Drabbles: Family Sticks Together (A:tLA; PG)

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PG; A:tLA. Spoilers through 2.2 "The Cave of Two Lovers"; 2 x 100 words. Reaction drabbles #2.

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United We Stand

There are times when Sokka wonders whether bending ability somehow cancels out common sense. Trying to keep Katara and Aang on task when they're caught up in training or snared by someone else's cause is like trying to keep Momo out of the food. Better to just chip in so they get back on track more quickly.

Sokka can handle being plan guy. Really; he's been training for that his whole life. It's just-- what if he screws up bad enough they get caught? Or hurt? ...Or worse?

He's going to do his best to make sure that doesn't happen.

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Divided We Fall

Three years, he has spent traveling with his nephew. Three long years, playing the part of baggage as much as advisor, careful of Zuko's savagely scarred pride. Hot springs by lotus tile by White Jade bush, Iroh has slowly coaxed the boy toward a path of healing.

But Zuko is not his brother's only damaged, dangerous child; and now Iroh has been forced to start over from the beginning. The curdled bitterness in Zuko's eyes since Azula's betrayal hurts more than his response to Iroh's cautions beforehand: lazy, mistrustful, shallow old man.

Someday, Iroh vows, there will be a reckoning.

Comments

[irisbleufic.livejournal.com]

Trying to keep Katara and Aang on task when they're caught up in training or snared by someone else's cause is like trying to keep Momo out of the food.

Ahahahah, this is TRUE <3

Iroh: one bad-ass mofo. He and Zuko are the best things about the series, I think.

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One of the few things that frustrates me about the show is that so much would have been different if only the Avatar's group had traveled with sane and sensible adults all along; but being a kid's show, and Teaching Lessons along the way, I understand why that wasn't allowed.

♥ Iroh.