The room was spinning.

Not in the nauseas, "Oh-man-I-think-I'm-gonna-hurl" sort of way; more of an energetic, "I'm-so-happy-I-can't-see-straight" kind of way.

Everything seemed very vibrant and pretty – the floor, the bedding, the pale grey sky beyond the window – to the point that Sokka had to close his eyes to keep from getting distracted by the grain of the wood and the grotesque grooves of Zuko's scar.

"This? This righ' here is – is really nice," Sokka said, head leaned back against the wall and finger tapping the floor with each syllable. His legs were stretched out in front of him, a flask of cactus juice on his lap.

Zuko hummed in agreement, taking a sip from his own flask. His head lolled to the side and, smiling lazily, he nudged the boy beside him. "Hey, you know –" he choked, swallowed, smacked his overly-moist lips together "– you know what I jus' realized?"

"Wha-?"

"Katara, she . . . she's –"

"She's my sister."

"She's, like, really pretty," Zuko slurred, gesturing with his hands in an attempt to visually convey what he was saying. Wiping dribbled drink from his chin with one hand, he tried to draw an invisible hourglass with the other.

Wrinkling his noise, Sokka swatted the other boy's arm down. ""Don' talk about 'er like that! Tha's – I'm her brother, tha's gross."

"You – you know what I'm gonna do?" he asked, sitting up straight and shaking a finger at him. "I'm . . . I'm gonna go up to her, an' I'm gonna kiss 'er. An' I'm gonna do it –" he pulled himself to his feet, wobbled, and walked unsteadily toward the door – "right now."

"I don' wanna hear about it!" Sokka said, throwing his hands up in the air. "J-jus' go do it, an' don' make me hear about it."

Pausing in the doorway, Zuko leaned on the wall for support, grunting in agreement before stumbling away.

"What a good guy," Sokka said to himself, sighing happily and taking another swig of cactus juice.

Five minutes passed.

"Wait! You can't kiss my sister!"


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