A/N: Hey everybody. As soon as I watched the Avatar movie Sozin's Comet I was instantly in love with it. It was one of the greatest things I have ever seen…except for the Kataang and Maiko ending. Zuko does not belong with Mai and Katara does not belong with Aang. So this is a Zutara story about after all of that happened. It is in Katara's POV the whole way through and I hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Avatar. Trust me, if I did Zuko and Katara would most definately be together!


Chapter One

I know I'm supposed to love him and be all over him. That's what everybody thinks. But I don't know if it's right. I'm not sure if it's really supposed to be this way. I do love him, but not in the way everybody thinks I do. I know I kissed him after he had defeated the Fire Lord a month ago, but I'm not even sure why I did any more. I guess I figured that he had deserved it? Something like that, but ever since I guess we've been together. And it's been great, but I don't feel like he's the right one I should be with. It feels like there should be another, different boy. But I'm not sure who just yet…

"Hey Katara, come here!" I turned around and saw my older brother waving at me, with Aang at his side. I cocked an eyebrow but walked over to the two boys.

"What is it now, Sokka?" I asked when I reached them. I had entered the Jasmine Dragon from the outside balcony between the two flights of stairs leading up to the propped open front doors. I looked to my right and saw Zuko, Mai, Suki, Iroh, and Toph were all frozen in posed positions all around the right side of the room. Zuko was serving a cup of tea to a table with no people; Mai was merely standing against the wall with her arms crossed over her chest; Suki stood with her arm up like she was holding a cup in it and she had a smile on her face like she was laughing; Iroh was pouring tea into an empty cup on a small tray he was holding in his hand like a waiter does in a fancy restaurant; and Toph was standing in front of Suki with the same pose as her like they were talking and laughing together.

"What is this all about?" I questioned looking at everyone posed perfectly.

"Sokka is making us pose for a stupid painting," Zuko muttered without moving his body. I turned my head towards Sokka.

"Why?" I merely said.

"Remember back right after Aang defeated Ozai and we were all here just like we are now?"

"Yeah…"

"And remember how I was trying to paint a picture of everyone and it turned out horrible?"

"Again, yeah…"

"Well this time I hired a professional painter to draw the picture. So I'm gonna' have everyone pose for the picture. You're over in that chair over the there." He pointed at the empty chair at the table that Zuko was serving a cup of tea to. "You're gonna' be receiving your cup of tea from Zuko."

"How exciting," I said emotionlessly. "I can't believe you got everyone to do this."

"Well, you know me. That's just how I roll." I looked over at him as he closed his eyes and a wide smirk played across his lips. His hands landed on his hips in a triumphant pose.

"Sure it is," I said, my own smirk spreading across my face. I then walked over to the empty chair and placed my right arm on top of my left arm on the wooden table top. I looked into Zuko's gold eyes like I would look into any waiter's eyes as they served me my order. He stared straight back into my blue ones through his long, matted black hair. I put on a smile to make the scene look more life-like, and I saw him also curl his lips into a small smile.

"Perfect!" I heard Sokka yell. He walked over to us and smiled widely. "You too look perfect together like this. Very life-like. Good job." Then I saw him out of the corner of my eye walk over to Mai and adjust her crossed arms very slightly. Then he walked out of my view and I couldn't look at him since I didn't want to ruin my pose. I also didn't want to look away from Zuko's warm gaze.

Sokka walked back into my view, pushing Aang in front of him. He pointed to the ground and Aang lied down on his back. Sokka walked out of my view yet again and came back in a second later with Momo in his arms. He walked over to Aang and gave the pet lying lemur to Aang who outstretched his arms above him as far as they would go, as was Sokka's instruction. Aang put on a smile that I could barely see and Sokka gave him a thumbs up then walked away.

"Ok everybody, you all look great!" I heard him tell us. "Now you all need to just stay like this until the painter is done."

"What about you?" I heard Aang ask from the ground.

"I'll be posed too, don't worry," Sokka answered.

"What if we have to go to the bathroom?" Mai questioned. There was silence before I heard my brother answer.

"Hold it," he replied.

"What if we can't?"

"Oh well! Stop asking questions!" I didn't see him but I knew he had gone to pose. I couldn't see his pose so I had to wait until the painting was finished, which didn't really bother me. I wasn't that interested in seeing my brother pose.

He blinked. That was the first time I had noticed him blink ever since I had sat down and posed with him. I don't know why it was so important but it was. It had been almost five minutes since we began our little staring contest and he hadn't blinked one time until now. I still hadn't blinked. I wondered if he noticed that as much I'd noticed his first blink.

"Ok, you can start painting!" I heard my brother say, probably to the painter sitting at the long table on the other side of the room. And so we all just sat there, motionless and soundless. The silence eventually got to me, and I heard an annoying little ringing sound in my ears. And it stayed there for a long time.


"Alright, I'm done," the painter announced. I heard grateful sighs all throughout the room and I finally relaxed my aching jaw muscles from that horrid smile I had to keep on my face for three hours straight. I reached my hand up and massaged my jaw as I stood up. Zuko took the cup of tea he was holding and drank it as he backed away from the table. He walked back behind the counter and into the "Employees Only" area. I walked over to Aang and saw that he was still on the ground and his arms were stretched out to the sides of him. He was breathing hard.

"By the sound of your breathing it sounds like you just ran a marathon," I told him, smiling. He didn't smile back.

"Do you know how hard it is to keep your arms up like this" –he held up his arms like he had posed them for the painting- "for three hours straight? While holding a lemur that weighs, what, a lot!" He brought his arms back down and closed his eyes. I leaned down and gave him a gentle kiss on the lips, even though I didn't want to. When the kiss ended I stood back up and helped him onto his feet.

"At least you got to lie on the ground," I said to him. "Sitting in that chair for three hours really wasn't all that comfortable."

"I'd have switched with you any day," he replied. I smiled and we walked over to the painter's table to see the painting.

It was wonderful. Everyone looked beautiful and just as they had looked all posed. I searched the piece of paper until my eyes rested on Zuko and I at our small little table, him serving me tea with a smile on his face, and me returning the smile. We looked amazing. Sokka had been right; we did look perfect together like that. I smiled and then walked away from the picture, allowing an open space for someone else. I went over to the very table that Zuko and I had posed at and sat down in my chair. It was a minute later that Zuko pulled a chair up beside me.

"So, how's the painting look?" He asked.

"Didn't you go and look at it?" I questioned.

"No. I was doing something else."

"Oh." I wanted to tell him that it was beautiful, and that we looked perfect and amazing. But I didn't have the guts, and I don't know why. So I settled for a plain old answer that anyone would give.

"It looks fine, I guess," I told him.

"Good. Because if it looked bad and Sokka threw it away, I would die."

"Me too, probably," I agreed. He looked over at me and smiled. I smiled back and felt something warm and powerful wash over me. Zuko stood up and stretched his arms above his head.

"I guess I'll go see for myself now," he stated. I just nodded and watched him walk over to the group surrounding the table. I watched him put his arm around Mai's shoulders and my eyes saddened. That was when I realized that I was in love Fire Lord Zuko.


I really hope you liked the chapter and I'll update as soon as I can. Reviews are very much appreciated. Thanks!

-Taylor