A/N: I do not, sadly, own Avatar: the Last Airbender.
Title: Midnight Confusion
Chapter One: What's the matter?
I woke to the banging of my door being thrown open. A tall, shadowy figure was leaning in the entrance, outlined by the moonlight shining through my window.
"Sokka?" I called, thinking it was my older brother, coming to tell me he was just starving. Like that was a new thing with him.
"I'm insulted, Katara," replied the lean figure in a smoky baritone. I knew that voice, but why would that voice's carrier barge into my room in the middle of the night? Even if it was technically his house.
"Zuko?" I questioned groggily, and started to get up off my soft mattress. Zuko never needed anything, and if he did, he never asked for help. I was a little concerned, even if he was being sarcastic, as usual.
I walked over to him. "Zuko?" I asked, placing my hand on his tense arm, "What's the matter?"
He looked at me from the corner of his eye, then down at my hand on his arm like it was the strangest creature. I sometimes forgot who Zuko's father was, and how unforgiving his childhood must have been. Simple human compassion amazed him. And the fact that compassion amazed Zuko made me hurt for him.
He still hadn't talked to me. "Zuko, please tell me what's bothering you. You're worrying me."
Instead of answering me, Zuko grabbed my face in both of his (extremely warm, strong) hands, pulled me into his hard body, and kissed me.
His kiss was gentle, innocent... and over very quickly. If it wasn't for the look of complete shock on his face, shock at what he'd just done, I would have thought I had imagined the whole thing. It wouldn't have been a bad dream, in my opinion.
Raising a hand to his lips, he turned and walked back down the hall to his room, leaving me to hang out of my door frame staring at his departing back in confusion and happiness.
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