RL with Azula - So you thought you were safe?

[chimeranomore]

Zel was in a very good mood. Quite apart from feeling as if he was drunk out of his mind, he was almost certain he'd actually managed to win an argument with Azula for the first time in... ever. He managed to force himself to stop being smug, being aware, if only through a haze of alcohol he hadn't actually consumed, that this would not be useful in helping Azula.

He was still having trouble with the concept of her not wanting his help - surely if the virus was that bad she should welcome someone willing to help her relieve it? Eventually he dismissed it as Azula being her normal difficult self and decided that she'd surely warm up to the idea eventually. He couldn't help giggling a little at the unintentional pun in his own internal monologue, either.

He hummed happily to himself as he he gave a slightly arrhythmic knock at the door to her room. "Hello, Fire Lord?" he called out.

Comments

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Then how do you know if you did fall asleep on me or not?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Because I don't do that sort of thing."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"You don't normally respond like that to being touched, either, and I don't normally end up drunk without touching a drop of alcohol."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Respond like what?" There was a dangerous edge to her tone.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Suddenly relaxing like that. I'm assuming, anyway. Most people don't."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"It was a virus."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Then why are you insisting that you wouldn't fall asleep on someone?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"... Viruses can be resisted."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but you obviously weren't."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I was. I was on the pillows, not you."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Only because you rolled off in your sleep."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"... I wouldn't have." She was just being pedantic at this point.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Considering that you were neither awake nor in your normal state of mind, what makes you so sure?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Because I can always control myself."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Even when you aren't actually conscious? I'd like to know how you did that."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"And just why should I tell you?"

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

He looked at her incredulously for a moment. "... Azula, I was being sarcastic."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"My point still stands."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Are you really that desperate for an argument that you'll pick a fight over giving me the answer to a rhetorical question?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a fan of rhetorical questions." Unless, of course, she herself was asking them.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but I thought you were at least intelligent enough to know what one was."

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I am."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"Then why are you so upset about the prospect of giving me an answer to a question I didn't expect an answer to?"

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"I didn't get upset. Stop being an idiot."

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

"I'm being an idiot?" he asked disbelievingly.