Hello everyone. This is my first ever Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfic. It's Sokka/Ty Lee, and honestly, I'm not sure if it will be any good. I'm actually really nervous about what people will think about this. I pray to god you all enjoy it! I worked hard on it, I promise!
Sokka was in quite a predicament. The day had started off normal, with Toph being arrogant about her earth bending skills and Katara being arrogant about her water bending skills and Aang being arrogant about his air bending skills. While the three benders were being arrogant about their skills, Sokka was being arrogant about the fact that he was sarcastic and witty. This was always how the days started, and it was usually how the days ended. During the day, the four of them were attacked by the trio of fire nation girls. This didn't happen every day, but it certainly wasn't uncommon.
What was umcommon was the fact that the acrobat Sokka was fighting was unusually easy to fight. Sokka made punches at her, but she didn't try to block them, she just giggled. Sokka stopped trying to fight her, and paused for a moment. 'This girl is completely out of it,' he thought to himself as the girl began spinning around in circles while singing. The next thing he knew the girl had tripped over a rock, grabbed onto Sokka's shirt and fell into a ditch, bringing Sokka with her.
Sokka felt like every bone in his body had cracked, even though only his ankle seemed to be harmed. The girl across from him pointed at his ankle and screamed "it's growing!" Sokka looked at his ankle. It was pretty safe to say his ankle was not growing. It was a little swollen, but it was not growing. Sokka stared at the girl, back at his ankle, and stared back at her again. He had a feeling they won't be getting out of this ditch for a long time. Might as well be friendly?
"Well, I guess first things first, what's your name?" Sokka asked the mysterious girl.
"Ty Lee at your service madam! Except I'm not really at your service, I'm just stuck here in this hole with you until my buddies get me out! Except I don't really like Azura, she's a crazy sadistic bitch who likes fire way too much. Oh my gosh, don't tell her I said that! She'll kill me! Wow, I'm so high, please excuse me, because I have absolutely no control over what I'm saying. It's fun actually, because things are popping into my head and then the go woosh out of my mouth! Like a monkey! Except that doesn't make any sense either. I don't make sense because I'm soooo high. Wow, red and blue flying bisons are in the air, look! I hope they don't poop on us like birds sometimes do, because their terds would be ten times bigger than bird terds," Ty Lee told Sokka while twirling with her braid.
"Er... well first of all, I'm not a madam, second of all, there are no flying bisons in the air. And third... when did you find the time to get high?" Sokka asked her awkwardly as she began making bird noises. He felt a little better about the situation, considering he was attempting to be a good person and having a conversation. Then it hit him: he's trapped with a fire bender who normally would want to kill him. Now that she's completely out of her mind, Sokka could easily knock her unconscious. Or, if he was feeling particularly cruel, he could probably just kill her. Sokka had seriously considered doing one of those two things, but unfortunately for Sokka, he had a conscience.
'Besides, this girl is down right adorable while tripping out.' Sokka thought to himself as Ty Lee sang a song about dumplings. 'In fact, she's down right adorable any time she wasn't trying to kill me... Woah there Sokka, she's the enemy. If you fall for the enemy, that would be really cliche, along with horribly complicated and overly dramatic.'
"Oh my gosh, your mustache crawls to the west!" Ty Lee exclaimed as she pointed at Sokka dramatically.
"Uh... Oh, oh no! Yours is too!" He exclaimed as he mimicked Ty Lee's dramatic hand gestures. Well, if Sokka wasn't going to take advantage of the situation by defeating Ty Lee unfairly, he had to at least have a little fun. Ty Lee gasped.
"Noooo, I love that mustache and I was sooo looking forward to having a mustache!" And, much to Sokka's surprise, she began crying. Sokka was shocked; he expected a crying Ty Lee to resemble an erupting volcano, but it was completely the opposite. Silent tears began to run down her face. Her lip began to quiver, and her eyes were wide with what looked like terror. She bit her lip, and let out a few soft sobs, and hugged her knees as tight as she could. What depressed Sokka the most was the fact she looked so lost and alone. He forgot completely about the fact she was crying over a mustache that doesn't exist, and began feeling utterly sorry for her, and sorry that he had messed with her head.
'Damn conscience,' he thought as he began patting Ty Lee on the back. Ty Lee returned this gesture by very quickly and forcefully wrapping her arms around him and crying softly into his neck. This caused Sokka to turn a deep shade of red.
"You think I'm stupid for wanting my mustache back, don't you? You think I'm stupid just like Azula does! I know you do because the man on your ponytail was laughing at me and calling me stupid earlier, I just ignored him because he was ugly. But you're really pretty, but it's like when boys are pretty, so it's not when boys look like girls, it's like when boys are really pretty. Except you're not pretty like a girl, you're just pretty. Except not –"
"It's okay, I think I understand what you mean," Sokka told her while patting her on the head. He wasn't quite sure if he should hug back or just sit there; girls didn't often hug him this tightly.
"It's just that I really love that mustache! Usually mustaches are stupid, but that one was really smart and knew math and it knew your name! I was going to ask it what your name was but now that it's gone I can't!"
"Well, my name's Sokka." Ty Lee stopped hugging Sokka and looked him straight in the eyes.
"That sounds like Socks. I like it. You know you had a really nice mustache too," She told him quietly.
"Did I?" Sokka replied softly, trying his hardest not to laugh or do anything to upset her.
"Yep. It really likes poetry. It was so pretty too! It was really shiny and bright green, like your eyes," she told him while staring dreamily into Sokka's eyes.
'If only my eyes really were bright green. Then I could be flattered by her staring dreamily into my eyes.' Sokka thought sadly.
"So, what was my mustache like? Was it smart too?" Sokka asked her while giving her a half smile. Ty Lee giggled and began hugging him again.
"Mustache's don't have brains, what are you, high?" She asked, still hugging Sokka and giggling like a maniac. Sokka sighed, and got up the courage to wrap his arms round Ty Lee's waist.
"Wow you're pretty." Ty Lee said dreamily. "You're like my guardian angel, except can boys be angels? Well you're an angel I decided. You look like one, with your big wings and your white hair and your bright green shiny eyes that are now blue. I love you Socks," She said as she held Sokka tighter. If it was even possible, Sokka's cheeks turned an even deeper shade of red.
'I wonder how she'd react if I kissed her...' Sokka thought to himself as he drew Ty Lee away from him and stared into her shocking grey eyes.
"Well, are you sure you can say you love me? You don't even know me. I mean, you're high, remember? I don't even have wings or white hair," Sokka told her. 'Damn conscience,' he thought to himself bitterly. Ty Lee began twirling her thumbs and avoiding eye contact.
"I'm sorry I said I loved you, because you're right, I don't know you, it's just the drugs lying to me. I guess I wouldn't know what love really is since nobody loves me anymore. Daddy hates me for joining the circus and I don't even know mommy and my circus friends hate me for abandoning them to join Azula. And Azula hasn't loved me since we were kiddies and she used to tell me that I was like her sister and I never had a sister so I was so happy. But now she's just using me and she thinks I'm stupid anyway. And, and Mai thinks I'm annoying so she hates me but I just want Mai to be happy since she's so depressed all the time and I just wish that Mai could be happy because I love her so much and if she ever killed herself like my mommy did then it'd be like losing a sister and I don't want to lose my sisters! and you think I'm stupid too for being high and I just want to...to..." Ty Lee began crying. Again. Now, Sokka's heart had ached for Ty Lee when she was crying about losing her mustache. It was absolutely unbearable to watch poor little Ty Lee cry because nobody loved her.
"I don't think you're stupid, Ty Lee," Sokka said softly, putting his hand on her shoulder. "Maybe getting high right before going into battle was a stupid thing to do, but I'm sure you're a smart girl."
"Whatever Socks, you don't know me!" Ty Lee told him angrily. She then gasped, and began hugging Sokka again, pleading to him for forgiveness.
"I'm so sorry Socks I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to be mean to you! You've been the nicest person to me ever since I joined Azula, please don't hate me, please don't hate me!"
"Woah woah, calm down, I don't hate you," Sokka said frantically. "How could I hate you, you haven't even done anything to me. Wait, wait... you have. You've tried to kill me before," Sokka said awkwardly. He knew it was no use lying to Ty Lee, since she'd probably see right through it.
"But I can't hate you since you're too damn pretty," Sokka finished. Ty Lee blushed and smiled at him bashfully.
"No one's ever called me pretty before," she said while giggling to herself. Sokka couldn't believe her.
"Really?"
"That's what I said."
"You're kidding!"
"Nope. You're the first person to call me pretty since forever and ever and ever. And you know what," Ty Lee said softly, leaning closer to Sokka.
"What?" Sokka responded, also leaning in closer to Ty Lee.
"I don't want to be high anymore," she said sadly. She then rested her head on Sokka's shoulder. Sokka couldn't help but feel disappointed by her anti climatic statement. "It was okay at the beginning, but now I've experienced it and I just want to talk to you while being sober. Well, not sober, but you know what I mean. And now it's getting really scary, because there are people here and they're bleeding out of their eyes and it's really gross! Ew, I just want to pick up a rag and clean them, because I don't like blood. I see it sometimes, but I don't like it. Do you like blood?" She asked Sokka.
"Er, not really," Sokka responded. Ty Lee giggled.
"Good. You know, it was sooo cool when I was fighting though, because everything looked sooo crazy! There were so many colors and it was so happy, but now I'm down here in this hole of evil and I don't like it. I'm glad I'm with you though, because if I was with Azula she'd beat me up for being high, and Mai would be all angsty."
"I'm sorry. I know how it feels to be friends with an angsty kid, it kind of sucks. I am absolutely awful at dealing with angst," Sokka told her.
"Me too! I mean, I can't even take care of angst when I'm normal, how would I take care of it when I'm high?" Ty Lee asked.
"You wouldn't. You'd just make the other person feel worse. This is why it's a good thing you're trapped here with me. I'm very comical, and I'm good at befriending people when they're high!"
"Yes, you are! You look funny too," Ty Lee giggled.
"Wait, I thought you said I looked like an angel!" Sokka whined.
"Yeah, but I was high."
"So you're not high anymore?" Sokka asked. Ty Lee considered this, and was silent for a few moments.
"I'm in my down phase. Three hours up, six hours down. I reached my peak during the fight, and now I'm feeling... mellow," and at that, Ty Lee fell asleep. Well, now Sokka was trapped with an adorable girl who had no control over her thoughts asleep on his shoulder.
'Poor baby,' he thought to himself sarcastically.
Yeah, I'm only continuing this if at least five people want me to. I still can't decide if I'm proud of this or not. The thing is, I was so determined to make an Avatar fanfic that I worked way to hard. I honestly can't decide if I like this or not. Ugh, I feel like it's too long and stupid! I love the pairing though, I just think that Sokka and Ty Lee would be adorable together. I also love Sokka Yue, and I really want to make a oneshot for them. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, and I hope that maybe this was a bit refreshing from all the Zutara and Kataang pairings? Not that I dislike them, it's just that they're everywhere! Okay, end of my rant.