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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Part Three of Something: The Reveal (or, Southern Raiders)
Date: 2010-02-06 03:48 am (UTC)Fwwoomph!
The royal crown’s point digs into rock, and a terrifying slide into oblivion comes to a halt.
“Of course she did.”
Zuka watches as her sister glares up hatefully, the fire-points of her eyes disappearing in the distance as Appa flies them away from the battleground that the Western Air Temple has become. It’s only as she loses sight that the adrenaline and the wild leaping and jostling and the stark raving terror catch up and bend her over the saddle-rail, retching.
“Uhgh-!”
“What-“
“-oh, gross-!”
“Problems, princess?” Jet remains unsympathetic, whether by habit or inclination Zuka finds doesn’t really matter. He’s shut up a little since the thing with the Sun Warriors, but still seems to take her presence as a personal affront that can’t be mitigated.
“…nothing you need to be concerned about,” she mutters, and curls in on herself.
It doesn’t really catch up with her until later. Later when the stories have been traded around the campfire, and Katara lets slip just enough to find her mother’s killer. Jet sneaks in on the act, grim and grinning- the Rough Rhinos are deployed too far away to be able to reach in a reasonable time, but they make special note of where for after. After the world’s saved, after they’ve got the leisure for vengeance.
Jet’s been taking it in bits and pieces for years- he can wait a little longer for the big score. Katara, though- she hasn’t got that. It’s not just the whole of the world she’s fighting against- there’s one man who took her mother away, and now that she knows, she can’t let it go, not and be who they need her to be. She needs this- and it’s something Zuka can give.
Zuka guides the mission, tries not to push herself too hard, but someone has to be the restraining hand, especially where Jet’s involved- and that requires more acrobatics than is recommended for someone in her state. It all finally hits on the way back from Yon Rah’s quiet little village, when she doubles over in the saddle, biting her tongue in pain- and newly-risen fear.
Shit shit I knew this was a bad idea but it had to get done I’m sorry I’m so sorry...
“Katara- help me, please-!”
The other girl shakes out of her reverie at the reigns, still trying to make sense of her own decisions, her deferred vengeance- Zuka needs her help, and the fact that she dares ask, much less in that tone, means it’s serious.
They end up all three in the saddle while Appa makes his way in a vaguely homeward direction. Jet’s holding her head in his lap, her shoulders, calloused fingers dug into her sleeves while Katara looks her over.
“-didn’t mean to jump around so much but things kept happening-!” Zuka hisses, trying to calm down like Katara keeps telling her she needs to.
“Shh, sh- this isn’t too bad… how far along are you?” she asks, and Jet’s looking over this scene with an expression that blends mystification with disbelief.
“Since when are you pregnant?!”
“Four months, twenty-three days and this morning,” Zuka says offhandedly, and bites back a moan of relief when Katara counters a new wave of cramp handily. If the Water Tribe girl is managing it so easily, then maybe it’s not too late...
Jet’s still as a stone under her head and she swallows words and fears and tries to concentrate on letting Katara do her work. The stars fly overhead, and Zuka wonders why he hasn’t said anything else- he certainly had plenty to say when he first thought she was Fire Nation, had first betrayed him by not being what he thought she was.
She wonders why he’s still holding on to her.
The trouble passes before they make it back, and Katara tells her to rest carefully, she and the baby should be fine but she’s not to do anything strenuous. Zuka nods, exhausted, and Jet’s the one who helps her stagger to her tent without saying a thing, who pinches out the light- who stays with her.
It can’t last, but like the one night that started this whole mess- it feels good right now.
Re: Part Three of Something: The Reveal (or, Southern Raiders)
Date: 2010-02-06 06:26 am (UTC)It seems now that the whole Avatar-fandom has joined in to the effort to cheer me up. ^^
Re: Part Three of Something: The Reveal (or, Southern Raiders)
Date: 2010-02-06 06:31 am (UTC)Yes, yes it will.
Re: Part Three of Something: The Reveal (or, Southern Raiders)
Date: 2010-03-21 02:16 am (UTC)Re: Part Three of Something: The Reveal (or, Southern Raiders)
Date: 2010-03-21 07:35 am (UTC)Re: Part Three of Something: The Reveal (or, Southern Raiders)
Date: 2010-10-09 03:42 am (UTC)I'd love to see the Agni Kai between Azula and Zuka, or hell, just Azula's reaction to finding out she's an aunt to a half-Earth Kingdom brat and further down the line of succession to boot. XD
Re: Part Three of Something: The Reveal (or, Southern Raiders)
Date: 2010-10-09 04:44 am (UTC)Hm- I just wonder if it'll play out the same way (clearly, a rewatch is in order!).