Cooper Farm

[heartofthedream]

Jean went 'walking' this world, for very little definition of that word.

Today she's sitting in a field of late autumn not too far off from the farmhouse and it's general surroundings.


She's presently plaiting a long thin chain of flowers.

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[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

Sokka nods, getting much the same re-cap from Katara. "Well, thanks, for being nice to her.

"I know you're not a child, Katara, I can still be nice! ...shut up!"

[heartofthedream]

Jean grinned, laughing softly through closed lips this time. She'd had a sister once. Siblings were rather that same regardless of dimensions and everything else.

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

Sokka gives her a tight smile - and shivers sharply when Katara passes a hand through his shoulder, confident in his inability to physically bother her.

"...sorry. We're a totally normal pair of semi-discorporeal siblings."

[heartofthedream]

Jean's smile widened at the tactic Katara took.

"I had a sister back home, too. Her name was Sara."

Past tense very specifically.

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

Whoops.

Now Sokka is getting chastised for being an insensitive jerk, which means he's a little more sheepish-looking than he would be without his ghost-sister lecturing him.

"Oh. Well, y'know, people are showing up practically every day." He shrugs, sympathetic, and gestures back toward the house. "And they usually come straight here, first of all."

[heartofthedream]

Jean will refrain from explaining what exactly she meant.

Her family has been through two purges. One in her lifetime, and one during her daughters-from-an-alternate-timeline.

"It helps that everyone relays that there is a safe abode to come to."

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

Sokka smiles and nods. "That's how my family found each other when we all first showed up. I hope it works for other people."

[heartofthedream]

"It helped me."

Jean said it good-naturedly.

"I found someone who brought me here from the middle of Texas."

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

"From what I've seen outside of Kansas, I can imagine it wasn't all that great," Sokka replies, nose wrinkled.

[heartofthedream]

"I was lucky," Jean said it with a smile. "There was only an endless forest of green lush trees where I appeared."

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

"The trees didn't attack you or anything? My nieces were almost eaten by carnivorous plants, that sucked."

[heartofthedream]

Jean shook her head.

"No. They are fine now?"

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

Give him a minute - Katara is asking worriedly about the wellfare of the babies, making him grin and lift a hand to stave off questions from both sides. "Yeah, they're fine. They had three of us protecting them. That was... wow, almost a year ago."

[heartofthedream]

He loves his family. It's written all over his face and thoughts and emotions. In each of the words he says and how he smiles when they both ask.

"Good."

[notanoptimist.livejournal.com]

Sokka is his family. Without them, he's utterly lost.

He grins, sheepish and dodges Katara's elbow when she tease him with an "Awwwww."

[heartofthedream]

Jean smiled and plucked a few more flowers from the ground.