Title: Smile
Pairing/Characters: Zuko/Katara
Setting/Time: Book 3: Fire
Drabble #: 1
Summary: It was a dream, Zuko told himself. A very bad dream. After all, the Waterbender girl was trying to teach him to smile. And he was liking it. Which, in his opinion, made it a very bad dream.

Zuko decided that it had to be a dream. A very bad dream.

The Waterbender girl was teaching him.

Teaching him how to smile, to be more exact.

"Not like that, Zuko! Like this. Smile like you mean it."

Not to mention Dream Zuko (Zuko decided that there was a huge difference) was actually listening. And attempting (futilely) to smile.

"Almost! Make sure it reaches your eyes though."

For the first time, Dream Zuko noticed her eyes. Her very blue, very pretty, very - wait. Pretty?

She was not pretty. Sure, she wasn't ugly, and she had nice eyes and nice hair and she wasn't fat and she wasn't a skeleton and she had a nice nose and nice eyes and a nice voice and nice eyes and -

Okay, maybe she was a little pretty.

Just a little.

"Yes! Like that! But make it seem more like you mean it."

He tried again. And again. And again.

Dream Zuko was crazy.

a) Dream Zuko was smiling. At the Waterbender.
b) Dream Zuko was calling the Waterbender Katara and not 'peasant' or 'water witch' or anything or the sort.
c) Dream Zuko was doing things. With Katara. Certain words starting with the letter 'g' that Uncle- no, the traitor, had taught him.
d) Dream Zuko was enjoying those things that started with the letter 'g'.
e) Dream Zuko was -

For the love of Agni! Dream Zuko was kissing Katara (as well as doing other unmentionable things). Dream Zuko was having a make out session with the Waterbender. Dream Zuko was extremely content doing such things with Katara.

And the kissing was progressing at an alarming rate, too. A very alarming rate.

"Zuzu! What's wrong?" Azula said in a saccharine voice, jolting her brother awake.

Zuko looked at his sister and turned away. For once he was grateful to Azula.

Some things were better kept secret.

Anyways, it wasn't like he liked the filthy Waterbender. No, not at all. She was a peasant. Below him. Undeserving of his attention.

But he was keeping the dream secret anyways.

A/N: ... The randomness. Seriously, Katara teaching Zuko to SMILE. But it was a dream. And not canon. And... yeah. Zuko is a teenage boy. Therefore he has (cough) dreams. Yes.
(embarassed)