[Fic]: Mistress Mary
Title: Mistress Mary
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Characters: Alak
Rating: G/K
Prompt: 51 - garden
Team: Earth Kingdom
Summary: Alak tends to his roommate's garden during the Occupation of Ba Sing Se.
Notes: Produced for atlaland bingo.
Alak blinked a few times as he stepped onto the roof of his apartment complex. The sun seemed far too bright when he hadn't seen it at all for the last week. Liu had finally given him permission to go home last night, though he'd had to bring Chatri and Lanh with him.
His fellow trainees were still asleep, however: Chatri in Hyun Su's bed and Lanh in a tangle of blankets on the floor. The early morning light was Alak's alone.
Yawning, he made his way to the garden Hyun Su kept.
In the madness surrounding the Fall, Alak actually hadn't seen his roommate and mentor. Still, he knew Hyun Su well enough to want to make sure the garden was taken care of. If nothing else, the older man would have one less thing to worry about when he returned from the Fire Nation.
He checked each of the bean poles to make sure they were doing all right, then watered them. Next were the daikon and the bamboo shoots, then the melons. After that came the few flowers Hyun Su grew to attract bees -- mountain mint, salvias, and--
Where had those roses come from?
"Chatri," he muttered, remembering who still slept downstairs. When had he come up here with those? He didn't remember the other trainee carrying them last night.
Shaking his head, he moved on to the castor beans, corander, pennyroyal and rue. He'd probably have to warn Lanh off the castor beans. Chatri too. Especially Chatri, really; it wouldn't surprise him if Lanh already knew castor was poisonous.
When he'd finished, he laid down to soak up a little sun, and wondered if Hyun Su would mind him adding toads to the garden. Probably the superintendent would. But since Chatri had added roses... maybe some tomatoes and basil, to repel aphids? He wished Hyun Su was here to ask. Well, maybe he could nip down to the Forum and ask some of the plant-sellers there.
Later. After work.
He sat up again and headed back inside to wake his fellow trainees. It was going to be a long day.
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Characters: Alak
Rating: G/K
Prompt: 51 - garden
Team: Earth Kingdom
Summary: Alak tends to his roommate's garden during the Occupation of Ba Sing Se.
Notes: Produced for atlaland bingo.
Alak blinked a few times as he stepped onto the roof of his apartment complex. The sun seemed far too bright when he hadn't seen it at all for the last week. Liu had finally given him permission to go home last night, though he'd had to bring Chatri and Lanh with him.
His fellow trainees were still asleep, however: Chatri in Hyun Su's bed and Lanh in a tangle of blankets on the floor. The early morning light was Alak's alone.
Yawning, he made his way to the garden Hyun Su kept.
In the madness surrounding the Fall, Alak actually hadn't seen his roommate and mentor. Still, he knew Hyun Su well enough to want to make sure the garden was taken care of. If nothing else, the older man would have one less thing to worry about when he returned from the Fire Nation.
He checked each of the bean poles to make sure they were doing all right, then watered them. Next were the daikon and the bamboo shoots, then the melons. After that came the few flowers Hyun Su grew to attract bees -- mountain mint, salvias, and--
Where had those roses come from?
"Chatri," he muttered, remembering who still slept downstairs. When had he come up here with those? He didn't remember the other trainee carrying them last night.
Shaking his head, he moved on to the castor beans, corander, pennyroyal and rue. He'd probably have to warn Lanh off the castor beans. Chatri too. Especially Chatri, really; it wouldn't surprise him if Lanh already knew castor was poisonous.
When he'd finished, he laid down to soak up a little sun, and wondered if Hyun Su would mind him adding toads to the garden. Probably the superintendent would. But since Chatri had added roses... maybe some tomatoes and basil, to repel aphids? He wished Hyun Su was here to ask. Well, maybe he could nip down to the Forum and ask some of the plant-sellers there.
Later. After work.
He sat up again and headed back inside to wake his fellow trainees. It was going to be a long day.