Mai yawned, sat up in her bed and stretched her back and arms as she woke up. She just had the most scrumptious dream about Zuko and a drop dead gorgeous hunk with a twig held in his teeth... not that it was the only thing he had put in his mouth. She briefly wondered, before getting out of her bed, if Zuko would mind entertaining her with a fellow male once he was hers.
Oh, who was she kidding? It wasn't like he would have the choice.
She stretched her long legs as she silently thanked the fact they each slept in their own room ever since Azula took over. It pleased her especially that Ty Lee had not, like she did every single morning since they started travelling together, woken them up by jumping on their beds squealing before cartwheeling away from Azula's firebending wrath.
Mai supposed that was because she was making out with a Dai Li agent. Or two. Or three.
Probably three.
In any case, it could have been even better if Azula had given her and Zuko only one room with one bed…
All in all, Mai, surprisingly, was pretty upbeat.
She looked like she would cut herself every ten minutes instead of every five minutes.
After fully dressing herself, Mai decided she would skip breakfast and immediately go to Zuko's room. As she walked through the halls of the gargantuan palace, she allowed a smile to grace her lips. If everything went as planned, maybe she wouldn't be skipping breakfast…
Mai then rolled her eyes. Ty Lee was definitely rubbing off on her.
If only she stopped doing that physically too…
She finally reached the room and opened quietly the door only to be welcome by a completely empty room with an untouched bed. That was when she remembered that, for some reason she was unaware of and preferred not to dwell upon, Zuko was sleeping with Azula.
Which was just… wrong-sick.
And infinitely hot, too, although she'd never admit it out loud.
As she found Azula's room, she noticed the door was open. She silently poked her head in to see if any of the siblings were inside.
One of them was, still resting on the bed.
Tied up and gagged.
Unconscious.
In her underwear.
Mai was floored.
She entered the room and circled the bed. If she had to guess, she'd say Azula had been chi-blocked as well, since tying up a firebender, even an unconscious one, with flammable materials was not the smartest move.
Chi-blocked...
That was when she understood everything.
Zuko, when she first saw him, was running away from nymphomaniac extraordinaire Ty Lee. He had asked to sleep with his sister in hopes to deter the acrobat's not innocent at all advances. Sadly for everyone involved but the resident teenaged man eater, Ty Lee had decided Zuko was worth the risk, to the point of chi-blocking the princess and turning her into ball of thread.
Mai growled. She would teach her to try to steal her man! She was about to dash out of the room to find her rival but something stopped her.
From the doorway, she looked back at the unconscious form of her supposed leader.
Alone.
Defenceless.
In her underwear.
Mai knew a once a lifetime occasion when she saw one.
She bit her lower lip. She looked at – nay, oggled – Azula. Then looked at the hall outside the bedroom. Then back at Azula. Then back at the hall.
Azula.
Hall.
Azula.
Hall.
Azula.
In her underwear.
Mai bit her lip harder.
Decisions, decisions…
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Zuko cursed his captor inwardly. Then he cursed his sister for not specifying joining her implied prolonged contact with said captor. Then the Avatar, just for good measure. And Jet too. He hated the guy.
He cursed inwardly and not out loud for a very simple reason: Ty Lee had been busy with a very audacious exploration of his mouth for the past ten minutes.
He laid on what he guessed to be her bed, wearing nothing more than his boxers with Fire Nation emblems on it while she straddled his waist. Again. At least, she was wearing her Dai Li clothes… not that he expected those to remain on her for long.
Either way, he noticed that Ty Lee's position and warmth made his own blood warm up and rush to a certain part of his anatomy.
Namely, his legs.
Unfortunately, his fight or flight (especially flight) response had been cut short by Ty Lee's chi-blocking abilities, a little before she abducted him from his sister's bed to take him to her own.
He really missed season one now. No Jet, no Azula, no Ty Lee… Only Suki...
After what felt like a very uncomfortable eternity, Ty Lee finally pulled away to catch her breath.
Before she could even think about kissing him again, Zuko squeaked, "You know, I'm gay. Really."
Ty Lee merely giggled as she arched her back, offering him quite a view. "Suki's not a boy's name."
Zuko's eyes widened. "I... I don't see what you're talking about," he uneasily replied, slightly blushing and looking away from Ty Lee's assets. "I assure you, I am gay!"
"Liar."
"...How did you know? Are you a seeress?"
Ty Lee giggled again. "Think harder."
"Telepath?"
"Harder."
"Palantir?"
"Harder – oh, speaking of harder..." Ty Lee smirked devilishly as she started grinding her hips on his waist, which caused Zuko to blush furthermore and swallow a lump in his throat. "Seems I didn't chi-block all of you..."
That was when the door opened very violently. In the doorway stood the one girl he had met the day before. His saviour had finally come!
"BACK OFF BITCH, HE'S MINE!"
Alright, so his saviour had not finally come. What did he do to Agni to deserve such torment?
Ty Lee pivoted her upper body to face Mai and scoffed. "Such foul language coming from a noblewoman's mouth."
"What will be coming of your mouth will be your teeth if you don't get your circus freak body off my Zuko right now."
With that, Mai took out two very menacing knives from underneath her sleeves, an endeavour which impressed... nobody. Knives were for losers.
"Oh, but I'm positive he doesn't want me gone," Ty Lee said with a wink.
"You're lying."
"I'm not." Ty Lee smirked. "And neither is he, if you can catch my drift." To emphasise her point, she rocked her hips hard, causing Zuko's eyes to widen and his face to turn pale. "Hm, I wonder where all this blood is going..." she commented with a titter before going back to molesting Zuko's tongue.
Mai was outraged.
And slightly turned on.
"I saw him first," she hissed.
Ty Lee pulled away. "I kissed him first," she retorted before taking Zuko's tongue hostage with her own again.
Mai was positively furious as this point. "I bet he prefers me," she said with an eerie calm.
"Hm hm," Ty Lee mumbled, not even bothering to pull away this time, which enraged the older girl even more.
Ty Lee interrupted her buccal exploration to breathe. "Now, would you mind leaving? I let you have your breakfast undisturbed," she sighed as she turned her head towards Mai.
"What will break fast will be your arms if you don't stop making out with my man," Mai muttered under her breath.
Oh, such pent-up aggression!" Ty Lee giggled. "Maybe you do need some Zuzushine!"
Mai blinked. "Beg your pardon?"
Ty Lee hopped off Zuko and the bed, leaving Mai to steal a glance at a very specific and currently very active part of his anatomy. "Best friends share everything, don't they?" Ty Lee said with a smirk as she walked closer to Mai.
"You don't mean..."
Ty Lee giggled.
Mai smirked.
Zuko despaired.