-Sleep and Sorbet-
Yori woke up in the middle of the night and looked around. Zuko was sleeping next to her and she wondered how they had gotten this way. She hadn't had that much to drink, just that one wine glass filled to the brim, and then the rest of Zuko's while he was on the phone. Then, a feeling she hated feeling bubbled up inside her. She wanted to throw his phone into the trash.
And then set the trashcan on fire.
Agni, she was jealous of a phone.
Well, anyway, she looked at Zuko's clothed sleeping form. He looked cute sleeping. His face had some color to it, since it was so hot in her bedroom, because the heater was old and shit, and constantly on the fritz. She wiped his hair from his forehead so she could better admire his face.
"Mmrhm," he snorted and swatted her hand away.
"Hey," she hissed quietly. She pecked his forehead and then resumed looking at him.
He was perfect. With or without the scar, Zuko was a perfect specimen of man. His jet black hair complimented his lightly colored skin and his strong jaw made the shape of his face wonderful.
"Yori?" Zuko asked sleepily.
"Who else would be in my bed?"
"It's not morning, is it?"
"No. You can go back to sleep."
"Why are you awake?" he asked stretching.
"I was admiring your face, now go back to sleep."
"What's there to admire?" he asked quietly, his voice muffled by the blanket they were sharing.
"Zuko, you know you're gorgeous, right?" she said in the most serious and grown up voice she could muster.
"Shouldn't this conversation be happening the other way around?" he asked, his eyes still snapped shut.
"No. This conversation shall take place in which ever direction it happens to take place in."
"That doesn't make any sense."
She glowered at him and kissed him, pulling on his bottom lip as she retracted. He made a muffled sound and she giggled.
"What time is it?"
"Late o' clock. Go back to sleep, Sleeping Beauty."
"Nicknames? You sound like Toph."
"Does she nickname you a lot?"
Zuko nodded.
"Well, we will have to have a long discussion about you, Zuuks, so, be ready for a recap."
Zuko grumbled something unintelligible and pulled her blanket over his head.
"All right all right I'll let you sleep. Happy?"
"Ecstatic," he grumbled.
"You're so mean Zuko I'm letting you sleep at my house you should be more grateful."
"I let you sleep at my house. You were the opposite of grateful. You just stormed out like you were mad at me."
"I wasn't mad at you. I was mad at the... Whatever it doesn't matter you should go to sleep. You probably have work in the morning. Go to bed."
Zuko sat straight up. "No, we're talking about this now if you don't mind."
"I do mind. I have work in the morning."
He groaned. "Were going to talk about this."
"What I can't dislike people now because we're dating?"
"Dislike who?"
"Katara."
"How could you dislike Katara?"
"How? How? She's awful. She's like the meanest person ever. I can't stand her!"
"What did she do to you?"
Yori grumbled. "Nothing to me. But she's all over you, you haven't ever noticed that?"
"It's just because we used to date. Three years is a lot to forget."
"No it's not. I've dated people for longer and I don't fawn over them when I see them. I swear with you two it's like you're fucking."
"What?"
"Well it is."
"Yori, I'm not having sex with Katara."
Yori looked at Zuko with narrowed angry eyes. "I'm not saying you are. But you two are too nice to each other and I can't stand it. The way you two talk and joke with each other makes me feel bad, like I'm not good enough for you. What about that don't you understand?"
"Katara's just my friend. I laugh and joke with Sokka, that doesn't mean I'm fucking him."
"It's not the same Zuko, you know that. You didn't fuck Sokka in the past."
"It doesn't make any sense why you feel this way. Katara and I don't like each other anymore, okay?"
Yori sulked on her side of the bed.
"I'm going to sleep on the couch I'll see you in the morning."
"You're being a ridiculous. Can't you just understand that I do not like her. I used to but that was four years ago and now I like you. It's as simple as that."
"But Zuko," Yori began as she got out of bed and stood, "You used to like me more than four years ago and now you like me again, so why can't you like Katara? Why is it so absurd to think that people can still like or love each other even after they're not together?"
He looked at her and groaned, "Just take my word for it okay?"
"No it's fine. I'll just sleep on the couch instead."
Yori left the room and went to her cupboard in her bathroom to get a blanket and after about 60 seconds of trying to fall asleep and failing, Yori got up and looked in her fridge for something to eat and was more than relieved to find sorbet and took that back with her to the couch. She wanted to cry, but that would be absolutely ridiculous so she substituted her tears for raspberry sorbet.
After about three minutes, Zuko came out and sat next to her. She didn't say anything to him and he didn't say anything to her about it. He just asked her if he could have some and she sourly fed him a spoonful. He thanked her and as she dug the spoon into the container again he kissed her, and, much to his surprise she kissed him back. They stayed like that for a while until Zuko began to lay her down on the couch and he pulled his shirt off in one fluid motion. Without taking off Yori's shirt he began to feel underneath it, and soon, that was gone too.
oooooo
"Hey man," Zuko said as Sokka walked into the bar.
Sokka nodded in his direction, "Is Aang coming too?"
Zuko shrugged, "If he can make it."
Sokka nodded and ordered a rum and coke.
Sokka eyed Zuko's glass and snorted, "Is Jack Daniels all you ever drink?"
Zuko laughed, "I drink whatever I can get my hands on, but Jack happens to be my drink of choice," and he downed the rest of the glass and ordered another.
Sokka laughed at his friend.
"So, how's Yori?" Sokka asked, accepting his drink from the bartender.
Zuko smiled the obvious, 'We had sex' smile and Sokka laughed, but then he quickly scowled, "I hate sex. Sex makes babies."
It was Zuko's turn to laugh and he did, "Yori's great, aside from the sex. She's kind of a kid though. Except she curses a lot. But she got mad at me yesterday."
Sokka turned his head, "What?"
"She's j-e-a-l-o-u-s," Zuko said, spelling out the last word.
"Of what?"
"Your sister."
Sokka laughed, "Why?"
"'Cause we're nice to each other. She thinks Katara and I are having sex. She was like, 'It's like you two are fucking!'"
"Uhm, please refrain from using the word fucking when referring to my sister please."
"Yeah," a voice said from behind Zuko, "It's gross."
Zuko turned to look at her, "Fuck!"
She laughed loudly. "Hey Ponytail."
"Hey Yor."
Yori kissed Zuko on the cheek.
"Why are you here?" Zuko asked frantically, my sister called me yesterday and wanted to hang out today." She turned to the bartender and asked, "Can I have four shots of tequila?"
The boys both looked at her.
"My sister sucks." And even more to their surprise when the bartender came she quickly downed all four shots.
"None for her?" Sokka laughed.
"She thinks I'm in the bathroom." she kissed Sokka on the cheek, "Bye Ponytail."
She began to walk off when Zuko grabbed her wrist, "Hey, what about me?"
She grinned and put her lips next to his and before they touched she pulled away. "Bye Zuuks."
And then, Yori left to go see her sister.
Sokka looked at Zuko and laughed, "She's nice."
"Yeah, to you."
Sokka reached into his pocket and pulled out his vibrating phone, and as he read a text from Aang, Zuko took this moment to pull out his own phone and texted Yori;
-What I don't get to meet lovely Yori's lovely sister?
-Oh you can meet her alright.
Zuko read the text over and over, trying to make sense of it. And a moment later, after Sokka told him that Aang was coming for sure, Yori came over, pulling a girl who looked a lot like her, but older and larger, to the bar.
"This is the guy that asked about you!" she exclaimed, indicating to Zuko.
"What are you-" he began.
"How could he have asked you about me?" her sister groaned.
"When I went to the bathroom!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah."
"The bathrooms not near the bar."
"Yeah I know, but I went to buy a drink before I went to the bathroom."
"Why would you buy a drink right before you went to the bathroom? If you have to pee, drinking something doesn't make that go away you know. Unless you didn't have to pee..."
Yori glared daggers at her sister, "Oh fuck you. I didn't even go to the bathroom. I was trying to do something cute and pranky and you fucked it up, so, thank you."
"Pretty girls don't swear."
Yori glared daggers some more. "Whatever, Tiffany, this is Zuko, my boyfriend."
"You were trying to set me up with your boyfriend? That's so weird."
"Nice to meet you Tiffany," Zuko said extending his hand to her.
She ignored it, turned to Yori and said, "My boss was supposed to call me about an hour ago so I'm going to go call him now and see what's up." and promptly left the bar.
"She's a nightmare," Yori said, taking Zuko's newly refreshed glass of Jack Daniels and sipping it.
Zuko eyed his glass, then he eyed his girlfriend and asked, "You like Jack Daniels?"
She shrugged, "Yeah I guess."
He blinked once. Twice. "I think I may love you."
Sokka peered over from Zuko's shoulder and clarified, "Jack Daniels is Zuko's drink of choice."
Yori grinned, "Oh, cool." She set down Zuko's glass and stood in between their bar stools. "So Ponytail, what were you guys talking about?"
Sokka grunted, "Why do I have to tell? She's your girlfriend!"
"Twll me what?" she asked turning to Zuko.
"We were talking about how much Sokka hates sex."
She turned to face Sokka again and gave him a look and then turned back to Zuko, "That has nothing to do with me beig your girlfriend, what were you talking about?"
Zuko didn't say anything.
"What was it?"
"If I tell you'll just be mad."
"Just tell me or I'll go mad!"
"We were just talking about sex in general."
"What kind of dumb shit lie is that? What kind of fucking men just have conversations about sex? What, did you ask him how long it takes him to get it up? God Zuko, just tell me shit when I ask about it. I already fucking guessed what you were talking about, I'm not an imbecile. It's not even that big of a deal. If I had any friends I would have already told them that we slept together, and probably that I feel like a- whatever, I'm going to go find my sister."
"Feel like a what?" he asked.
"Shut up. Look, I'll see you later. Bye. Bye Ponytail."
"Bye Yor, again."
And then Yori walked out of the bar to find her sister.
Sokka and Zuko exchanged worried looks. "She does curse a lot."
"What the fuck! She's so annoying!"
"And so do you," Sokka said, mostly to himself. "But, whatever, Zuko, she's had a ton to drink. Calm down."
Zuko just downed the rest of his Jack.
"Hey guys," Aang said walking into the bar and taking that bar stool next to Sokka.
"Hey," Sokka said, "You just missed Yori."
"Yeah, lucky you," Zuko snorted.
"What happened?" Aang asked, ordering a water from the bartender.
"Yori came in with her sister, and then she had a lot of tequila and she yelled at Zuko."
While Aang was laughing at Zuko, and his face turned red he leaned on the bar and sourly said, "So, Sokka, tell me again how the baby is!"
"The baby?" Aang asked.
"Yeah, his baby."
"What?" Aang asked, spitting out his water.
"Yup, Sokka and Toph are having a baby."
"What?" he said again, louder. "What? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Stop talking about it!" Sokka said, putting his head down on the bar.
"Even if we don't talk about it, little Toph, who is three years younger than you, and in the prime of her youth, will be having your bastard child, so, we can not talk about it, if you want."
"Well," Sokka said, turning to Aang, "Zuko and his girlfriend have already had sex after dating for a week!"
"Really?" Aang asked, leaning to look at Zuko.
"What?" Zuko said, slamming his glass down, "How is that bigger news that the fact that you are having an child!"
"It's not, but this is weird."
"No, it isn't," Zuko said, "We've known each other since we were fourteen years old, and we've done it before."
"But-"
"Sokka is having a baby, for fucks sakes!"
"How far along is Toph?" Aang asked.
"Uhm... I don't know...?"
Both boys looked at Sokka. "You don't know?"
"How could you not know?"
"I don't know, alright. Toph isn't telling me anything and hasn't been to a doctor yet."
"Why not?"
"I don't know! The only way you can know anything about Toph is if you she tells you herself. Everything else about her is a mystery."
A/N - There's a lot of swearing in this chapter, which is why I'm warning you at the end! But yeah, Yori's character is just like Sato, except for the one thing I've been alluding to with Yori that hasn't happened to Sato. But honestly, I should just change Sato's name to Yori or Yori's name to Sato and make this a sequel. And to those of you who haven't read Zapped (another fanfic of mine) there's a character just like Yori, but in high school.
Okay, goodnight/morning/afternoon/whatever time of day it is where you are, dear reader.