I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender or any related themes, characters, places, etc.
I do, however, own this pathetic excuse to use a large word and pin Sneers to a tree.
If it hadn't been such a serious moment, he might have been tempted to laugh; instead, he tried to be helpful. She glared at him when he offered her a hand, and grumbled as she moved to take the offered help, with every intention of pulling him into the mud beside her. Instead, she choked back a cry of pain, and tried very hard to keep from passing out. He watched, worried, as her face paled and then slowly turned a sickly shade of green. She looked back up at him only once she'd quelled the urge to vomit. Seeing the question in his eyes, she grimaced and shook her head.
"I think it's broken." She muttered at last, glancing back up at the branch where she had been perched until moments before. "Damn tree." He stifled a grin, knowing that she would kill him later if he let it past his defenses. Choosing to avoid conflict with his injured friend, he ducked his head to hide the laughter that she would read in his face and knelt beside her, gently taking the injured arm in both hands. She swallowed hard, and he knew without looking that she was biting her lip. He prodded the limb with gentle fingers searching for evidence of a break. She nearly screamed when he found the place where she had cracked her bone. Releasing a tired sigh that expressed his annoyance with the injury far better than any words, he looked around for a stick that he could use to splint the injury.
With her arm fixed as well as possible under their current situation, they returned to their home in the trees. He had to help her climb the ropes (much to her dismay and displeasure) and when they finally arrived on the main platform of their camp, his arm still wrapped firmly around her shoulder, someone thought that it would be, for once, safe to tease her, since her arm was obviously out of commission for awhile. Sneers, he realized only after the dagger had been tossed, pinning the disgruntled boy to a nearby tree trunk.
Funny. She'd never mentioned being ambidextrous.