The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

Solace in Her Will

"You...like Elle, a great deal. Don't you?" Mai stated with her tawny eyes still watching in wonder while the princess rolled her eyes in response.

"Do you think she would be sleeping on my leg if I didn't?" Azula snapped in a controlled volume while she sat back with her hand in her mumbling handmaid's hair.

"Obviously not." Mai sighed with a nod while she still gazed at the younger girl in fear for her wellbeing.

She couldn't help but begin to worry that the girl was scarred for life.

And that she will remain that way. No matter how much attention they shower her with.

"I may as well start drafting up those new laws now." Azula spoke with a finger under her chin while she finally cracked a refined smile down at her lovely pet curled up upon her thigh.

The two noblewomen turned to their leader with returning wariness in their eyes.

"Uh...Azula, you haven't told us what these laws are." Ty Lee began in a concerned voice after noticing that Azula was gazing down at Elle with a frightening gleam in her eyes.

"You see, Ty Lee...it has come to my attention that I have been...too lenient with this one." Azula began with a heavy sigh while her two subordinates stared at her incredulously.

"T-too lenient, Azula?' Ty Lee repeated only to watch the princess reach for the sheet of paper and brush with a scheming smile on her lips.

"Indeed. Much too lenient." Azula answered with a shake of her head while she brushed her fingers against Elle's cheek only for her little girlfriend to lean into her petting fingertip.

Mai and Ty Lee just watched the scene in a stunned silence while their selfish leader continued to tenderly pet their sleeping friend.

And despite Ty Lee's concerns she couldn't help but feel her smile begin to return after she finished drying the tears from her eyes.

"The Crown Princess of the Fire Nation is your girlfriend...and yet you are still afraid. This is...unacceptable." Azula commented in a softened voice while her fingers wiped the tears from her handmaid's sleeping cheeks.

The two women shared another amazed look with one another before gazing back at their adopted little sister's sleeping face.

It was completely unlike Azula to show concern for another person like this!

There was no doubt in their minds that their spoiled friend was indeed going through a great change.

Whether it would lead Azula to become a better person and a kinder ruler was yet to be seen.

But she truly was changing, ever so slowly with every moment that she spent with Elle.

"The solution is clear." Azula purred with her other hand grasping the paper and brush while a fond smirk began to creep onto her red lips.

"It is?" Mai pondered in confusion while she blinked at her deranged leader's smiling face.

"I must dominate you more than before!" Azula declared to the horror of her subordinates with a proud smile on her regal lips.

"B-but you already dominate her, Azula." Ty Lee protested in a wary voice while a shiver traveled down her spine in newfound worry for the poor girl's sleeping in her friend's lap.

"Clearly not enough, Ty Lee. It's obvious that my dominance in this relationship...has been sorely lacking. But worry not I will mend this." Azula insisted just as she began to write on the paper with a possessive smile on her elegant lips that terrified her childhood friends.