The Avatar_500 Jump Start Posting And Comments Meme

[attackfish]

Alright, I'm unwilling to let avatar_500 go without a fight, so I am going to incentivize participation.  Write and post a fic for Round 65 - Air, and I'll fill a drabble request of yours.  Comment on all of the fics in the round (everybody said they wanted more comments), and at the end of the round, link me to all of the comments and I'll fill a request for you.  Do both, and I will fulfill three requests for commentfic.

The rules for posting to avatar_500 can be found here.

You don't have to belong to avatar_500 or have ever participated in it before to earn a request for commenting, and if you do want to join to post a fic for the round, all you have to do is click the "join the community" button, and you're in, easy.

About which I will not write (so don't request):

Ty Zula
NC-17
Incest
Ships where one party is much older or younger than the other(s)
Rape
Other people's OCs

Other than that, everything is fair game.

The deadline to post fic is Saturday December 1st at 11:00 PM EST.  The deadline to post comments is  Saturday December 8th at 11:00 PM EST.

Fics in The Round So Far:

Marking Boundaries by attackfish
The Need to be Seen by lalunatique
Playtime at Air Temple Island by wolfs_lament 
What Are the Odds? by c3childs
Wrong by chordatesrock
Four Element - Air- Third Stanza byclockwerkchaos
How Tenzin Met Pema by lavanyasix


Fills:

Forwolfs_lament:
   For a story: Hufflepuff Zuko, Secret Tunnel

For chordatesrock:
   For a story: Holding This Breath: the Aftermath of Kidnapping Aang
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Quiet Shadowed Places: the Cooler
   Bonus: Zuko/Toph, all grown up and surviving state dinners

For lalunatique:
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Ty Lee and Suki - Sake

For somariel:
   For commenting on everyone's fics: The Grand Lotus puts out a call

For: c3childs:
   For a story: Hama - Katara wasn't her first pupil  *Warning for violence and death*
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Amon - the vigilante of Republic City
   Bonus:  Yakone - he owns Republic City

For lavanyasix:
   For a story: Lin Realizes Toph is a dirty cop
   For commenting on everyone's fics: Pre-series - Korra encounters prejudice due to being half Northern and half Southern
   Bonus:  Ozai marries his son off into an insultingly low-ranked colonial noble family. Zuko/Kori

Comments

For Bonus Fills

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

After you have qualified for and requested fics for writing a story and commending on all of the other stories, comment here with another prompt/fic for me to answer.

Re: For Bonus Fills

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

Kindle the Wind: anything at all.

Re: For Bonus Fills

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The Kindle the Wind Meme is still open, indefinitely, so you should probably ask something else here and think of some prompts for KtW and ask them on that meme. I plan to do a lot more fills for that as soon as I finish this one %&$# White Collar novella that keeps getting longer every time I look at it.

Re: For Bonus Fills

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

...Now it's like Christmas AND my birthday.

Okay, something (and I don't care how you make it work) involving Firelord Azula or (unless it runs afoul of your age difference rule) Zuko/Toph, whichever you prefer.

Zuko/Toph

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The age rule is really about characters who are old enough to be other characters' parents. I'm quite fond of Toko, though I age them up some.

~*~

The floor tiles of the banquet hall rose up to close around his boots. "Not so fast!"

"What?" Zuko shouted, whirling around and trying instinctively to pivot his feet, and listed dangerously sideways before he managed to right himself.

Tough brought her hands down, and the floor tiles shrank back into their normal flat surface, and marched forward to poke her finger into his ribs. "You might be the big, fancy Firelord back home, but this is my city."

Zuko stared, and blinked, and stood there for a moment. "I'm going to tell Sokka you said that."

"That this is my city? Good. Tell Councilman Sokka-" She stuck her nose in the air as she said their friend's title as mock-grandly as she could manage. "-Whose city this is. He needs all the reminders he can get."

He sighed. "Sure, Toph, now excuse me, but I'm going to sit down and-"

"Oh no you don't." Toph poked him again, harder. "This banquet has assigned seating, and you are nowhere near your seat."

Zuko glanced down at the card with his name on it next to the seat he was about to take. "Uh..."

Toph put her hands on his back and started pushing him. "You're sitting over there, with me, and a bunch of..." She sneered, "Prominent business owners."

"I'm sitting here with the ambassador from the Northern Water Tribe so that we can discuss tariffs while pretending we've never held a meeting."

"You will not leave me alone with these people, because I will hit somebody, and then I'll have to arrest myself," she hissed.

He gave in and started walking in the direction she wanted him to. "I don't remember you ever being this concerned with the rules before."

"I am when I make them."

Zuko rolled his eyes. "Figures."

Toph stepped forward to stan beside him and lowered her voice. "I'm naked under my armor."

Zuko did his best to glare at her. "And how does that feel?"

"Kind of sticky." She shrugged. "I'm sweating like crazy in here."

"That's great." Zuko nodded slowly, unsure of what to say to that. "Really sexy. Uh, I'll just-"

She elbowed him in the ribs. "Are you coming back to my place tonight, or not?"

"Uh, yeah, I guess." He closed his eyes, and opened them again.

"Wow, Zuko, you're so decisive," she said with a smirk. "You must be unbeatable at the bargaining table."

"Very funny."

She grabbed his arm and slung her own around it. "So why do you sighted people find this whole naked-under-my-whatever thing sexy anyway? It's not like you can see any more than you usually can."

"I'm really not sure." Zuko scratched his head. "But we can try to figure it out tonight, if you want."

"Of course I do. That's why I asked you to come over. Moron, what would you do without me?"

"You know, Toph, I really don't know." He said softly, then smiled. "But a really important Republic City official told me I'm here tonight to keep you from getting yourself arrested."

She squeezed his arm. "Just so you know, if you fail, you have to break me out of prison."

He squeezed back. "Deal."

Re: Zuko/Toph

[chordatesrock.livejournal.com]

What will Zuko say to the Water Tribe ambassador, I wonder? I like this a lot. It's very funny and Toph is very... Toph. Thank you. :)

Re: Zuko/Toph

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

He's going to say "I'm really sorry, you know what she's like!" and the ambassador is probably going to laugh his head off.

Re: For Bonus Fills

[c3childs.livejournal.com]

Because of reasons (the witnesses all had 'accidents' or 'left town' or 'something') Yakone isn't convicted, and Republic City is effectively his.

Yakone - he owns Republic City

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I took some liberties with the prompt. I hope you don't mind. I'm assuming that Yakone was brought for trial several times and beat the rap.

~*~

Yakone walked out of the council chambers and into the winter sun. The press flocked around him like turtle-ducks on a piece of bread, and as his lawyer took their questions, Yakone smiled a warm, easy smile.

~*~

The knock came at his door in the middle of the night. Yakone opened the door to the Chief of Police with the same smile he had on his face outside the courthouse. "Chief Bei Fong, come in. I'm honored. You know you're always welcome in my home."

"Not if you paid me." Toph kept her feet off Yakone's wooden floors and safely on the stone path outside his door. "Not that you haven't tried."

"I have tried no such thing!" he exclaimed. "You must be mistaken, Chief Bei Fong."

"Uh huh, yeah, of course." Her voice dripped with sarcasm. "I must be mistaken. I just came to tell you that just because the trial's over doesn't mean you can sleep easy at night. We're not done with you yet. My cops'll be all over you, day and night. You put a foot wrong..."

"Be careful, Chief Bei Fong." He narrowed his eyes and kept smiling. "You don't want me to think you're harassing me."

"Oh no, not at all." She spat on the ground. "Tootles, Yakone. We'll see how long you stay out of prison."

~*~

The next morning, Lin woke up with a knife stuck into the wall, inches from her nose, and ran into her mother's room white lipped and terrified.

~*~

Councilman Enlei took his last sip of tea and set the cup down on the table. As the serving woman came to take his cup, he pulled his checkbook out of his wallet.

"Oh no, Councilman." She waved her hands hurriedly. "It's already been taken care of. That guy over there..." She pointed to a young man sitting in a booth across the room. "He told me to tell you he's a really good tipper, and he is you know, he gave a, well, um, anyway, that he's a really good tipper, and that his boss is an even better one." She said the last part much more quietly, and more than a little embarrassed.

"Well is that so?" Enlei said coldly. "Excuse me, Madam, I think I need to speak with this man."

"I'll go bring you another pot of tea to his table, okay?" She gave him a nervous smile. "He payed for that too."

Enlei nodded curtly to her. He marched over to the young man's table and sat down without preamble. "You're a Red Monsoon. You're Yakone's man."

The man- boy- grinned at him toothily. "My boss sent me here to extend you an offer."

"Oh, so you're getting right down to business, huh? No beating around the bush?" Enlei clenched his fists. "Well, your boss can forget it. I'm insulted he thinks he can bribe me."

"Oh, my boss isn't offering you money," the boy said, putting his hand on his heart and pretending to be wounded.

"Oh isn't he."

"No." The boy put his hand on the councilman's arm, and Enlei pulled out of his reach. "He's offering you something much more valuable. He's offering you peace of mind. You have a new grandson, don't you?"

~*~

"We have six people willing to testify, Sokka, six." Toph paced back and forth across the floor of his office. "Six people he bloodbent."

"Look, I told you, it doesn't matter." Sokka put his head on his desk, frustrated. "Most of the council's in his pocket. Nobody'll vote to convict. They're too scared of him."

Toph stopped. "He threatened my daughter with a knife, Sokka."

"What do you want me to do about it?" He demanded indignantly. "You're the Police Chief."

Toph's lips quirked up frighteningly. "The point is, I think it's time for Twinkletoes to earn his keep.