The Kent farm was warm and safe and friendly; sleeping in an abandoned house that still seems to smell of blood Steph shouldn't feel safer, but she does.
"Kiss it better!" is a common demand when either of the girls get hurt, and Sokka is just as much of a target as Mommy is when it comes to delivering; it's no surprise, then, when Steph gets a splinter during scavenging, that Hana and Loo grab her hands and drag her to their Unca for help, though neither girl can figure out why the adults start to blush.
In spar they bruise each other, in spar they tear skin and strain muscle, in spar Steph is fierce and wild and Sokka fearless and unstoppable -- but when they're done, when they're patching each other up, both the light and the dark hands are tender and gentle, and Mel rolls her eyes at the pair of them.
They've broken bones and torn muscle, scratched and bitten by wretches, shot by other humans on the street - the first time Steph ever hears Sokka scream is when he doesn't have a scratch on him but Mel, crumpled in the dirt after a wave of wretches, is in his arms.
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