Hufflepuff Zuko is always request-able! This takes place in their fourth year.
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"Well I didn't know they kept an army of animated suits of armor down there." Toph folded her arms and smirked. "Not my fault."
Zuko scowled back at her which she was totally oblivious to. "I don't think anybody else knew either, but most people know better than to go of running down every secret tunnel they come across!"
Toph set her jaw and sat down on the bench, arms still folded. "You didn't have to come."
"Yes I did, you dragged me in with you."
"You could have climbed out again." She shrugged, grinning and spreading her arms wide. "It was only a few feet."
Zuko had seen the look on her face, when the stairstep had vanished, and she had stepped down onto thin air, when she had grabbed his arm reflexively and held onto him as she fell. "Just help me get these seedbeds manured."
She grabbed the spare trowel and pulled it out of the manure with a nice, heavy load. "Admit it, you had fun."
Zuko's good eye bulged. "No I didn't, we had to run for our lives!"
"See?" said Toph triumphantly. "Fun."
"Ugh," Zuko replied. He was on his hands and knees, spreading manure in a greenhouse on a Saturday morning. He didn't want to deal with it.
"Personally, I don't know why they gave us detention," Toph said innocently, blinking her eyes. "They shouldn't leave vanishing staircases like that over tunnels that poor helpless little blind girls like me could have fallen into."
"Give it a rest," he groaned. "Nobody buys that anymore." Except for Zuko, especially when he knew he shouldn't. And there she was, saying the same thing Longbottom and Smith had said to him, about how he didn't have to go with her, and he stood there, unable to tell them yes, yes he did, because Toph was going down that tunnel, and what would she do without him if there was something in the tunnel with her. And she had, needed him, hadn't she? "You lost us a hundred points."
"Hey, I lost us fifty. You lost us the other fifty." She grinned again, wild, and carefree, and unafraid. "Anyway, they should be glad we found those suits of armor before some first year did."
Zuko picked up another trowel full of manure and spread it over the bed. "Most first years aren't stupid enough to poke something they find down a dark corridor with their wand."
The manure hit him right between the shoulder blades.
"You've got to be kidding me," he yelped, grabbing a handful of manure to throw back at her.
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Secret Tunnel!
Date: 2012-11-30 03:42 pm (UTC)~*~
"Well I didn't know they kept an army of animated suits of armor down there." Toph folded her arms and smirked. "Not my fault."
Zuko scowled back at her which she was totally oblivious to. "I don't think anybody else knew either, but most people know better than to go of running down every secret tunnel they come across!"
Toph set her jaw and sat down on the bench, arms still folded. "You didn't have to come."
"Yes I did, you dragged me in with you."
"You could have climbed out again." She shrugged, grinning and spreading her arms wide. "It was only a few feet."
Zuko had seen the look on her face, when the stairstep had vanished, and she had stepped down onto thin air, when she had grabbed his arm reflexively and held onto him as she fell. "Just help me get these seedbeds manured."
She grabbed the spare trowel and pulled it out of the manure with a nice, heavy load. "Admit it, you had fun."
Zuko's good eye bulged. "No I didn't, we had to run for our lives!"
"See?" said Toph triumphantly. "Fun."
"Ugh," Zuko replied. He was on his hands and knees, spreading manure in a greenhouse on a Saturday morning. He didn't want to deal with it.
"Personally, I don't know why they gave us detention," Toph said innocently, blinking her eyes. "They shouldn't leave vanishing staircases like that over tunnels that poor helpless little blind girls like me could have fallen into."
"Give it a rest," he groaned. "Nobody buys that anymore." Except for Zuko, especially when he knew he shouldn't. And there she was, saying the same thing Longbottom and Smith had said to him, about how he didn't have to go with her, and he stood there, unable to tell them yes, yes he did, because Toph was going down that tunnel, and what would she do without him if there was something in the tunnel with her. And she had, needed him, hadn't she? "You lost us a hundred points."
"Hey, I lost us fifty. You lost us the other fifty." She grinned again, wild, and carefree, and unafraid. "Anyway, they should be glad we found those suits of armor before some first year did."
Zuko picked up another trowel full of manure and spread it over the bed. "Most first years aren't stupid enough to poke something they find down a dark corridor with their wand."
The manure hit him right between the shoulder blades.
"You've got to be kidding me," he yelped, grabbing a handful of manure to throw back at her.