Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ Fire Flakes ❯ Boxed Lunch ( Chapter 11 )

Title: Boxed Lunch

Author: Sephira jo

Rating: G

Words: 265

Warning: Focuses on Mai and Ty Lee and Azula.

Author's Notes: For challenge #57 “You and Me” on theavatar100 group on livejournal. I hope it lives up to expectations. And all that jazz. Features Mai, Ty Lee and Zuko.

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar; I'm not making any money off of this.

 

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Mai stood around the corner a carefully crafted box in her thin hands. She had worked on it all morning, and was finally ready to present it to Zuko. A boxed lunch, complete with apples carved into little fire nation symbols and many other things she hoped tasted as good as they looked. Her skill with knifes, it seemed, gave her a wonderful carving ability in the kitchen. At twelve she was already more talented with blades then most adults she knew. And what use did she find for it? Attempting to make a lunch for Zuko.

 

She looked around the corner, he wasn't in sight yet, but he always walked down this hall to go talk with his uncle. She was more nervous than she felt she had any right to be. It was just a boxed lunch. And just Zuko. Just Zuko…

 

Suddenly, from behind, just as she saw him walking down the hall, nimble arms tackled her, sending her forward a shocked expression on her face.

 

“Mai!!! You made ME lunch!! I knew you cared!” Ty Lee's hands saved the box from a sudden death at the merciless hands of the porcelain floors of the palace, opened the box and popped a flame shaped apple carving in her mouth as Zuko walked by looking at them both like they had gone insane. Ty Lee waved. Mai couldn't bring herself to lift her face off the floor; it was as red as her robes.

 

As she fought the urge to kill she heard Ty Lee say joyfully, “Hey, Mai, this is pretty good…”

 

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