A/N: Hey there everyone! Here is the next installment of my party and I hope that you enjoy it! Thanks again for reading =].
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Tacos and Comebacks

"So…" Sokka said to break the awkward silence. Most of the partygoers had not yet arrived, and without realizing it he was suddenly alone at the refreshments table with Mai, the only other one as interested in food as he was. Jiao-Jie sat off to the side, writing away on her laptop, while Toph dozed on the floor. Mai stared at him blankly. "Uhm...how about these..." he fumbled for something they had in common. Zuko? No, that would be weird. After several seconds of exponentially increasing discomfort all he could think of was the left-over party food from the night before, which was now becoming stale, "…chips?" All of the kebobs were gone, leaving only stale corn chips.

"What about them?" Mai asked, raising an eyebrow.

"They're…good?"

"They're okay." The two of them lapsed back into silence.

"Well," Sokka started again after a few minutes, "I guess I'd better go find Suki." He turned to walk away and in the process, noticed what was on Jiao-Jie's computer screen. "Are you writing this down?" he asked, shocked.

"Yep," she replied, taking a sip of her coffee.

"Oh…uh, why?" he tilted his head to the side, and went to scratch his head before realizing he still held a handful of chips in each hand and stopping himself. "Isn't that kind of boring?"

"Absolutely," affirmed Jiao-Jie, although she was still typing.

"Oh…alright?" Sokka shot a disbelieving glance at Mai, who shrugged.

"Hey, when you find Suki can you tell her I need her for the next scene?"

"Yeah, yeah sure thing," the young warrior called behind him as the door fell shut.

"Do you think he is really gonna get her?" Jiao-Jie asked Mai, ceasing her writing for a moment to turn around and face the other girl.

Mai couldn't help but smirk as the author still donned the marker mustache. "Who cares?"

Several hours later, Sokka reappeared with Suki in tow. Both of them wore superhero T-shirts and had armfuls of souvenirs including a tube of sour powder. "We're here now, you can start the party!" exclaimed Sokka. Ty Lee leapt up from her position on the floor where she had been stretching and jabbed the Water Tribe boy sharply in the arm, which went limp.

"You guys are late! You're ruining my party!" she whined stomping her foot.

"Yeah you said you would be back hours ago! Wait…Your party?" Jiao-Jie asked, turning to Ty Lee. She stood and placed her hands on her hips. "Wait..." she turned back to the latecomers once again. "Did you guys go to Six Flags?"

Suki gave the room an apologetic look and a nervous laugh, then elbowed her boyfriend in the ribs. "Yeah…I sort of forgot you wanted us to come back and then foaming mouth guy offered us free tickets. At least I think he did…there was a lot of foam. But how could we say no?" he asked, drawing swirls on the floor with his toe.

"Well, you're just in time for tacos!" exclaimed Ty Lee, suddenly cheerful again and gesturing to the new refreshments table.

"SOKKA DOESN'T GET ANY TACOS," Jiao-Jie raged. Sokka gave her a look like she had ripped his heart out as Suki slipped off to the table to begin building her tacos and Aang shoved a whole one into his mouth.

"N-no tacos?" asked the Water Tribe boy. He looked over the author's shoulder, and she spread her arms out, waving them around to block his view.

"Hey, finally something interesting is happening," Mai said quietly to Azula.

"Maybe they're going to fight?" she whispered back.

Jiao-Jie shook her head and Sokka narrowed his eyes. "You should know never to get between me and tacos," he said seriously. "Don't you remember what happened to the cabbage man during the Burrito Incident?" The two both stood their ground, staring at the other unblinking. Mai smirked.

Finally the writer dropped her arms. "Fine, you can have a taco. Only if you are in my next scene without whining," she said. "Oh, and you need to give me that Batman teddy bear."

"DEAL," he shoved the bear into her arms then rushed past her and the other characters, knocking Zuko's plate out of his hands in the process.

"Hey..." Zuko said, staring at his spilled food; he had large bags under his eyes and apparently hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. With a screech Momo landed and started picking out the meat. Zuko sighed in a very Zukoish way and returned to the table to refill.

"Well…that was stupid," Azula commented.

"Kind of anticlimactic," added Mai.

Several minutes later the group sat around a huge table, quietly eating tacos, stale chips and bean dip.

"So…" Aang finally said to break the silence.

"Yeah," Katara finished for him. "Are we going to do a scene today or something?"

Jiao-Jie shrugged, clutching her new bear under one arm. "I don't think so. I'm kind of enjoying the tacos."

"Well…why are we here then?" asked the Avatar.

"Don't you like tacos?" the author countered, raising an eyebrow.

"Who doesn't?" contributed Sokka who had eaten at least ten.

"Well yeah, I like tacos but this feels a little bit pointless. It isn't much of a bad fanfiction party if there is no bad fanfiction involved."

"It's kind of boring," Mai added.

"You think everything is boring," accused Ty Lee.

"Yeah, but this is actually boring," declared the gloomy girl. Ty Lee blinked at her friend and then shrugged.

"It's kind of a meta-chapter," Jiao-Je explained, cleaning her part of the table of spilled taco innards and pulling her laptop out of her bag.

"What does 'meta' mean?" Ty Lee stared at her co-host blankly.

"Don't worry about it."

Aang frowned, using a fork to push his leftover taco ingredients around. "Actually, tacos are kind of lame if you don't eat meat," he commented. "It's just salad and salsa in a tortilla. Maybe I don't like tacos," he said thoughtfully.

Sokka and Toph stared at him incredulously. "Maybe you should just drop the vegetarian thing and eat meat like a real man?" Toph suggested, feigning a kind tone. Sokka nodded seriously, and shoved another taco in his mouth.

"Toph, I've explained this to you before. Vegetarianism is a tradition among the monks. It's part of living in harmony with nature and not harming any other living creatures."

"I'm stawtiw to gew wowwied abouw youw. I don undewdand how-" Sokka said through his food, before seeming to inhale a piece of carne asada and launching into a coughing fit.

Suki patted him hard on the back as he swallowed the rest of the taco and managed to catch his breath. "Remember what we said about chewing our food?" she asked kindly. He nodded, looking regretful.

"If you're not writing a story, I don't actually even have to be here," Azula proclaimed with crossed arms. She slid her untouched plate to her right to sit in front of Mai.

Ty Lee gasped and looked at her friend. Tears welled up in her eyes. "But Azula, what about my party? You're not going to leave, are you?"

The princess glared at her friend for nearly a minute before scoffing and taking her plate back, earning her an angry look from Mai, but Ty Lee pulled her into a hug. "Fine, whatever."

"Seriously, what's the point of this?" Zuko asked, sounding annoyed. "I have other, much more important, things that I could be doing."

"Like what, Zu-zu? Waiting for Legend of Korra to start?" his sister retorted. "Please…none of us are busy, anymore."

He fumbled for a moment, his face blank. "Shut up," he finally said, glancing around awkwardly.

"Wow. That was hurtful. You really showed me."

"Seriously, Zuko, that was kinda lame," Sokka stated. The Fire Lord shot him an angry glare but he didn't seem to notice.

"He's right, Sparky. Next time try something a little more personal like, 'Aren't you busy with being a psycho?' or 'I actually have things to do with my life besides being insane,'" Toph explained. Azula narrowed her eyes.

"Watch it, savage."

"See what I mean?"

"Oh, finally," Jiao-Jie exclaimed, sighing with relief.

"What? We finally taught Zuko how comebacks work?" asked Toph.

"Well, you didn't really," Katara explained, nudging Aang who was dozing off.

"No, my chapter is finally over one thousand words. That's the minimum I tell people a chapter needs to be so I really needed to be sure I followed my own advice."

"What chapter? I thought you said we weren't doing one?" Suki asked, passing her leftovers to her boyfriend who gave her the most loving look any guy had ever given a girl.

Jiao-Jie gestured to her computer. "Meta-chapter," she explained.

"Er…okaaay," Katara said, giving the author a worried look.

"Long boring chapters?" Jiao-Jie asked the group. "You know, the ones where literally nothing important happens for the entire thing, it's just filler?" A sound of understanding moved around the table. The cast was intimately familiar with boring chapters. "I really had hoped to get up to at least two thousand words, since usually they're even a lot longer than that but…this is just so boring. Even with the tacos."

"This is your chapter?" Mai asked raising one eyebrow infinitesimally. "Wow. That is boring, even for you."

"Are you sure anyone's going to read it?" inquired Ty Lee seriously. "I just don't want anyone to think I'm a bad party host because of your boring chapter. That would be so embarrassing."

Jiao-Jie rolled her eyes. "I'm sure it won't reflect badly on you. I hope someone reads it, but I guess I wouldn't really blame them if they stopped after around the time…" she scrolled up, "around the time Sokka and I didn't fight."

"Yeah, that was disappointing," Aang added. "We could have all chosen sides and had like a brawl or something." Toph's eyebrows shot up and she grinned. An excited and more than slightly sadistic smile appeared on Azula's lips.

Jiao-Jie eyed the characters nervously. "Why do I feel like no one would have picked my side?"

"I'd pick your side!" Ty Lee exclaimed. Then she seemed to think better of it. "But only if Azula was on your side too."

One look at Azula's grin told Jiao-Jie all she needed to know. "Well that can't happen," she quickly explained, clearing her throat, "because that would have been something interesting and mildly entertaining. I wouldn't have been able to make my long boring chapter point."

"It's not that long," Katara stated, leaning over the author's shoulder and pointing to the word count on the bottom left of her screen.

"You know what I mean."

"Euugh," Sokka moaned. "I feel sick." He flopped forward and laid his head on his arms, which rested on the table.

"Maybe stop at thirteen tacos next time?" Suki rubbed small his back in small circles. He nodded but said nothing aside from a pained groan.

Jiao-Jie snapped her laptop closed. "Well, that's a wrap!" She grinned. "Ty Lee, did you request the room for the instant messaging chapter?"

"Er…" the acrobat's eyes went shifty. "I guess I'll go do that now." She sprang up as Jiao-Jie slapped her forehead.

"Oh please, take me with you," Mai asked, standing up. Zuko gave her a pained look but quickly returned to his thumb wrestling match with Aang.

"Hooray!" Ty Lee hugged Mai again then grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the door.

"This is the worst party I've ever been to," Mai deadpanned on her way out.