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Oh the weather outside is frightful...

☀THE WARM AND TOASTY MEME☀
The situation: It is dreadfully cold. Think 'ice cave where all those slash fics are set'.
The goal: Keep each other warm tonight!

☀ STEP ONE: Comment with your characters. One comment for each character.
☀ STEP TWO: Other people reply to your characters.
☀ STEP THREE: Both participants are aware that they should/must keep nice and warm. To do that, you need to bundle up nice and closely, however grudgingly. No, killing your threadmate and cuddling the body doesn't count.
☀ STEP FOUR: Keep 'em warm! Hot cocoa, hot coffee, hot tea, hot mustard, or other suitably warming beverages will be provided if you cooperate.
☀ STEP FIVE: Lulz ensue!

((Basically just a winter-themed cuddle meme, with evil ideas from Shae and Col. Add some cuddle urges in the air if your characters won't otherwise cooperate but you want them to.))

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She let out a contented sigh herself: one thing she and Renne had in common was there more motherly side, and that included affection.

Katara thought a moment. How to describe this? "It's more like thinking of the world as a round sphere: eventually, you can find yourself where you started from if you go fast enough. The higher or lower you go, the less sun you get and the colder it is. But yes, we have a top and a bottom."

Did that help? She hoped so: she wasn't the science person of their group: that was Billy.

Won't work 'cause it's too cold, but we need it to warm the place up... [ And she's off and mumbling in Chinese, but she allows Jamie to guide her back. ]

...'M sorry, Jamie. Don't understand why I can't get it.

[ The cocoa is welcome too. She gives him another small thanks, and takes a sip from the mug. Oh yes, much better. ]

Aye, I know. Here, sit down. [Jamie guides her over to a small flat rock. It's cold, yes, but not covered in ice, which is something. He takes off his sheepskin vest and puts it over Kaylee's shoulders. It's much colder without it, and he can't hide the shivers this time.]

L-look, maybe if ye can warm up a bit ye can think of what's missing and fix it then.

She didn't mind being simple, though the beautiful thing wasn't something she would own up to, and reddened accordingly. Still, it meant enough that Billy would tell her so, and she gave him a hug.

"Thanks," she said, and snuggled a little more closely. She was starting to feel a little chill in the air, now that she thought about it. I she hadn't been so used to the cold, it would probably bother her more.

Ok, let's get something straight. Yes, weather changes in New York. Now, Upstaters? TOTALLY used to cold. Middle staters? Just as much.

Down state though? Not so much. That was why you invested in bubble coats. It kept your ass nice and warm.

So here's a shivering Mindy, clearly far from happy, trying to keep her shit together.

Katara glided onto the scene, noting that Jamie seemed to be getting pretty cold himself. She followed him silently, watching as he tried to find something to keep himself warm. Finally, she spoke up.

"Any luck?"

All right. I'll work quickly, promise.

[The cold is distracting but he manages to get his tools out! He's working, careful not to jostle her with stray elbows.]

The wind's worsening the chill. I sealed off what areas I could, but I couldn't get everything.

[Shivers and finds self unconsciously moving closer.]

Starfire took a moment to imagine the different styles through how they would look on Katara. Could she make bald 'badass'? Probably.

That sad news about the airbenders, though, prompts a hug. "I am sorry."

He hadn't meant simple in that way! Billy sent assurance of that, smiling knowingly at her reaction. So Katara's not the only one who can embarrass after all.

Billy nodded and held her against his chest, checking that their blankets were indeed closed. "You're sure you're impervious to this?" Tease, tease. He was learning.

[Starfire gasped, sweeping up the poor book.]

Are you harmed? Here, we will melt the ice. '[Somehow. She has to be able to build a fire somewhere.]

She had no idea that Starfire was planing to make her bald...as much as she like that look on Aang, it was the last thing she would have wanted.

She hugged back, and without expecting it, she teared up a little. "It was horrible for them, and for us. They imprisoned all of our waterbenders...except for me, because they didn't know I was a waterbender."

Wow. Hadn't expected THAT topic to come up.

Starfire embraced her tightly, hoping to be soothing and warm. "I will not discuss it if you do not wish to, but I am glad that you are safe."

Oh, ok. She hadn't known what he meant, but she was sure that he wouldn't have been mean.

"Well, mostly," Katara admitted, shivering a little, cuddling closer to Billy. "I mean, I am still only human, even if I'm a waterbender."

"I never would've guessed," Billy whispered, relaxing in the warmth. He'd stop teasing now, really.

"We're all right." Even if he has to rub his feet together to keep them warm. That's what the shifting lump at the end is doing.

"It's all right," Katara said. "There was a time I wouldn't have been able to talk about it, but my world is gone now, and I've grown a lot since then."

She hugged back, and took a long drink before continuing. "I told you they eliminated the airbenders. Well, they had a boost of power then, but after that they came for us. Not to kill us: that would have taken too long. Instead they started attacking us routinely, slowly imprisoning each of our waterbenders, until they were almost sure they had every one. Then they realized there was one more, and came back to the village. While the raiders distracted our warriors in a fight, the captain went to my mother to find out about the last waterbender. My mother asked if they would leave if they found that person, and he said he would. So she told him she was the one, and asked she be taken prisoner. But...he wasn't taking prisoners that time. when we got back to the house, it was too late. He'd accomplished his mission, so he thought."

Here, Katara didn't mind burrowing with Starfire. She still couldn't tell this story without feeling a little of that emptiness, that left over sadness.

She smiled at him and playfully punched his arm. "Somehow, I think you don't mind seeing me a little defenseless, Billy!"

And he was trying to warm his feet was he? Well, she knew a weak spot after all, and started to tickle his toes.

Take THAT, blue ranger!

Starfire listened quietly, holding the girl as comfortingly as she could. She knew well what it was like---her own family had died in war, and her only living relative despised her.

"I am so sorry, Katara. I mourn your family, as I do my own." She slipped a hand up to softly rub her friend's back.

"No, I never want you hurt! I...may feel a little emasculated when you're always so much stronger than me, but that's my own culture's problems talking. And I trust you to help me get stronger, even if it takes time."

But yes, he admitted from within, he did like being able to reciprocate all her kindness .

"Hey---hah! Stop that!" Billy was suddenly laughing, his feet squirming at the sensation. Definitely not cold anymore, but he'd have to get her back.

"I was the most badass freakin' Overlord in the cosmos," Zetta said, his tone a mixture of shock, wonder, and despair. "I had fire for hair, for Magog's sake. Now look at me. Lying flat in a snow pile. Where did I go wrong?"

Harmed? A little snow and ice can't stop the Overlord!

The very... very... very cold Overlord... Holy crap. I've been to the Ymrheim Ice Fields and it wasn't this cold! What the hell kind of weather is this?!

A blizzard. I fear we will sustain more damage if we do not escape.

[Where should they go? Ah---there. She calls up her powers, blasting a snow cave out of the side of the mountain and rushing them in.]

Katara was glad to be able to confide this to a fellow Outsiders: to anyone else, she wouldn't have so inclined, and it would have been strange. But with Starfire, it was not only easier, it was comfortable.

"Yours?" Katara said, looking surprised. She smiled appreciatively at the hands on her back. "What happened to yours, Starfire?"

"My parents were collateral damage in the war," she began, adjusting her hold comfortably and ducking her eyes. "My elder sister, Blackfire, was temped by the call of power when the Gordonians came to conquer our planet. She saw an opportunity and sold me into slavery. I have been told that the grief killed my parents," she uttered, bowing her head.

"I have tried to show my sister the error of her ways, but she is beyond my help." Don't mind it if she curls closer, Katara. That little detail has always bothered Starfire.

She laughed. "I didn't mean like that Billy! I know you'd never want to see me hurt. And trust me, I understand about guys feeling emasculated: it happened to Sokka more than once, when we started traveling all around the world and he met different circumstances. It's how he met his girlfriend, actually."

She smiled. "But don't feel bad about it, ok? Like I said, we're happy."

She grinned. "Nooo." And on she goes!

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