The Proposition

Aang was nervous. It was his big day. Well night. It was his night to convince the people who would either make him, or break him, his diamond collection ads. Too bad he couldn't see them in their office, because they were never there. Their office was just four walls and a name tag. They preferred to do their business in a club. He just wished to it would be quieter, or even a little brighter, but he knew that he was their client. He barely got a pass because the bouncer didn't like his business suit or his portfolios but he was persistent. If one thing his "father" taught him, it was to be patient. When he did get in, he saw where they were, in another roped of part of the club. The center to be exact. He took a deep breath, and proceeded to the red vinyl rope.

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10 minutes earlier

Just before Aang even walked into the club, Admiral Zhoay and a very ticked Toph walked right into the very center of the booth so the Admiral could brag about the brilliant story that Toph was going to do. The Admiral was speaking to three people all at once with a look of wanting in her eyes. They looked very unimpressed, which made Toph a little more peeved.

The Admiral introduced the two women, Azula and Mai, and one man, Ozai. Azula looked a little cunning and self absorbed. Toph heard a rumor that Azula gets in trouble with the law on a once a week basis, not like she gets away with it though. The girl standing next, Mai, looked bored. And somewhat annoyed. As for Ozai, well you couldn't really see his face. But he did have this presence that commanded your attention, and his aura was a little unsettling. Even before studying their faces she knew what these people were all about. She lived through this before. They were all rich and powerful. Nevertheless, Toph greeted them as politely as she could.

So sarcastically she said, "It's such a great honor to meet you all."

Silence.

"Tough crowd" thought Toph. After that silent greeting they sort of forgot that she was there. So instead of speaking to her like a normal host, they talked about her. Toph didn't care though, she was in deep enough trouble as is adding murder charges weren't in her agenda. Although if she did kill them then she wouldn't have to do the article...

A harsh voice spilled into her demonic thoughts, the voice belonged to the Admiral.

"Your still here? Go away and find yourself a man." she said with a wave of a finger. She was getting less fearful, and more pathetic by the minute.

Toph walked out of the mini club of evil and into where the bar stood. She found Ty Lee and Katara there. Of course they found this fun.

'Of course they think this is fun, because none of them couldn't keep a man for more than 2 days, five if they were lucky.'

She sighed, Ty Lee was staring at Toph and back to another guy giving her that 'pick him' look. Toph followed Ty Lee's eyes. Then quick as sound waves she turned back to glare at her pathetic friend.

"Ty Lee, my dense-but-loving friend can't you see that he's MARRIED!"

Ty Lee looked back, "Oh...wow I was staring at him for HOURS and I didn't even notice he was married. I though I was the one with good eyesight."

It was true, Toph thought that in one of her past lives she must have been blind because she couldn't see well. But since these last few hours she's been more self conscious of a guys left hand, as well as their face.

She sighed again. This is going to be a long night.

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"Breath, Aang. Breath." Aang thought to himself as he walked toward the center of the club. As he was walking a woman towered over him.

"Oh, I'm very sorry, Miss." Aang said sincerely as he caught himself and the woman.

"Hmm...I'm going to need a new suit, this clumsy boy needs to watch where he's going..I'm defiantly going to call Julie about this...." the woman muttered as she stalked off.

Aang just shrugged, a little annoyed about being called "boy". He was so distracted that he stepped past the red rope without telling himself to breath.

"Oh no. Is it inhale-exhale? Or exhale-inhale" He was distracted, as he started to turn red. His thoughts were interrupted with a mellow voice,

"Are you the going to say something, or are you just going to stand there turing redder by the hour?"

Aang looked up to see Azula look up at him. "Wha...erm...I mean yeah...Yes, I'm Aang and I'm here to show you my ads for your diamond line." He passed them the designs and watched them in silence. He wished his team, who are his two best friends, were here with him. Unfortunately they had to do other business ads, so they drew sticks and Aang was the one who picked the shortest one.

Seconds, felt like hours as time passed. After what felt like 10 hours they looked up and Azula smiled. Aang took this for a good thing.

"My father says they're good...but, yes there's a but," she said watching Aangs face turn from happiness to concern, "we can't tell you if we can use it, because we have about 10 other ad agencies wanting to sell our diamond collection."

She was having fun toying with her. Aang found his voice, "But we've booked this even before the line was completed! You said we were definitely going to do business."

She looked unconcerned, but her eyes told him that she was scheming something. "How badly do you want to keep this deal?"

"This ad could set our company into the higher world of advertising."

"Well then, I have a proposition for you. Are you single?"

Aang was taken aback. He was a very conservative person but he needed this deal. "Erm..yes..."

"Don't start turing red with me now. Your not my type. I was thinking, in 10 days we'll be having a party to show our launching of our collection. We're going to invite people who helped us work on our line, and they're significant others. Well, we were thinking that our most prized piece should be worn by a woman of beauty. Unfortunately I don't take to green. Well you see, not a lot of people don't. We were kind of thinking that if you could find someone that matched the color green you've got yourself a deal. So what do you say?"

Aang relaxed. How hard was it to find a person that matches the color green. "I accept."

"Great. Now here are the rules to this proposition, first, she has to confirm at the party that she IS your girlfriend. And second, she has to have a great complexion to match green." She smirked as the other two giggled. They were truly evil.

Aang, still a little shell-shocked left the rope which could have been the gates to hell itself.

What did you do Aang?

Okay well this took awhile, and I just wanted to post this. I think this chapter and the third one are going to be the hardest to think of, so just bare with me. Oh, Toph can see and no bending is I wasn't clear in the first chapter. Thanks for reading :)