Week 1: Temptation

Genres: Drama/Family

Rating: T

Setting: Modern AU

Word Count: 994

Author's Note: Don't worry – this will likely be the only modern AU story

Temptation

"How do you feel having your sister back home?"

It was the question all his friends were dying to know. But at the time, Zuko did not have a good answer. After all, Azula had only returned home three weeks ago. Prior to that, he hadn't seen his sister in an entire decade. Not since the "accident" that led to the scar on his face and his parents' bitter divorce. His father took Azula far away, and in all honesty, he was relieved.

He didn't remember much of his sister. Of course, he did have some fond memories of her, but they were mostly overshadowed by all the times she bullied and teased him, all the times she called him "Zuzu" after he told her not to.

Now, just as he was entering his senior year, his father was in prison for embezzlement and Azula was home. He had expected the young woman who walked in the front door to be familiar. Instead, she was a stranger, and a disturbingly beautiful one at that. The way she looked at him for the first time sent chills up his spine. They shared the same yellow eyes, but hers radiated danger. "Hello, Zuzu," were the first words out of her mouth. She followed this with an inappropriately tight hug, one in which her cheek was pressed to his and he could feel her smirk as his cheeks flushed.

Things only grew more uncomfortable for him from there. Every time he'd come back from the gym, she'd offer to massage his sore muscles. Sometimes he'd let her. Sometimes it felt a little too good. Then there were the times she'd practice yoga in the family room. She'd ask him to help her stretch. Push her legs out wider, pull her hips up to make sure her back was flat. And the way she'd parade around the house in nothing but a towel after a shower… he couldn't help but wonder if she was doing this to him on purpose.

One night, after three weeks of her little games, after their mother left them alone to go on vacation with her boyfriend, his suspicions were confirmed.

She walked into his bedroom, leaning against the doorway in a red silk robe. "What are you up to, big brother?"

"I was, uh, just about to play a computer game my friend, Sokka, recommended."

"What game?"

"Five Nights at Freddy's…"

She flipped his light switch, making the room pitch black besides the glow from the computer screen.

"What are you doing?"

"It's a horror game… just setting the mood."

"Seriously? Sokka knows I hate horror games. As if this thunderstorm weren't frightening enough…"

"Would you be less scared if I played with you?" She walked behind his desk chair.

"Maybe… but I don't have another chair."

"That's okay." She plunked herself down on his lap. "You can still see, right?"

"Y-yeah," he gulped, placing his arm around her to use the mouse. Her hair smelled like vanilla. "Have you played this before?"

"No. But how scary can it be?"

The static and harsh buzzing sound from the start screen filled the monitor and speakers, making them both flinch.

"Here we go," he exhaled.

They listened to the longwinded recorded message that explained how to play, periodically checking the cameras and doors. Three animatronics in 1A. Nothing happened at all for the first two minutes. After that, the rabbit animatronic made its move. They screamed when they found it standing way too close to the camera.

Thunder roared and lightning flashed outside the window.

Too scared to play, Zuko passed the mouse to the girl on his lap. They shrieked whenever they saw the rabbit standing in the window. At 19% power, the chicken animatronic came out to play. They trembled. He put his arms around his sister's waist and held her close.

"Okay, I was wrong… this game is terrifying," she admitted.

Another crash of thunder resounded, but this time after lightning struck, everything went black. The power was out.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" the siblings cried, clutching onto each other for dear life. Azula had turned her upper half around to hug him closer. They found themselves breathing heavily into each other's mouths.

"Zuzu… can I sleep with you in your bed tonight?"

"Y-yeah," he choked.

They crawled into bed together.

She inched herself close to him.

"A-are you still scared?" he inquired.

"Mmhmm. Are you?"

He nodded. "I'm definitely having nightmares tonight."

"At least I'll be here to make it all better."

"How?" he asked against his better judgment.

She pressed her lips to his, tentatively at first, but her kisses became hungrier when he didn't stop her. She rolled on top of him, driving her tongue into his mouth.

He pushed her back. "Azula, stop. We can't do this."

"Why not?" She began kissing and sucking his neck.

"Because it's wrong!"

"It's only wrong if we get caught, Dum-Dum." She ground her hips against his growing erection.

"B-but you're my sister!"

"And what would you do to me if I weren't?"

"I'd…" He looked up into her feral eyes. "I'd rip open your robe and fuck you blind."

She took his hands and guided them to the sash of her robe, allowing him to pull it.

In the darkness, he could just make out the outline of her breasts, as if they were taunting him. He had to touch them. He had to have her. "Fuck it," he growled, tearing off her robe and forcing her onto her back.

Kissing, groping, panting, biting, scratching, moaning, their hips collided into each other's again and again until the storm abated. Temptation won.

Maybe sex with his sister had been a mistake, but if he could go back, he'd repeat it over and over. Watching the beautiful girl sleeping in his arms, he had never felt so complete. She was right where she belonged.

"How do you feel having your sister back home?"

Alive.

Author's Note: Five Nights at Freddy's is terrifying. I didn't do it justice in this short story.