Yadrolla System Mingle

[lacyprincess]

Who: EVERYBODY
Broadcast: Yeah, sure, I guess
Action: The Fleet and the Yadrolla System
When: 4/29 - 6/8

[Hey, hey, look, we have a new system! Let's go compete in stuff and root for sportsball teams! System info is here!

GO WAVES!]

Comments

[watermarks]

It didn't sound like it.

[She frowns.] Look, the last time we share the same memories about things was over four years ago for me. It was even longer for you. You don't know anything about what happened to me - to us - in Luceti, and I'm only scratching the surface of what life was like in the fleet for you, let alone what's happened at home that you still won't talk about. [This, this was what she didn't want to talk about.] ...it makes sense that we won't be able to read each other sometimes as well as we're used to.

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka listens quietly, brow furrowed. It's been a long time since she was here in the Fleet, but he'd seen here but a year ago when he was last at home. They'd fought then, too- over the mess back home, which was most of the reason why he was still avoiding talking about it. ]

Yeah- I guess you're right. I'd of thought by now you'd know I wouldn't be willingly aiming to hurt you, you're still my sister.

[watermarks]

[He might have seen her at home, but Katara isn't sure that counts anymore. Luceti had changed her, given her experiences that she would hopefully never have back home, when she'd forgotten all about her time there. She knew who she was and she also knew who she wasn't, and that was the innocent girl from her world who'd never bloodbend, who dated Aang, who'd never had to look her granddaughter in the eyes and wonder if she'd be able to keep her safe.

She exhales quietly.] I didn't think you'd said it to purposefully hurt me. That isn't what I'm saying.

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka mirrors the motion, exhaling, looking up at the sky for a moment, gathering himself. ]

...Right.

[watermarks]

[ She frowns a little, running the conversation through her mind and wanting... wanting to just move passed it. ]

...you're still my brother too, Sokka.

[ But... you know... there are some things too important to just move passed. ]

And nothing changes that, not Luceti, not the fleet, not even the time that we've spent apart. But... it's hard for me, sometimes, because up until last month... you'd been there too, in Luceti. But you don't remember any of it now. And so it's just... hard sometimes.

[alwayscomeback]

I know, I get it. It's gonna be... well, we're gonna have to take some time to adjust again. We've been through a lot back home that you don't know about yet- and I will tell you, but...not yet. It's a lot

[Things that will make her feel a hundred times worse than she already does. He doesn't want to put that on her. Not yet. ]

But I've always got your back. No matter what. That hasn't changed. It'll never change.

[watermarks]

[ She gives him a measuring look, not because she doubts him, but because... there's so much more to it than that.

But in the end, there wasn't much more to it than that. No matter what, he was her brother.

So she gives him a quick, faint smile and then steps in to give him a hug. ]

[alwayscomeback]

[He' accepts the hug, glad for it. It's better than the horrible tension he could feel swelling between them. He hated that, he didn't want that. He just wanted them to be a family again. To try and rebuild their lives.

He gives her a tight squeeze. ]

Love you, sis.