Of This and Some of That

Title: Over Troubled Waters
Prompt: Great Escape
Word Count:
Rating: k
Original/Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Pairings (if any): Kanna/Pakku
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/Underage: Slight AU that's only noticeable if you've seen the show.
Summary: The problem with an escape is someone somewhere always spots you.

...AU - Avatar June companion piece...

Title: Now Is Not Forever
Prompt: Five Times (June Fell in Love #1)
Word Count: 1057
Rating: k
Original/Fandom: Avatar: the last airbender
Pairings (if any): June/Piandao
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/Underage): AU - Avatar June
Summary: This is almost not the typical tale of unrequited love. She's just not sure how.

June’s job has taken her all over the world. People usually tended to hide in the same place, some more than others. However, it was just typical that this fool Piandao wanted to find was the only man in her entire career who decided to hide in the Foggy Swamp, definitely foreign territory.

The Foggy Swamp inhabitants were a peculiar but hospitable people. Their ways always seemed to make sense, but not immediately to outsiders. Only because they’d been wandering through the swamp for hours – Piandao was seeing dead people – and they didn’t want to see if the rumors about them were true – the ones that end “…and they were never seen again.” – June and Piandao accepted their dinner invitation.

While June contemplated eating a very large grub, she noticed one Swampbender – Bozo or Due – eying her.

“What?”

“Pardon my starin’, miss, but you sure is a fine-lookin’ woman.”

“…yeah.”

“You taken?”

A beat.

“Yes, I am. By him.”

June moved practically onto Piandao’s lap.

“Sure she is,” he agreed easily.

“How long y’all been hitched?”

“We’re not.”

Everyone froze, silent and staring.

So…wrong answer.

“I mean…yet.”

“Well, shoot, you can’t put somethin’ like that off. Clocks are a-tickin’!”

Due-Bozo hollered for Huu to ‘get out the good stuff’ for a ‘right fine com-mencil-i-zation’. Their hosts watched intently as the duo shared a cup of the good-kick-in-the-teeth-tickle-the-mind stuff and responded at Huu’s prompting while he talked about everything being connected, men and women, bonds, and…something. Then Bozo’s friend started crying when it was over.

“Don’t mind Tho,” Huu smiled. “He always cries at weddings.”

Afterwards, the incident was labeled under Things-That-Never-Happened, and so it was.

Batman Gambit

Words: 250

Sozin’s Comet tears across the sky, streaming a trail as red as blood. The Fire Nation Armada soars above Earth Kingdom waters and a forest looms before it. A long figure clothed in opulent scarlet and gold stands on a platform on the foremost ship. The air is saturated with the energy from the Comet, and a slim, pale hand slow reaches to the sky for a moment then lowers toward the ground far below. A thin trail of fire shoots out, quickly expanding and engulfing the trees stretching up.

The roar of the flame is deafening, louder than thunder, and the air trembles from it.  Boulders suddenly slam into the side of the ship, and the jet of fire stops as its creator’s attention is drawn to the monk throwing fire at the ship’s engine.

As the ship drifts closer to the Avatar, the figure removes the golden helmet.

“We have got to stop meeting like this, Avatar,” she smiles.

His eyes go wide. “A-Azula?”

The princess drops her helmet and tugs off her long robe and boots, setting it alight. Dressed much more simply, she rolls her shoulders.

“This time, we’ll see if your little peasant can give life back to ashes!”

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Zuko and Katara swear.

"Look at it this way, Zuko; you get another chance to show what a pathetic waste you are. But if you surrender now, I'll give you both quick deaths."

"Y-you're a monster!"

His smile is not unlike his daughter’s. “Family trait, peasant."

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