I was born to tell you I love you

Isn't that a song already

I get a B in originality

Zuko felt at home as he stood there in his Uncle's tea shop, The Jasmine Dragon, and listened as his friends and uncle giving him various degrees of advice. The usual traffic of Ba Sing Sei bustled around them, but inside the closed tea room it felt peaceful and it calmed him after the rigors of the Court and attempting to build up a new city. Not to mention the stress of finding the best way to propose to his long time girlfriend Katara, which was actually the advice he was here to gather.

"How about 'You're my forever girl, Katara'?" Sokka volunteered when he knew that Aang was around to hear causing the young Avatar to blush to the tips of the ears he'd finally grown into a few years before.

"It worked on Toph." The monk countered before turning to Sokka, with the blush having turned from a tomato red to a baby girl pink, and attacking him in retribution. "And what worked on Suki, Mr. Smart Guy?" Now it was time for the warrior to blush a scarlet red.

"She might have sort of proposed to me." He admitted with a squeak causing Aang, Zuko, and Iroh to chuckle at the idea of the Kyoshi warrior getting down on one knee and asking for the great water tribe warrior's hand. "I think she even asked my father for permission to do so!" Sokka continued and chuckled good naturedly along with the other three before his expression shifted from slightly sheepish to protective. "You did ask my father for permission, right jerkbender?" Katara's older brother asked with an interrogative tone in his voice as he resurrected Zuko's old nickname causing the Fire Lord to cringe in response. He had never liked that nickname, even Sifu Hotman was better than that, especially when it came out of Katara's mouth as she flirted with him playfully over dinner or during a council meeting just to get him to blush.

"Of course, that was the first thing I did and your father, Chief Hakoda, says he would welcome me as his son-in-law if Katara would have me. That's the part I'm most worried about really, is what if she says no?" The twenty one year old Fire Lord worried aloud as he imagined proposing to his twenty year old waterbender girlfriend and the only image he was getting was her yelling no in disgust and sending a jet of cold water at him like she had years ago when he'd come to offer his help to the Avatar.

"How about 'I was born to tell you I love you'?" Haru asked as he joined the others at the table. His romantic side always seemed to come out whenever they had these sorts of talks and, as per usual, the rest of the group turned to him with raised eyebrows.

"Isn't that in some love song already?" Iroh pointed out with a slight grin as the other three men chuckled light and Haru shrugged in thinly veiled annoyance. That line had gotten Ty Lee to say yes to him, he reassured himself stroking his mustache, probably was just as well Zuko didn't use it.

The great Dragon of the West then turned to the young Fire Lord, as Haru was reassuring himself there was nothing wrong with his pick up line, and gave him the best advice out of the group. "Just listen to your heart Zuko; you will know what to say when the time is right."

"Hasn't someone already said that too General?" The romantic earthbender pointed out with a sly grin and feeling pretty good about himself as the shooting down of his idea still had stung a bit.

"Then I get a B in originality, however my advice is still up for grabs if you wish to take it, young Zuko." Iroh replied with another grin as the great general walked around the table picking up their empty tea cups. Stopping behind Zuko the wise and white haired uncle smiled down at his nephew before speaking to the group as a whole, "Now who wants some more tea? It's on the house boys!"

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