Author's Disclaimer: I don't own a thing belonging to "Avatar: the last Airbender!" Nada thing.

Author's Notes: Abit more into the nitty gritty. Let's begin, shall we?

QueenTyzula: More Zuko ribbing :P Justferyeeeeu.

Maraghoul: For helping form the bones of this story :P

CharlieBarrow: More Azula internal sorrows as you wondered. And thanks for a certain line's help!

Harley Quinn Davidson: Just wait, and see :P

Lill: Thanks for the kind words.

"Stoking the Fire"

Chapter sixty-six "Alpha's Decision"

"Really, Zuko, it'll be okay," Suki said. Zuko growled. His temper had re-surfaced and he was showing irritability even to his best friend. It wasn't her fault they were heading for an estate to apprehend his sister and concubine. The whole situation was a constant slap in the face and every moment further from the capital wore his mood down.

"I hope so! Suki, what are we going to do if Ty Lee won't come with us? Azula is whether she wants to or not," he groused. Suki raised an eyebrow.

"Ty Lee wasn't raised on Kyoshi Island. She doesn't have to be with us for life and she knows it. I don't know, Zuko. I hope it'll all turn out."

The look Zuko flashed her was wry and at least he wasn't lashing out. He sighed. "Me too."

Suki climbed into the royal carriage with Zuko and he urged the driver to start up. As the carriages began a loping pace, he opened the window and barked at him to drive the chicken horses faster. The whip was lashed, and the four chicken horses set off at a break-neck speed. Suki pressed into the back of her seat, gloved hands on the bench beside her.

She honestly had no idea what to expect.

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"Should we venture out there? We need more food," Ying fretted. Tsung pushed her ponytail over one shoulder. She gave her girlfriend a wry look.

"Last time I went to get us all a tray, Azula was ready to attack me for intruding. Not that I went anywhere near the bed, mind you. Alphas get aggressive during a heat," Tsung reminded her. Ying sighed. She was on her back, and her legs were raised above her head on the lower part of the bed. She flopped tiredly.

"Soooo hungry….. I know heats can be fun, but we're gonna starve, baby," Ying pouted. Tsung flopped on one elbow beside her girlfriend. The growling and moans from the other room had her thinking of other things.

"Maybe their sexy is rubbing off. Wanna go to bed?" she gave a small grin. Ying blushed and pulled her down for a kiss. Tsung sank down into it.

"Food first. Then sex."

"I imagine that's what Ty and Azula need, too," Tsung sighed. She stood up and brushed off her tunic. "If something happens to me, I want my ashes interned in the Kyoshi Warrior memorial on the island…."

"Oh, quiet you, you'll be fine," Ying said wryly. Tsung straightened and adjusted her clothing. She heaved a sigh at the narrow hallway leading to the thin door in the bedchamber beyond.

"Okay…here I go…"

This time wasn't so bad. Ty Lee and Azula weren't screwing at present, but were still clearly wrapped up in each other. Ty Lee was on top of Azula's muscular torso, both of them bathed in a fine sheen of sweat. They were joined at the loins, but in the throes of aftermath. Their touches were gentle and courteous instead of demanding and the soft smile Tsung glimpsed on Ty Lee's face as she gazed adoringly down at the princess made her heart glad.

There was still the matter of getting to the front door. And she had clearly been seen. Azula growled beneath Ty Lee and made to lift her off and to the side so she could get up. Ty Lee gave a whine of discomfort, wriggling to keep her alpha's cock lodged in her. Azula gave an unhappy rumble under her and remained on her back. But the look she shot Tsung was murderous.

"I'm just going to get us some food! I'll be back…and in our room!" Tsung sweat-dropped. She unlatched the front door, hoping no one was fool enough to try the chamber at her brief absence. Ty Lee's scent was sure to keep some interested, but Azula's whirling chi threatened death if anyone intruded.

Tsung darted down the hallway and both women stared at the shut but unlocked door. Ty Lee pouted.

"Should I lock it?"

"I'll do it. I'm the alpha," Azula murmured. Her lips were pressing along Ty Lee's shoulder and throat idly. Her hand ran down the small of Ty Lee's back, keeping her in place though.

"Or we could stay like this," Ty Lee said happily. Azula rolled so the acrobat was beneath her. She smiled when Ty Lee's knees widened around her.

Azula spared the front door a glance and bent down to kiss Ty Lee. It was a close-mouthed kiss that slowly heated up but Azula didn't fall to her passions so quickly. They had fucked for nigh on an entire night and half a day and she was tired for the moment. Ty Lee's whirling chi enticed her to find her stamina.

"I have to use the bathroom. Don't you?" Azula murmured. Ty Lee gave a pout beneath her. They had taken a pee break a couple of hours ago but clearly it couldn't wait any longer.

"Okay…." Ty Lee braced herself as Azula gently tugged her hips back, pulling her softening cock from her cave. Flecks of Azula's seed spattered along their thighs as she withdrew completely. Azula couldn't help glancing down between them. Ty Lee's vaginal lips were dark red and properly fucked. It was quite arousing to know she carried her seed deep inside her, flecks of the white liquid leaking slowly from her.

They hadn't knotted yet and Ty Lee missed the deep connection. She could see furtive worrying glances in Azula's deep golden eyes. The last time they had knotted, it had resulted in her daughter, not that Azula known that. Guilt assuaged Ty Lee's heart. She should tell her…. she needed to. But her heat was still on and she needed more joinings to ride the stem of want. If things were more defined with her alpha then…..

Azula, for her part, was afraid of the door being unlocked. She wanted to stalk to the door and throw the latch down, but Ty Lee had hold of her wrist and was leading her to the washroom. Ty Lee waited patiently, brushing her teeth as Azula held her cock in one hand and urinated into the toilet bowl. Azula grunted, shaking the last drops off and waited, naked, against the vanity sink. Her cock half-shifted, receding slightly. It bobbed back to length when Ty Lee glanced at her.

Ty Lee sat down and pressed her knees together. Her thigh shook as she tried to focus on peeing. Finally, a cold stream of urine shot out, making her clit ache. Azula kept glancing out of the washroom door, certain her mother would be there. She was here at this wretched manor. She could only have so much fun before that chicken-cow came home to roost.

'She can't come in here…. Ty and Tsung won't let her,' Azula's thoughts tumbled over on each other. 'Of course she can. She knows where you are. And she'll finish the job….' The old fear that her mother wanted to do away with her bit the back of her mind with anxious nips.

As Azula's thoughts started to spiral in obsessive circles, Ty Lee took her hand, leading her back to bed. The voices dimmed and went silent as the mattress dipped beneath them. As Azula's nose was running along Ty Lee's collarbone and to her breasts, a bad memory flashed in her mind.

"Inhale the omega, Azula. Ensure that what you stick your cock into isn't diseased." Fire Lord Ozai's wheedling voice rang in her mind's eye. Azula closed her eyes and moved her cheek between Ty Lee's round breasts. The scrape of the acrobat's fingers through her tousled black hair relaxed her slightly. The memory continued behind her eyelids and Azula cringed in Ty Lee's arms. Ozai had moved with her down a list of noble omegas, showing her where to touch and inspect. It sickened Azula that would should be hers was being groped idly by her father.

"This one is sufficient looking." Ozai's words were cruelly nonchalant. The omega girl's face had erupted in an embarrassed blush as her right breast was squeezed in Ozai's large hand. Azula wanted to smack his hand away. But her outbursts as of late had made her father connive to control her more. And this was part of it, pleasure or no pleasure. "See, how responsive she is."

"Yes, Father," Azula had said dutifully. The widened eyes of the omega pleaded silently with her. Azula shut her heart against her plea and hooded her gaze. Unfortunately too late, she realized she had imitated her father's very look. Her heart dropped to her stomach.

'Go away…. get out of my head!' Azula hissed inwardly. Her fingers clutched Ty Lee's back. When Azula opened her eyes, Ty Lee was staring at her, naked worry in her eyes. She leaned down to kiss her and Azula eagerly pressed into her. Ty Lee smiled against Azula's lips as she hungrily kissed her. By and by, Ty Lee was pressed to her back and Azula pinned her beneath her muscular lithe frame. Azula was kissing her, and she was growing hard, but she didn't make any move to enter her.

Ty Lee cupped the back of Azula's neck, and surged her hungry chi around her. The alpha in Azula roared as it was stoked and pushed. Azula growled and leaned up on her elbows. Her cock pressed eagerly against Ty Lee's flat belly.

"Always wanting it," she rumbled. Ty Lee's eyes shone.

"I missed you," Ty Lee admitted. The honesty made Azula's eyes widen. Ty Lee was warm and happy in her arms. She didn't seem to regret leaving Zuzu at all. Azula's heart surged as her father's annoying voice receded behind Ty Lee's happy chirping tones.

"Show me," Azula growled. Ty Lee reached between them and gripped the base of her cock. She stroked her from base to tip, squeezing firmly. Azula gasped and purred. She spread Ty Lee's soft thighs open further and reached to angle her cock against her wet vaginal lips. As she was pushing in, the front door opened.

Both women, naked and twined, looked up abruptly. Tsung looked away and walked in a step to set the large food tray on the ground so she could lock the door. When the heavy latch was dropped, the knot in Azula's gut loosened. The tip of her cock was engulfed in heated silk and she sighed happily. She felt safe.

The smells from the tray made all three women's stomach rumble.

"Finally, food," Ty Lee said happily. Azula leaned down to nuzzle her neck. She pressed a kiss to the underside of Ty Lee's jaw. The acrobat giggled happily.

"Here's your share…I'll leave it here. Good day," Tsung kept her gaze averted. She set half the dishes on the floor and took what was left on the tray to the narrow door. When the door shut, Azula raised an eyebrow down to her companion. Ty Lee pouted. Her heat wafted fully into Azula's face and her cock throbbed. She started to push in, but gave the decision to Ty Lee.

"Food?"

Ty Lee sighed beneath her. She leaned up and kissed Azula. "Please, food. Then you can have me however you want."

Azula shuddered as she withdrew her cock. The shaft was hard, bobbing as she climbed off the bed to collect their dishes. Uncovering the bowls, they found chopsticks and hungrily wolfed down spicy flaming noodles, vegetables and dumplings.

Azula started and blinked curiously as Ty Lee wiped her cheek with a cloth napkin. When the naked acrobat leaned to kiss the spot she'd cleaned, her heart surged with fresh warmth.

Alone, locked in and with Ty Lee's heat to enjoy, Azula didn't think she could feel so warm and secure. She would get through seeing her mother again. Ozai was rotting in chains in the capital. And Zuzu was snoozing the loss of his concubine who spread for her easily.

After they'd finish eating, they didn't even bother brushing their teeth. That would have required climbing off the bed. The bowls were set to the stone floor and Ty Lee wrestled Azula to her back. Azula's cock throbbed between them, enjoying the friction of naked flesh on flesh.

They wound up on their sides, Azula pressing one knee between Ty Lee's thighs to open them. When she began to sink in, she could feel Ty Lee's whirling chi enticing and drawing her in. Azula shuddered, hoping she wouldn't drown.

When Ty Lee's brown eyes snapped up at her, drowning didn't seem that bad an option.

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Azula's eyes opened. She had passed out sometime during their last joining from sheer exhaustion. She had been somewhat afraid of that fact, but Ty Lee's warm arms and legs holding onto her made her languid body feel relaxed and at peace. So, she had conked out. She must have softened and fallen out during her sleepcapades for when the princess opened her eyes, Ty Lee was yawning awake, one hand between her legs.

Her nimble fingers were stroking the base of her shaft, urging her to harden. While this hadn't been a new occurrence in the last day and a half, Ty Lee's fingers were busy around her base. Each squeeze was deliberate and Azula gasped, spreading her legs. When she felt the beginnings of a knot begin to swell, Azula knew the intention behind Ty Lee's sultry squeezing.

They hadn't knotted. And the fact Azula hadn't during a heat could say a lot or little. Her knot had definitely made its appearance, but Azula had barely kept herself from sinking it home. She knew Ty Lee missed her child and maybe in her own way she didn't want to bring her pain with a surprise pregnancy. Also, Azula was afraid, if she could admit it. If they were locked that closely, it was more than intimacy. It might indicate she had chosen her. And Azula had wanted that to be so. All through the delicious sharing of flesh and pleasure, Azula had been teetering on the precipice of just surrendering completely and falling all the way over the edge.

But Ty Lee just wanted to fuck her for her heat, didn't she? Then again, she had gone to a lot of trouble to try and get her help. Azula leaned up on her elbows, abdominal muscles tightening.

She cupped the back of Ty Lee's neck, bringing her down. Her kiss was heated with a lot of tongue to match the throbbing in her cock. This joining was so heated, both were coated in a sheen of sweat just as they got started. Sinking into heated silk had Azula groaning as usual. But on each stroke in, Ty Lee gripped her back with her nimble legs. Her hands caught Azula's jaw and her eyes pleaded with her.

"Please….. Zula…please knot me…." She pleaded. Before, Azula would have made her beg for it. She would have made her beg again and again before relenting to do what she really wanted to. But Azula's teasing had gone clear out the window, leaving her inner alpha that had to be sated at any cost. They had fucked for nigh on two days and she still hadn't knotted. It was driving Azula mad.

Azula spread her thighs, balancing on her knees, thrusting more vigorously into Ty Lee. The mewls and yelps she pulled out of her spurned her on. Azula could only get about five more deep thrusts in before her knot was fully formed, heavy and throbbing. On the next thrust, she stayed in, feeling herself swell to her full size. Ty Lee bucked beneath her while trying to still herself at the same time. She cried out, her inner muscles fluttering around Azula's shaft as the knot was firmly worked in.

With a wet pop, Azula finally got herself fully in. Both women paused. Ty Lee's eyes were wide, a blush staining her pale features. Her fingers dug into Azula's shoulders. She knew where and how to touch, for Azula didn't fear any chi-blocking retaliation. Not this time…..

Azula's head was tilted back, and a smirk stretched her lips even as her eyes closed with utter pleasure. It had been so long since she had chosen to knot someone, and that last person had been….. Azula's eyes snapped open and she gazed down at the adoration beaming in Ty Lee's eyes. Azula's heart swelled at the sight. She caressed the acrobat's cheek with one hand.

"Are you okay?" she murmured. The muscles in her forearms ached with the effort of holding still. Ty Lee nodded. She sucked one of Azula's fingers into her mouth, biting the tip playfully. Azula rumbled. Her hips worked faster and faster, the tie keeping them joined.

Azula could see beads of sweat dot Ty Lee's brow. Her hand moved into Ty Lee's palm, stretching her arm above her head as she fucked her. Their fingers laced together.

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Zuko cursed. He hopped out of the royal carriage, watching his soldiers and the Kyoshi Warriors filing out of the second carriage. His carriage had thrown an axle and he'd had to catch Suki from tumbling across the floor when the left rear wheel had flown off.

"I'll get it fixed right quick, Fire Lord!" The driver assured him. Two soldiers jogged up to help find and retrieve the missing wheel from the nearby brush. Zuko kicked his boot at a tree root, cursing.

"Seriously?!" he snarled to Suki. She led him to the tree line so the imperial soldiers wouldn't witness his uncool outburst.

"They'll get it fixed, and we'll be on our way," Suki said soothingly. Zuko kicked at some strands of tall grass, looking for all intents and purposes, like an indignant child. Suki's affection for him made her want to giggle but she knew Zuko wouldn't take it well right this moment.

"Okay….okay.." Zuko muttered. He ran a hand through his bangs, regaining his composure. "What would I do without you, Suki?"

"Pray you never have to find out," she teased, but her heart was in her words. Zuko gave her a sad look, feeling rather bad. She was his captain of the guard, so of course he would rely on her expertise and help, but she was trying to help him regain a lover. Of course, he felt weird to be erstwhile rubbing her face in his affairs. He rubbed the back of his neck.

"I pray I don't," he agreed. "Walk with me, Suki."

Suki gladly fell into step with the Fire Lord, noting her Kyoshi Warriors scanned the tree line beside them. She nodded. No matter what they'd find at Mountainside Manor, Suki hoped things would end well.

For everyone.

End for now

End notes: More to come soon. Stay strong, my lovelies. Like it, smash that button and drop your review ^_^

Most sincerely, pen

11/10/2017