#99: Consequences Found
Prompted By: Neon Dandelion
"No," snarls Azula, snapping her wrist to smack the fire ferret across the face with a small blanket. It tries to take her berries again. And again, "No. No! No! N—!"
"Oww!" Ty Lee squeals, jumping up and down. Azula laughs and sweetly sighs.
"I thought you were the ferret," she admits, despite enjoying Ty Lee's betrayed expression.
Ty Lee pouts and begins to whimper before someone knocks on the door. Azula's heart skips a beat. On the door of the house on the semi-deserted island.
"Go get the door while I find out an escape plan," gravely whispers Azula before the door breaks down and a brigade of soldiers and Azula's older brother burst in, ready for a battle.
"I see you kept tracking me down for two years," theatrically announces Azula, standing up slowly. "You have true dedication to chasing ghosts."
"I found the Avatar and you so I do have a pretty good record of locating ghosts. Will you come quietly or will you behave predictably," Zuko regally replies, and Azula curls her fingers.
"I'm gonna surrender if that's okay with you." Ty Lee grins at the people who obviously have nothing better to do than track down two princesses.
The fight lasts all of four minutes before Azula gets punched in the face and falls onto her stone floor. She looks up and touches her sore nose. The blood trickles into her mouth.
"I have truly not been a danger to myself or society for the past year. I have hidden peacefully in isolation," Azula says after coughing. "You could've just let me go if you loved me or cared about my wellbeing at all whatsoever."
Zuko looks down at her and then grabs her by the arm. "Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things you've done anymore."
Ty Lee looks to Azula, hoping she will say something sharp and scathing. Azula wobbles on her feet and flashes a glance at her wife. Ty Lee understands her eyes; they will handle this later when in a better position.
Azula meets her brother's gaze and calmly replies, "You're obviously right."
[X]
That evening, Azula sits in an interrogation room beside her wife. Her brother inexplicably did not separate them, which does not surprise the princess in the slightest. A man and woman who look like they are trying too hard to be scary sit down across from them at the table.
"Do you two have anything to say for yourselves?" asks the woman.
Ty Lee exclaims, "What are you even charging us with? We didn't do anything wrong ever!"
The man bluntly answers, "We're charging you with treason mostly and harboring a fugitive and disappearing while under house arrest and robbing several establishments and often killing the owners of those establishments… need I go on?"
Azula shrugs. "You could. You might as well talk because we will not say a word."
"Just those words. And my words I'm saying right now. Then we won't say a word at all."
"You don't have to. We have tons of evidence and will send you to prison for the rest of your lives. Or execute you. Half of those are punishable by death according to Fire Nation law but… a lot of things are punishable by death in this country so…"
They say nothing. Time passes by slowly before the two interrogators lose their patience.
The woman snaps, "Okay, to the Boil—"
Ty Lee frantically declares, "I will tell you whatever you want if you promise me total immunity."
"Ty Lee!" Azula screams, tugging at the handcuff latching her to the table.
"Yeah." Ty Lee smiles and inches away from her wife. "So, basically, Azula kidnapped me but also bribed me with promises of marriage and then we went on a crime spree and also eloped and went to the circus and she danced with me which was really sweet and I stole a fish that died because I spilled a drink in its cage and then we hid on a sort of deserted island. I say sort of because it was deserted and then we went to live on it. We also stole a fire ferret that didn't die."
"That's an adventure. You really didn't fight back much, now did you? It seems like you had plenty of time to do so," the woman coolly comments, but Ty Lee is undeterred. She just smiles again, this time at the man. He softens and Azula cannot suppress her flash of a smirk.
"It was a really good ride," Ty Lee says, tears blossoming in her eyes. She means that when she says it, and it hurts that her wonderful journey has come to an end. Maybe it has. Maybe she and Azula will escape and run off to some remote corner of the Earth. Ty Lee hopes so.
"How sweet," the woman wryly replies.
Ty Lee takes a deep breath and says, "Although, I mean it was a super sexy and fun journey, it was all her idea and I was afraid to speak against her and so I played along."
"Screw you!" Azula snarls, tensing for a fight.
Ty Lee swallows her nerves, knows this is for the best, and shouts back words she would never utter in reality. "No, screw you, you lying—"
Azula grabs Ty Lee by the throat. Ty Lee seizes her by the hair and Azula knees her in the gut and the two interrogators get up to grab them.
That is when Azula pulls out the bending and Ty Lee pulls out the anti-bending and they leave the two interrogators in quivering heaps on the floor.
"I can't believe that worked," Azula says. Perhaps she could; she is remarkably good at getting out of situations like these.
Ty Lee breathes a sigh of relief. "Me either. And I'm super sorry about snapping at you like that. You know it was just part of the act, right?"
Azula wordlessly breaks the chains on their handcuffs with one blast of fire. Ty Lee jumps up, grabbing her wife by the hand and running into the hallway. They dash to the door and find ten guards waiting for them.
Ty Lee puts her hands up and from the corner of her mouth whispers, "Can we take them?"
Zuko and his little friends step in and Azula rolls her eyes before surrendering.
"We are going to jail forever," Azula softly replies.
[to be continued]
