she's the balm and you're the wound ; avatar: the last airbender ; mai/ty lee/azula ; 1/2.
a/n: idek if this is shippy enough to qualify, and so I apologize if it isn't.
"How is she," Mai asks dully, like it isn't the question that it is.
"Good," Ty Lee returns immediately, and she's doing that ridiculous everything is wonderful smile that she always does, even as the whole fucked-up truth of the matter shines wet and unshed in the whites of her eyes. "She's doing good. Well, okay - she's okay. I mean, she says she's not, but you know Azula," and Ty Lee twists a finger in the strands of her hair and looks down at the ground through her lashes, like she's trying to charm herself into believing the lie, "always so overdramatic."
Her voice is soft and feathered at the ends. Mai frowns and it doesn't change her face at all.
"Yeah," she says, "I know Azula." That's the problem.
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Ty Lee always asks her to come and Mai always makes up a reason why she can't, lies with a straight face that says I am lying, I am obviously lying and
( ... )
she's the balm and you're the wound ; avatar: the last airbender ; mai/ty lee/azula ; 2/2.
"Ty Lee," is all she says, after a moment, a whisper in a voice choked with disuse.
"I"m here." She comes out from behind Mai, cautiously at first, then springing forward like a Jack-in-the-box to kneel at Azula's side. "I'm here."
"How's your arm?" Azula doesn't look up from the floor when she speaks, and her whole countenance is edged with something that feels suspiciously like shame.
Ty Lee just leans in closer. "It's fine," she starts, but Azula huffs a disbelieving little laugh, and so she tries again. "I mean, it's healing. I had some help from Ka - from a waterbender and, and it'll be fine soon." Azula nods like she believes it, even though she probably doesn't, then lifts a hand to clutch at the sleeve of Ty Lee's shirt with dirty, unkempt fingernails, pulling her closer. Ty Lee lets herself be pulled. "It'll be fine," she repeats.
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Azula doesn't actually say I'm sorry but it's so loud in the cramped little cell, that as Mai
( ... )
AHHHHH FSB,NFSKNSLNGLDSNGLKDSNGLKDNSLGKDSLKGNSDLKGDSLGSDGNLKSDGNDKLSGLSDK PERFECTION omg no this is beautiful and flawless and i adore it and thank you and fldsgnslnsflnlfhnfdlkhndfkl /flings self against floor and sobs
a/n: idek if this is shippy enough to qualify, and so I apologize if it isn't.
"How is she," Mai asks dully, like it isn't the question that it is.
"Good," Ty Lee returns immediately, and she's doing that ridiculous everything is wonderful smile that she always does, even as the whole fucked-up truth of the matter shines wet and unshed in the whites of her eyes. "She's doing good. Well, okay - she's okay. I mean, she says she's not, but you know Azula," and Ty Lee twists a finger in the strands of her hair and looks down at the ground through her lashes, like she's trying to charm herself into believing the lie, "always so overdramatic."
Her voice is soft and feathered at the ends. Mai frowns and it doesn't change her face at all.
"Yeah," she says, "I know Azula." That's the problem.
---
Ty Lee always asks her to come and Mai always makes up a reason why she can't, lies with a straight face that says I am lying, I am obviously lying and ( ... )
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"Ty Lee," is all she says, after a moment, a whisper in a voice choked with disuse.
"I"m here." She comes out from behind Mai, cautiously at first, then springing forward like a Jack-in-the-box to kneel at Azula's side. "I'm here."
"How's your arm?" Azula doesn't look up from the floor when she speaks, and her whole countenance is edged with something that feels suspiciously like shame.
Ty Lee just leans in closer. "It's fine," she starts, but Azula huffs a disbelieving little laugh, and so she tries again. "I mean, it's healing. I had some help from Ka - from a waterbender and, and it'll be fine soon." Azula nods like she believes it, even though she probably doesn't, then lifts a hand to clutch at the sleeve of Ty Lee's shirt with dirty, unkempt fingernails, pulling her closer. Ty Lee lets herself be pulled. "It'll be fine," she repeats.
---
Azula doesn't actually say I'm sorry but it's so loud in the cramped little cell, that as Mai ( ... )
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omg no this is beautiful and flawless and i adore it and thank you and fldsgnslnsflnlfhnfdlkhndfkl /flings self against floor and sobs
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