Danger (ATLA Sokka X OC fanfiction)

Prologue

A Year Ago, at the Defender's Funeral...

It was indeed a dark day. She couldn't believe that all those people would get there to mourn for her. It was an even bigger irony that she herself was present at her funeral. It was also a surprise that Aang had insisted to mourn for her soul at the Western Air Temple. For a while, Iris thought that he'd insist to bury her at the Southern Air Temple.

Iris had tried to turn back into her cold unfeeling self, but she couldn't deny herself that it was still painful to watch her friends mourning for her. And it was even more painful that she wasn't dead. That the damn loss they all felt was for nothing.

Only Sokka knew. Of all of them, Sokka knew the truth. He'd made sure none would notice the fake acting and the fake tears, even Toph. He'd been wearing shoes with wooden platforms so Toph couldn't make out his heartbeat and realize it.

Iris wasn't standing far from the place her tomb stood. She was staring at her funeral from one of the tall buildings of the Temple, on its balcony. She knew each corner and every room of the temple, no one would notice her being there.

It took a while when most of the people were gone and behind remained the broken gang. After June left, no one really seemed that they wanted to talk. No one really could talk.

Only Katara stepped forward and she tried to say the last few words she had for her friend.

"Iris... you've been more than a warrior, more than a friend, more than a protector... you've been our family..." Katara started.

Iris bit her lip trying to suppress the tears back.

"...not just Aang's sister, my sister too, Sokka's and Toph's sister. But I know, no one's pain is bigger than Zuko's..." Katara said and she gave a brief look at Zuko, who had buried his face in his hands "...or Aang's. You were Zuko's one and true love..." she hesitated "...soon you would become his wife," at that another tear slipped from her eyes and she wiped it immediately.

A tear slipped from Iris's eyes as well. She could no longer keep them back.

"What?!" Aang snapped.

Zuko looked at Katara surprised as well "How did you know?"

"She told me a few days ago," Katara answered.

"When did that happen?" Aang asked confusedly turning at Zuko.

Zuko took a deep breath trying to contain the next tears back "When you left for the South Pole, I proposed to her. She gladly accepted. We were so happy... I-I..." Zuko tried to say before letting some tears fall and wiping them again "...we would announce it at my birthday,"

Iris folded her arms against her torso and she gritted her teeth so hard, her jaw ached.

"I can't stand this," Aang said and he opened his glider and flew away.

When Sokka, Katara and Toph left, Zuko stayed behind. It took a long moment of silence before he found the courage to speak.

"I... I know what you'd say. I should try to move on, I should try to forget you for the sake of Fire Nation. Iris... I can't forget you. I..." Zuko hesitated while he couldn't stop the tears.

Iris couldn't stop them either. She made huge efforts trying to choke the sobs inside.

"...I love you. I'll never love anyone more than I loved you. So... it's really hard for me to believe that you're d- gone. I fell for you from the very first moment and I loved each second we spent together. I'll miss you... more than anything," Zuko said and he buried his face in his hands falling on his knees and finally releasing the sobs out.

Iris wanted to cry out, to punch something, anything. Anything that would help her take all that sorrow out of her system. She knew all too well that this would be the last time she'd see him. But she couldn't stay quiet. She got back in the temple, in one of its room's and she allowed herself to cry.

She unleashed a loud sob and she let her back slip from the wall it rested on and she sat on the floor folding her feet against her chest. Why did it have to hurt so much? Why did her life have to be so painful? Why?

She never knew the answer. The only thing that she knew is that she had to keep living in it. That she had to follow the terms of her bad luck.

Iris knew there was no use in crying. Her tears were not going to fix anything in that damned life she was forced to live in. She wrapped a fragment of a glass of a broken mirror that'd been lying on the floor for decades since the beginning of the war. She brought it in front of her and she looked at herself.

The melted flesh of the right side of her face stared back at her. She could see her almost burned eye, the melted flesh of her cheek and a part of her lips burned. If she hadn't used her fire bending to protect herself from the explosions that day, she could have lost sight from the one eye, not to mention the burns on her body.

Iris couldn't believe how horrid she looked like. She never cared about the looks, but she didn't like this. When this all would be over and things would get back to how it was supposed to be... was Zuko going to love her the same way? She looked like a monster. A deformed monstrous face that even frightened herself. And she had seen a lot.

She had to make a visit, and she knew exactly where to go.

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I'm back! You thought Iris's story has ended... you're darn wrong!

In this book, I'll explain everything that happened before Book 3. Sokka's and Iris's adventures while working for the Red Shadow Demons, a small kind of... a relationship between them and many other things.

I'm sorry if some of you are like 'Oh common! When the hell is this damn story going to end?!' so if you've gotten sick of it just... don't read it.

This is a pure Sokka X OC Fanfic. And as always, I do not own the Avatar the Last Airbender, I only own my Original Character and the plot of this book, so, please do not copy.

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