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Post Office, Thursday

The post office was open, but Sokka wasn't at the counter.

He had a little arts-and-crafts area set up in the corner, complete with glitter, confetti, jello, pudding, paint, glue, mineral oil -- all sorts of things that, coincidentally, it would suck to have explode in your face.

Yes, Sokka was making exploding tags. And stuffing them into envelopes addressed to Umbridge.

Every now any then he'd screw up and one would explode in his face. Thank goodness the floor was tile and not carpet.

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...from a safe distance.

Evie had been catching up on summer reading, but thought that today was a good day to visit the Boyfriend at work.

"Sokka? Hello? Are you here?" She looked around hopefully. "I wanted to see if you wanted ice cream..."

*BOOM!* There was a shower of pink Jello from Sokka's corner.

"HI!" he said, as he stood up. I, uh, can't ice cream until I'm done with work. And then I've got... something to do. But later, maybe? Or tomorrow?"

He grinned at her. "Ice cream sounds like a GREAT idea. We totally should."

Evie jumped at the BOOM! and then gasped. "Oh! Goodness! What was that? Was that Explosions homework?" she asked, curious as she leaned against the counter. "And yay! Ice cream! Possibly hot fudge sundaes!"

"No, it's something we learned in Ninja-ing class," Sokka said with a grin. "Exploding tags." He held one of them -- just a simple piece of paper with Japanese writing on it -- up for her to see.

"Oooh, you know what would be awesome? If I put hot fudge in one of these! That would ROCK!"

"Tags," Evie repeated, looking closely but not touching it. "Ninja class had these? Oh, why didn't I take that class?" She gave him a sad look, then looked interested. "You can put hot fudge *inside* the tag? How does it work?"

"I'm not really sure," Sokka answered, scrunching up his face and biting his lip. "It's not really magic and not really science, and it doesn't make any sense, but it works, and..." He facepalmed. "Oh, you mean HOW. Uh. You write on the paper, and then push chi into it, and it sort of ... sucks in whatever you want to explode out of it? I'm not very good at it." He gestured at the mess, which was pretty indicative of how not-good he was. But there were quite a lot of completed tags, too.

Sokka had said the magic word, 'science' and also, 'magic', and now Evie was dying to try this. "Chi? Where do you get chi? Oooooo." She looked around at the mess and then the other tags, and pointed to them. "Did you put Jell-O into those? Really?" She beamed at him. "It's just like America's Home Videos! Only better!"

Sokka looked at her like she had two heads. "Er.... Qi?" he tried, pronouncing the word a little differently. "You don't get it anywhere, you just have it..."

He shrugged and beamed back at her. "The Jello... didn't work. But there's all sorts of other stuff in them!" He gestured around at the wide variety of supplies, both waiting to be used and spread across the floor.

"I have Qi? How did I not know this?" Evie started studying the other supplies Sokka had around realizing they were all inside the tags. "Paint! Like the fake bombs in class yesterday! And confetti, and-- where are you going to use all these?"

Sokka blinked at her some more. "It's... energy. That makes you alive. Uh. You know... If it gets blocked, you get sick; it's how Katara does her bending..." He shrugged. "None of this is sounding familiar, is it?"

But, of course, then he grinned slyly. "I'm not going to use any of them anywhere. A whole bunch of anonymous people spontaneously decided to mail them to the new principal, and so I'll have to go deliver them when I get off work."

"Not really very... maybe?" Evie said doubtfully. "Hmm. I think I need to read more about this. Would there be books on it in the library?"

Evie's eyes got huge. "Sokka. Ohhhh. Ohhh, dear. Oh, you'll get in such *trouble* if she doesn't believe you!"

"...Probably? I can't imagine there not being books on it..."

He grinned at her some more. "I won't get in trouble. She already thinks my name is Zuko."

Evie gave him a very worried look. "But what if she's met the real Prince Zuko? Or, or..." She looked at all the tags, then gave him a perplexed look. "And why? I mean, I think she's rather authoritative, but-- is this just for fun?"

Sokka shrugged. "People seem pissed at her, she's made some really weird announcements, and her office is PINK." He shrugged again. "And I miss the 'How to piss off your teachers' class."

"Ohhhh." Well. It's not like she didn't know Sokka. She gave him a solemn look, and a kiss on the cheek. "I'll visit you during lunchtime, if you get Detention. ANd bring you pie."

Sokka blushed, and beamed at her. "Seriously? Pie would be AWESOME."

"Pie from Jeff, God of Biscuits! Although I really really hope you don't get caught," Evie said, "But I will Stand By My Man."

Jake has a lot to answer for in Evie's musical tastes.

"I'm 'your man'," Sokka sighed, and leaned in to kiss her.

And Evie kissed him back. "And no one else's," she said happily, rubbing her nose against his.

If she had actual eyes instead of glowing red eyesockets, she'd probably be rolling them.

Which are NOT covered in exploded goop.

WHEE!!!

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