vae ur an icon. spare a yueki fic outline? for my soul?
modern au, they probably met in passing during high school via sokka. this is not a high school au.
yue is in an astrophysics club in high school and their research earns her a very generous fellowship + funding for a related degree at the closest public university
suki doesn’t go to university, but she’s a head instructor at a martial arts studio she’s worked at since she was a teenager. the studio is near campus. she attends community college part time
the studio gives discounts to university students, especially advertising their self defense classes. yue probably considered it for a while, but on a recommendation from sokka finally enrolls
yue remembers suki from Before, but is much more drawn to her than when they were kids. she “doesn’t do it on purpose” but she’s always in suki’s group for small group practice. suki correcting or complimenting her stances 👀
so yue has a crush! she can live with that. it’s just a crush
then when she’s studying for a class she is struggling with hard at a local teahouse one night, suki is there? and greets her? and asks her what she’s working on? and ends up sitting at her table for a bit (that was the plan, at least) and yue explains how much she’s falling behind in her [insert class subject] and what do you know, suki just took subject that with a fantastic community college professor, maybe she can help yue?
suki is an excellent tutor, just like she is an excellent martial arts instructor. they decide to study together twice a week until yue is all caught up
she catches up, and suki points it out excitedly that she’s really gotten a hang of it!
and they keep meeting up anyway, even after the term ends and her self defense class is over...
and maybe yue stops bringing out her textbooks and notebooks. and they sit at small, more intimate tables. and yue helps suki fix her hair. suki points out when yue’s necklace clasp slides to the front and fixes it for her. maybe as they talk one of them starts instinctively grabbing the other’s hand. yknow, friend things. no one notices lingering hands, right? [yue tells herself this, suki figures they both Notice and Realize].
when suki walks yue back to her dorm and they hold hands, it’s a friend thing, yue thinks, unfortunately
but summer holiday is coming and yue is going home for the break, and she’s bummed that she won’t be able to keep having tea with suki! their last tea “meeting” before yue heads off, suki walks her back to the dorm and holds her hand the whole way, and doesn’t drop it when she usually would and instead shoves a piece of paper into it.
it’s her number. and yue is already trying to think of friendly interpretations, except suki is blushing too much for a friendly interpretation, so yue bluescreens and kisses suki on the cheek
They’re Girlfriends Your Honor. fade to black
:) i hope you liked this kit
