Title: Forces of
Attraction
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Angst
Pairings: Multiple,
explicit and implied.
Summary: Aunt Wu
saw a great romance, and the man she would marry. The Fortuneteller
never specified they would be the same man.
Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar, the Katara action figure would
have come out way before "Water Nation" Aang and Roku. Alas. I do not
own Avatar, and must content myself with writing fanfiction for it.
Author's Notes:
This is a two-shot companion piece to Newton's Laws,
although you don't have to read it to understand the piece. For
MommyRogers, who asked for Zutara.
Part
One: Magnetism
Opposites
attract
At first glance it seemed to be a poetic irony that Zuko was of the Fire Nation, and Katara of the Water Tribes. Azula, from the little Katara knew of her, burned with the intense destructiveness of a wild fire; Iroh burned with the benign intensity of the summer sun, but Zuko, Zuko didn't seem to burn at all.
At first Katara thought that maybe he had burnt out. Burned and burned, until there was nothing left. But even ashes are warm to the touch.
Katara realized that Zuko was like the iron on which the Fire Navy floated: forged by fire, but cool to the touch.
Zuko was never quite sure what to make of Katara. People from the Water Tribes were supposed to be cool and adaptive, change with the tide, but Katara, and her brother for that matter, was fiercely stubborn, and stubbornly fiery.
But hadn't his Uncle mentioned something about push and pull, about the balance of the moon and the ocean? The moon-haired girl had embodied this, she had been like water in the current of destiny, and had accepted it. Even the Avatar flowed like a river, meandering excitedly through life.
Katara, he realized was like an iceberg: dangerous and unmovable.
But Zuko would realize that Katara was not unmovable, and Katara would learn that Zuko was most certainly not cool to the touch.
Katara flowed, so much in fact that Zuko found himself drowning in her before he had even realized he was swimming in her eyes, and Zuko burned, so hot and so bright that set Katara's whole being on fire before she even knew that she was warm.
How could they have known, that two golden eyes looked on, as fire and ice were lost to the world in steam.
Author's Notes: Hopefully nothing too confusing here. I'm assuming a generic: Zuko joins the gang universe. I have a lot of schoolwork at the moment, but Part Two: Gravitation It all comes crashing down should be up sometime within the next week. As usual, reviews help me feel special, and when I feel special, I update faster.
