A/N: It's an AU in which Azula and Ty Lee never met.
.15. Heroes
When Ty Lee meets her, she can barely stifle a scream.
Princess Azula is her hero. The princess's contribution to victory makes plenty of people swoon, but Ty Lee fell in love with someone she had never met. Now that she is invited to the palace due to her father's merchant wealth, she cannot stop wondering where the princess may be.
Ty Lee was abandoned by her friends, because they wanted to go outside with a few of their dates, and she was waiting for the princess whom they claimed would never come. She felt humiliated by being alone; Ty Lee had never stood in the corner at a party before in her life. It was so odd not to be the center of attention that she did not know what to do with herself.
But now she does not regret it, because Princess Azula has approached her, and now is standing in front of her.
The princess looks flushed, but Ty Lee assumes it is from the heat in the ballroom.
"Did your date run off?" the war hero asks.
"I don't have a date tonight. My friends ran off though." Ty Lee smiles, rubbing her neck. She wants to bat her eyelashes but she does not remember how.
"You don't have a date? I'm surprised," Azula purrs, but she looks like she does not know what to do with her hands. That cannot be true, of course. "I don't really like these parties. I tend to escape before anyone tries to interact with me."
"Oh," Ty Lee chimes. Her teeth glisten bright white in the chandelier light. "I'm super happy that you interacted with me."
Ty Lee begins to belatedly bow but then changes her mind.
"Well, I was told to do it." Azula looks over her shoulder, but cannot see her friend through the sea of people. "You are, uh, nice looking. Very sexual."
Ty Lee does not know how to respond to that.
It is the Fire Nation hero who is more nervous than this merchant's daughter. Ty Lee keeps smiling and not speaking; Azula tries to find an escape route.
Mai put her up to this. That bitch. Azula rehearsed the first part mentally, but she did not expect it to be so hard to continue. Mai had said to stop leering and do something about it.
So Azula approached Ty Lee out of pure spite.
Is there a better reason?
Fifteen minutes after meeting, Ty Lee is kissing the woman she has admired for years. Their lips barely part for air as they press against each other again and again.
They are in the shadows of Azula's bedroom, a place that Ty Lee could not be more excited to be in. Azula took her into the palace and away from the party. The princess could do this far better than bother with whatever Mai had in mind.
Ty Lee can hear her own breathing and at first feels concerned, but then she notices that Azula does not seem to notice. When Azula's knee gently pushes against her, Ty Lee lies back and tries not to think about how amazing and dreamy this bed is.
She almost thinks more about the bed and bedroom than the fact that Princess Azula is in the midst of stripping off her clothes.
Azula reaches up to untie her hair and she lets it fall over her pale body. Ty Lee doesn't know how to even think about that. She notices how much more beautiful she is. Her hero is perfect, just like it says in the propaganda.
The propaganda neglects to mention how it feels to have her sucking on your neck. The glamorous paintings do not display how her tits are as imperfect as anyone else's, but she is stunning nonetheless.
Princess Azula traces her fingernail down and over Ty Lee's body, past her navel. Ty Lee lightly bucks her hips towards the source of her pleasure without intending to.
Ty Lee forgets about propaganda as she becomes overwhelmed by the mixture of pleasure and pain. She can really do nothing but close her eyes and moan.
And they say meeting your hero is disappointing.
