Zuko thinks that's rough, buddy (fireprincezuko) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2013-08-07 23:39:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, pansy malfoy, zuko |
Who: Zuko + Pansy Malfoy
What: Inspector Gadget-A-Thon + Body Swap
When: After she finds out he doesn’t know Inspector Gadget -- 8/4
Where: Hers and Peter’s place.
Rating: Low/No triggers
Status: Complete
So he’d never seen a kid’s cartoon before? What was the trouble in that? Zuko’s youth had been a fairly serious one -- traveling back and forth from here to Japan, getting an awful lot of education, and mostly just trying to impress his father. And then, of course, his mother had died.
So. If he hadn’t seen Inspector Gadget, it wasn’t a big deal.
Unless it was?
Zuko knocked on Pansy’s apartment door -- a little too loudly on purpose. Hey, she had invited him over.
Pansy had the DVD. No worries. She’d catch him up. Of course, the show was so much better when high. Or when it was turned into a drinking game. They could do either, really. She had supplies.
She was sitting on the sofa, feet up on the coffee table and a bowl of chips in her lap. She turned to look over her shoulder, the television playing the first episode. “Come in!” She called out. She’d left it unlocked so he could let himself in.
Which he did, closing the door behind him with his hip and then wandering into the place. “Hey,” he greeted, making himself totally at home by wandering into her kitchen before much else and digging through her fridge for something to drink.
What? She did it at his place.
As if she was complaining. She’d even stocked up the girly drinks that he liked so much. There were plenty there. And she had a drink in front of her on the table, too. Peter was better about keeping the food stocked, and since he’d been gone for the last week there wasn’t much in the fridge. Some leftovers: half a cheeseburger here and a nearly finished burrito there, of course all the condiments were there, too. And eggs. But not a whole lot else.
Tons of alcohol, though. Pansy kept that part well stocked. “‘Sup?” She called out to him, pausing the television. Gadget was making a ridiculous face.
“Oh, you know.” Zuko reappeared in the living room with two drinks for himself and an extra for Pansy. He had long since learned that when Pansy said she was going to marathon something, she really just meant it.
“Here for my education.”
“Good.” Pansy gave him a nod and a smile. “We’ll have to keep it down a bit. Peter’s just arrived home, and he’s sleeping in the bedroom.” She lifted the remote and clicked the television on so that Zuko could get schooled in Inspector Gadget.
“No problem,” Zuko said with a shrug -- it wasn’t as if he was a particularly loud person in the first place. He couldn’t see how watching television would get too noisy, anyway. “So, this better be good, because I’m really expecting a lot now.” He stole some of her chips.
“Oh, prepare to have your mind blown,” Pansy said, smirking. She focused on her beer for a moment. The clock struck 11. Then her beer wasn’t her beer, and her hand was wrapped around a girly drink instead. But it wasn’t her hand, either. In fact, as she turned her head, she found that she was sitting next to herself.
Zuko found himself in a similar situation. Well, the exact opposite of that situation, in fact, as he was staring at himself (christ, did the scar really look that bad?) and was holding a beer and was suddenly a woman, a woman with breasts.
Who was his sister in law.
“Fuck,” he said, with feeling. And it came out so high pitched that he nearly burst into tears.
“What... What... What’d I do?” Pansy said, her voice coming out in Zuko’s tone. Though sounding rather panicked. She thought for a moment that she’d done some magic without trying to--her wand was in her back pocket. Maybe she’d... sat on it funny?
“DId you do something?” Zuko was all panicky now, and his super high pitched voice wasn’t helping him in terms of calming down. “Oh shit -- I have the--” He grabbed the wand out of his pocket -- and promptly handed it over to himself --er-- Pansy. “Fix it.”
“I... I don’t....” Pansy shook Zuko’s head--oh man, that was going to get confusing--and accepted the wand. “I don’t think I can! You don’t have magic. I don’t have magic.” She waved the wand and spoke an incantation, the first one that came to mind, but nothing happened. “I don’t even know what happened! What I did!”
“I don’t know magic.” Zuko was pressing his nails into the palms of his hands, creating harsh little crescent moon lines there. “How? Oh, God, we’re going to have to tell Draco.”
"It's no big deal." Pansy said, but she wasn't convincing anyone. Truth was she was terrified. "Maybe he'll know what to do. Maybe he can fix this. Before Peter wakes up and I'm a dude."
“We should -- yeah. What?” Zuko hated inspector gadget. A lot. “Should we -- go to my place?” Crap, Pansy couldn’t even teleport.
“Shouldn’t we?” Pansy asked, sitting up a little. “I mean... Draco’s got to know, or... I don’t know. I don’t know what to do. I’m at a total loss.” She felt helpless and confused.
“Fuck,” Zuko said again, covering his face with his hands, and then stopping immediately because it wasn’t his face or hands. “Yeah-- no lets... uh. Go find Draco. Maybe he can fix it.”
“Okay.” Pansy climbed up to her feet. Zuko was taller than she was, which was slightly disorienting. “Okay, let’s go. We can take my car.” Since she obviously couldn’t apparate them there, and she didn’t want him to chance it. Splinching while in someone else’s body? Sounded awful.
“Okay,” Zuko repeated, sounding a little sullen about it. He wasn’t looking forward to this.