Jetko Meme
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weirdletOkay, folks- I got art I need to be doing, stories I'm working on but which aren't gelling, and some things have been said that are setting me off in a 'yeah, you're right!' direction. SO. What we have here, is a Jetko meme. I get to work on one of my favorite pairings whilst trying to get more into their heads (Jet in particular is a slippery bugger), and we all get some hot starcrossed boy-love. Or hate. Whatever you like.
Give me a prompt, a sentence, a song, whatever; any AU/universe in progress you like, just so long as you keep to this restriction- no rape.
Two prompts per person, promise of one ficbit, standard not-very-fast warning applies.
Do have at it!
Give me a prompt, a sentence, a song, whatever; any AU/universe in progress you like, just so long as you keep to this restriction- no rape.
Two prompts per person, promise of one ficbit, standard not-very-fast warning applies.
Do have at it!
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Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-25 04:13 am (UTC)Jet wakes up with a headache and an armful each of Smellerbee and Longshot, both being very careful not to jostle him. They’re what keeps him from freaking out at the long dark echoes and drips of the ship they’re on, at the dim lights and red hangings- Smellerbee strokes his hair, young-old eyes already worn out from their crying.
“Old man Mushi found us,” she tells him, and Longshot nods. “He got us out- said he was tired of losing sons to the war.” Jet scowls at the mention of the old man; he’d been looking for a lost relative, he’d said, and the renewed Freedom Fighters were happy to help a fellow refugee out (and maybe he’d helped them, as well).
Too bad who those lost relatives turned out to be.
Jet stays still and relies on Smellerbee’s intel and his own ears to fill him in- his ribs are busted and bruisy and he knows if he sits up he’ll regret it. He’s in the infirmary of a stolen ship; things had gone even further to hell in a handbasket after the fight under the lake, and the Avatar is lying unconscious on the next pallet over, and beyond that is a girl who sleeps under a spill of dark hair, and cries in her sleep in a low, husky voice.
“Who’s that?” he asks of her.
“She’s- another victim of the Dai Li,” Smellerbee answers, and won’t say more.
…
In daylight- or as good as, with no windows- Katara comes by, and Jet is gently but firmly relegated to second priority as she tends the slip of a boy, last hope for the world. He watches quietly as she coaxes what little progress she can from Aang’s flesh and chi, only teasing and joking with her once she moves on to his battered body. Her hands are cool and her mouth firm.
“You’ll have to take it easy for a while,” she tells him, and he hears where she’s grown harder, the doctor’s voice that means do as I say. “There’s only so much I can do once the bones are set in place- some things I can push along faster than others.”
“Tell me you won’t leave me alone in this tomb?” he says, and the cracked grin is only half-joking- the rest is desperate.
“I can’t be here all the time,” she says honestly. “But you have your friends- and soon enough you can go up on deck.”
She wants to touch those healing hands to his temples, but Jet puts her off, and amazingly, she lets it go.
“When you’re ready.” And then she’s across the room, to the girl who’s been sleeping so heavily since she tossed all night. She gets a curtain, and low, hushed voices for her questions, and it takes all his skill and patience to catch any of what’s being said.
What he hears doesn’t make any sense. But considering just how much painkiller must be in him, he’s surprised he can tell up from down.
…
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-25 04:18 am (UTC)But Iroh isn’t paying attention to him, not yet, he’s gone down to his knees at the girl’s side and Jet really sees her for the first time as she’s dragged into the ragged embrace of her uncle. This can’t be who Mushi had said he was looking for- for one thing, he’d said he was looking for his nephew, and this is-
Shit, that’s the princess the Earth King married, he’s seen the wedding banns where they were pasted up on walls in forgotten layers in the Lower Ring. She’s Fire Nation- and so was Mushi and seriously, what the hell were they doing here?
“Nephew,” Mushi is saying, and the girl, the really pregnant girl is turning to look straight at him. Him. She has a scar around one eye and a look that he’s seen on too many survivors’ faces. “This young man across the way is Jet. He helped me to find you.”
Jet recalls doing nothing of the sort- but then again, he found the Dai Li all by his own damn foolishness, and Smellerbee had said that she- he? –was another one of their playthings.
He swallows a battery of retorts as those yellow eyes flicker over him, that drawn, shocky face stills into a serene mask and she gives him a bow from where she sits, something hand-over-fist formal and foreign to his vocabulary.
“Thank you, Jet.” It sounds like there’s a lot of things she could add to that, with her low, just-raspy voice, but she leaves it there.
Uh.
“Don’t thank me,” he says, sincerely.
…
The next few- days? –blur together as he realizes just how little he can really move and how much the pain-potion is actually there just to keep him from flopping around, almost purely in self-defense because he’s feeling too clumsy and thick to do anything right.
Sometimes he’ll wake up to the sound of breathing, and sweat at the crackle of flames that are really just a row of candles in a steady holder. In and out, up and down, they grow and fade in a steady rhythm that devours the set, one after the other, like a drinker’s bottles.
It keeps the princess quiet. He watches her clutch her round stomach, wrinkle her brow- her expression will waver between devastation and determination at a moment’s notice before it finally slams into the eyes-closed mask of meditative serenity.
Her shoulders are wide and her chest is flat under that dress, pink silk that probably didn’t suit her even when she was done up prim and proper. Jet’s still not sure what that’s all about, but she’s not laying waste to the countryside and his dreams are probably scaring her about as much as hers scare him.
Once in a while, though, when he’s too-freshly dosed or the night’s too long and he can’t stand hearing it from his damned natural enemy he yells for her to shut up, won’t she please shut up!
There’s a fight in her face in response, and sometimes the polite lady wins and turns away- and then sometimes- sometimes she sneers at him and sparks grit out between her teeth, like she’d reach out and slap him if they weren’t across the room from each other.
Jet wonders why doesn’t she.
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-25 06:56 am (UTC)Marry me?
And now I am supposed to think the second prompt. I am right now empty.
(dear gad...)
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-25 07:07 am (UTC)Glad you like it. Zuko's all pissy that he didn't get to have a say this round, but he'll get his turn later^^
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-25 07:11 am (UTC)Yippee!
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 04:48 am (UTC)More topically, I love this. I love the way drugged!Jet barely questions a pregnant person being someone's nephew, and him having no idea what to do with a pregnant Fire Nation thing healing up with him, in the same room with him and his need to tug Zuko's pigtails.
Oh, and the mention of the banns. *heart*
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 04:52 am (UTC)Zuko: "Don't pull those."
Jet: *does so anyway, then yelps when said pigtail comes off in his hand*
Zuko: "I told you not to pull those."
(And don't get me wrong, torture is fun, but I like equal parts fluff and shatterglass ^^)
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 05:50 am (UTC)After this is all done, Jet's going to try to convince himself this was all a hallucination. And Zuko can't wait for the birth to happen so he can get back into boy clothes... preferably armor... preferably with pointy bits he can stick into his annoying erstwhile roommate's stomach.
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 05:57 am (UTC)Zuko: "...oh good lord I'm going to be a *parent*-"
Jet: "You're not doing it in the woods with no food and soldiers looking to mop you up. Count your lucky stars." *starts to glower, then realizes Zuko's hyperventilating* "Okay, okay, stop panicking-!"
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 06:21 am (UTC)Zuko: "I refuse to specify which kind of parent." also "I'll stop panicking when you learn to shut up..."
Jet: "Oh that's nice!"
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 06:23 am (UTC)Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 05:19 am (UTC)Can I ask what makes the banns heart-worthy?
Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 05:44 am (UTC)Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 05:45 am (UTC)Re: Egg and Ashes: Introductions (1/2)
Date: 2010-01-26 05:52 am (UTC)