Take These Chains From My Heart [Closed]

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Sofia didn't want to venture outside of her room. She'd stayed inside and cried on and off for days but she had more than just herself to worry about. Spot, the dog she and Laurie had adopted, needed exercise so Sofia brought him to Hydroponics. After wandering aimlessly for a bit she sat down under a tree and watched as the purple and green dog ran around.

You didn't have to be an expert to see that Sofia's normal cheer was gone.

[[OOC: This is closed to Aang but if you really want your character to run into a depressed Sofia you can poke me then comment.]]

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Aang swung down off the branch and landed lightly on his feet, then took a seat next to her, holding out his hand to her puppy.

"What happened?" he asked with concern.

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Spot licked Aang's hand and tried to curl up around him.

Sofia still hid her face. "I don't know how to explain." She took a few moments to collect her thoughts. "There- there is this boy I really liked- loved- before everything happened. Before Stacy took me. Before I lost my powers. Before my friends died. And it ended badly but on this ship we-" She sighed. "We got drunk and one thing led to another." And Aang could figure that out on his own. "After, I told him that I wanted a relationship or none at all. He said he loved me but he didn't want one. I was hurt but I moved on- at least I thought I did. Later on we ran into each other after my friend was repodded and he kissed me. I stopped but he asked me if I would hang out with him some time. I thought we could be friends." She took a deep breath and steadied herself. "But then Kara come back and he slept with her or- or made out or something. I don't know which. Probably slept with. And- Aang she broke my rib and it was because of him. And he knows. He knows what she did and he still..." She wiped the tears from her face.

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"So it's not that he moved on to someone else, it's that it's someone else who hurt you," Aang discerned from that, listening carefully. "Someone that, even if he was just a friend and there weren't all those unresolved feelings there, that you thought your friend would be mad at for hurting you."

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"Yes!" Sofia finally looked at Aang. Although she brushed the tears away her face was still wet and her eyes were red. "That's it. That's it exactly."

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"I know this is hard to think about, but the reason he might still like her is because sometimes people who do bad things aren't always entirely bad people. When you're the person hurt, that's hard to accept sometimes," Aang said slowly.

"But you have a right to have those feelings, too, of anger and sadness. And it's okay to feel them--feeling them is the only way to eventually let them go and have peace. The thing you really need to think about is if it was really a betrayal. Even if your feelings are real, and okay to have, sometimes other people's feelings are real and okay to have, too, like the feelings of liking her that he has. It hurts to think about, but it's sometimes true."

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Sofia was seized by a sudden burst of energy. She sat up straighter and practically spat out her words. "Julian doesn't care! I told him he was to blame for this. That he was only leading both of us on. he refused to even consider it! He does not understand anything. All he does is to think about his own wants and needs. He doesn't care about Kara. He doesn't care about anyone but himself!"

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Aang held up his hands placatingly.

"Or there is that. It could be that. Yep."