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[yukinoomoni]

It's Friends List Appreciation Week!!!

(Well, for me it is, anyway.)

Because all of you are so awesome and amazing for having to put up with my daily histrionic babbling, I've decided to hold a Friends List Appreciation Week event here on my journal. Please comment with a request for one (or all) of the following:

-Name of a fandom, character and prompt, for a little ficlet written just for you;
-Question that you have been meaning to ask me but keep forgetting;
-Something that you have been meaning to tell me but haven't found the chance;
-A request for a good read, good listen, good show/movie, or good whatever;
-A nice compliment just for you!

There are no limits and no slots. This will be open for everyone on my friends list, for as long as it takes for everyone to participate if they would like! If I am unable to fill the ficlet request, you will be given a chance to make another request.

Okay! Go!

Comments

[cypsiman2.livejournal.com]

Hi. Sorry that I haven't been more supportive, been dealing with some disappointments in my own life. So, a Katara/Aang ficlet with the prompt anniversary and a compliment would not go amiss.

Aang/Katara, Anniversary

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

She tried to be understanding. Really, she did. After all, Aang had a lot on his plate recently, especially with him and Zuko going over the plans for a new kind of city. It took up a lot of his time, and as the Avatar it was to be expected that he would always be busy.

But there were some things that should never be forgotten. And for Katara, an anniversary was definitely one of them.

It had been five years to the day that they had had their first real kiss in the new peacetime, one without confusion and dread and fear. For Katara, it was the first moment that they had finally gotten together, as a couple.

So why was she all alone in Iroh's tea shop, sipping the house blend moodily? Because Aang was in the Fire Nation, as usual, with Zuko, once again going over more plans for their stupid city, instead of with her, talking with her, laughing with her, being with her.

Iroh had, for the most part, left her alone, except to come by and fill her teacup or give her complimentary dough fritters. He occasionally gave her sympathetic glances and once offered a kind ear, but she was too angry and hurt to accept it. She just sat and brooded, hating Aang and Zuko and their stupid city and then not really hating anything all at once.

When it was close to closing, Iroh came by and said, very gently, "Would you like anything to go?"

Katara looked up at him, her eyes dark. "No, I'm okay. I guess ... I guess I just sort of hoped that Aang would surprise me, would just show up and surprise me with something and then everything would be perfect. But he's not here. And it isn't."

Iroh place a soft hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "I'm sorry," he offered, and she sighed, deeply and painfully and said, "It's not quite okay yet. I just hope it will be."

Katara finished off her tea and got up to leave, realising with a start that it was already nighttime. She trudged slowly towards the door, not quite sure where she was going after this, just that she wasn't going to go home.

The moment she walked out of the door, she stopped. Her eyes flicked around her quickly, a wave of surprise spreading through her like a warm balm. Without her control, her face broke into a smile and her eyes stung with tears.

There, right on the wooden deck where they had kissed, was Aang, standing amidst a sea of candles with a small smile. Behind him was a small tea table, laden with delicious vegetarian foods that smelled heavenly. Aang grinned wider when he saw her.

"Finally," he said, a laugh in his voice. "I've been waiting here for hours!"

She threw herself at him and attacked him with kisses and half-hearted punches. "You made me think you forgot!"

Aang took both onslaughts with sparkling eyes. "Never," was all he said. It was all he needed to say.

Re: Aang/Katara, Anniversary

[cypsiman2.livejournal.com]

Heh heh, nice. Silly Katara, he was over there all along.

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

And, for the compliment!

So, I don't know you as well as I'd like, but what I do know, I do like. You're very determined and you know what you like, and that's good! I love how devoted to Kataang you are, and it's nice to have a fellow canon-fan! I'm very sorry to hear about your life disappointments, and I hope it gets better for you =(. Keep being awesome, okay?

[cypsiman2.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The disappointments have mostly been my being unable to get a job, the latest lost opportunity being a page at the local library.