Neko ~ The Last Airbender, Sokka Soulmate Story (On Going)

Chapter 6 Helped

Episode 1: The boy in the iceberg
Season 1

Chapter 6 Helped 

Third person POV. 
Time skip

Luna stirred in her sleep. She was having a bad dream, this dream was really since it was what had happened to Aang and her a day or so ago. They had left the air temple and when they were soaring in the sky they were caught in a bad storm that caused all three of them to crash into the icy cold water. The crash itself caused the air in her lungs to escape her. 

Luna held the small amount of air that she had gotten every time she stuck her head up to the surface, but it was never enough and since she wasn’t the strongest swimmer she could stay up there any longer and slowly sink down into the fast dark obse. She didn't remember anything after that, she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer and they slowly closed to black. 

Luna's eyes snapped open and she gaspes up and looked around herself, she was having a hard time breathing, her hand held her chest as she tried to get air in her lungs but she just couldn’t. Her eyes could see that she wasn't in water anymore but the dream had messed with her. 
 
"Whow... you ok?" Sokka asks. He was walking past her tent for the hundredth time when he heard the commotion, the loud gasp of air and then the other gasps of air after it. Sokka heard his soulmate needed help so he went in without thinking it and kneed beside her. 

Sokka placed a soft hand on her bare arm and she quickly looked at him with fear written in her eyes and face, her hands were gripping her neck, her nails digged into her soft skin. Sokka could see some blood drip down, he grabbed her hands from her neck, “Hey, hey whow. What's wrong Kitten?” he asked her. 

“Can’t breathe” she choked out. She tried to free her hands from Sokka's grip but he wasn't having that, he saw the damage her nails already did to her neck and didn't want to see even more damage. She couldn't get out of his grip and she whimpered out, she moved and clinged onto his body for dear life. Her face dug into his neck and cried out. Sokka was shocked but he let her hands free and wrapped his arms around her and dug his face into her hair. 

“It's ok kitten, you're ok” he said softly to her. He rubbed her back softly, “Follow my breathing patterns. Breathe in” he said, he inhales air, “And then out”  and then exhales it out of him. 

Luna digs her face even more into his neck and wraps her arms even tighter around his body. She was basically sitting on his lap at this point with her legs wrapped around his waist and her arms around his neck. She was still having a hard time getting air in her burning lungs, but sokka was helping her. She was slowly calming down in his arms and he could tell. He smiles and kisses her temple and just holds her tighter to him. 

A few minutes passed by and she was finally calm down in his tight hold. Her body was still slightly shaking but her heartbeat was back to normal, her eyes closed as she just kept as close to him as she could. He on the other hand felt amazing right now. He was holding his soulmate tight to him as she embraced him too. 

He kisses the side of her temple again and then pulls away slightly to look at her face, to memorize it. He pushes her hair out of her face and let his eyes travel around her face starting with her closed eyelids and then to her cute little nose that he wanted to pinch so badly but he kept that to himself and moved down to her plump kissable lips. His eyes moved from side to side and he smiled and then dropped it as he remembered what happened last time he looked at her without her masks on. 

Without thinking or stopping himself he ran his finger over her scar lightly. Her eyes snapped open as she had just realized that her mask was off her face, she tensed in his hold making him sad but he didn't show that, he didn't want to show her that he was weak, “So… how do you feel now?” he asks her softly.