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[soupbender]

Who: soupbender, sokka_the_wise, and honorinflames.
What: Dinner.
When: Sometime.. last week.
Where: Out by the lake.
Rating: PG? PG-13? They're kids. :T

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[sokka_the_wise]

Through the door came a yell, though no one accompanied it in person just yet. "Hold on, I'm almost ready!"

Almost? How about not at all?

Sokka had been spending every moment since his sister had asked him to dinner with Zuko, worried and second-guessing himself. Was it smart to meet with their enemy? No. But Katara was going, and he wasn't going to allow her to do it alone.

Dressed in his traditional garb, the young warrior took one last look in the mirror, adjusted his warrior's wolf tail, and then answered the door. "Hey."

At first, he spied suspiciously in both directions, expecting to see Zuko, but finding no Fire Prince, he smiled tightly at his sister and non-verbally offered to take the basket. "C'mon, let's get this over with."

[soupbender]

"Get this over with?" Briefly, Katara couldn't decide if she was irritated or amused, passing the basket over to Sokka and folding her arms behind her back as she lead him out of the castle and toward the lake. They were friends back home, and in Paradisa? They were all each other had.

She had made it her personal mission to reconnect them, to show Zuko that he had friends in them -- whether he liked it or not.

"We're friends, Sokka. Back at home, and we can be here, too. He should be waiting at the lake for us." Hopefully, at least. "Try to be civil?"

[sokka_the_wise]

"Try to be--?!" He barely stopped himself from flinging the basket. "Last I checked, he was the one with the problem being civil. Or don't you remember when he--" Here he was counting on the fingers on his free hand as he precariously balanced the basket with his other. "--attacked our village, harassed Gran Gran and Aang, nearly burned Kyoshi Island to ashes, and chased us until we were blue in the face. And that was just our first impression of him!"

Sokka grumbled. "Look, I'll be civil, but I don't have to like him. I'm only going because you asked me to."

[soupbender]

Katara whirled at him at that, throwing one hand up to stop him in the hall -- and to keep an eye on the basket. It wasn't as if she couldn't just wish another one up, but it wasn't like she wanted to go picking up rice and fruit and chicken from the floor of the hallways.

"Do you remember the part where he defected? Have you forgotten how he taught Aang firebending, and helped us train to fight the Fire Nation? He was confused, Sokka, and the spirits know I had enough trouble coming to terms with that -- but deep down, he's a good person, and he's not going to be happy until he finds that in himself."