So
Very Wrong... Odd Couplings...
For
Ebbie's challenge, here are my picks. Smellerfeng (or should
that also be Longerbee too?) and Lonsco.
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Smellerfeng (cause it's so... so... wrong)
The small, frail girl in front of him, that would knowingly kill for him at command was a little comfort, after enduring another day of Azula's demasculinizing.
He visited this cell often, taking refuge in the fact he could break her out whenever to do his will, although for the present his will was mainly to be kept behind closed doors and away for watchful eyes.
"Hello Smellerbee" he said, brushing a hand along her cheek where the war paint stripes still glowed in the dark of the cell.
Sullen eyes beheld him, and it sent a shiver down his spine at just how much life had been sucked out of her since he caught them.
He had no need for the boy.
For all Long Feng cared he could have been rotting in his cell
somewhere.
But she... she held special interest for him. She was a
fighter, and she went kicking and screaming to the depths of Lake
Laogai.
Her knife between her teeth, Long Feng used his hand to tip her head back and observe her, her face dirty from their surroundings.
She wasn't going to be another Joo Dee, she was going to be something special. Long fingers brushed over her hair and she glared back.
If she knew who she was, he knew she would have been so accepting of what he was doing with her, but that was what made it more exciting.
And at the end of the day, when he
felt crushed by every boulder in the place at the remarks about his
leadership - or just the mere fact he had been pushed aside out of
his rightful position - this was some way to reclaim a little of what
he had.
As he bent down to her, plucking the knife from her teeth
and waving it in her face as a teacher disciplining his student; his
grin widened at something he knew was right for all the wrong
reasons.
Azula would never know... and perhaps he could use his little warrior to dispatch of her later.
But for now his lips met hers in a satisfied smirk and he closed the cell door, fixing it shut by bending the earth around it to keep them undisturbed... as she listened to the lies he fed her and he marked her as his favorite prisoner.
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Longsco - cause nobody else is going to do it! (Ebbie, this is short. But meh. You try and do a longer story about a boy and a bear!)
The
bear made a guttural sound and nuzzled against the boy. He patted it
on the head half-heartedly and wondered if this was what Smellerbee
would've thought was going to happen when they agreed to join the
Avatar on his mission.
She was already asleep, but she'd done her
share of bear-sitting for the entire afternoon.
The bear pawed at him and hit his hat sending it tipping sideways. He straightened it again as the bear went and pawed at him again, like it was some sort of a game to get his hat off.
As he straightened it out for the twelfth time, he looked stoically at the animal. "At least you don't expect me to speak" he said quietly, watching the rest of the camp at rest.
