AN: I'm usually a smut writer so I'm not sure why this wholesome plot bunny grabbed me. There might be a few mature references so that's why it's K+, but altogether this is Azula and Ty Lee plus a little girl, and the rest of the royal family crew.

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/1/ palace

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Anka struggled against Azula's tight grip as she tried to run out onto the sand.

"Beaches are dangerous," said Princess Azula, which her four-year-old daughter, Anka, did not seem to care much about. Ty Lee always had to try not to laugh when Azula attempted to control a little girl who was far too much like her to be tamed or leashed. "Beaches. Are. Dangerous. You are to stay with me at all times."

Azula pulled the wriggling Anka up into her arms before stepping out onto the sand. It was so hot that it stung Ty Lee's feet as she followed, but Azula would not have been affected by stepping on coals, much less miniature hot stones.

Ty Lee sat down in the sunlight, basking in it. She closed her eyes, which she knew would make Azula livid. Still, Ty Lee was married to her now and knew she could push boundaries slightly, but if Azula told her off for it, she would listen.

That was why she watched Azula smother Anka from afar and bit her tongue.

She did not like telling Azula she was being horrifically irrational, and in fact, never had, but she had never been so tempted until this vacation.

"Anka can make a sand palace or something, okay?" Ty Lee said, batting her eyelashes as if that would work. Azula continued to hold the child, whom had given up on escaping by this point. "She'll sit at our feet and she definitely won't be eaten up by the ocean and die."

"I don't trust oceans. They are made of water," Azula replied. Ty Lee did not laugh, because she was scared enough of Azula to avoid doing that, but she could not suppress a soft, exasperated sigh. "What? You want me to just set this little tornado town and expect her not to run out into the sea?"

"I think that when I was little, I learned by making mistakes and getting hurt. She hasn't even gotten a papercut before and so the minute you can't hold her down, she is going to do stupid stuff like break her bones and get pregnant out of wedlock or conquer cities or…"

"No one held me down when I was little," Azula snapped.

"You have the world's most overbearing father. He wouldn't let you do anything fun. If he weren't behind bars we wouldn't even be married because he'd just lock you in your room forever," Ty Lee said. "Oh! And I would sneak in and have… and kiss you because you were sheltered and wanted to get back at him."

"Go back to playing dumb for a while," Azula snarled out of the corner of her mouth. "I married you because you obeyed me and didn't question my judgment."

All the same, she set down Anka, sighed, and helped her daughter make a castle of sand.

Ty Lee did notice Azula holding Anka's free hand down at all times, but it was progress.

Maybe she should stand up to her wife more often.