Title: Waterbending
Author: Jakia
Media: fiction
Challenge: bi-weekly (or monthly…whatever it is!)

Warnings: Pure Azula torture…and zutara, of course.:) I'm a mod, so this isn't actually part of the challenge, but I do hope this can inspire some of you. ;)

That wasn't her brother, was it?

…

Oh spirits, it was.

It didn't look like Zuko, not at all. For one, his short black hair was mused and thrashed wildly in all directions, as if someone had just spent the better part of the hour running their hands through it in a mad rush of passion. He was thoroughly soaked from head to toe, and his lips were red and swollen. His shirt was half-off and there were these little red marks all along his neck. But what scared Azula the most was the ungodly smile on his face, a cracked little grin that just wouldn't go away, and the fact that he seemed happy…really, Zuko and happy just didn't mix…

"Hey sis," He said calmly, blissfully unaware of his disheveled appearance. "What are you doing in here?"

Her mouth gapped open as she struggled to find the words. "I—I'm, that is to say…" Her eyes narrowed suddenly as an idea came to her. "What are you doing here?"

He shrugged, his stupid grin still stuck on his face. "Waterbending."

She nearly fell over. "You what?"

"You heard me, waterbending." He nodded; she stared. "You should try it some time. It's great, actually. All the pushing and pulling you get to do, it's fun. Relieves…stress and what not."

"Are you drunk?" She asked, begging silently (please oh please let him be drunk, please don't let it be what I think it is…) to herself as he laughed (what a horrible, horrible sound it was!)

"No, what makes you think that?" He chuckled, rubbing his neck happily. (make it stop please.)

She took in a deep breath and said a quick prayer before she continued. "Uh, are you alone out here?" She asked, her breathing uneasy. (please be alone please be alone please be alone)

"I—" Before he had a chance to reply, two dark arms hurled up from their hidden position in the water and wrapped themselves around his waist like snakes, using him to pull their owner up. The young woman (Zuko's lover, if Azula had to guess,) had apparently gotten tired of waiting for him. Azula recognized her as the Avatar's companion, and nearly instantly began to grasp exactly what Zuko had meant by 'waterbending', thepushing and pulling and…

"I'm still here, you know!" She yelled at them in a vain attempt to get them to stop with their kissing and…stuff. The closest she got to a response was her brother waving an arm in her general direction. He was more than likely trying to tell her to leave, but was otherwise preoccupied or quite simply no longer cared.

Azula left in a hurry before she had to witness anything else (like the conception of her future nieces or nephews, for example), shivering. Screw being Father's favorite! –At this rate, she would never follow her brother anywhere ever again!

XXX
END

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DO IT, I SAY!

Jak (who now has to go to work…again.)