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When the Shoe's on the Other Foot

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"What do you two think you're doing?"

Sokka and Suki jumped apart guiltily with a small shriek from the Kyoshi Warrior, only to see Aang standing over them and giving them the hoary eye. Neither knew what to say, looking at each other and then the avatar with dumbfounded expressions.

"Umm... nothing?" Suki finally managed to get out as Sokka just continued staring at Aang in bewilderment.

"Yeah, right," the young monk snorted, folding his arms over his chest and rolling his eyes. "I'm not stupid, you guys. It's not like everyone doesn't know what you two are doing, but now my meditation is getting interrupted by this-" he gestured back and forth between the two older teens, "-this... cavorting around you two have been doing lately!"

"Oh!" Sokka finally managed, once again glancing at a flabbergasted Suki. "Hey, sorry, Aang. We didn't mean to interrupt your spirity stuff," he finished awkwardly. "We'll just... go somewhere else...?"

He was cut off on a squawk as Aang grabbed his tunic and started to drag him away with a quelling glance at Suki that had her squeaking and closing her mouth before she could even get anything out.

"You, back to your room. And don't let me catch you sneaking off again!"

Wide eyes flashing between Sokka and the airbender dragging him away, Suki jumped to her feet and scooted out of the common room, so surprised by what had just happened that she couldn't even think of anything to say.

She was so stunned that she didn't even give a thought to her boyfriend, who was even now disappearing out the door into the soft Ba Sing Se night with a still-sternly glaring avatar.

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It took a few, but Sokka finally remembered who was the older of the pair of them, and pulled them both to a halt, yanking his tunic out of Aang's grasp and even managing an insulted glare in return. "What was all that about?" he sniffed, straightening his clothes haughtily.

The water-tribe teen was completely taken aback when the younger boy's stern glare only got more so, and he gulped silently, not sure what was going on – and not sure he wanted to.

Too bad that wasn't on the table.

"I just got a visit from Avatar Kyoshi," Aang said, surprising Sokka even more. What did that have to do with him? "She was very displeased with certain things that have been taking place lately, and wanted me to pass on a message."

The older boy blinked. "Umm... okay...?"

Aang poked him in the chest with a finger and narrowed eyes. "She said to tell you to keep your mitts off Suki. She's her great-whatever-amount-of-times niece, and she's not happy with some of the 'liberties' you've been taking," he answered the wide-eyed and now pale teenager with acid in his voice. "So no more sneaking off, got it? And she said to keep your hands where they could be seen-" he shook his head as Sokka paled even more and started stuttering, putting his hands up, "-I don't want to know! But I'd better not catch you doing anything suspicious, Sokka, or you'll be getting a personal visit from Kyoshi, are you getting my drift?"

Nodding rapidly as he watched the avatar's tattoo's begin to glow faintly with rather freaked out eyes, he turned and disappeared back towards the house as soon as Aang nodded, and the next day everyone was quite interested – and amused - at the sudden overwhelming circumspection that the teenager was showing with Suki. No one more than the young woman in question of course, who didn't know what to think when she tried to get a little frisky and her boyfriend immediately freaked out and scrambled away from her with a look at Aang through wild eyes – before he disappeared into the back of the gang's house like a bunch of firebenders were after him.

The rest of the gang barely held their laughter in check, but they managed, and once Suki was also off on some other business they all fell over laughing... though no one laughed as hard as Aang and Katara.

Now Sokka knew what it felt like to have someone standing over you and watching every move you made, always interrupting your 'couple time' and making comments about emasculation and 'oogies' and the like. It appeared that now that the shoe was on the other foot, he was finding the whole thing a much different matter.

And if Aang occasionally gave Sokka the hoary eye just as a reminder, no one said a word... but the young monk and his waterbending girlfriend certainly got much secret amusement out of the whole deal.

Of course, that was the whole point of pranking a person in the first place... and Aang was very good at pranking people...

... as Sokka had finally found out.

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A/N: I just couldn't resist. Aang and Katara had to get some of their own back at Sokka for his 'overprotective brother' act some way or other, and this just seemed too good to pass up.