#28: Runaways
Prompted By: mint & GuitarBOSS
"Promise you'll run away with me, okay?" Ty Lee whispers in the dead of the night. Azula looks unimpressed by the fanciful notion. They are fourteen and having a childish sleepover as Mai is having a far less childish sleepover with Zuko.
"I once skipped school and half the army came looking for me," Azula says, squinting at the ceiling. Ty Lee is still smiling, regardless.
"Well then let's run away together and start another war." Silence. Azula smirks faintly in the darkness.
"I'll consider it," Azula says softly.
"I asked you to run away to the circus with me," Ty Lee says, smiling. Azula raises an eyebrow.
"Can you honestly see me in the circus? I mean, what would my killer act be?" Azula asks, sounding happy for the first time in a while. "I mean, maybe a lightshow? Lightning Girl."
"Maybe," Ty Lee squeaks and Azula rolls her eyes.
"Clearly not. Go on and tell me," Azula demands and Ty Lee squirms. Azula touches her hand and she stops fidgeting uncomfortably. "I won't be offended."
"Can you juggle?"
"I never tried."
"Maybe I'll teach you when we run away."
"Yes, we can make our living by doing a terrible act on the side of the roads. I can juggle flaming knives and you can contort yourself into weird positions and we'll be oh so rich," Azula says in a grandiose tone that only royalty can pull off. Ty Lee giggles.
"That actually sounds pretty fun," Ty Lee says softly, eyes as wide as saucers and glittering in the moonlight.
"It does," Azula says softly, now vaguely seductive. Yet mocking. Ty Lee is confused by her. "Alright, if the Avatar pulls off this invasion, we'll run away together and have a two person circus act."
"I'd like that. Uh, I mean, not the Avatar winning part, the circus part."
Azula smirks and closes her eyes.
