mellowyellow | IC ♪ ADSTRING VOICEMAIL

Unless you just like to marry off your coal miners?

We just use earthbenders to mine coal. Anyway, I have a gift for you, if you actually want it.

If it won't eat me, I want it!

Last I checked, it didn't have teeth. Do you want me to drop it off?

Go for it! I'll be chilling at Jade's.

Great. Where's that?

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Look for the little gray men.

[Sokka arrives some time later, and while he doesn't have a box, he has wrapped Kida's gift in some paper that he's tried to decorate with stars himself. It's nothing impressive, but at least he's trying!]

[Once he's at the coordinates, he sends a message to Kida, not sure whether knocking is appropriate in this case or not. Come meet him at the door, dude.]

[Masaomi quickly does just that. But rather than invite Sokka in, he closes the door behind himself.]

Closing time at the zoo. Wanna hang out on the fence?

Yeah, definitely. [He offers out the gift and heads away from the door. It's been a too-rough kind of week, so Sokka is reserved.] I hope you like it. Found it under some rubble.

[Inside the paper is a hat.]

[The more upbeat of the two accepts the gift and nearly hop-skips over to the wooden fence that separates their yard from, well, what used to be another yard. After jumping up onto the support board, he makes quick work of the wrapping to reveal his latest present.

And promptly grins like an idiot.]

Seriously?

Yeah, seriously. Is it... bad? [SO UNSURE! He looks happy, but someone had pretty much told him it wasn't that nice of a hat (for a girl), so...]

[Masaomi responds by immediately stuffing the hat onto his head. It's totally a girl hat, though he'd agree it'd look pretty silly on anyone without the right clothing combination. Masaomi, however, loves silly.]

So how do I look? If I was wearing a yellow sun dress, would you have the hots for me?

[Mentally. Facepalming. But he laughs anyway.]

Oh, yeah, I'd definitely wolf whistle at you.

[Cupping his hands around his mouth, he promptly stretches back and howls.]

Now you'll have to go apologize to Suki before the Adstring fairies tell her her man had dirty thoughts about a hat!

Pfft. She can't stand in the way of our love, man. That hat just makes it.

We're the bromance of the century!

[With a grin, he nudges Sokka.]

You realize this means we have to order shirts, right?

[He may or may not be mouthing the word "bromance," having never heard it before. And now he thinks you're so clever, Kida!]

Yeah, oh yeah. Might as well call Kanaya, I'm sure she can whip something up for us pretty quick.

[Not that clever! But certainly that oblivious!]

I can see it now... [He spreads out his hands in front of him to illustrate his vision.] Each shirt with an arrow on it: one left, one right. And smack dab in the middle of the chest...

"I'M WITH HIM. (Because it makes me look better.)"

[He laughs and shakes his head.]

You handle that, I'll alert the press. And we'll tell our respective ladies together to eliminate the number of caskets when they cream us.

Who even needs caskets? Just spread the ashes over the lake!

[deadpan] People drink from that lake, man.

[Unperturbed! He clasps his hands together and looks to the sky fondly.]

I will live on inside those who remember me!

[Oh, Kida, why are you so good at what you do? Sokka laughs.]

You're one messed up person. I like it.

[For once, there's no suggestive come back. Masaomi just smirks. In a ridiculous yellow striped hat.

Sokka doesn't know the half of it. But if he ever got up the guts to tell someone on his own, Sokka would probably be the guy.]

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