So little to think about, so much time. Wait no, scratch that. Reverse it.

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Characters: Aang and Zuko, Sokka and Aang
Date: Shortly after that kiss
Location: Aang's house
Situation: After walking in on that kiss, and walking out on Katara, Aang just goes home. / Then he goes out again, seeking advice.
Warnings/Rating: Aangst


The house is empty, save for one small monk child and his pet lemur. In theory it should have a banished Fire Prince in it as well, but Zuko had other ideas

Other ideas that involved kissing Wan, which in and of itself was weird enough, but that's not what's hanging the most heavily on Aang's mind at this moment. No, he's rather a bit more fixated on watching his best friend's reaction to having also walked in on the kissing.

Aang's mind swam and his heart hurt. He felt, for lack of a better term, crushed.
And so he sat curled on his couch. The lemur on his shoulder attempted to comfort the boy by snuggling close, and every now and again fetching something random from various other parts of the house.

Comments

[12goingon113]

Aang sits up and gives Zuko the weirdest look.

"What? NO! That would be...we're the same person!"

See? It's not because Wan is a dude, but because he's another Avatar.

"That'd be like thinking of Korra the same way I think about Katara!"

The thing is, he doesn't even realize what he's just owned up to.

[lordhotman]

Yeeeah that would be pretty weird.

But then Zuko blinks, his eyes widening a little as he remembers the look on Katara's face.

"You're... In love with Katara?"

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His mouth opens, but no lie comes out. In fact nothing comes out. He just sort of stammers like a fish freshly out of water. A slow, yet powerful blush begins to overtake him.

Then, as if the couch had just swallowed him whole, he disappears from view.

So yes. Yes he is, in fact, in love with Katara.
Guess Zuko didn't know him as well as he thought.

[lordhotman]

No. Apparently he didn't. Because Zuko is staring at Aang with his mouth hanging open.

"Uh..."

Pause.

"You haven't told her have you."

[12goingon113]

"...no." He sounds just as muffled and miserable as before, only this time its in mortification rather than anything else.

[lordhotman]

"Why not?"

A simple question and yet so complicated at the same time.

[12goingon113]

He shrugs, not that Zuko can get a really good view of that from where he is.

"Because there wasn't time? I didn't even really realize it until Guru Patik told me I had to either give her up or never control the Avatar State."

Yeah, Aang jeopardized the balance of the world because of the love he felt for one girl.

[lordhotman]

"I see."

He knew vaguely about what Aang was talking about.

"I don't know how she feels, or even how I feel. But you should talk to her. I promise I won't do anything to come between you two."

The last thing he wanted was to hurt Aang and make their relationship even worse.

[12goingon113]

"I think it's pretty clear how she feels, don't you?"

She did see you kissing someone else, and it shocked her so much she fled the house for her favorite place.

[lordhotman]

Zuko lets out a flustered sigh while running a hand through his hair.

"I don't know what I'm supposed to do," he admits.

[12goingon113]

"Well what ever you choose to do, don't be aloof. That never works out the way you hope it will."

[lordhotman]

Zuko gives Aang a weird look.

"Why would I want to be aloof?"

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"I don't know, I don't know anything about girls.
...
Or boys for that matter."

[lordhotman]

"Girls are a pain," he says as he flops down onto the other end of the sofa, his arms on the back of it.

"I've... never done anything with a guy before."

He's not really sure what to think about it. Zuko was quiet as he reflected on what happened.

[12goingon113]

Aang scoots back on the sofa, propping his back on the arm.

"Really. Not anything."

Aang was there, Zuko. let's not forget that.

[lordhotman]

And now Zuko looks annoyed.

"You know... like that. Kissing and stuff."

Gosh Aang.

[12goingon113]

"But I just saw you kissing."

[lordhotman]

And now Zuko's face turns a bit red.

"Yeah. That was the first time."

[12goingon113]

"...oh."

And here Aang flusters a bit himself, because instantly he's reminded of his own first kiss and what it would have been like if there'd been any witnesses. Thankfully it was pitch black under the mountain, and the only one there other than him and Katara was Appa.

[lordhotman]

"Yeah."

So. That had been pretty embarrassing. Not to mention it had killed the entire moment, and Zuko wasn't really sure if Wan had... really meant any of it or not. The look on his face was... disheartening.

[12goingon113]

"But it wasn't your first first kiss, was it?"

Because...now Aang is all curious, and Zuko is sharing. Plus, this line of further questioning has this amazing DISTRACTION power about it.

[lordhotman]

"No, it wasn't. I've kissed two girls."

One of them more than once. Zuko is not really sure why he's talking to Aang about this of all people. Though if he stopped to think about it, he practically was talking to Wan. Sort of. But he doesn't think about it.

[12goingon113]

"Oh."

Then he lets that information sit, and stew, and...while he does that a very vivid memory of how Aang found both Katara and Zuko in the catacombs under Ba Sing Se begins to form in his mind.

They were so close.
She was reaching for him.

All while bathed in the green glow of the crystals, just like the Cave of Two Lovers...

"oh."

[lordhotman]

Unfortunately and fortunately, Zuko can't read minds, so he has no idea what's going on in that bald head of his. Just that he said 'oh' twice.

"Oh, what?"

Clearly Aang had come to some sort of conclusion about him kissing girls?

[12goingon113]

"Hmm?" he says looking up and over at Zuko, almost as if he'd forgotten he was there.

Then he remembered.

"Nothing. It's...it's nothing."