RL with Azula

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen waited in her room, necklace in hand. Azula would probably be here within minutes, if that.

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Azula in fact showed up less than thirty seconds after their conversation had ended.

"I knew you'd see things my way eventually. Now, the necklace."

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen sighed, stood, and held her hand out with the necklace, still holding on to it.

"I'll let go when I see Midori-san."

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Azula made a show of rolling her eyes. "Oh dear, are we back to this again? No."

[oceanicbutterfly]

"I have to be sure you won't just suddenly disappear before we get there."

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"We've been over this."

[oceanicbutterfly]

"You're being ridiculous. Where am I going to run away with it to in the Fire Nation?"

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She waved her free hand. "I don't know and I don't care. But I'm not freeing my hostage or taking you anywhere until you give me my necklace."

[oceanicbutterfly]

"I'm holding onto something you can't leave behind. Whether it's the necklace or your body is your choice."

Karen did an impressive job of not looking like she wanted to avoid the second option at all costs.

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"What makes you think I can't leave it behind?" Azula dropped it from her hand. "It's just a necklace."

[oceanicbutterfly]

"If you leave it, that defeats the whole purpose of coming here in the first place." Time to put her theory to the test. "Besides, it's from Ty Lee, so you don't want to lose it."

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She gave her an annoyed look. "What makes you think it's from Ty Lee? And besides, it's just a necklace. I only bothered to come after it to make a point."

[oceanicbutterfly]

"It's obvious. But, if you insist..." Concentrating on the idea that this would make Azula uncomfortable to keep her mind off how much she wasn't excited about it herself, Karen put the necklace over Azula's head. Instead of pulling her arms back, though, she put them around her, in what a casual observer might have understandably mistaken for a hug rather than what it really was, which was (of course) a way to ensure she wouldn't leave without her. "Let's go."

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"It is not obvi-" She stopped mid-sentence and yanked herself away. "Let go."

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen just grabbed her again, this time holding on more tightly.

"We have to touch for the worldhop anyway, right? Just hurry up and take me."

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"No." She jerked away again. "Grab on to me so... enthusiastically again and I will leave you behind."

[oceanicbutterfly]

"You're being childish." Karen grabbed her by the arm instead.

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"You're being creepy," Azula retorted. "And wait a moment." She pulled her arm away once more, then busied herself with tucking the necklace underneath her shirt, so that it wasn't visible (or snatchable).

[oceanicbutterfly]

"Creepy? I'm not the kidnapper." Karen grabbed the arm back as soon as Azula appeared to be done with it, and maintained a tight grip on it.

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"No, just a jewelry thief," Azula replied smoothly, before worldhopping them both to a small, out-of-the-way Fire Nation prison guarded by only a few soldiers and housing- at the moment- only a single prisoner.

[oceanicbutterfly]

"I'd say one is--" Karen stopped in mid-sentence as she realized they'd worldhopped.

"Well?"

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"She's in there," Azula gestured. "You wait here, and I'll bring her out."

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen waited.

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Azula came out presently, Midori in tow.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen braced herself. Sure enough, there was almost immediately a storm of babble about how a real student council president wouldn't let the students be kidnapped by crazy cosplaying stalkers although it was really the government's fault for not being tough enough on important crimes and wasting time shutting down her favorite file-sharing sites.

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Azula smirked. "I made sure she knew exactly who to fault for this, by the way."

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen sighed. "She's still standing next to you, you know."

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"Your point? Besides, it's not as if she's listening." Azula gave the girl a shove towards Karen. "I'm going to have to hold both of your arms to take you back."

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen caught her, upon which Midori started going on about how she could have been seriously hurt if Minazuki-senpai hadn't been there to catch her and Azula was going to hear from her lawyer. Karen shrugged and held out her arm.

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Azula grabbed both girls roughly by the forearm- then, after a moment's hesitation, looped her arm through Karen's so that her hand was free to hold the worldhopping feather.

"... What makes you think that that necklace was a gift from Ty Lee?"

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen leaned closer. "You thought of it as a good gift for a girlfriend, and you went to a lot of trouble to get it back."

There was more to it than that, but she didn't see any reason to give Azula more details on her thought process.

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She rolled her eyes. "I went to a lot of trouble to prove a point And I don't recall saying anything about the caliber of it as a gift." She ignored Midori's near-hysterical rantings about how she had been kidnapped by an evil lesbian.

[oceanicbutterfly]

"Then what is it? No, forget it, just take us home."

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And she did.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen folded her arms and stared at Azula.

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Azula rolled her eyes. "What?"

[oceanicbutterfly]

"I'm waiting for you to leave."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

And without another word, she did.