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[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

Sokka is Fixing The Kitchen Tap.

(It wasn't broken.)

This means that right now, there's a slowly-flowing stream of water out the kitchen door, but he's managed to actually seal the pipe. And in another half hour or so, the tap will be flowing better than before, heat up faster, and turn off easier.

It's just that right now it looks like chaos.

He may or may not be distracting himself from Other Things by lying on his stomach in an impromptu creek on the linoleum, but you'd never guess.

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[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

Claire has been in the hospital, and in the bunker, and around the farm more than she's usually around the farm. Because there's a BABY and she's muscled her way in as a nurse, and she wants to keep an eye on both Sonia and Ralph

And now she's heading towards the kitchen with dirty diapers, bottles that need washing, and all sorts of things to do that make her feel more useful than she's felt in a long time.

She steps over her boyfriend on the way to the laundry hamper, steps over hism again to get to the sink, then finds out that there's no running water available.

"...what have you done to the faucet?"

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"It's fine," Sokka promises, rolling over in the water to grin up at her.

Of course, this means now he is wet on his back as well as his fornt.

"I'll fix it in a second. I am fixing it. Promise!"

[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

"Sure you are," Claire objects. "Now I can't wash all this stuff I told Sonia I would."

It's terrible, really. Which is why she just dumps the stuff on the sideboard and sits on Sokka's chest.

EW HE'S WET.

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"Soon you can wash iOOF."

Sokka is Very Sad to have a Claire on his lap, no, really, and is grinning up at her.

She makes him happy.

"I'll help you. When I've fixed the tap." Wet hands, one still holding a screwdriver, slip around her waist.

[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

"You want to help me wash me wash baby stuff?"

Really, Sokka, really?

"Including the poopy diapers?"

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"I didn't say I wanted to," Sokka clarifies, grinning. "Just that I would.



"From a distance."

[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

"That's the Sokka I know and love," Claire says happily.She rests her hands on his sternum and grins down at him.

"Flooding the kitchen, wet to the skin, and already taking on new projects."

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

Sokka looks up at her for a minute, grinning all over his face.

Then he slides his hands up to her shoulders so that he can pull her down to kiss her.

Quite a lot, actually.

[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

It's not that Claire objects to being pulled down into - OK, ew wet, yes she objects, just not very much. And by splashing his sides with dirty floor water - into a lot of kiss. Because she likes kissing and she likes Sokka, and ooooh he's a really good kisser, it's just...

OK, she can pull away from heart melting kisses just enough to look him in the eye, right?

"What?"

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"Nothing."

Sokka beams at her.

"You're all wet."

[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Claire agrees. Her knees slide back in the water, down his thighs, so she's lying on his chest, chin propped in her hands.

"That's because you flooded the kitchen."

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

Sokka grins proudly.

Then he remembers it's bad. "Yes, but I'm making it better," he promises earnestly, and kisses her nose. "...just for you."

[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

Nose kisses are great. Claire even lowers her nose for him to reach. But then she kisses his mouth, biting his lip and pulling gently.

"And for the rest of the farm."

[95-tan.livejournal.com]

...the kitchen is a lot more... swampy than it should be. This does not bode well for cooking plans.

"a- ano..."

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" Sokka returns brightly, and also damply. "Sorry! I'm fixing it, I promise!"

[95-tan.livejournal.com]

95 is suspicious. "I had not noticed it being broken. er, Thank you for your hard work." She guesses.

OR MAYBE YOU BROKE IT?

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it wasn't," Sokka assures her cheerfully, climbing back into the cupboard amid clanking noises. "Until I broke it. But now I'm fixing it and it'll be BETTER!"

[95-tan.livejournal.com]

....

95 is suspicious of both your claim and your credentials.

"I am not sure the water should be outside of the plumbing in this manner," she comments, lifting her kimono to step over it. "The floor will get moldy."

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"What's moldy?"

Sokka has Learnings, just not about mold. Things don't get moldy at home! They get fruz!

[95-tan.livejournal.com]

....

"Ano..." How do you NOT know mold? Sigh, humans and their being irresponsible.

"It's a fungus that grows and makes things unsanitary."

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

"Oh!"

Sokka knows fungus!

"Like you get when your snowboots get all sweaty but you don't take them off for days and you get fuzz between your toes?"

NOT THAT HE'S EVER DONE THAT.

[95-tan.livejournal.com]

DDDDD:

95 is now observing a rule of "do not get within two yards of Sokka's feet.

Sokka has fungus-cooties!

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

Sokka's eyes dart.

"I don't have it NOW," he protests. "I just used to get it a lot!"

[95-tan.livejournal.com]

"....you do practice better bathing now, yes?"

He is starting to remind her of her user back home.

[lemur-sitter.livejournal.com]

Sokka nods, sadly. "Claire thinks we should shower every single day."

So he does. But it's weird, to a tribal boy from the South Pole.