001 [Accidental Voice]

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[It’s been a fairly quiet morning, people just starting to get up for the day when over the journals there is the gentle sound of breathing. It sounds like someone (or someones) fell asleep with a journal open. After a short while there is the sound of a thud, like someone got pushed into a wall.]

Guh - gah! GET OFF ME, YOU CREEP!

Ouch Katara…

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[In the bedroom next door, Sokka wakes up in a start to the sound of yelling. He doesn't waste any time and is out his door and through Katara's on the other, forgoing any sense of privacy. In his hands, he wields an empty sheath. He's... not that awake yet.]

HANDS OFF MY SISTER!

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[Katara is in her night clothes which - in the summer - consist of little more than her bindings and a pair of short shorts. The blanket it is in a tumble by her feet, and it's clear that she's angrily kicked it off. The water from Winry's fountain at the foot of her bed is in the process of being poured back.]

Sokka! It's just Zu-- [She notices the empty sheath.] What are you doing?

[Whirling back to Zuko.] And you! What did you think you were doing!?!

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[Zuko is looking around the room still not awake. But awake enough to realise that this isn't his room from the Fire Lords palace. It looks somewhat familiar, but his sleepy brain refuses to figure out why. Oh well, he'll just turn to the watersibs who are busy yelling at him.]

I'm not touching your sister! And where am I?

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[Sokka stares at Zuko and Katara for a moment... and then his empty sheath. Which he lowers and groans.]

You're in my sister's room, genius. [He tries to keep from yawning, but it doesn't work.]

Just... get out here before you wake up the whole house. [He steps out into the hallway, expecting Zuko to follow.]

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[As Katara slowly starts to wake up - she is NOT a morning person - a few key factors surface.

1) Zuko was not in her bed when she went to sleep.
2) Zuko was not in LUCETI when she went to sleep.
3) That means... and that's about when the shirtlessness and New Feather ensemble registers.
4) .../BLUSH

She turns to the side, covers her face with her hand, and groans in an eerie unconscious imitation of her brother.

5) She really wants to punch Zuko right now.
6) ...she doesn't know if this is her Zuko, if he remembers anything from the time before or if he's from a time when they were -]

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[Her head hurts. Yes, just her head and not her heart at all.

She straightens up and faces him, still faintly blushing. But the best way through this is to power through it.]

You're in Luceti. Ring any bells?

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[Luceti... Something about that sounds familiar, but with his brain still asleep or wondering how he moved from his bed into Katara's, he's not going to be fast to remember... Still something about that name sounds awfully familiar.]

No. Should it, Moon Girl? [The response to Katara rolls off his tongue without a second though, and he's not sure where that nickname comes from. His voice loses some of it's sharp edge as he says it, making it sound rather friendly, and a slightly cheeky smile passes over Zuko's face. He rolls off of the bed and follows Sokka out into the hallway.]

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[Sokka's vision actually gets a little blurry in how angry he is hearing Zuko use the term 'Moon Girl'. It may have been over a year ago and that stuff was behind them, but he had hardly forgotten that it was partially Zuko's fault the Moon Spirit died. If he hadn't taken off with Aang, He and Katara would have been there to at least try to ward off Zhao and his soldiers.

Almost angry enough to yell at him over it. Or punch him, perhaps. But... he doesn't. Through gritted teeth, he just offers:]

Just go sit down.

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[Katara's reaction to hearing that, meanwhile, is totally different. It hadn't been that long ago when he'd given her that nickname - though it wasn't something she thought about, as she tried not to think about him at all after he disappeared. Instead she feels - not unpleasantly warm.

He remembers?

But then she gets a good look at him as he stands up and walks out of the room... all his scars from his time with Aku and Yuber are gone. He just has the one - faded, even more faded? - from the time in her future when he saved her life.

Mute in her confusion, she doesn't think to put anything on over her night clothes as she follows them out, too muddled to even form a question... for now.]

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[Zuko assumes that Sokka is angry about him being in Katara's room, although he has no clue how he got there, and so as he passes Sokka to go sit down he mutters at him.] It's not like I know how I got there.

[The movement into the rest of the house however brings to Zuko's attention how little he is wearing, and instead of sitting down turns around to face Sokka and Katara.] Where are my clothes?

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[Sokka doesn't say anything to that, but instead ducks back into his own room. He tosses his sheath on his bed, grabs his hair tie, and quickly digs out his old Fire Nation tunic from the bottom of a drawer, as well as one of his own of Water Tribe design to wear. By the time Zuko is asking for clothes, Sokka is walking out into the living area and tosses the shirt at him.]

At a store. You can use that for now. [Fortunately it doesn't take Sokka long to get ready. He slides on his tunic and then ties his hair back in place. He almost looks presentable.]

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[Katara, meanwhile, sinks into the corner of their couch, curling her knees up beneath her and looking for all the world like someone had just hit her on the head.

What is this, she doesn't even--]

What's the last thing that you remember?

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Thanks [Zuko will take that offered tunic Sokka and put it on.]

Before ... [Awkward pause and some hand waving from Zuko for a moment as he struggles with finding the words to adequatly describe the morning.] ... this morning? Going to bed last night in my room in the Fire Lords Palace.

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[Sokka grumpily plops down in the chair. He shouldn't be mad at Zuko though. Most of his anger is being fueled by the fact it's the morning.]

Well, this isn't the Fire Palace. Or the Fire Nation, or our world for that matter.

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[Katara winces a little at how bluntly Sokka puts it, but still just... feels kind of lost. She mutters:]

At least we're not enemies, when you're from.

[Now that he's clothed, she can't stop herself from looking at him - at places that she can't see - for the scars that he should have... but doesn't.]

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I can tell that. [Katara your scrutiny is making him slightly uncomfortable.] We're in a place in Luceti.

[Now if only he could remember what that sounds so familiar.]