Visit {BACKDATED TO 12/29/08}

[sears]

After a brief meeting with a visiting general and a look over a few reports he had given her (she could study them more closely later; she had time), Azula summoned the royal palanquin to take her over to Ty Lee's house. Once there, a servant let her in. She made her way up to Ty Lee's room, where she knocked briskly on the door.

"It's me. I apologize for being slightly late; the meeting ran over."

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[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"It's alright," Ty Lee said, opening the door. "I can't wait to show you."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"What is it?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"Well..." Ty Lee began, rubbing the back of her head. "Just take a seat and I'll show you."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula looked at her skeptically (and made a mental note to keep a close eye on her in case of any chi-blocking attempts), but sat down in a chair. "It's not that... chocobo thing, is it?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"Runt? No, no." Ty Lee shook her head quite violently at that. She went across the room to a desk and started looking through some things. As it was, Ty Lee was a bit of a pack rat and finding what she was looking for would tke a few minutes at best.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula just sat back and waited.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"This!"

She turned around and proudly showed Azula the music box in the shape of a circus big top that Tamaki gave her.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula looked at it, unimpressed. "... Pretty. What about it?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

Ty Lee set it on the floor, turning the pin in the back and flipped the lid. On the inside, a carousel moved around while generic circus music played. Ty Lee, in her normal energetic way, pointed at it quite proudly.

"Not pretty, Azula. Very pretty."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula shrugged. "Fine, it's very pretty. What's your point?" She paused for a moment, thinking. "Do you miss the circus? Is that it?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

Ty Lee blinked. "I do kinda miss the circus but that's not it. I got it for Christmas and I thought you should see it!" Besides...I know you wouldn't want to do what I wanted to do, anyways.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I see. Who from?" There's another, longer pause this time. "... You miss the circus, and yet you haven't gone back. Why? Your part in the war is essentially over; there's nothing to keep you here anymore."

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"Tamaki." Ty Lee shrugged, she didn't really have an answer to that. "Well, I'm your girlfriend and all, now. My sisters are older now, most of them are hardly home any more so it's not like before I left the first time.."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Ah, him. He's quite similar to you, you know."

Azula leaned forward slightly, resting an elbow on her knee and cupping her chin in her hand. "We still kept in touch when you left the first time. Mai was all the way in New Ozai, and we kept in touch with her, too. Is it really a matter of communication?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"He is, isn't he?"

Ty Lee walked closer to Azula and leaned a bit on the chair. "Yeah, we did keep in touch. But it's not exactly that, Azula."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula looked up at her. "Hm? Then what is it?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"I mean, wouldn't it be awkward...spending the night then?" Ty Lee scratched her chin. "I mean, at the circus someone can't just go off on their own for a while...there's practice always to be done and well, I guess you could visit but it would take a while."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula nodded, but her expression was a bit skeptical. "You'd stay just for that?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"I would stay for other things, but I can't think of anything else right now."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I see."

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"It's true."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

She leaned back in the chair. "I never said it wasn't."

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

Ty Lee leaned over and gave Azula a quick peck on the cheek. "It makes sense, right?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"In a sense, I suppose. As much as anything having to do with that sort of thing can."

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"Okay."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"So. Is there anything else you wanted to show me?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"Not really..." Ty Lee looked a bit guilty. "Isn't it pretty, though?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I said it was." Azula studied her carefully, wondering where the guilty look was coming from. "... What?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

Ty Lee sat down, without realizing the breach of personal space, on Azula's lap. "Nothing."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"All right." She shifted a bit awkwardly to the side, so that Ty Lee was squeezed next to her instead.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

Well, that was no good. She leaned against Azula some more.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula slid an arm around her.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"Are you staying?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Azula shrugged. "I can."

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"I'd like you to."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

She lightly rested her temple against the top of Ty Lee's head. "All right. Then I will."

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"Should we go the bed or not?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Sure." Azula untangled herself from Ty Lee, standing up. "... Of course, I don't have my robe."

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"You can borrow one of mine," Ty Lee said as she got up as well.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"And where would I change?"

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

"It's called the bathroom, Azula."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

She rolled her eyes. "All right, all right. Just don't give me anything pink to wear."