A/N: If you can't tell from the title, this one is a Hard T, Soft M. No sexual content, but the topic is a bit... mature. I mean, the prompt was Azula being more vanilla than Ty Lee.


(Theme Fifty-Six) Ménage a Trois (or 50 Shades of Fire Nation Red)

(As Prompted By) Distracted by Lemons

"Interesting?" Azula cocks an eyebrow. She does not know exactly what to make of that remark. Interesting. That exact phrasing terrifies Azula for an inexplicable reason.

"I want to do something interesting, yes," Ty Lee repeats as if Azula simply did not hear her.

"Okay," Azula says, forcing the words out before she can change her mind. It is not as if she is scared of changing things up sexually... it is just that she is scared of changing things up sexually.

They are lying in bed in silk sheets, half naked, their only clothes those they forgot to strip off of each other as they frantically dug into each other's bodies. Ty Lee is examining Azula closely, looking slightly dazed, and the princess is wondering what exactly could be so lacking to her girlfriend. Azula is a fantastic sexual partner, superior to all others. Probably.

"Interesting like...?" Azula asks and Ty Lee squints at her for a moment. If she did not know Azula better, she would think she was scared.

"Interesting like reckless and irresponsible and kinky," is Ty Lee's matter-of-fact response. The princess makes an expression Ty Lee has never seen before.

"Like handcuffs or like... candle wax or something?" Azula inquires slowly, as if this is incredibly difficult to comprehend.

"No like ─ what? Like candle wax? What does that have to do with anything sexual?" Ty Lee asks, it apparently being her turn to be bewildered now. Ty Lee shakes her head, ignoring Azula's confusing statement and adds, "Okay, do you want me to be blunt?"

"Please," Azula says quietly, her cheeks slightly flushed.

"I want to have sex with you," Ty Lee begins and then slowly adds, "and someone else. At the same time."

Azula's eyes flutter for a moment as she tries to comprehend it. "With who, exactly? Who are you so in love with?"

"I am in love with you. I just... ugh." Ty Lee sighs and slams her face against Azula's mattress. "You are... never mind."

"I am what? I'm what, Ty Lee? I don't want to have sex with your friends and you so I'm so terrible? Who is it? Tell me before I go find out!" Azula sits up and Ty Lee remains face down on the mattress, wishing she had not sparked this wildfire. "It's that Water Tribe boy, isn't it? My brother? One of your little island friends?"

"Oh, Agni..." Ty Lee rolls her eyes and presses her face deeper into the silk sheets. "You have some real jealousy issues you need to work on."

"Well you have some scary sex pervert issues you need to work on," Azula snaps and Ty Lee groans.

Ty Lee finally breathes in slowly and realizes she must be the adult in this situation. She sits up slowly and takes gentle hold of both of Azula's wrists.

"I am in love with you, and I will not do or make you do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable. It was only a suggestion. I'm sure you have things you've always wanted to do with someone in bed," Ty Lee says warmly, offering a smile. But Azula's jaw is clenched so tightly Ty Lee does not think she could pry her teeth apart with a crowbar. "It doesn't mean I'm into someone. I don't care who. You can pick, if you want."

Azula hesitates for a moment, knowing she should say something clever and assertive to solve the situation. But she... she flees.

She just panics and her limbs take her out of her room before Ty Lee can reach to stop her.


Mai is minding her own business when Azula melodramatically enters the room, looking disheveled and ashen. Her shirt is mostly undone but Mai decides not to tell her that she can see most of her cleavage. It looks as if Azula has bigger problems than that.

"Azula, what's wrong? Did she break up with you?" Mai asks as the princess walks into the room and wraps herself around Mai like a child. "You still have sex hair. And your boobs are showing."

"My girlfriend is a horrifying sex pervert," Azula whispers and Mai snorts, slipping her hand to put Azula's shirt back together. "What?"

"Did it really take you this long to find that out? How long has she been hiding that from you?" Mai sounds genuinely startled and Azula narrows her gilded eyes. This unsettling new information and Mai should not know it. "You really didn't know. Oh, Azula, so naive."

The room gains another spectator to Azula's threesome woes when the Fire Lord walks in.

"What happened?" Zuko asks, his eyes flashing.

"Azula burned down an orphanage," Mai replies sarcastically and Zuko sighs. "Ty Lee is a terrifying sex pervert or something."

"Ew." Pause. "Well, I... maybe not ew. How is she a terrifying sex pervert?"

"Any number of ways," Mai replies, savoring this far too much. "Have you ever heard her list all of her kinks?"

"No," Azula murmurs with a grimace and Zuko still seems to be contemplating. "What did I get myself into?"

"You know, I'm going to go with not ew," Zuko decides and Azula glares at him. "I mean, ew that it's with Azula. But, if it were with you, Mai, not ew."

Mai cocks an eyebrow at Zuko and he shrugs. He has no defense. She then turns back to Azula and pets the back of her neck awkwardly.

"Do you want me to talk to her?" Mai asks and Azula shakes her head.

"I can't let her know that I'm not into that either," Azula snaps, suddenly losing her lost little girl demeanor and transforming back into a regal nightmare. "I must be stronger than her. If she wants to do something interesting, well then I will."

"Okay, what is interesting?" Mai demands, tired of waiting. "You might like it, Azula. You never know. You probably have secret sexual desires you never let yourself acknowledge and this could be good for you."

Azula pauses. "You're my best friend."

"I am your only friend." Mai shrugs, unsure what Azula is getting at.

"Will you have sex with me and my girlfriend?"

Zuko chokes, Mai's face does not move, Azula waits for her answer.

"I don't know... I don't have a response to that," Mai eventually says, her face still vacant. "Probably not."

"Wonderful! Now I have to find someone else." Azula leaps up and leaves the room with the grace and subtlety of a raging lion-vulture.

"I am so confused," Mai whispers, staring after her. Zuko examines his hands closely to avoid making eye contact with Mai.


Ty Lee has gotten herself dressed and immediately gone looking for Azula. Their altercation was to be expected, Ty Lee supposes. She did somewhat spring the concept of a threesome on someone notoriously jealous and less than sexually adventurous. Not that Azula is not in the wrong either, but Ty Lee supposes she has to look past that and mend this situation before it burns out of control.

"Azula?" Ty Lee squeaks, finding the princess surrounded by candles and meditating. She looks beautiful when she is peaceful like that, her back slightly arched and her eyes closed.

"Mm," is the princess's response, as she does not move, and the candles remain blue and calm. Ty Lee half expected them to burn out of control or revert to orange and yellow.

"I want to talk to you about the whole, uh, threesome thing," Ty Lee says, sitting down beside the princess. Azula still does not move. "It has nothing to do with me liking other people more than you. I mean, I tried to like other people more than you and it was too hard. I'm not just masochistic, I'm really in love with you and I don't want to lose you over, uh, that. It's fine with me if you're not into anything, uh, interesting. Not that you're not interesting, or anything, you're amazing in bed. Way better than literally anyone pretty much. I just, uh, please, uh─"

Azula presses her lips against Ty Lee's, startling the Kyoshi Warrior half to death. The candles surge, but stay cerulean.

"I've been thinking, as you can see by my set up," Azula says, gesturing at the small table and half melted red candles.

"...about?" Ty Lee breathes, slightly afraid.

"About what I find... interesting."