Birth Of Fire

Then Somebody Bends

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Isn't Zuko cute in this picture? 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

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... I'm totally not attracted to anime characters...

I promise.

Believe me dammit!

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It was night time.

But nobody could go to sleep.

Aang had gotten worse.

He was so bad that they were scared if they went to bed, they would wake up and he would be gone.

Forever.

Aang's harsh breathing had slowed to almost nothing. His heart rate has become even slower, and weaker. His body hardly reacted to touch as it did earlier when he had just fainted. His body lay completely limp where earlier in the day he would at least be shaking when they lifted an arm or something. Now he was just dead weight as Zuko lifted his upper body to pour some water into his mouth.

He doesn't even swallow the water anymore. It just dribbles right out of his lips.

Zuko sighed, trying to read Aang, but he couldn't. He was completely unconscious not even aware of what was going on.

The only thing he could feel from Aang was that unsatisfied hunger. It burned and blistered as it raged against Aang's stomach as if trying to claw its way out of him.

Katara once again used her healing abilities to try to heal him, but his body would not be tricked out of his malnourishment. They tried feeding Aang, but he wouldn't even eat food anymore. They were scared that they were too late, that whatever Aang needed he wouldn't even be able to consume.

If only they could take him to a hospital. They have new, special equipment for things like this. To help people take nutrients straight into their system without them actually eating food.

They couldn't take him to a doctor though. There were wanted posters with Aang's face all over town. They wouldn't be able to hide it, and when the doctor's found out they wouldn't even bother trying to help him peacefully.

They could always... Persuade the doctors, Katara thought. But that would lead to a whole new mess that none of them were prepared to deal with. Due to the fact that Katara, Toph, Sakka, and Suki aged normally within the last 15 years, they weren't exactly guilty of being freaky immortals that nobody knew what to do with. So their names had remained clear, but if they started threatening the doctors in favor of the Avatars life, that would change. And then it would be even harder to protect him

Toph was currently showering, and the other vampires had stayed in the living room for the entire day to watch Aang as he got worse and worse.

Sakka and Suki were currently trying to get Nilah to sleep in Katara's bed, but their own worry for the avatar wasn't helping Nilah calm down. They wound up both having to stay there for a while with her until she got bored of laying there playing with their hands that she just fell asleep.

"What are we going to do?" Katara asked, "we will lose him if we don't figure this out." She spoke softly, as she bent the water she was using to heal Aang back into the bowl.

Zuko shook his head. He had no idea, and the thought of being so close to losing Aang was tearing him up inside.

"Are you sure you can't hear what he wants?" Katara asked for the third time.