Author's Note: This is for the TyZula Week 2010 day 1 entry for the ty-zula community at deviantart.
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"What is it" asked a bored princess. Azula herself was not sure if it was an improvement Ty Lee now visiting her two days a week, and not just one like in the beginnings. She was sure that Ty Lee visiting her is better than no one visiting her on Kiruk island, like the first weeks after her mental breakdown.
'I will some day tell her that I appreciated her ... I thing she calls it love, and came from Kyoshi island on a half day's ride just to visit me, and now even comes twice a week... Someday I think I am able to tell her', the young royal ponders, idly watching Ty Lee who browses through the scribbles and drawing Azula made the last few days.
"SqueeeeeeeeYAAAHHHHH!" screamed Ty Lee in a shrill and high voice, instantly making Azula shiver and cringe. "You drew Appa, and you captured him so well... and that lil' fluffy ball at his feet, is that meant to be Momo?", the little acrobat now Kyoshi lieutenant asked?
"Thanks and yes... and I wished I would have gotten that smelly beast in my hands... Just imagine, Zuko having the flying transportation aid of the avatar in his possession, and just let it go..."
"Relax, we are all friends now, the war is a memory of the past."
"Ghee... Ty Lee, you know how some earth kingdom peasants would react seeing me if I turned up?" and she continued in a false imitation of her former manipulative and in control self "Hi there, Azula here, firenation ambassador, and ex conqueror of Ba Sing Se, that should now be renamed to Ba Sing Ne..."
Ty Lee giggles. "Just imagine, Zuko rehearsing his speech to the gang in front of a badgerfrog... That sure was hilarity."
"Or just he being his dorky self." sighted the princess. "Well... at least he now excels at some things, from all I hear, in contrast to his lousy self of old..."
"Azula, you did make his life like Koh's lair back then, constantly picking on him... Considering your mutual past, I think it was great that he put you in such a neat place and hand picked just the bestest staff and doctors, you know..."
"I think you are right", the royal girl replies, before her brain could stop her mouth. 'Never would have guessed I say something like that... oh well, time are changing, and Ty Lee makes in a funny and pink way a good doctor as well. Maybe, maybe some day I tell her all that..."
"'Zula, why are you smiling like that?"
"Um... nothing, Ty... I meant, Ty Lee" replied Azula and starts to blush furiously.
"Yay! Blushing glomp!" shouts Ty Lee and buries Azula under her glomp attack. First Azula wanted to shove her off like she did so often in the past, but there was another feeling in her, that always was lurking in the corner of her emotional system, wondering what that was. So far Azula only realized that feeling was always there when she thought tender and grateful thoughts of Ty Lee, when Ty Lee visits her, and now, during the glomp this very feeling intensified. If was a warm and fluffy feeling, and while a part of her mind still wondered what that feeling might be, the rest of her just let it be an enjoyed the glomp-turned-into-a-tender-hug.
