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They should be doing their calculus homework, they both know this, but somehow one way or another they get distracted. On the whole, this isn't shocking. Stick two hormonal teenage boys, who happen to be dating, into a room alone and expect them to get work done. It's a recipe for disaster.

In both of their defenses, they were very good students, and usually they got their work done just fine, but today they were distracted. …Okay Zuko got distracted. But Aang was the one who kept playing with his new lip ring so technically it was his fault. Kinda.

At any rate, one thing led to another and a very nice make out session evolved into them both collapsed in a happy heap on Aang's beanbag chair. Somewhere in the blissful afterglow the TV had been switched on, providing muted background noise as they cuddled. (Zuko would never admit it to anyone, but he quite enjoyed cuddling with his boyfriend. But only Aang knew that.)

Their original intention had probably been to cuddle until they both either felt like doing homework again, or the tattooed and pierced Aang did something to make his boyfriend pounce on him again. Or the other way around. Whichever.

However a certain show had come on which distracted both of them (again). And don't go thinking that either of them had short attention spans (maybe Aang did, a little), or their priorities were screwed. The only reason this show happened to catch their attention was because it was very…odd. Not odd in the sense that the show itself was, the show was brilliant, just…

Aang and Zuko still don't remember how they found the damn thing. It had been over for at least four years, and it was one of those shows that got blasted as reruns and marathons because it was popular. But it was a kid's show, and not something they would usually watch if given the choice. (Action movies were much more their style.)

The thing about this show was…well…

Aang was still stroking his hand through Zuko's hair as his boyfriend lay on his chest. Both of them were watching the television, but his hand always seemed to absently drift to pet Zuko somehow.

"You know," he said. "It will always freak me out how much these characters are like us. I mean, they even have our names and everything."

Zuko hummed his agreement.

On the screen, a boy who looked suspiciously like the tattooed male currently stroking Zuko's hair darted through a swamp, trying to get away from archers. He had Aang's build, eyes, tattoos… Even his name. And he dressed in outrageous colors, which Aang did sometimes when he was feeling like annoying someone. (Not Zuko.)

They had seen this episode before. They'd seen ALL the episodes before, actually. After the first time they'd seen it (however that had been), they had told all their friends, rented all three seasons, and had a weekend long marathon. It had been… A little scarier than a horror movie. To be entirely honest.

Though in a very obscure way, and sometimes completely out of the ball park, the show had covered pretty much every aspect of their lives. Some things were completely out there though, like Jet dying and Zuko's mom never being found. Jet was alive and well, but he had been in a coma for several months after a car accident earlier in the year. And yes it had taken almost ten years, but Ursa was home, safe and sound, downstairs making breakfast whenever Zuko woke up.

Other things though…. They got…. Freakishly well.

Like how Azula was completely and entirely insane. Or how Zuko got his scar. (Okay so not EXACTLY on the money, but that his dad had done it.) Or their personalities, that Jet had once felt betrayed by Zuko (that was a long story and NO, it didn't involve them being a couple), or Appa and Momo. Granted Appa was actually a large stallion who lived out at Aang's grandfather's ranch, and Momo was a ring-tailed cat, but it was a similar principle.

There was just one thing about the show that would forever irk them, no matter how many times they watched it through. Jet laughed endlessly at them when it actually cropped up in the storyline, and so did most of their other friends once they got it. And yes, it was funny, considering the show was fiction and their was real life, but it still tended to irritate them. And one other couple too.

They watched a very sneaky and ninja-like 'Blue Spirit' dart into a military compound undetected, still having no drive to do their homework.

"There's only one thing about this show I don't like." Aang said suddenly.

"Oh?" Zuko asked. "That your character is so much younger than mine?"

Aang tugged on a lock of his smirking boyfriend's hair. Okay yes, he admitted that it did annoy him that 'Aang' was supposedly about thirteen when 'Zuko' was supposedly sixteen. Come on, there was only a year's age difference, BARELY!

"No." he grumbled, pouting until Zuko kissed his cheek. "It's just that, like, of ALL the things to get wrong, they get the most obvious one."

Zuko gave his boyfriend a relatively amused look, quirking an eyebrow.

"You are referring to the fact that you and Katara are both flamboyantly, blatantly, hopelessly gay, correct?"

"Yes!"

Zuko rolled his eyes, openly laughing at his apparently disgruntled lover. Aang didn't mind though, he knew that it sort of irked Zuko too, though he didn't say it.

"I mean, like, it would be one thing if they made you straight I mean, god, you were asexual until I came along."

"True." Zuko amended. (He really had been.)

"But ME? What about ME says STRAIGHT? I mean for god's sake the kid wears yellow and orange, no one can pull that off if they're straight!"

Generally, Aang didn't come off as very flamboyant in the normal sense. He didn't seem gay in the way he spoke or acted, though once you got talking to him about anything that might brings guys or his boyfriend up, it was obvious. But he did have an inner flamboyant gay in there that popped out sometimes when someone was wearing something particularly dreadful. This amused Zuko.

"I admit," he said. "That there's a bit too much fixation on Katara in the show. Sounds more like denial to me."

"Pfft. If I was gonna deny anything, it would be me fixating on you to deny Katara. Not the other way around as the subtext so PLAINLY shows."

Zuko rolled his eyes.

"You still think that they like each other?"

"Zuko; first fight, my character hits you with a BED. And he is constantly trying to drag you to the good side. And other stuff."

"Don't forget the rainbow fire."

"Oh DO NOT get me started on the rainbow fire." Aang waved a hand as if to dismiss the subject. "And then there's the whole fact of; you and MAI? Come on."

Zuko grimaced.

"Okay yes, I admit, that is always painful to even think about."

Mai was a childhood friend, a very dear one who had helped him through a lot. (Including his panic over figuring out that he may be gay for the tattooed transfer student who he was now laying on top of.) He was more likely to kiss a horse than even think about her romantically, and they both knew it.

That and Mai was dating Katara. So, you know, that whole 'they're both gay' thing.

"I do find it interesting that they managed to mix up just two couples. Just me and you and Mai and Katara." Zuko said. "Suki and Sokka is right, and there's always secret chemistry between Toph and Teo. They got Jet being…well…"

"A slut who would sleep with everyone given opportunity?"

Zuko smacked Aang's chest and got a weak apology for it. Jet and Aang had gotten off to a rocky start, mostly because Jet kept hitting on Zuko (who was too asexual to notice it), but they were on good terms now. Still though, they liked to pick at one another when given the chance.

"Sexually ambiguous." Zuko corrected.

"A slut."

"I will get up and do homework."

Aang tightened his arms around his boyfriend with a pouty 'nuuuu'. Zuko pretended to try and squirm away, but Aang just rolled them over, pinning Zuko to the beanbag and growling playfully. Somehow he ended up leaving kisses all over the scarred teen's neck, even as he squirmed, laughing and trying to get away.

That turned into kissing all over again, ignoring their waiting homework in favor of one another's lips. They stopped only when there was the sounds of chirping birds on the TV.

"Oh," Zuko murmured. "This is the part where Aang asks if Zuko could ever be a friend."

Aang snorted.

"Still sounds like pining to me."

"That's because when YOU said it you WERE pining."

Aang snarled and rewarded his boyfriend's cheekiness with several bruising kisses, followed by another not-homework involved romp. Eventually they would turn the television off and finish their homework; eventually.

But it was a marathon and didn't the next episode have Zuko without a shirt on in it?
I come to drop this theme and try to get as many of the other ones done before NaNo as possible. WISH ME LUCK EVERYONE. WISH. ME. LUCK.

Also yes this is stupid and cliche BUT I DON'T EVEN CARE.
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CrazyDyslexicNerd's avatar
That would be so freaky, seeing such similarities on tv. Great story.