Title: Pride Before the Fall
Rating: K
Characters/Pairings: Suki and Sokka (no spoilers)
Summary: The first time they meet.
A/N: Originally written for theavatar100 challenge #062: prima facie. Prima facie, if I remember correctly, means "first face" or "first impression." Set during "Warriors of Kyoshi".
The first time she sees him, she isn't impressed.
He's juvenile, chauvinistic, and a little too proud of abilities that are a little too rough around the edges.
She takes great pleasure in bringing him down a peg and embarrassing him in front of the other girls.
But when he comes back and kneels in front of her and begs her to teach him, she's surprised. She can see true humility in his blue eyes.
Perhaps he's not as bad as she originally thought.
The first time he sees her, he's so intimidated that he acts out in response.
She's mature, smart, and, worst of all, better than him.
When he swallows his pride – and spirits know, he almost chokes on it – and asks her to teach him, she's patient with him as she guides him through the movements.
But when he gets the hang of the forms a little too quickly for her taste and gets a hit in, he's amused by her reaction. He sees her childish retort as evidence that she's not quite as grownup as she likes to act.
Perhaps they have more in common than he originally thought.
Originally posted 08/31/2006
