it's only a bad dream

[fourhearts]

wake up, wake up, it's only a bad dream meme

bad dreams are ordeals, sometimes seemingly endless. when you wake up, your heart pounds, your head hurts, and you end up drenched in sweat. even if you know none of it was real, it takes a while to orient yourself. it is pretty nice to have someone there to wake you up or to soothe you out of it and remind you that... it's only a dream. ••• the usual rules apply. post with your character and preferences and then tag around, have your characters comfort others.

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Katara | ATLA

[unyieldingwater]

[apathofcinders]

[Obviously not Aang so... could I interest you in a thread?]

[unyieldingwater]

[ Sure thing! Anything specific for the scene? ]

[apathofcinders]

[I'm thinking for cr's sake a later canon point might be best. Do you have a preference about the one having the nightmare? I can run with either option.]

[unyieldingwater]

[ Sounds good to me! And hmm. I think Katara can be one to be in the comforting role :D Prepare to be mom'd at~! Well. Not really. ]

[apathofcinders]

[Sounds great Momtara! I'll write a starter tomorrow.]

[unyieldingwater]

[ LOL Okay!~ ]

tell me if you want me to chance anything :)

[apathofcinders]

When he left on Appa with Katara, when they landed on an island off the coast of the Fire Nation, a stone's throw -at least for an air bison- from Caldera, Zuko had been certain he wouldn't be able to sleep. After all, it was the last night before the invasion, before he was set to return home not as Ozai's prodigal son, but as part of a force of foreign invaders.

Their friends had hugged them before their departure. Well, Toph didn't, she punched him in the arm instead, but coming from her it meant the same thing. Unfortunately they just didn't understand.

The ride had been silent, each of them lost in their own thoughts. Once there, they hadn't bothered to light a fire -it could expose their location, anyway- and instead just slumped in the stiff leather saddle. Zuko had expected to stare into the darkness all night, the way he used to, some nights on the ship when his quest for the avatar seemed to be particularly hopeless, when he would have to remind himself to never give up. But he was wrong: soon enough, he was rubbing his weary eyes, then, he was stifling a yawn. Within minutes, he was asleep.

Blue lightning streaked behind his eyelids. He could head laughter, Azula's laughter. He could see Aang falling, like he did in Ba Sing Se. Then the avatar was gone and Azula was looking straight at him. You thought you had a chance, Zuzu? How adorable. How deluded. Azula taunted him, with her words, with the crooked smile on her face. Her face that became Ozai's face. Azula was born lucky. You were lucky to be born. And now you're all out of luck.

Zuko screamed himself awake.

Re: tell me if you want me to chance anything :)

[unyieldingwater]

Katara was understandably worried about their friends, most especially Sokka, but this was their task. Knowing what lay ahead and the stakes that were hanging in the balance - Katara didn't originally think much of Zuko's brooding. He was always the broody type, although this- had to be weighing heavier on him than on the rest of them.

She'd tried to coax him to get some sleep a few times, without much luck, and she knew better than to push him, so eventually she curled up on her side and drifted off. Her rest wasn't -entirely- peaceful, but her dreams weren't NEARLY as troubled as Zuko's were.

Proven when her friend SCREAMED himself awake. Katara jerked awake herself in a confused state, glancing around quickly until she realized that they weren't under attack, but her friend was in QUITE a state of distress. "Zuko? Zuko!" She scrambled over to him, to cautiously put a hand on his shoulder - a TINY bit warily because god knows he might lash out in his nightmares. She wouldn't blame him if he did though, but she did try to get through to his screaming, "Shh, shh - Zuko it's okay, you're here, it's me, Katara..!"