||Flameo 002|| Action/Accidental Voice

[flameoroku]

[It's nighttime in Luceti and Roku's sitting atop the roof of House 56. Why was he up there? Probably bored and was watching the stars or maybe just checking the damage done by Zuko's attempt to firebend. Possibility of leaks are not fun...and no, he's not holding off on that talk he was suppose to have with Zuko, not at all.

It's more like...where do you even start? A war, Azula, grandchildren...his grandson being labeled a traitor. He sighs and flops on his back.]

A lot sure can happen in more then a hundred years.

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[restoremyhonour.livejournal.com]

[With the arrival of Katara trying to calm down Roku, Zuko lets her do the talking and has tried to do something about controlling the flaming house. Sokkas efforts do much more to stop the fire though, so he turns back to watch the discussion between Katara and Roku. For now he's not adding to the discussion.]

[markofthebrave]

[And so, Katara, who is slightly shakey and a bit more emotional than she should be - her home, destroyed by firebenders again - walks up and takes Roku by the shoulders. She is concerned and angry.]

Are you all right?

[flamedork.livejournal.com]

I...I think so. What just happened-...

...

[markofthewise]

[Oh, Sokka is no dummy and he has a good guess what happened. So he hobbles over to Zuko and grabs his sleeve to turn him around.]

What did you do!?

[restoremyhonour.livejournal.com]

Answered his questions. [Zuko is still annoyed about Roku's deniyal of everything, so your getting yelled at Sokka.]

[markofthewise]

And caused him to blow up the house! [Is Sokka yelling? Oh yes. This is the second time a firebender has tried to burn his house down. This one more than last.] What did you tell him.

[restoremyhonour.livejournal.com]

That I left the Fire Nation to teach Aang firebending. That Sozin started the war by wiping out the Air Nomads. That he can check with anyone here about whether Sozin did that. And all he can say is Sozin would never do that. This is why he died, because he couldn't cope with Sozin being ruthless. [Ah, a yelling match between Sokka and Zuko. It's about time he had one with Sokka, normally they seem reserved for Katara.]

[markofthewise]

And let me guess. You told him about the bit where Sozin killed him, right? You idiot!

[restoremyhonour.livejournal.com]

Well what was I meant to say? He was refusing to listen when I told him Sozin started the war.

[markofthewise]

Nothing! You say NOTHING, Zuko! You don't tell someone that their best friend left them to die in the middle of an erupting volcano!

[restoremyhonour.livejournal.com]

I didn't tell him that. I didn't say anything about the volcano.

[markofthewise]

Right. He decided to just go in the Avatar State for no reason at all. And now look [He gestures to what USED to be the front of their house.] We might have a draft tonight!

[restoremyhonour.livejournal.com]

I didn't know he would go into the avatar state. I did tell him to go ask someone else about it. [Zuko stares at the house and stops yelling for the monent.] We could try to patch it up until it rebuilds itself.

[markofthewise]

Zuko. You... just... [He slaps his hand over his face and sighs loudly.]

Forget it! From now on, you don't get to explain anything to anyone!

[markofthebrave]

[Katara drops her hands.] You went into the Avatar state. [You burned our house!]

I guess you haven't learned to control it yet. [She's not going to blame him. Much as she wants to.]

[flamedork.livejournal.com]

I did? That's the first time then.



...Uh, sorry. I don't know what came over me...

[markofthebrave]

...with Aang, it happened whenever he got really upset. [Her gaze flickers to their smoldering house.] But... he never did anything like this. Although I guess he came close a couple of times.

[Her gaze returns to him.] Do you know what the Avatar state is for? It usually comes to protect the Avatar if they feel like they're in a lot of danger.

[flamedork.livejournal.com]

...I guess, hearing what my best friend did became too much. I almost wish I didn't know.

Yea, I know how it's triggered...I guess my beliefs were in danger so it just came out.

[markofthebrave]

[There's a long pause.] ...I'm sorry that you had to hear it like that. It's not fair to you.

[She hears Sokka yelling at Zuko in the background and can't help but glance at their house again -- she can see a bit of her room there, through the lovely smoldering hole in the wall and she just... sighs a little.] Listen - it didn't happen yet. Not for you. So we'll give you what time you need to adjust to it, but... it's hard for all of us. We've been dealing with what happened... our whole lives.

[A quick, tentative smile.] But it did work out. And it's going to work out. So you can hold on to that, if you can.

[flamedork.livejournal.com]

If you say so.



Ah...is there anything I can do to help here?

[markofthewise]

[And here's an extremely, extremely upset Sokka storming over. He gives Roku a scathing glance before turning to Katara.]

Why do we let Zuko live with us, again?

[markofthebrave]

[Sigh. She glances at the house - and her heart hurts a little.] Because. He's our friend. Even if he is an idiot.

[She glances back to Roku... and yeah, there's a lot of work that needs to be done now. They need to remove all the smoldering wood. They need to set up some sort of tarp. They need to clean up the inside of the house and throw out what can't be saved. But.] If you need some time, we'll understand. There's plenty to do. We'll be at it for a while.

[flamedork.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't want you two cleaning up the mess I made, yourselves...if this house can still be saved that is. You guys have been good to me and gave me a place to stay afterall.

[markofthewise]

Yeah, yeah. The place will be fixed up in a few days. Worse case scenario, we can steal some rooms at the housing next door until the Malnosso do their thing on it. [More importantly, he fetches some ice cubes from his pocket.] Hey Katara. Do you mind? [He holds out his burned hand.] Doorknob was hot.

[markofthebrave]

[If they'd walked away from every house that a firebender had destroyed, they'd have run out of habitable space in the South Pole. And just as she was about to reassure Roku that it would be fine, Sokka shows her his burn.]

Oh, you idiot. You know better than that! What were you thinking?

[With that she puts her hand on top of the ice cubes and gets to work, melting them. It won't take long, this is the kind of damage her healing works with best.]