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avatar_500 prompt #57, Mercy.
Summary: Bending hasn't done him much good.
Even Out the Playing Field
"Listen you little punk," the girl spat, grabbing his arm. "You're going to give me back my money right now."
Skoochy was a punk. It wasn't like he didn't know it. It's all anybody from off the streets had ever called him. It's what they called anybody who didn't back down from getting what they knew they deserved. "I'm sorry, but I don't have your money," he drawled. "If I did, I'd be living in a sweet little apartment somewhere with my mommy and daddy."
With a growl, she unzipped her backpack and thrust her hand in, down past the university textbooks and the leaflets. "You're an earthbender, right kid?" she said calmly. "I saw you playing with your friends."
"Yeah, you caught me." He rolled his eyes. "What, you going to call the cops on me for putting holes in the sidewalk?"
She pulled her newly gloved hand out and shoved her electrified palm into his face. "You make me sick kid," she hissed over the crackle of electricity. "Lying, stealing, bet it's only a few years before you join up with a triad." She dropped him as he sank down to his knees to vomit on the sidewalk.
avatar_500 prompt #57, Mercy.Summary: Bending hasn't done him much good.
Even Out the Playing Field
"Listen you little punk," the girl spat, grabbing his arm. "You're going to give me back my money right now."
Skoochy was a punk. It wasn't like he didn't know it. It's all anybody from off the streets had ever called him. It's what they called anybody who didn't back down from getting what they knew they deserved. "I'm sorry, but I don't have your money," he drawled. "If I did, I'd be living in a sweet little apartment somewhere with my mommy and daddy."
With a growl, she unzipped her backpack and thrust her hand in, down past the university textbooks and the leaflets. "You're an earthbender, right kid?" she said calmly. "I saw you playing with your friends."
"Yeah, you caught me." He rolled his eyes. "What, you going to call the cops on me for putting holes in the sidewalk?"
She pulled her newly gloved hand out and shoved her electrified palm into his face. "You make me sick kid," she hissed over the crackle of electricity. "Lying, stealing, bet it's only a few years before you join up with a triad." She dropped him as he sank down to his knees to vomit on the sidewalk.
