#and on a related note Zuko is NEVER staying at her and Kanna's bed-and-breakfast

[muffinlance]

Alternative: Zuko goes to a bingo game and is adopted by the local senior center.

High school AU.

The bingo center seniors watch as some really expensive car slams to a stop in the middle of the street, just out front. It is the middle of a thunderstorm, raining in absolute sheets, and the driver (is that Ozai? CEO of Burn Puppies It's A Renewable Resource, Inc?) gets out in an absolute RAGE, stomp-splashes around to the passenger side, and hauls out said passenger by the arm. Dumps him in the street. Drives away, with very little regard for whether his limbs are out of the way.

Enter Zuko, drenched to the bone, who is huddling in the entryway to get out of the rain while systematically dialing through his contacts for someone who can give him a ride, maybe a couch to sleep on for the night, no uncle it's not an emergency, he didn't realize you were still out of town at the pai sho tournament, NO absolutely do NOT come home it's not important and he's hanging up now BYE--

"Bingo," says Bumi, who does not have a bingo, but somebody has to break the silence.

"You absolutely do not," says Pakku, who is promptly elbowed by the Ferry Ticket Lady.

The soaked teen is now on call three, I understand that your parents are home, Mai, but I really did mean the couch--

"Why don't you take a seat, young man," Gyatso says, sometime after call number five.

Hama grudgingly makes room for him under the prime Heating Vent Seating, but only because Kanna shoves her butt over.

Anyway that's how the Gaang show up to collect their respective elderly family members at the end of bingo night

Only to find Zuko, terrifying transfer student, wrapped up in every available afghan, aggressively learning how to knit.

#Aunt Wu calls the numbers #she's not allowed to play anymore #too many wins with more foreseen #for bonus points you could have a power outage and the adventures of Zuko in the dark with senior citizens telling stories #Hama tells the Best ghost stories #and on a related note Zuko is NEVER staying at her and Kanna's bed-and-breakfast #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko #ficlet #Zuko Adopted by the Bingo Club