(Theme Ninety-Three) Moar Kittens
(As Prompted By) Streetlight Eyes
Ty Lee loses half a lock of hair to a metal brush on the best day of her life.
Azula stares at the clump stuck on the steel bristles and cocks an eyebrow. Ty Lee wouldn't sacrifice her hair unless there was –
"Kittens! Oh, Azula, kittens!" Ty Lee shrieks. "I told you I saw like three stray cats in this courtyard."
The princess looks up, bewildered. They are sitting on a gorgeous sun porch with a babbling fountain, a mirror and glorious, glorious privacy to do whatever they want with each other. How dare animals intrude before they even start making out.
"There are not strays on the palace grounds. We're not some kind of disgusting farm," Azula says, crossing her fingers. Maybe if she declares their nonexistence, they will cease existing.
"Of course, princess. I must have been… mistaken?" Ty Lee tries to push five fluffy, mewling balls of fur behind her back. She is not successful.
Azula rolls her eyes. "You're not mistaken. We both can see the kittens."
Ty Lee blushes pinker than her clothes. "You said there weren't kittens, so I…"
"No, no, I understand. My word is law. And my word is that we can humanely release those kittens."
"Humane?" Ty Lee whispers. "What's the alternative?"
And in a matter-of-fact tone, Azula replies, "Drowning them."
Ty Lee gasps loudly. "You would drown kittens?"
That might be a dealbreaker for their beautiful relationship. Azula is Ty Lee's first love, and a super sexy girlfriend who brushes Ty Lee's hair but if she drowns kittens that might detract slightly from her perfectness.
"I wouldn't enjoy it. But if I had to… yes," Azula says, shrugging. "Stop looking so aghast. You asked me to be honest more often if we were going to date."
Ty Lee grabs the nearest one and hugs it close to her. She whispers gently in its ear, "I won't let her drown you, buddy." She then looks up at Azula. "They can play with us!"
Azula cocks an eyebrow, the side of her lip twisted in a very discouraging snarl. Ty Lee leans her head so that the sunlight makes her eyes sparkle. Azula stares back with less feeling than Mai before she rolls her eyes and surrenders with honor.
She already sees Ty Lee eyeing their stupid make-over supplies they were using as an excuse for solitude. Oh, the sweet fortune of sleeping with your bubbly best friend.
"If you can dress the kittens up, I will allow you to keep them." Oh, how Azula loves giving people false hope. There is no way Ty Lee can get those kittens into clothes.
Azula sits back and enjoys the show.
.
Fifteen minutes later Azula is beginning to feel nervous. Ty Lee has four of the kittens wearing scarves and one even has a stylish clip. Crud.
Azula groans as Ty Lee nearly gets the scarf-dress onto the black kitten. "Why can't you apply sufficiency at impossible tasks to important things? You couldn't even babysit a bear for an hour in order to assist my conquest, but you can dress four kittens?"
Ty Lee ignores the insult, of course. "I wanted to put them in little booties too, but this one hates me and won't even put on her scarf. I'm naming her Mai."
"You can't name them." That will make this worse.
"But she's such a Mai." Ty Lee holds her up and if Azula were playing along with her girlfriend, she would agree. It is a very sullen kitten. "And that one with the scraggly ear and too-big-for-him paws can be ZuZu!"
Azula does smirk and her shoulders shake with silent snickers. "The one with the hairclip is you, isn't it?"
"Yes. Ty Lee II is very stylish." Ty Lee reaches out and pats the baffled, meandering creature on its small head.
"So, which one is me?" Azula inquires, crossing her arms. Ty Lee sweats and it is delightful.
"None of them. You're too perfect to be embodied in any body but your… very perfect and super sexy body," Ty Lee says blithely.
"Good." Azula leans back against the fountain again. "So, you have two more to humanize by giving them names."
"I'm stuck on—eurgh!" Mai escapes Ty Lee's grasp and starts running.
Azula's heart begins to pound out of control.
"Your cat is approaching me." Pause. "Ty Lee, your cat is approaching me! Take it away now!"
Ty Lee just giggles and watches her girlfriend sit as still as a statue as little Mai curls up on her lap for a nap.
"Now you can't stop me," Ty Lee sings before grabbing ZuZu by the scruff of his neck to downplay his deformed ear with a very haute silk bow.
"I will do as I please. I am the heir to an empire and…" Azula gives in. The kitten is making small squeaking and purring noises in its sleep.
As Ty Lee is focused wholly on her bow for ZuZu, very slowly, with expert stealth, Azula pets the kitten on her lap.
Just once.
Just to make it trust her before she destroys it.
"You're her mommy now!" Ty Lee shouts.
"I will drown you," Azula hisses at Ty Lee, whom recoils and nearly crushes ZuZu.
Ty Lee grins as she stabilizes herself with one hand. "You love me and our new babies."
Azula's eyes flash.
"Our what?"
A/N: The remaining drabbles are all part of a continuous story leading up to a final drabble that keeps making me cry. I decided to scrap my plan of doing those drabbles as one long chapter. I set out to have 100 chapters, and I intend to do that.
The reason I chose to make it to 100 is because I realized that this story is a huge part of my life. I try my best not to get attached to stories and fics, in order to be professional, but this collection is an exception.
It's been here from the moment everything collapsed to the moment I decided to try to put it back together. I have my oneshot from the day before I was hospitalized, oneshots from different trips or inspired by people who came and went and stayed all the same. I have a oneshot from the day of the Supreme Court Ruling legalizing gay marriage. Cold days, hot days, worst days, best days. It's like 100 horcruxes. Chunks of my soul and Polaroids of Tyzula.
So many of the stories and quotes and moments come from my life over the past two years. So much has happened, so much pain, so much joy. This may be drabbles about fictional lesbians, but they're kind of like songs that carry memories with them.
I'm crying again. Fxck.
Anyway, a single storyline of 7 drabbles left to go. Thank you for reading and I hope you're enjoying the show.
