wherein i contemplate failure to meet deadlines...

[redriding_freak]

...with a fic meme!
which was shamelessly stolen from ivy_tsuta ’s journal; feel free to do it yourself as well, it’s fun! ♥

post the first line of a story in here, and i’ll write the next one (might not necessarily mean “line”, as it may also be paragraphs, segments, etc.
no context or prompts, though, but feel free (and I encourage it) to specify a pairing

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trying to kiss the sunshine

[redriding_freak]

Zuko knew better than to ask the Avatar for ideas where romance was concerned. It was, after all, what had landed him in this mess of an affair to begin with. But since they were a hundred miles from anywhere already, in a cavern full of glowing jelly-crystals, with no real deadline to return home, he supposed it couldn’t hurt…

“Tell me again why we’re supposed to be in our underwear for this ‘demonstration’ of yours?”

Aang didn’t have much of a reply for his impatient lover of a Firelord Zuko so, instead, he laughed into the hollow of the firebender’s neck, reveling in the feeling of the warm skin against his own. He loved the way Zuko’s skin tightened under his soft touches as he made an impromptu study on the topography of his face, the hills and valleys of his scar; his other hand climbed and slid the curves and kinks that molded the forms of Zuko’s body, his toned muscles.

Zuko let out a strangled groan and decided to grab Aang’s hand as it swept over his lower lip and entwined his fingers with the Avatar’s as his other hand traveled the blue of the arrow tattooed on his forehead from memory, under the dim light of the crystals, chasing it to the back of his head until he couldn’t see it.

Now the young Firelord felt more accustomed to this: the intimacy of being (almost quite literally so) naked with Aang, pleasantly drowned in the throes of young love-this didn’t feel like him at all, too new, too strange, but he liked it. He placed kisses down along the arrow of his happy lover, down his nose and when he tried to claim Aang’s lips, the Avatar grabbed his face with his index and thumb holding his cheeks.

Aang smiled and laughed, saying in a voice that was lightly squawky and high, “See? This way I can feel you better.”

And suddenly he pulled Zuko into a kiss, molding his lips to Zuko’s with frightening accuracy and tenderness; tattooed hands wrapped around Zuko’s neck, pulling him closer, and he couldn’t help but wrap his arms around Aang’s back and hum at the skin-on-skin contact. (This still didn’t serve to explain why the cavern setting, but the closeness was nice.)

(oh, my first work for the a:tla fandom! i hope you enjoyed it, since your opening line was really good. ♥)