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26-01 prompt 03: Violence

Smack!

"OW!"

The cry was short, indignant and gave nothing away about what caused such a response, yet the entire air temple could easily single out who'd caused the pain.

"Kataraa!" Sokka whined exaggeratedly, clutching his forearm.

The waterbender fumed through her nostrils and began scathingly reminding her brother exactly why he'd deserved a delicate reprimanding such as the fine punch she'd landed on his arm.

Zuko was sure she'd somehow absorbed all of the earthbending girl's aggressiveness and none of her savvy attitude. The water peasant seemed incapable of witty retort.

"Excuuse me?!"

The ear splitting shriek triggered tiny gongs in the back of Zuko's head and belatedly he realised he must have been talking aloud.

"You think I can't be funny?!" Katara cried, storming towards the firebender.

"Witty," Zuko corrected, before hastily adding, "And I'm sure you can."

"Well don't try to sound too convincing!" Katara seethed, seethed, clenching her fists at her sides.

He paused at her retort, raising a brow in a graceful arch.

"I wasn't-,"

"What? You weren't expecting sarcasm were you?"

"I wasn't to be honest, that was impressive," the fire Prince bit out carefully, arms tentatively raised to protect himself if required.

"Didn't think the peasant was capable of intelligent banter did you? Oh look at her, she probably eats raw fish all day and can't even hunt it herself! I bet she can't even tell a fish apart from a polar bear dog- she's probably never left her savage igloo! Look at her screaming at everyone, isn't she just ridiculous its almost as if she thinks her opinion MEANS SOMETHING!" Katara ranted furiously in a painful falsetto before taking in a ragged breath and processing his words from earlier.

She froze in place; panic in her eyes.

Zuko also seemed to have had time to register what he had said.

He looked so fine a shade of scarlet, the banners in his father's palace would've been proud.

"You think..," Katara began slowly, looking up at his face with searching eyes. "That you can just... compliment someone like that?!"

And before the fire bender knew it her fist had pummeled into the muscle of his upper arm, and a water whip had slapped his face so hard his reddened skin was temporarily shocked back into being pale before the flush returned with full force.

He stared at her, mouth agape while she flicked her hair over her shoulder and said with a tremulous voice- "That's what I thought"- before gathering herself and all but fleeing the area.

The rest of the gang slowly shook themselves out of their stupors and Aang hurried to clear breakfast in the waterbender's absence. Sokka mumbled something about his sister's moon madness time, effectively leaving a grinning earthbender with the stunned fire Prince.

Toph smirked, her feet pressed firmly against the stone floor of the temple as she stared into the distance a few feet away from where Zuko sat.

"If that's how you plan on flirting, then you're doing great Sparky," she said nonchalantly.

Toph had never heard anyone react so violently to the truth.

a/n: so i'm struggling to keep up with these drabbles but there's a few hours left for today so i'll churn out another! hurrah for double updates.

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