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Kataang Week '09-Destiny

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Gran-Gran had said once that their destinies were intertwined. Katara was only beginning to realize how right she’d been.

To think-the Avatar, the hope of the nations, the last chance for peace and an end to the war, the only one who could defeat the Fire Lord and restore balance to a chaotic world, to think that so great and grand and important a person had been found by her. Her, small, young, inexperienced little Katara, the only waterbender left in the South Pole. The only one who still believed.

Had her faith been rewarded? Had the hope she still carried in her heart despite the years of war played some part in bringing about the Avatar’s return? She had found him practically in her own backyard after all.

The more she thought about it, the more it staggered her, amazed her. She and Sokka had been right there, right there, in the exact spot they’d needed to be for the currents to snatch them off their course and steer them straight to the iceberg that held Aang. The fact that she just happened to be a waterbender, the only waterbender and an incredibly powerful one at that, had chosen to get upset and unconsciously let loose with her bending right there, right then… would Aang have even been found if she and Sokka hadn’t been there?

She was convinced the currents were directed by Fate that day, that some unseen force of destiny had brought her to the Avatar, brought her to Aang.

And then he woke up and looked into her eyes and he loved only her.

It felt wrong. Someone so great and important to the world should have an equally great and important lover already chosen for him, someone high and noble who would play as big a part in saving the world as he would. She couldn’t fathom how she could possibly deserve him or be worthy of him. She had assumed that he and she were only destined for friendship. That her own love story would be something quite different. Not boring, not certainly, but definitely not intersecting with Aang’s.

But it also felt right. For as she slowly grew to realize, it was Aang who could be the powerful bender envisioned for her. It was Aang who could, someday, be her husband, be the lover foretold for her. Struggling to come to grips with seeing him in this new light, she felt herself invariably, irresistibly, wondering what it would be like. And thus, her feelings for him grew and blossomed until it was undeniable that she was in love with Aang, honestly, and truly in love with him.

Fear and uncertainty gnawed at her. What if she were wrong? What if her hopes proved unfounded and the war was lost? What if Fire Nation succeeded and young man she thought could be her destiny died? What was her future then?

In the end, her fears had proved unfounded. The war was won. Aang came back and her confusion faded away, and she knew that he was truly meant to be with her.

In the days after the war, she also could not deny that she had been thinking about the reverse; that she, also, may have been chosen. That Fate had picked her out of all the women in the world, to be the Avatar’s love. So many tiny details were just right, at the perfect time, in the perfect place. Her dreams and desires to learn waterbending, giving him a reason to take him with her. Her gentle encouragement, giving him the inner strength he needed. Her patience and passion, defending him, helping him master waterbending quickly. Her care for him, bringing him back from the brink every time he went into the Avatar State. Her healing hands, bringing him back from the dead.

There was no way it could be plainer. It was him that had been chosen for her and…

It was her that had been chosen for him.

Her doubts dispelled, she went out onto the veranda overlooking the great city of Ba Sing Se, the great city that they had saved, together, and in front of what she thought might be the most beautiful sunset she’d ever seen, she reached for Aang and embraced her destiny.
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Prompt: Destiny

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Wonderful my friend just amazing.