prologue
They always knew that this might happen. It was a risk that they lived with. When your whole life is fighting, of course there’s the possibility that one day - one of you doesn’t make it back. When one of you is a Chief and the other is on the Firelord’s personal staff, and risking her life everyday - of course there’s a possibility that one of you doesn’t make it back. Positions of power like that really tend to put a target on your head.
But, they’d felt invincible. They ended the Hundred Year war, right? They were the ones up in the war balloons, trying to sabotage the Fire Nation while their friend went head to head with the tyrannical leader of the war. At fifteen they had waged war on an entire nation - surely they deserved a peaceful ever after?
After everything they had lost - surely they deserved something to hold on to - something to keep.
Sokka just didn’t want to lose anyone else.