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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It didn't matter why Jet had come into the bathroom, interrupting Zuko's shower, and it didn't matter that he had invited himself into the stall, the condensation on the glass door doing little to hide the figure with his head in his hands standing in the dead center. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"His clothes landing in a heap on the floor, Jet collected Zuko to his chest, knowing better than to think he was angry with him because he didn't melt into his hold like he needed to and instead, Zuko stood stiffly against Jet's body, hiding his face with his wide pale hands./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"God above how he hated the man, that subhuman stalker. He hated how a stranger could reduce this insanely powerful and strong human into a pile of shame and fear./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Tell me he was lying," Zuko demanded. "Tell me he was lying when he said you're only here because you pity me,"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Time didn't exist anymore, it was just the slide of skin under steady hands. Seconds no longer tracked one moment from the next, it was breathless gasps. Minutes were of a distant past as fingers roamed, careful and patient under the direction of Zuko and common sense, and names were whispered when the fingers were replaced./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It didn't matter why Jet had come into the bathroom, interrupting Zuko's shower, and it didn't matter that he had invited himself into the stall, the condensation on the glass door doing little to hide the figure with his head in his hands standing in the dead center. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"His clothes landing in a heap on the floor, Jet collected Zuko to his chest, knowing better than to think he was angry with him because he didn't melt into his hold like he needed to and instead, Zuko stood stiffly against Jet's body, hiding his face with his wide pale hands./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Tell me he was lying," Zuko demanded. "Tell me he was lying when he said you're only here because you pity me,"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""He lied. Every word." He drilled the words into Zuko with his eyes, not looking away or wavering. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Any other time, he might have been able to question his actions, to second guess and doubt, but he was nothing but sure as he flipped him around and scattered heavy kisses down his spine, palms smoothing over his hips and his knee sliding between thighs. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He could bottle the noise coming from Zuko, sharp and fast and searing, he could commission paintings to commemorate the way the breadth of his shivering shoulders looked from this angle, he could devour the haze on his cheeks./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Tell me what you want, talk to me," Jet asked against the satin of his shoulder, teeth scraping at the jut of bone./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Time didn't exist anymore, it was just the slide of skin under steady hands. Seconds no longer tracked one moment from the next, it was breathless gasps. Minutes were of a distant past as fingers roamed, careful and patient under the direction of Zuko and common sense, and names were whispered when the fingers were replaced./p
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