Ripples (31_days, 15/07)
Title: Ripples
Series: None; one-shot
Rating: PG
Characters: Tarrlok and Noatak
Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Avatar: the Legend of Korra is not mine.
Word Count: 100
Warnings: Nothing explicit but these are the thoughts leading up to Tarrlok blowing up the boat and killing them both.
Spoilers: Yes, for the season finale. (Vaguely.)
Notes: Written for 31_days's prompt for today, Witnessed by no waking eye, and it's not an AU!
Summary: Tarrlok's thoughts on their chances of a new life, on the boat.
It wasn’t possible. And if it was, then certainly they couldn’t do it.
Hadn’t their father tried? Hadn’t he failed? Hadn’t they, each of them separately, tried to find their own path? Hadn’t they failed? And they both still lived with the repercussions of their youth. No. He was sure there was no such thing as a new beginning: the life from before cast its shadow forward. (And theirs was so, so long.)
If they ran, anywhere they went, they could only revisit old mistakes, and then it was better to go nowhere at all.
He should end this story.