These will be short. For the Tyzula Week prompt "candy."


1

They are fourteen and just playing when it abruptly begins. Azula is smirking and watching how Ty Lee would do absolutely anything to try to amuse her best friend. It does make Azula wonder if they are more than just best friends – or that Ty Lee wants that too – but she knows that is absurd.

There is no way Ty Lee reciprocates these feelings.

It could be any other day at this moment. Azula kind of liked that spontaneous stability.

"Oh! Oh! I brought fire gummies," Ty Lee says, grinning at her own genius. Or at least her interpretation of her own genius.

Azula watches. She always watches. Watches from afar and lets her veins catch on fire. She always smothers them before they can spin out of control. Inviting Ty Lee in would be a firestorm of epic proportions, and so, she, the wise future Fire Lord, avoids that at all costs.

"I don't eat those."

"You have to. For me?"

"When the Boiling Lake freezes over. Then I will eat your stale fire gummies."

"Princess, with total due respect and stuff, they're not stale." Ty Lee then squeezes one between her fingers. "Princess, uhm, you were right."

"I always am." Azula smirks.

"I thought they'd be fun." Ty Lee pouts and Azula wants to punch herself in the face for thinking it is so cute. "Oh! They can still be fun!"

Her eyes alight, Ty Lee hands Azula the bag.

"What exactly are you requesting?" Azula inquires, shaking the bag. It sounds like pebbles. Did Ty Lee buy these a decade ago?

"I will catch them in my mouth."

"You will choke to death." Azula considers that risk briefly. "I will do it."

And so it begins. Azula tosses the fire gummies at Ty Lee and she misses every single time.

"I can do it! I swear!" Ty Lee sighs. One misses and hits her on the clavicle.

"You can do that," Azula mocks.

She does not expect Ty Lee to agree with her.

"Okay! I'm game!"

They get a little carried away. Azula actually laughs and Ty Lee feels even more victorious than when she brought down the walls of Ba Sing Se.

Until Mai arrives. She is so late that they did not expect her to come.

"What are you doing?" Mai asks. She is not certain if she wants to know.

"I'm catching fire gummies with my tits!"

"I was going to lie about this."

"I'm sorry to interrupt. I…" Mai gives them a look that neither understands, even Azula. "I forgot about a thing I had to do."

"We're not fucking!"

"Not at the moment." Mai cocks her eyebrow for a flicker of a heartbeat, and is gone.

Azula and Ty Lee can do nothing but stare at each other.

Slowly, awkwardly, Ty Lee reaches into her shirt and pulls out one of the fire gummies. She pops it into her mouth and then makes a disgusted expression.

"They are stale."

Azula is too preoccupied with Mai's statements to say I told you so.