Kiss THIS!
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, work has kept me busy, and when I'm not working, I'm usually too tired to think straight much less right anything coherent.
Like this. I swear it's perhaps the strangest drabbles I've ever written. It's silly and serious and funny but not, all at the same time. Takes place farther in the series, which is why Ty Lee is with them (am I the only one who thinks she could so totally join the Aang Gaang?) and why Zuko and Toph get along so well. Is also very random.
…I do like it, however. If it doesn't make sense I blame lack of sleep.
Jak
Dessert First"I've always wanted you, Zuko." She whispered softly, running a hand through his short black hair. "But you were always just out of reach."
He eyed her curiously. "What do you mean?"
He watched as she fumbled for words. "You—you were always like—you know how mothers always bake cookies justbefore dinner, then puts them on a shelf just above your reach and tells you not to eat any, you'll spoil your dinner? That's how you were to me, Zuko, like the cookie jar. You were sweet and wonderful, but just out of reach, because I was too small or you were up too high. And you were so fantastically forbidden, too, because everyone around me is telling me to wait but I didn't want to listen. You know what I mean?"
He laughed softly at her analogy. "Actually, my Mother never made cookies, so no, not really."
She rolled her eyes at him. "So that's what's wrong with you then. Your mother never made you cookies."
"She never had to." Zuko chuckled. "We had servants for that sort of thing."
She scoffed at him playfully. "That doesn't matter! All mothers are suppose to make cookies! It's the rule."
"Well, my mother was the wife of a Prince, she didn't have to follow the rules." He retorted gently. "And you know what? Whenever I was little, if I wanted cookies, I walked to the kitchen and said to the servants, 'Hey, make me some cookies!' And you know what? They made me cookies. Spoiled my dinner. No one cared."
She crossed her arms, eyeing him in mock-suspicion. "And people wonder actually wonder why it is you're so messed up? Your mother never made you cookies and the servants spoiled your dinner. That's how you ended up this dark broody princely-ness."
She went to swat at him playfully ("Spoiled brat!") only to have him grab her wrists and twist her into a tight embrace. If she was shocked by his affectionate action she didn't show it, instead she merely relaxed in his arms, a content smile plastered on her face.
"What about now?" He asked softly, running his hands up and down her arms in an attempt to warm her up. She turned her head and looked at him curiously.
He blushed. "Well, you said that how it was, I was wondering…what about now?"
She lifted a hand and brushed a stray hair out of his face, her hand lingering close to his scar. "Now, Zuko? Now it's like I have a hand in the jar but I'm too scared to take one because Mother's right outside the door."
He caressed her face gently, using the other hand to steady her waist. "It's only a few cookies." Just a kiss. "You'll be forgiven, I'm sure."
She smiled softly at him, closing her eyes and leaning in for a kiss…
"I suppose this means I'm the Mom in this situation?" One of the last voices Zuko wanted to hear at that moment filled the air, causing him to jump back. Damnit to hell…
"Sokka!" Katara yelped, jumping three feet in the air. "It isn't—I mean, I just—"
Her brother brushed her off. "Save it, I heard everything. I'll give you points for originality, but not enough to get you out of this alive." Sokka grabbed her hand and dragged her away, all while Katara kicked and screamed ("You hypocrite!" "No fair! You're allowed a love life but I'm not?").
Zuko, however, was having a hard enough time standing, much less help Katara fight off her brother. So close…
"Aw, was Loverboy de-nied? Poor baby." A pair of high-pitched giggles, one from a little blind Earth-girl who intended to mock him at every possible chance, the other from a giddy girl in pink, came from behind him, whichcaused him to whip his head back instantly. Oh, they were just what he needed.
Ty Lee grinned. "We heard it all, too. We were trying to hold Sokka back, but, well, you know how protective he is of Katara."
Toph snapped her fingers. "Denied, denied, denied. You're never going to get anywhere with Katara as long as Sokka's around."
It was around that time when the most brilliant idea he had ever had began to form in Zuko's mind. "Toph, Ty Lee…I need your help."
Toph crossed her arms. "Oh no, I know that look—Listen, I am not belly dancing with a tigerfish just to get you out of jail again."
Ty Lee blinked. "Er, again?"
Zuko ignored her as placed a hand of Toph's shoulder. "Toph, you are like the little sister Azula never was to me. And Ty Lee, you sort of are the sister Azula never was. And I need both ofyour help, badly."
Toph sighed quietly, knowing Zuko well enough by now to know that she was going to have to help him no matter what. "What is it that you need, Zuko?"
There was an unholy fire in his eyes. "Distract Sokka."
Ty Lee blinked. "Um, tried that already. Didn't work very well."
Still, the fire stayed. "Not like that. I mean distract him."
"Got any ideas, oh-tempered-one?"
A small flare of fire lit in his hands. "At this point, I don't care what you do to him—kiss him, lock him in a bathroom, stab him in the back, tie him to a tree if you must, but keep him away from Katara, got it?"
"For how long?"
He rubbed his chin, thinking it over carefully. "Thirty minutes."
"Twenty." Toph glared.
"Twenty-five." Zuko glared back.
"Make it twenty-seven and a half and we'll have a deal." Ty Lee chirped, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
He nodded. "It's a deal, then."
She was kneeling over a pot of soup.
"Katara."
She jumped. "Oh, there you are Zuko! Listen, dinner's almost ready—" But she did not have the chance to finish her sentence, for Zuko had grabbed her and engulfed her in perhaps the most passionate kiss of her life.
He pulled away slowly, giving her a chance to breathe. "Good thing I believe in dessert first, huh?"
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END
So very random…hope you like it.
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Going to sleep now.
Jak