Act II

(about a month later, in the middle of October)

Chapter 9

"Natalie you have to tell me what you and Tess are wearing to the Costume party she would only say that you guys are matching" Jet urged he had been trying to find out if he was finally going to see Tess in something a little more risqué than her usual attire which leaves absolutely everything to the imagination.

"I don't know Jet it's kinda a surprise Tess is really excited about our partner costuming" Natalie said to Jet trying to get him to beg for the information.

"Please Natalie give me something come on" Jet begged further.

"Well, all right I can tell you that I'm going as a super sexy nurse and Tess and I match" Natalie made sure to word her sentence precisely. Jet had only heard super sexy nurse and the fact that Tess matched that and that was all he needed to be happy knowing that finally Tess was portraying herself as sexy and that is a step in the right direction.

"Thanks Natalie" Jet said thinking about happy things.

"Sure thing" Natalie said laughing to herself.

"This is gonna be soo sick you guys" Asami said excited.

"I'm so ready" Korra added, "aren't you excited Rachel?" Rachel was oddly quiet that day in class and she wasn't as uppity as she had been a day ago about the upcoming costume party. Rachel looked up from the dazed out staring contest she had going with the ground, "Yah it's…uh… gonna be great" she spoke with false excitement and Asami and Korra looked at each other with question.

"Is something up Rachel?" Asami asked nicely.

"Oh.. no… it's nothing" Rachel said as she looked away again, "I..uh have to get going, see you guys.. uh later"

"Come on bro you can't just not wear a costume, Natalie will not be happy." Bolin urged as Mako sat relaxing on his bed.

"Natalie not the boss of me" Mako said trying to make the statement sound true.

"You and I both know that's not true, so what are you going to wear?" Bolin said looking at his brother again.

"Ugh, I don't know Bolin, I'll figure something out" Mako said accepting his costumed fate, "What are you wearing?"

"I'm going as Frankenstein's Monster" Bolin said as he mimicked Frankenstein's famous walk.

"oh well what's Rachel going as?" Mako asked curiously.

"Uh.. a… something with wings I think" Bolin strained to think of what Rachel had told him a few days ago.

"A bird?" Mako supplied.

"No not a bird" Bolin said looking very serious as he thought hard.

"A butterfly?" Mako provided.

"No, not a butterfly" Bolin said, "you know with the-" he motioned a flick of his wrist.

"She has a fishing rod, I have no idea" Mako said shaking his head.

"Oh, I guess we'll find out eventually" Bolin said giving up just as a knock came at the door before opening slowly.

"Bolin" a soft voice said followed by the orange hair of Rachel, she looked in and upon seeing Bolin she said, "Can I talk to you for a second?"

"Uh yeah sure thing Ratche, see ya later bro" Bolin said as he moved out the door to talk to Rachel.

"You'd think that for a fire nation island it wouldn't be so cold but you'd be wrong" Tess said to Ty Lee as they both made their way to the bleachers. There was a football game today and Tess had promised Jet she'd be there to support him, even if it was chilly. She had recently made the pleasant discovery that Ty Lee was pretty nice despite her choice in Azula as a friend. So she decided to sit and watch with her.

"Wait so why aren't you cheering today?" Tess asked Ty Lee.

"Oh well we were supposed to cheer but Azula said that we and I quote 'didn't know a pom pom from a tumbleweed and that if we were going to keep sucking we couldn't cheer at all' so here I am not cheering" Ty Lee said gesturing around her.

"Oh, well why are you here at all do you just like football or something?" Tess asked curiously.

"No actually I'm here to support Haru, we started dating you know" Ty Lee spoke dreamily.

"Ohhh, good for you guys I'm surprised I hadn't heard about it" Tess said genuinely surprised that her recent recon had not yielded her this information.

Tess looked around at the field and the approaching crowd of the other school they were facing she leaned over to Ty Lee to ask, "Hey what school are we facing anyway?"

"Ba Sing Se, I think" Ty Lee said nonchalant.

"No way really, I used to go there and I bet- yeah they are here I'm sure" Tess said getting up, "I have to go say hi to some people I'll be back okay?"

"Yeah okay" Ty Lee said nicely.

"I don't know Asami that doesn't seem very you" Korra told her friend as she held an oddly formed chicken costume up to herself.

"Isn't that they point of Halloween though to not be oneself" Asami said with a chuckle before hanging the chicken costume back up.

"I'm sure we can find you something better" Korra said "though this whole 'shopping' thing isn't really my game."

"Ah but it's mine, we will have the best costumes around you wait and see" Asami spoke with confidence.

"whatever you say Asami" Korra said looking around, and there out of the corner of her eye for a split second Korra was sure she had seen something- no someone, but it had disappeared.

"Did you see that Asami?"

"See what?" Asami responded moving her head around, "did you see a good costume?"

"No but I think I saw-" Korra wasn't quite sure what she had thought she saw, "it was probably nothing never mind". Korra moved through the stores rakes farther back in the store.

"Okay" Asami said upbeat as she followed Korra back eventually stealing the lead. Korra looked back once more before continuing to check the racks.

"What's up my lady" Bolin said with a large smile until he looked at his stoic girlfriend, "Is something wrong?"

"Yeah, I mean um this isn't working, I mean between us, I don't think we should do this anymore." Rachel struggled.

"You want to break up" Bolin asked looking confused and more than a little bit misty eyed, "why, I thought that things were good?"

"um…I…have to… I have to go" Rachel barely got out she was on the verge of tears.

"I don't want to break up…" Bolin trailed off as Rachel walked away.

The game was going to start soon and Jet was so ready to lead his team to victory. Better go find Tess before we start, he looked around at where she said she'd be on the home team side but he didn't see her anywhere, he only saw Ty Lee and the smiling Haru chatting dreamily, "Hey guys have you seen Tess around?" Jet asked the couple.

"yeah she went over to the visiting team side to say hi to someone I think" Ty Lee answered before looking back at Haru again. That's odd who would she know on the visiting team? Jet thought as she jogged lightly to the other side of the field. Soon he glimpsed his girlfriend talking animatedly to two of the other team's players.

"Hey" Jet said moving next to Tess and putting his arm around her.

"Hi'ya Jet" Tess said smiling up at him, "oh yeah Jet this is Sokka and Toph they're two friends of mine from Ba Sing Se, and Toph and Sokka this is My boyfriend Jet"

"Boyfriend wow never saw that coming with you Tess" Toph joked.

"Yeah well that's what I would have said about you before you and Sokka got together" Tess told Toph. Toph punched Tess in the arm playfully as she chuckled.

"I'm so glad they finally let you join the team Toph it's about time" Tess said to Toph before looking to Jet to elaborate, "Toph is a force to be reckon with she's an amazing earth bender and athlete but the school was worried she'd get hurt cause she's blind but-" "but what they should be worried about is Toph hurting people because my girl has skill" Sokka said cutting Tess off.

"Sounds like someone else I know" Jet said playfully to Tess, "wow I knew that Tess could see using her earthbending but I assume you bring that to a whole new level" Jet said to Toph.

"You got that right buster, who you think taught her?" Toph said motioning to Tess.

"That's right Toph taught me a lot, she invented metal bending you know" Tess said looking up at Jet.

"Wow looks like I'm up against quite an opponent" Jet said chuckling.

"Oh yeah you better watch out cause we're coming for yeah" Sokka said motioning his best fighting moves, before Toph hit him hard in the gut which brought his movements to a stop. Tess laughed, "Oh spirits I missed you guys so much." She said moving to hug both Sokka and Toph, "I'll have to tell Mako I saw you guys, he'll be soo happ-well, he'll be that thing where he isn't completely grumpy"

"That's all we can really hope for from Mako I guess" Sokka said as Toph chuckled.

"Well I guess it probably time we get over to the other side of the field for the game to start, good luck you guys, talk to you guys after the game" Tess said as she and Jet moved away from her friends.

"Did you really just tell them good luck?" Jet said with a smile, "what about me?" he said gesturing to himself in uniform.

"Right" she said moving up on her tiptoes to kiss Jet who was happy to finally be getting a little attention from his girlfriend, "I hope Toph doesn't crush you to a complete pulp" she moved away quickly with a smile.

I don't know what I expected Jet thought.

"Okay, I think I finally found the Perfect costume Korra, I know this for sure" Asami said confidently from behind the dressing room door.

"Alright already come out and show me" Korra said faking excitement because this was the seventh 'Perfect costume for sure' that day.

"Alright what do you THINK?" Asami said she ripped open the curtains revealing her Wonder Woman costume.

"You know what Asami I think this is actually pretty awesome" Korra said she was completely surprised that Asami had actually chosen something reasonable this time.

"I think you should get it Asami" Korra said getting up ready to leave, but Asami stopped her "Wow not so fast, what about you gurly?"

"Oh I already have mine don't you worry"

"I don't understand… why did she just dump me?" Bolin sighed dejectedly, having already cried for several long hours. He was now walking down the beach looking like a lost kicked puppy.

"She seemed so happy with me, I just, I *sniff* don't understand what I did wrong." Bolin whimpered, his eyes filling with tears again.

"So you broke up with Bolin." Natalie stated, pausing and checking for Rachel's teary-eyed nod, "On the day of the super-awesome-sexy-Halloween-dance, because you guys had sex like 4 times, and you think, now, that, due to the sexual encounters, you are in fact, carrying a little Bolin." She finished.

"Y-yeah, I-I just didn't want him to feel responsible for anything." Rachel sniffed, blowing her nose loudly.

Natalie smiled, "Well, what's one missed period though? Maybe you're just late!"

"I. Am. Never. Late. Never." Rachel whined, flopping back onto Natalie's bed in despair.

"Well, how about you take a night to relax, and then tomorrow you go try some baby sticks?"

Rachel frowned at Natalie's interesting take on the English language before agreeing with a slight nod.

"I guess that sounds good. But will you go with me?" Rachel requested shyly.

"Sure thing! The guys at the drugstore love me!"

The crew had agreed to meet one hour before the party so they could all walk over together. They were meeting in Korra and the girls' room, and only Korra was currently in there, Asami having left to 'go hang around some friends' for some of the night. Everyone knew she was meeting Iroh.

Korra sighed, Rachel too had decided to ditch them, instead heading to a late night movie.

There was a knock at the door.

"Hellooo, come in its open." Korra called from her seat, adjusting the hat to her Peter Pan costume.

Bolin Frankenstein walked in, keeping in character, complete with evil groans and growls, followed slowly by Zuko, who was dressed as the phantom of the opera. The only problem was that the mask was on the opposite side of his face than his scar.

Korra laughed, "Didn't plan that one out didja little buddy?"

Zuko scowled, giving Korra the finger. "Grow up Korra."

Korra laughed, "Never!" She exclaimed as she hopped up to tackle Bolin, whom went crashing to the floor, now he's lyin on the cold hard ground.

Zuko huffed slightly, settling down on one of the beds as Bolin and Korra pulled themselves up.

There was another knock on the door, which was opened immediately after as Jet let himself in. He was dressed as a pirate, complete with a hat and a parrot on his shoulder, however he had opted to leave the top five buttons open.

Korra snorted, "Is your costume a metaphor about your hunt for the booty?"

Jet smirked, "My costume is going to get me the booty."

Bolin wilted slightly at the mention of booty. 'I miss Rachel's booty. And her smile. And her laugh. And her hair. And her smell. And her fingers. And her breasts. And her humor. And her-'

Just then Mako let himself in, "Hey guys." He was dressed as Prince Charming, on a dare from Korra herself.

"Well well well, how… charming." Korra said laughing; the guys however rolled their eyes at her terrible joke.

The group sat chatting comfortably as they waited for Natalie and Tess to arrive.

Finally, there was another, rather assertive knock on the door before it was flung open to reveal Natalie, whom was 'dressed' as a nurse.

Jet, remembering that Natalie and Tess were matching took in every detail.

She was in a short dress, so short and wavy in fact it didn't cover her entire ass, which she had remedied with a pair of bright red booty shorts, or maybe it was underwear, it didn't really look like it could qualify as pants. Seeing as it didn't really cover too much more than the rest of the outfit.

The top had 3 buttons undone, showing more cleavage than usual, which considering some of Natalie's outfits, we're talking a lot. She had bright red high-heeled shoes on, and her legs were covered up to right above her knee with very innocent looking stockings. The entire, er, outfit was topped off with a mock nurse's hat.

Mako shifted with, what appeared to be, slight discomfort.

Jet looked behind her as she sauntered in slowly.

And a few steps behind her was Tess.

Jet grinned, stepping forwards only to take two steps back when he saw what she was wearing. She had on a huge, over-sized white lab coat, she even had to roll up the sleeves to be able to use her hands. Under that she had on mint-green scrubs, which were also much too big for her. She had a huge stethoscope hanging around her neck, and not just because it was big like the rest of the outfit, it was comically huge.

"What. What. What. Wha- Natalie, I thought you said you and Tess were gonna match!" Jet cried in frustration.

Natalie opened her mouth to reply- but Tess pushed her out of the way to jump right in front of Jet, "WE'RE BOTH MEDICAL PROFFESIONALS!" She yelled, smiling from ear to ear in excitement.

"Ehh, I uh, see that. How. Mmmmm, cute." Jet said slowly, slumping over with a sigh.

Tess hopped over to Korra eager to discuss how she found all the components of her outfit.

Natalie gave Jet a sly smirk, walking over to him and reaching into his front pocket, she pulled out a condom, "I don't think you're going to be needing this, bud." She winked as she walked over towards Mako, who swallowed nervously when she put the condom in his front pocket.

Korra looked around, "Alright, now that we're all here, let us gooooo!" She hollered, leading the way out the door.