our side. (He thinks it’ll work, he thinks we’ll believe him.)
He’s changed, alright.
Title: 100 Days, 100 Drabbles
Chapter Title: The Waterbending Scroll (057/100)
Author:
catalyst283
Word count: 284
Rating: PG
Warnings: SPOILERS for The Western Air Temple!
Notes: This is another of my drabbles that uses (and has its basis) in the episode it’s named after; but isn’t set in this episode. This drabble instead is set during/post-WAT. :3 (Oh, Katara. *le sigh*)
EDIT: Zuko's eyes are light, I know, but it's more a metaphor than anything with the "hauntingly dark eyes" description. XP
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The Waterbending Scroll
I'll save you from the pirates. These are words of my nightmares, words that have been in my head ever since that day oh so many months ago. It doesn’t help that every time I see my mother’s necklace, I see his face. The hauntingly dark eyes, the mouth permanently set in that cruel scowl. The blatant red scar across his eye, the scar of a terrible past I can see hidden just behind his eyes.
And we keep meeting, he always with those words that trap me, those bits and pieces of a story that creep into my mind and refuse to let me forget them.
I’ve changed. He says it again, as if I’ll believe him again. As if I’ll trust him again. As if I’ll think of him as anything more than what he is-a liar and a cold-hearted bastard who cares about no one but himself and his precious honor. Oh, he tells us all about how he’s different now-how he knows what having honor is and how he’s finally realized his destiny is to teach Aang firebending and how he wants to join the group and blah blah blah.
He’s got a new haircut, maybe, and some different clothes, and he’s not with his uncle anymore (which makes me only suspect something is up even more so) nor with his psychopath of a sister. And he’s changed his way of thinking, trying to make us believe he’s on the good side now, that he’s on our side. (He thinks it’ll work, he thinks we’ll believe him.)
He’s changed, alright.