#Shade's MD AU
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shinyshade8026 · 7 months ago
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Doll ramble it is!!!
You guys wanted a ramble about how Doll ends up in my AU, so here you go!
THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 7.
Have a Doll screenshot and we'll get into it!
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As we know, Doll went down to the labs to get the patch for herself and left the main 4 to get attacked by sentinels. In my AU, her and Uzi are cousins, but Uzi is unaware of this/Forgot this, while Doll knows. Her judgment was very clouded at the time, feeling bitter that Uzi was with the disassembly drones who killed their families. Doll doesn’t exactly have beef with Uzi or S (S because it was never with the other three when Yeva and them were killed). She wanted the sentinels to pick off the disassembly drones and leave Uzi, so the two of them could get fixed together, this is why she didn’t take the elevator, she left it for Uzi to take. As she fell down to the labs, she realized way too late that what she did might end up getting her dear cousin killed. When she gets down there, she is very quick to start looking for the patch, looking in all the same places as Uzi. Then we see what happened in episode 7, Doll finds Tessa and confronts her. She wants to kill her, she knows she isn’t who she says she is. Then Tessa disappears after cutting off Doll’s eyepatch and leaving her alone to sneak up on her and attack her. Well, this nearly works. Doll is panicking because she can’t see what's going on, and can only hear. Then, right when Cynessa is about to slaughter her, S comes from the darkness and body blocks Cynessa from Doll, though Doll does get a bit hurt. Doll is very confused as to why S saved her. This interaction happens as follows: Doll: ‘Why did you save me?’ S: “You think I’m gonna leave Uzi’s family here to die?! You’re more crazy than I thought!!” Doll: 'How did you-' S: “Know? I connected the dots. Why else would you be so passively defensive of her? There's also a picture of Yeva and Nori together in your home.” Cynessa: Trying to murder again S: “Fuck okay we don’t have time for this. You either come with me and work with us to save Uzi and the planet, or I leave you here to die. Make a choice.” Extends hand. Doll: Hesitates. 'I’m only doing this for Uzi.' Takes their hand.
They then flee, trying to find where Uzi ended up (S and Uzi got separated). Due to Doll’s injuries, S has to carry her. They get to the church, right after seeing Cynessa enter in the space suit. When they enter, they see Uzi on the ground and Cynessa about to kill her. They get ready to save her but the solver is used to make a pillar collapse on top of them, leaving Doll and S trapped under it. Doll’s hands are trapped under her so she cant use her own solver to get them out, and S doesn’t have the strength to get off as they are on their stomach.
They are left to watch as Cynessa continues her plan to murder Uzi when N gets there and beheads Cynessa. S yells to N to throw the patch over to them and Doll, and he hesitates. He does it still, as well as getting the pillar off of them. S uses the patch on Doll, who thanks them. N goes back to check on Uzi. Insert NUzi fight but this time N has a better advantage. The silly confession thing happens, hugs, yadda yadda. Cynessa gets her head back while the group uses the patch on Uzi. The only thing left? To get Cyn back.
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reverienco · 10 months ago
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what the fuck am i doing. scheduling this at 1am.
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silvers-starrway · 11 days ago
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The main cast! Oh MDAU how I missed you
MDAU Masterlist
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glamorousdame · 22 days ago
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I like torturing him lol
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lilzezthenyan · 1 year ago
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a lap full of angel is worth all the pain
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scoutartzz · 11 days ago
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THIS WIP IS GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF ME. I HATE IT. I LOVE IT. 😀 I AM IN AGONY.
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vase-of-lilies · 1 year ago
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Mmmmmm, how about mommy / mama feeling bad for falsely accusing us and making us cry so they(either of them) feel dejected until we make them cuddle with us because we thought they were still mad at us ?… please?
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Pairing: Dark!Mommy!Wanda x Little!reader (f) x Dark!Mama!Nat
Warnings: MD/LG dynamics, Arguing, yelling, feeling bad, guilt, fighting, false accusations, depression, crying, breastfeeding, lactation, cuddles!! this is a dark AU so beware.
A/n: Thanks for sending this in! This is such a cute idea! This kind of hits home, because I have been blamed for MULTIPLE things by my awful step siblings when I was younger. But I’m glad this time it will be Wanda and Natty to comfort us 🥺 I hope it was ok to have just Nat be angry!
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It was a series of unfortunate events. One thing lead to another, and soon you found yourself in front of a large mess in the living room of the cabin. You had woken up from your nap, only to find Wanda and Natasha doing work by themselves in separate rooms.
When you left your nursery, your toy lion — Leo — was held in your arms softly and you rubbed the tired from your eyes. A small yawn following. You froze mid step once you saw the disaster in the living room.
The couch cushions were no longer on the couch, the TV stand was slightly askew, the lamp shade was tilted, and what looked like piles upon piles of documents were strewn across the carpet. You didn’t know how to react, only staring at the mess in front of you.
Too caught up in your confusion, you don’t hear the footsteps of your Mama, Nat, behind you. A loud gasp left her mouth as she saw what you were staring at. From what it looked like to her, you had been going through important documents without their permission or knowledge. But that was far from the truth.
“Y/n! What on earth are you doing??” Your mamas voice boomed behind you, startling you and causing your lion to drop from your hands. Nat paced the floor, looking at the papers and their contents.
“My god! Where did you find these?? These were locked!” She continues to shout, and the water works were turned on behind your eyes.
You looked up at Nat, small whimpers turning into cries of false guilt. “I- I- d-didn’ do an-anyfing!” You sobbed, but Natasha wouldn’t have that. She pressed her fingers on the bridge of her nose, her red braid flipping over her shoulder as she looks to you.
“Oh, you didn’t do anything? Really? You think I’m gonna believe a dumb little thing like you?” She shouted back at you, stepping closer to you. You step back in fear. “My keys are gone, and we haven’t heard your little dream sounds on the monitor either. And then I find you here??”
The things she was saying wasn’t like her. She was harsh, but when she knew you were in your little space, she was the most gentle giant you have ever been around besides Tony. But this time was different, because of one simple mistake.
Wanda hears the commotion from the bedroom and she looks over to the small baby monitor on the bedside table. She frowns as the screen blinks a low battery picture, and picks it up. She walks to the living room to find you pushing yourself against the wall while Natasha shouted at you.
Nat hasn’t calmed down yet, and Wanda knew that it could be devastating to your little self to see her like this. “Honey? Nat, baby, what’s going on?” She asked, gently placing her hand on her wife’s exposed shoulder.
Natasha’s head snaps to the source of the voice, and she steps away from your cowering body. “First she stole my keys to my filing cabinet, then she waited until we were busy to come out and read everything! Then she tries to deny it,” She explains. “I knew something was up when I didn’t hear anything from her room. Absolutely nothing.”
Wanda’s eyes widen, suddenly realizing why Nat couldn’t hear your little noises while you were asleep. She holds up the monitor and the blinking battery symbol mocks Natasha’s silence. “Batteries… they died,” Wanda says with a soft sigh.
She looks to the room and shakes her head. “While you and Pietro took her to the park this morning, Tony came by to see what info we had on HYDRAs plan to recapture Bucky. I guess he never cleaned up after himself.”
Immediately Natasha’s arms unfolded themselves and she silently pointed to your shivering and shaking form, facing away from them. She was in disbelief that Wanda never told her about this, and that she somehow was able to avoid the living room all together to even notice what Tony did.
Your Mommy bends down to not be so intimidating to you and takes your hands into hers. “Baby, can you look at mommy?” You don’t listen to her at first, Leo covering your face to hide you from any confrontation. “Tinyyyyyy… listen to me, please.” Wanda said. Hearing her voice turn from concern to demanding in an instant made you pull Leo from your face. “Such a good girl… how about we let Mama cool off, I think she needs some ice cream.”
Wanda looks up at Nat, giving a look telling her to take a walk to calm down. So, Nat holds up her hands in surrender and goes out the back door to the shed to work on her suit and gear.
In the mean time, Wanda gave you a bath, fed you, and read you a few stories. But when your Mama came in, she was in such a different mood. Even though she may have cooled off and the mess was gone, she stilled looked so angry and sad.
Was she still mad at you?
Days went by, and Nat had not even looked at you. Wanda was taking care of you on her own while Nat took care of herself for the time being.
It was a night like every other, but tonight, more tears fell down your face when you were in bed with Wanda, her lullaby lulling you to sleep.
Once you fell into a deep sleep, the next morning came like it did everyday. Bright, early, and loud. You cried for your mommy, hungry for breakfast and needing some love before the day started.
Wanda happily entered your nursery, smiling as she saw you sat up in bed with Leo your hands. She frowned at your expression, more tears on your cheeks and a sadness in your eyes she just couldn’t pinpoint.
Carefully, Wanda sits on your bed with you.
“Are you alright, little one? I don’t like seeing those tears,” she frowns, swiping her thumb across your cheek. You don’t answer her, only crawling into her arms and hiding your face in her neck. Wanda sighs and kisses your forehead, softly rubbing your back to comfort you.
“S’mama still mad a’me?” Your small voice quivers with worry as you ask, not understanding why Natasha was turning a cold shoulder to you.
Now that Wanda has pinpointed where these emotions were coming from, she says “Oh sweetheart, no, she’s not mad at you,” she pauses, tightening her arms around you. “She’s just a little confused, that’s all. Silly mommy forgot to talk to mama and tell her we had a visitor from Uncle Tony.”
Nodding in response, you sniffle softly. Your tummy rumbles and you look up to your mommy. Wanda smiles and gently sets you at the top of your bed again, scooting up to sit next to you. Again, she pulls you into her arms and lifts her shirt over her breast.
She hums softly as you latch onto her nipple, the milk from the pills she took flowing into your mouth. Your hands gently hold her breast, and you close your eyes.
After you’re full, you sit up and start to scoot off the bed. Wanda tilts her head and starts to follow you. “Where are you going, tiny?” She smiles, helping you off the bed when you whimper. Even though you can get off the bed perfectly fine, you still wanted your mommy’s help.
“Gonna go find mama and give da cuddles she need,” you say with determination. Wanda chuckles and takes your free hand.
“Here, I’ll help,” she says, following you as you gently pull her out of the room.
Natasha was at the kitchen table, reorganizing the files that Tony had been looking through and making sure that nothing was stolen. You were nervous to go see her, and Wanda could tell. But she gave you a gentle nudge when you looked up at her, your mama not yet noticing your presence.
You took a step forward, and softly tapped on Nat’s shoulder. The woman turns her head and looks up at you from her spot at the table. You looked at her, and then the papers, and back to her. With lots of bravery, you reach for her hand, holding it and pulling her up.
Nat looked to her wife with a confused expression, a small smile painting her lips too. She followed you as you pulled her to the couch, guiding her to sit. “Tiny, what are you doing, love?” A small chuckle leaving her mouth.
You ignore her question and move to Wanda, pulling her to sit next to Natasha. Now that both women were sat, you climbed onto their laps and settled you bum right between them. Your head lays on Nats chest, and your legs rests over Wanda lap.
“Don wan yous to be mad at me anymow,’” you whisper, tears causing small stains to appear on Nats grey tank top. Her face softens, and her arms wrap around your body, holding you against her.
“Sweet girl, mama’s not angry with you anymore, mama was just busy and hadn’t been able to spend time with you,” she explains, feeling guilty when she heard you sniffle. “I promise I’m not mad, ok sweetheart?”
You nod and look up at her, connecting your lips to hers in a soft kiss. Nat finally understood why you were having a hard time like Wanda told her. She was beating around the bush when she mentioned you weren’t doing well. You were just worried that your mama hated you, and that you were still in trouble for something you didn’t do.
“I’ll be sure to ask before I assume next time, ok?” You nod and smile up at her, kissing her cheek and nuzzling your nose into her neck. The three of you sat on the couch for quite a while, holding each other and reassuring you.
Nat knew she messed up, but she was so glad that you came to her and asked for forgiveness. But she knew better than to allow you to ask for forgiveness, as it was her that should be asking.
And you did forgive her, loving her just the same as every other day you were with them.
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under-loch-n-key · 8 months ago
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More Ethical Omens MD art!! Here's part 1 of House's fall!! I am working on part 2 right now! I have been a little busy recently because I started Testosterone a couple of days ago! So, that was a big deal.
I am having so much fun with this AU. I hope you lot enjoy!! 💛💛💛
(Some lines and shading is messy but I am too tired to care honesty.)
(Tumblr, why must you deny me image quality? 😭😭)
(Wilson, our angel of death, will be in part 2. Don't worry. 👀)
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star-synth · 4 months ago
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Guys. Guy's I'm working on a new MD AU. Can you guess what it is? I've only just started working on it, but I wanted to share the designs I have down so far. Dammit it's another project on the pile, but that's okay cause we ball
Also added Lizzy both with stage makeup/without for comparison. Thad gets a ponytail cause I said so I also took Doll's hair color and darkened it, and it honestly looks so pretty. Probably gonna change my normal MD human au design for her to have the same shade
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luckycolordreamer · 4 months ago
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Mobian Drones (Sonic + Murder Drones AU)-
Mobian Drones OVERDRIVE
(My second attempt on mimicking art styles)
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Yeah, this isn't my first time trying to replicate styles! Last time, I tried to replicate the "Sonic & friends" style..with my Sonic-fied Murder Drones AU...
Now I'm mimicking that one Team Sonic Racing animation. KINDA. I'm aware it doesn't look exactly accurate to Overdrive.
Maybe I got the shading right, but please, don't judge me, I'm a small artist trying to learn new skills;-;
Btw. Cyn is a seedrian (like Cosmo :D) in this AU. I kinda regret drawing her once since she's one of my favorite MD characters.
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silvers-starrway · 6 months ago
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ALT
Nine gets to be a bit of a freak in this au.
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astromechs · 11 months ago
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Hi!! How about rebelcaptain medical AU? XO
this is going to be very heavily influenced by one of my current brainrots, which is rewatching house md, so:
1. jyn and cassian are both fellows at a very prestigious teaching hospital, which inherently invites a lot of antagonism and competitiveness as they try to establish themselves in their careers; jyn's specialty is neurology, cassian's is immunology. a lot of the source of the mutual antagonism here is that jyn's father was a very famous and well-respected medical researcher who made advancements in imaging, so cassian thinks she got into this position purely through nepotism, and jyn resents him because she resents anyone who thinks she got here by nepotism and not her own hard fucking work, and she also thinks of him as that know-it-all asshole from immunology.
2. they end up having to collaborate with frequency on a diagnostic team, which involves constant arguments between them about whether the symptoms observed in these cases are neurological or autoimmune while the rest of the table just kind of popcorns them. here's the kicker: they're usually both shades of right, because those things go together a lot! it makes them furious.
3. one day, they get accidentally ("accidentally"; one of their other fellows did this on purpose) get locked in a hospital supply closet. they argue for a while about whose fault it was, argue about how they can get out, take digs at each other just in general because they're stuck there with nothing else to do. so of course — the sexual tension between them that's been brewing for a while eventually boils over. and yeah, they fuck. more than once. even in a cramped supply closet, the sex is fantastic.
4. which of course leaves them both shook, both awkward about it, and when someone finally has the mercy to let them out, they pointedly avoid eye contact with each other. they keep doing this for the next several weeks, avoiding each other whenever possible and being awkwardly cordial when they do have to interact. it's weird. it makes it weird for everyone around them, but —
5. they come to a quiet understanding after working on a difficult case involving a child, and it's... they both know, now, there's more to the other, and that they have a lot more in common than they might've once thought. and they decide, that evening when they leave work, to grab dinner together — and that's the start of a real and lasting connection, the end.
send me a potential AU, and i'll give you five facts that happen in the story!
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blamin8r · 1 year ago
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Here’s another thing from the Meta Runner AU my girlfriend and I have of our characters, we did a collab for a scene redraw of an episode from season 3, which is where MD-5 is going against Sher-Corp. Tay drew Austin, Tobias, Nathan, and Tay (the character) as Theo, Lamar, Marco, and Tari. I drew Scarlet, Lilac, Zayn, and Siren as Evelyn, Lucinia, Belle, and Masa. I switched up the outfits for Belle and Masa when drawing Zayn and Siren as well. I also did the shading and lighting for both pieces.
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dontyoufeelcalmer · 2 years ago
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Honey, don't feed me: I will come back.
aka "the doctor will see you now"
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someawkwardprose · 3 years ago
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some fucked up post MD gwen & jack angst, no s5 au:
She is forty-two years old, and the Rift took her baby.
Anwen shakes, and shakes some more, because she was holding her little brothers hand, and she let go. Gwen does not think about an old friend, the look in his eyes when he told her (after, after, because with Jack it was always too little, too late). Her baby girl keens into her father's chest and sobs; Rhys is still and silent. He never used to be quiet in his grief. Gwen wonders when she broke him.
"I'll get him back," she promises, her voice filled with a cold kind of certainty.
"Gwen," Rhys begins, his tone warning.
"I dedicated my life to this thing," she snarls, because she has given up more than her life; Torchwood takes and takes and takes and left her with nothing but ashes and the memory of the dead and shades of the living. "It does not get my family too."
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She knows what to do.
There is a man in a blue box, but Gwen has given up all faith in doctors, ever since her own died, alone and angry in a nuclear power plant (ever since her best friend died choking on his own breath when one refused to answer the call).
But there is someone else who understands the Rift, who knows it better than anyone else alive. And he owes her, for all the things he took from her.
She kills Hart, for his vortex manipulator. She does not feel guilty. (Gwen has long since stopped caring about people who aren't hers. Ever since three of her people died caring about this ungrateful planet that barely remembered them.)
It does not take her long after that to find him. She has a mission, after all.
***
"He will not speak to you," her guide warns.
Gwen gives them a look. "He will."
The guide actually takes a step back, and when Gwen turns to the building, they bolt, vanishing into the crowds. It does not matter. Gwen has found what she came here for.
The patrons do not look up as she steps inside the dark, dingy bar. Typical, really, that space is just the same as Earth; populated with just as many hovels and drunkards to fill them. Her goal is seated right by the barman, and she watches as he offers the blue alien a sleazy smile. It makes rage churn in her stomach. It may have been years, but in her head, he still belongs to Ianto.
"Jack," she says, his name a curse, and his eyes snap to her. She watches them widen, his face slacken, before he turns fully. The bar goes deathly silent.
"Gwen," he manages, and her name is practically a sob. "Gwen, what are you doing here?"
She grabs him by his arm, hauls him out. He does not resist, even as the locals stare. He just watches her with hazy blue eyes, and she wants to smack him, wants to shout her fury and grief and every dark emotion she has felt since he left her. She wants to wrap him in her arms and beg him to stop hurting himself, because he's all she has left of the family he made her love.
"I'll tell you when you sober up," she sneers instead, and drags him back to her lodgings. She throws him in a cold shower, because he stinks of booze and grief, and because she knows he will perk up quicker that way.
He stumbles out, ten minutes later, already more presentable. She would call him pathetic, but she loves him still, so who was really the pathetic one here?
"Gwen, how..." he spots the vortex manipulator, and his Adam's apple bobs. "Why are you here?"
"Because I need your help," she says simply, and she watches him crumble, just like she knew he would.
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"My son is only four years old, Jack," she says when he tries to say no. "He's scared of the dark and loves stories about his brave Uncles and Aunt, and he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. He's four, and he's a baby, he's my baby."
"It's almost impossible to find a victim unless the Rift spits them back out again," Jack says, but it's not a no.
"His name is Ianto," she tells him. "Ianto Williams."
He swallows. "I'll do my best."
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Jack comes back. Jack comes back cold and shaking and crying.
"1987," he says, and Gwen feels her heart stop. "1987, Gwen, I'm sorry - I'm so fucking -"
No.
Ianto's voice - her best friend, not her baby - "August, 1987. I was about four, they thought, so they placed my birthday in '83. They found me wandering around in Splott. Always wondered if - well. Knowing what I know now, about the Rift..."
"I'm sorry Gwen, but I can't. I can't," Jack says again, and he's crying, and she can't, she can't fucking breathe because it's not fucking fair-
She's on the floor in Jack's arms and her eyes are dry but her chest is empty, hollowed out.
"He was happy," Jack whispers into her hairline. "We made him happy. He loved us, and we loved him, and he was happy."
She is Gwen Cooper-Williams, and she is forty-two years old, and the Rift really did take everything she had.
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the-last-cuddlebender · 4 years ago
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Kataang Pilot!AU
(This prompt was really fun. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, Anon!)
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Katara met him when they were in flight school. Well, ‘met’ might be too strong a word.
She was walking down the hall and contemplating fluid dynamics when she passed him—the boy with tattoos a shade of blue that put the sky to shame and with a smile so bright that she had to squint to behold it. His laugh was a vapor trail that made her giddy like nothing else had done before. He gesticulated so animatedly that he nearly cut off the heads of a dozen passers-by.
Katara tried, once, to talk to him. It was the only test in flight school that she failed. She was too quiet; the world was too loud. It didn’t exactly help that some boy named Haru had pulled the tattooed boy into a headlock that devolved into a wrestling match just as she got his attention.
He tried, twice, to talk to her. He was more than successful both times.
The first time, he spotted her from across the courtyard and damn near teleported to her.
His name was Aang. He wasn’t that tall.
He was the kindest soul she’d ever met.
When he left the school, he took most of her with him, and Katara had been searching for what he stole ever since.
...
Not too long after he left her puzzled, empty, and longing, Katara had to leave, as well. But it wasn’t for an advanced program like he flew off to.
Gran-Gran had a heart attack. It wasn’t pretty. Katara was the glue and the salve cooing her brother and her father to cope and recover. They helped her just as much, and she vowed to visit them more.
(Gran-Gran told her that she saw death, called him a bitch, and reminded him to tell her daughter-in-law that Kya had to wait another ten years for her company.)
...
Katara was only a little behind and only had to retake a few classes when she returned to flight school a year and a half later, but it wasn’t the end of the world.
Graduating was easy, but choosing an employer? That was hard. Katara was an ace—the top of her class. They even put her photo in the hall of notable students.
...She was reminded of Aang and what he stole from her every time she saw his portrait pinned next to hers.
...
It was a requirement to serve as a co-pilot for the first few years after schooling. It was like a continued education after medical school when an MD truly learned what it meant to be a practitioner, but turning from co-captain to captain felt like it was taking twice as long.
Sometimes, it took students twelve years to become a captain. Sometimes, it took them two years.
It took Aang eight months.
Katara was entering her ninth month when she was transferred to his airline.
He spotted her from across the terminal like he had been waiting and looking for her. He vanished and reappeared at her side, and if only he had a puff of smoke, she would have thought him a magician.
He shook her hand and talked at Mach speed. His smile alone nearly blew her away, but his hand holding hers kept her on her feet.
“—it was you! They all said you dropped out, but I knew you wouldn’t! And then I saw your plaque when I visited on a favor-call from Roku, and I couldn’t believe—!”
He paused. Katara’s world stood still. Her world also looked kindof splotchy and dotted with black.
That was weird…
Oh wait.
Breathing.
Breathing was a thing she had to do.
Unfortunately, Katara was too late in her revelation. Her heart broke when his eyes softened like that and his concern boiled over into panic. She was thinking about how nice it sounded when he said her name even as she fell back and fainted.
He caught her, of course.
Luckily, Mai and Lu Ten were willing to exchange their schedules to save either Katara or Aang from being fired.
(He had refused to leave her. It was incredibly foolish. Top in the industry or not, their superiors would only take so much from even him.)
It wasn’t exactly a first date, but he bought her food from the cafeteria and bought her one of those super-fuzzy travel blankets to keep her warm. They talked over pizza that was so greasy that they had to dab it with napkins, and they laughed over coffee that was far too bitter to be called ‘edible’.
They shared secrets over hot cocoa and talked like they knew each other forever.
Aang thought he was being sly when he loaded his straw with a paper wad and blew it at her.
He smiled like a kid on Christmas.
Katara felt like she was one, too.
The g-forces she experienced when he smiled—at her—made her so lightheaded that she whispered a thankful prayer to whoever was pulling her life’s strings that she was seated when she first witnessed the miracle so close and in its entirety.
They fell asleep back-to-back (though it was more like side-to-side) in the terminal—just another ‘couple’ bending under the stress of a connecting flight.
...
“You seem eager to be out of here.” Katara settled into her co-pilot’s chair as her captain fussed over the little details that Katara’s classmates had made fun of her for caring about.
“Ba Sing Se has never been...Well, let’s just say that it’s not like how I was raised.”
“But the South is?”
“Of course! Middle of nowhere, lots of high places, room to run and frolic as I please—”
Katara couldn’t hide her laugh. “Frolic?”
“Have you never frolicked?”
“When I was a girl, maybe.”
“You should try it sometime. It’s not like it gets any less fun with age.”
“Is that an invitation?”
“...Maybe.” Aang scratched his face, didn’t meet her eyes, and flushed a color even brighter than the emergency exit sign. “Or it could...be a date?”
“To go frolicking?”
“Of course.”
It was quiet until it wasn’t. A giggle slipped past Katara’s defenses. She hugged her middle and laughed so hard that she cried, and she nearly laughed herself into a coma when Aang bent over, too. His laugh sounded like how good memories felt, and Katara never wanted to hear more of something in her entire life.
She couldn’t feel her seat beneath her—just the feeling of her hand on his arm and the soft bumping of his head against hers.
Katara was falling, and she was falling hard.
But, for some reason, she wasn’t scared of hitting the ground.
If she didn’t know any better, she might have thought that she was flying.
...
Sokka, having heard the hint of interest in Katara’s voice when she recounted her tale with her dreamy tattooed captain, made immediate plans and cashed-in on more than a few favors to get himself onto her new schedule. He didn't trust Aang, not at first. No one could be that happy.
“—and gentlemen, in the event that you have not been in an automobile since 1942, we’re gonna show you how to fasten a seatbelt, so watch closely—”
Sokka, while a phenomenal flight attendant, was walking a razor’s edge onto Katara’s last nerve.
But Aang and her brother got along famously.
Katara should have expected nothing less.
This was Aang she was talking about.
Her boyfriend could befriend the devil himself.
The thought made Katara’s world get fuzzy and black-splotchy again. Luckily, Aang was laughing too hard with Sokka to notice her holding tight to the wall.
Breathing.
Breathing was a thing she had to do.
Aang’s vapor-trail-laugh gave her the cardinal directions and guided her towards which way was up. His arm curled around her waist like the seatbelts that had kept them anchored when they hit turbulence two months ago and dropped 400 feet.
Katara didn’t notice when next she blushed so hard that her vision went black-splotchy again.
But Aang, without pausing his conversation, was already tugging her closer so she all but pressed right against his heart.
His laugh died out. His chest slowly expanded.
Breathing.
Katara smiled.
Breathing was a thing she still had to do.
...
When Katara finally got her wings, Aang couldn’t have been more proud.
Sokka puffed his chest. “This is Katara, my flying sister.”
“Sokka, please…”
“Yeah, Sokka.” Aang was a grinning shadow touching her shoulder and a reminder to smile brushing her side. “Katara isn’t your ‘flying sister’.”
“Thank you, Aang—”
Aang hugged her from behind and held her so tightly that he curled over and started to eclipse her. “Katara is my flying girlfriend~”
Aang rubbed his cheek to hers. Katara grumbled and fought fate to keep angry as long as she could. “You both are insufferable.” She kissed Aang’s cheek like she was swatting a mosquito, but it only made him giggle and hold her tighter.
Sokka pretended to gag and uttered ‘Oogies’ like a mantra.
Katara blushed, lost her slippery grip on the smile fighting to make itself seen, and looked at her father just as the shutter on Hakoda’s camera went off.
...Aang carried the photo on his person like it was a medical device so vital that he would die if he was ever without it.
“Do you have to keep it there?” Katara pulled one switch and then two, and she side-eyed her smirking First Officer.
Aang ignored her and adjusted the photo pinned to the gauges in front of him. His smile got a little bigger, his eyes a little softer. He looked down at the clouds below them and then up at the heavens beyond. “...The stars sure are beautiful, tonight.”
His hand found hers—they were at an altitude that required little more than autopilot, but it was still breaking regulation.
Katara gently squeezed his fingers. “Yeah. They are.”
...
All of their nights melted into a routine that felt like the same night played over and over.
Katara wouldn’t have had it any other way.
She didn’t mind when Aang put up a fuss just because he could and because he liked to get her flustered. She didn’t even mind when he cocooned himself in the blankets and pouted in a silent demand for five more minutes.
He was only playing. He could be plenty serious if he wanted.
Like the time he crabbed the plane onto an icy runway in an emergency landing. Or like the time he dove into the belly of the plane to give CPR to an elderly passenger.
His seriousness could only go so far, though. He truly was a child at heart. There was nothing wrong with that, of course. Something forever young could never grow brittle and die.
Like the way he blushed every time she reached for his hand. Or like the little hitch to his voice that took over his words whenever she hugged him.
He could hardly speak when he asked her to marry him.
Katara wasn’t that much better off, but neither of them had needed words for the longest time. They sat side-by-side in the nose of the plane and ‘spoke’ in the silence for hours on end.
Kisses were quiet, anyways.
Well, not entirely.
Aang laughed, absolutely giddy, every time, no matter how much or how often they did.
Katara’s laugh drifted in his vapor trail as a gentle hum that made his smile impossibly bigger.
Then, and only then, did it feel like she had finally gotten back what he had stolen—all those years ago—from her.
...
His voice was a song, and his love bled into every worded lyric. They were the warm purrs of an engine that would never fail, and they made Katara’s stomach fall and bounce heaven-ward like her wheels had just left the ground.
When she danced with him, every step felt like lift-off. Every turn gave her g-forces that had her sinking into him to keep from being blown away.
The wedding was over, their guests were gone, but every star and galaxy crowded the sky to witness their love for each other.
This was her captain and co-pilot—her husband and best friend for life.
His name was Aang. He was very tall and quite proud of it, though he made himself eye-level with every person he met.
He was a simple monk and a dirty thief.
But Katara finally had back what was hers.
What was hers was named Aang.
He was the kindest soul she’d ever met.
He kept her grounded even though her feet never touched the earth when she was with him.
He was the part of her that she loved most.
His kisses were g-forces.
His ‘I love you’s were free-falling.
His hugs were the wings that handed her the sky.
His smiles were the spirit that held her aloft.
His name was Aang.
He was hers.
He was the kindest soul she’d ever met.
And Katara would remind him of how much she loved him even long after they were both tied to the earth.
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If you spotted that reference to Tao philosophy, I give you a cookie🍪☺️
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