.4. Twirling
Azula watches her. She's stunning, but Azula doesn't want to say much about it. Ty Lee dances with five boys before she even seems to notice that the guest of honor exists.
"Please dance with me," Ty Lee begs with a cute grin.
Azula weighs her options. She has between passed between important political figures while Ty Lee entertains their sons. Ty Lee is so pretty that she has never experienced rejection in her life, and Azula is so powerful that she hasn't either. But she knows it hurts really bad.
"No. You're a bit…" Azula shrugs one shoulder. "I'm sure you'd be more entertaining stripping on the kiddie table."
Ty Lee takes a huge breath in through her mouth but she tries her best to cover it up. She didn't think Azula would say that. Maybe Azula didn't realize that Ty Lee has been staring at her for the entire night. They say when twirling and spinning and dancing you need to spot something to keep from falling.
And Azula was what Ty Lee spotted. Azula had been this unmoving entity that Ty Lee could not stop gazing at. She just kind of thought that maybe Azula felt that same way, because she saw Azula glance at Ty Lee while being spun around by old men and prim women.
"Perhaps I'll see you tonight at our lodgings," Azula says and Ty Lee feels weak in the knees.
She kind of imagined that after Ba Sing Se they'd be perfect together. That nothing stood in their way, just like those walls.
Ty Lee escapes.
That night, Ty Lee tries to figure out if Azula doesn't want her, or if Azula just doesn't notice that Ty Lee wants her too. It seems kind of like the latter, but Ty Lee knows the only way to find out. She cleans herself up, reapplies not-wearing-make-up make-up and then slides into her sheerest night robe.
Azula is lost in thought about the night. She should be thinking about her return. She should be thinking about the fact that Zuko was there and her father has definitely heard about Zuko by now. She should be thinking about her next speeches.
But she is instead thinking about Ty Lee twirling around and giggling with all of those people.
Why? There is no reason to.
She sighs and continues staring at the dark ceiling.
But she is ripped from her thoughts when someone knocks loudly and impatiently on the door. Azula snaps up, lighting one palm and stepping out of her bed. She walks to the door, the room light up cerulean, and opens it.
Ty Lee. The last person Azula wants to see. Because Azula has never seen anyone look like that, in that way that makes her feel like this. She bets Ty Lee means nothing by it, and has no idea that Azula has never had to try so hard not to stare in her life.
Pathetically, Ty Lee tries to hide her nervousness with rambling about her room being too uncomfortable and cracking her knuckles loudly. She weighs the situation with Azula. She moves to lie down by Azula. They barely talk before Azula falls silent.
"I would like to tell you that I meant no harm by rejecting you tonight," Azula says in her royalest tone. Ty Lee doesn't know how to take that. "I simply felt you had enough attention."
"But I… wanted your attention," Ty Lee stammers out.
Azula swallows. Ty Lee is glad of Azula's overconfidence and self-obsession, because the princess cannot imagine that anyone would not want to kiss her, even if Ty Lee admits she doesn't like Azula back. Maybe Azula doesn't get all of the complexities of romance, but she does know that grabbing a girl and kissing her is probably the best way to gauge a relationship.
It tears the breath from Ty Lee's lungs. She kisses Azula again and again and again. Neither of them really notice that they're pressing closer together until they sort of… tumble. Azula is on Ty Lee now, and Ty Lee has never felt anything as good as how they fit together like puzzle pieces.
"Can we do this?" Ty Lee asks, even though Azula seems to be the one initiating it.
"Yes. I will allow it." She still sounds like she is addressing soldiers under her command, but Ty Lee thinks that is pretty hot.
Ty Lee also tries her best not to think about the consequences as Azula removes her own night robe. Ty Lee doesn't much need to; her hard nipples are completely visible through the pink fabric. Azula slides it down from Ty Lee's shoulders anyway, exposing her to the cold Earth Kingdom air. Her skin prickles as Azula's mouth moves towards Ty Lee's breasts, letting her breath heat her tan skin before she taking Ty Lee's nipple into her mouth.
Ty Lee moans and moans and pushes Azula up and under her and flinches prematurely. Azula does nothing, because she has never done this before. But her body knows what to do, like her fingers combing through Ty Lee's hair as her lips trail down lower and lower, pulling her panties down to continue down her thighs. Azula really no longer cares about dancing anymore, but her head is spinning worse than it was at the party.
Azula can barely think when she drags her mouth along her inner thigh, her bottom lip moving slower and leaving a tingling trail on her ivory skin.
The burst of pleasure that crashes through Azula's body makes the room spin around her.
