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Tweak says, "JUST DO IT"

Toph Bei Fong (rocksolid) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-10-25 23:34:00

Entry tags:

complete, day 20, katara, toph bei fong

Who: toph . katara
When: afternoon
What: she needs some healin'
Where: outside katara's room
Rating: pg.13
Status: complete

"Katara!" She called again impatiently, knocking on the water bender's door, and hoping that she was there. It was almost afternoon now though, whose to say Katara wasn't off somewhere else? She was screwed if that was the case. No way she was crawling around the resort again like this looking for the girl, especially not with Zuko out there and even more pissed at her then he had been to start with. No, she would just sit here and wait.

"Come on Katara!" Toph pounded on the door a moment later, already sick of that plan, but then patients was never her strong suit. Especially when she was angry, confused, and hurt. She was certainly a strange sight for anyone that happened to pass by as well. The earth bender sat on the floor just outside her friend's room in an awful state. Dirtier then usual for one. No little smatterings of dust, after crawling out of the woods to the dorms, no she had all kinds of dirt and ash on her. Her hair fell loose and had bits of leaf in it and singed ends. Her knees and palms a bit scratched up. It was her feet that were the real problem though. The rest she could handle, scratches and little burns here and there not that big a deal, but her feet were all burnt. She couldn't see, couldn't walk, and the dirt in the wound likely wasn't helping.

The teen rubbed at her eyes -- eyes that were most certainly not tearing, thank you very much -- and let her head fall back against the wall with a groan.

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k_waterbender
2008-10-28 04:02 pm UTC (link)

Katara felt bad about startling the earthbender with the books, for she noticed how Toph had jumped at the sound. She should have known better than to do something so thoughtless when it was clear the other teen was having difficulties seeing. Then again, the waterbender had been taken by surprise, too. How should she feel about seeing one of her best friends hurt like this, especially after everything that had happened between Giselle, King Aragorn, Legolas, that strange wild-man, and herself? Her sense of calm and peace had been punctured from those two days of worrying about the singer and the King and the day she and the elf rescued them from uncertain doom.

The daughter of the Southern Water Tribe chief knew exactly of whom Toph spoke when she mentioned it feeling just as it had when Zuko had burned her feet when they were younger. However, it looked so much worse now than it had those many years ago. The then Prince of the Fire Nation hadn’t intentionally hurt the blind earthbender at that point in time, though. Whoever did this to the girl had meant to harm her; that much was clear.

Katara’s brows cinched together as Toph told her about what had occurred earlier in the day. “Are you sure it was Zuko?” It wasn’t that the waterbender didn’t know that the earthbender never forgot a voice or the gait of someone else. She simply hoped Toph had been wrong, despite knowing she probably wasn’t. It just seemed so unlike the Fire Lord to intentionally harm someone. That was more like the old Zuko. That was the Zuko who had hunted the Avatar to regain his honor before he realized the only true way to regain his honor was to help the Avatar bring balance and peace back to the world.

Katara had already established that time passed at the same rate on the Planet as it did in her own world when the only child of the Bei Fongs had arrived. Because of Toph’s arrival, she also realized that the world was the same one from which she had been stolen. There was no reason why Zuko shouldn’t have known Toph. There was no reason for him to have attacked her. They were all really good friends, and they were all incredibly close.

“I’m glad you were able to get away, even if you did have to hurt him like that to do it.” Despite what he had done to Toph, she still wanted to go see Zuko. The waterbender wanted to try to heal his foot, too. If Toph had stabbed him bad enough that she could get away, then he definitely was wounded pretty bad. He was just too determined a person to let someone get away so easily when his life was the only one at stake.

Maybe there were parallel universes, though. Maybe the Planet had taken the sixteen-year-old Fire Prince rather than the twenty-one-year-old Fire Lord version of Zuko. “Did he seem… younger to you, like the age he was when he was hunting the Avatar?” Katara inquired. It would make a lot more sense, but it would also be a lot more difficult to

“Let’s go into my room. I’ll trim the burned parts out of your hair.” She said softly as she helped Toph to her newly recovered feet. She unlocked her door and led them inside, searching for a sharp knife that would easily cut through Toph’s hair. It wasn’t a surprise when she easily found one right in her plain sight. It looked Water Tribe made, but it was obvious the Planet had produced it, for she hadn’t had that knife in here previously.

It was razor sharp, and Katara had no difficulties removing the ugly singed parts of the earthbender’s hair so her raven locks looked just as lovely as they should, if not a little dirty. It was almost unreal how simple it was. No matter how good the quality of Water Tribe blades, they had never done so good a job. She hadn’t needed to saw through the hair at all. The parts she cut just seemed to fall away. It was lucky because the Blind Bandit’s head of hair could have looked a lot worse, but Katara had been able to cut only what was necessary, so it was impossible to tell just where the hair had been sliced.

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