The Royals
Sokka asked his sister if her search for the avatar or the other royals were bringing any luck. She told him it wasn’t going very well, but she had been able to figure out that almost everyone went to their current school. Figure out as in her master giving her hints about where they might be, since he was in constant connection with the other masters. He didn’t mention the awkwardness between the blue spirit and himself.
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It was the next day, Sokka had gone out for a walk and had trusted Zuko for the secret that he was hoping to run into the blue spirit. Zuko knew he had to face Zuko eventually, but he wasn’t looking forward to it. Zuko decided that he probably wouldn’t get a better opportunity, so he changed and headed out.
Zuko brought a pen and a piece of paper, knowing Sokka wouldn’t recognize his handwriting because of two reasons. Number one was that he was taught to write like a crown prince by his father, so he hid how royally he wrote. Number two was that they did all their schoolwork in computers which was talented of helping the prince hiding his writing.
He jumped down of a roof and startled the nonbender.
“Exactly the person I wanted to meet, blue!” Sokka shouted as soon as he saw Zuko. “I’m going to call you blue. Unless you tell me not to.” Sokka shouted happily. “Exactly, I didn’t think so” Sokka grinned.
Zuko pointed for Sokka to follow him. They went to a spot of grass located in the middle of town.
Zuko wrote Sokka a note ‘Why did you want to meet me?’
Sokka replied. “Wow, where did you learn to write like that? It’s very fancy” He looked at Zuko who immediately wrote down ‘It doesn’t matter.’ And passed Sokka the note.
Sokka frowned. “I’m seriously curious, you know any royalty?” When Zuko didn’t respond Sokka decided to talk again. “I wanted to ask you a favor, I know, I know, you don’t owe me anything, but I need your help.”
Zuko quickly scribbled down ‘What is it?’
“You can’t tell anyone this but… my sister is royalty. She hasn’t found anyone else yet. But she did manage to find out the fire nation, earth kingdom and avatar is at our school.”
Zuko wrote down ‘I already know two of them. I’ll make sure your sister gets quickly included.’
When Sokka finished reading his answer he smiled and said thank you. Before quickly he tried to take Zukos mask off. He succeeded, but Zuko turned around so fast and picked his mask back up, fixed it and started walking away.
Sokka screamed loudly “I’m sorry, blue. I had to try!” before walking back to his dorm.
Zuko came back first, he was sweating because he had done parkour on the way back. He decided to take a shower.
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When Zuko came out of the shower Sokka was talking to Toph while wildly swinging his arms around. “…And then he just left!”. Zuko had obviously forgotten extra clothes because he was just wearing a towel from the waist down, and man those abs. Sokka couldn’t help but stare at his body. His skin had so many scars, all over it, his beautiful pale skin. His hair was still wet from the shower and Sokka wondered how it would be to run his fingers through it. His lips looked soft and perfectly kissable. His eyes looked like honey. Sweet and beautiful. Sokka found himself staring and blushed. He turned around to continue his conversation with Toph.
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When Zuko was done getting dressed he came back to talk to Toph. He asked Sokka if he could talk alone to Toph for a minute.
“I’m assuming that this is a royalty talk.” Toph already looked bored.
“Sokka asked me to find the avatar, you and me. And he trusted me with the knowledge that Katara, his sister, is the waterbender.” Zuko said quickly, but in a hushed tone.
“Oh, crap. We have to talk to her as quickly as possible.” Toph responded.
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“Sokka!!! You won’t believe what happened today. I found a note in my locker saying: We’re royals. You’re too right?! Meet us” Katara stopped for a while before continuing. “Don’t tell anyone we’re royals. Thx!”
“What did you skip?” Sokka asked.
“Our meeting location and time.” Katara answered.
“That makes sense. Now, next time don’t barge into my dorm randomly with your emergency key. Okay?” Sokka asked calmly. “Also I finally got Zuko to sleep, he has a lot of nightmares, and you probably just woke him up.”
As for the perfect timing Zuko came out of the room asking what was up with all the noise. Sokka noticed his cute messy hair sticking in the air and the sweatpants he was wearing with a huge t-shirt. How did he manage to be so cute?! Sokka told him Katara just got worked up about something, he should go back to sleep. Zuko nodded and disappeared back into his room.
Another thing Sokka knew about Zuko was that he didn’t want anyone to go in his room. He never left the door open. And he always, always locked the door, even when he wasn’t inside. The truth is Sokka just wanted to know what was in that room. He had always been curious and the impossibility of entering the room just made it even worse.
When Katara had left she had told him they weren’t meeting up right away and that she would tell Sokka everything about her time there. For now she was going to Aang. Aang was a bald air nomad but couldn’t bend. Katara had been visiting him a lot lately and Sokka knew she probably liked him, he didn’t mind though. The air nomad was very nice, he was always happy and smiled a lot.