Here's the second installment in the Windows to Love Collection: Corrupted.

Summary: A slightly darker twist on the Zutara relationship. How can something that feels so right, be so wrong? Lots of enjoyable Zutara smut...

I decided every chapter would be a different color: This one is most definitely black. :) I'm very proud of it. The idea came to me at 5 in the morning and I immediately started writing. And now its 3:30pm and I'm posting it. Hope you like. Review por favor.

Disclaimer: Don't own the characters or A:TLA and I don't own the song.

Just for reference Zuko is 19 and Katara is 18.


"Do you remember how it started?
The fairytale got twisted and decayed.
The innocence has all been broken?
How did we get the way?"

A single maid idled in one of the many palace corridors in the Fire Nation castle. She pulled out a sandwich from her apron and began to enjoy an unsanctioned break from her usual cleaning duties.

Behind a door, elements merged in heated passion. Sunlight streamed through a window as lips crashed together like cool ocean waves on a hot sandy beach. Zuko's touch was a branding iron, and with every searing kiss, he made Katara his. She moaned as his lips trailed tantalizing kisses down her neck, before focusing on a particularly sensitive spot just above her collar. Her body trembled. Every hair stood on end and every nerve was on fire.

Feeling Katara about to collapse from sheer pleasure, Zuko firmly grasped her thighs and lifted her up onto him, pushing her back against the wall to lessen the weight. He could feel her hands massaging his scalp, before they roughly grabbed his hair and pulled his head back so she could kiss him fully.

Zuko could never allow himself to appear so vulnerable, except with her. Needing her touch, craving her taste, he had no problem letting her know as his fingers trailed along the soft skin of her legs. The firebender growled. Arousing as it was, he grew tired of foreplay. He wanted her... and he wanted her now.

Pulling back, his eyes bore into hers and she wasted no time answering his prayers. Hastily, Katara grabbed his robes and pushed them off his shoulders as he did hers. Finally, meeting the last barrier between her eyes and her lover's perfectly toned body, she tore off his tunic and sent it flying across the room knocking over a large vase.

Outside, the maid lifted her head. What was that noise? She searched for the sounds, which got louder with every step.

Stumbling blindly around a table and some chairs, Katara pushed Zuko towards the bed, before pouncing on him and pinning him down in the dark red sheets. Oh no you don't, Zuko thought as he flipped them over, switching the roles in their little game of cat-fox and squirrel-mouse. Zuko ripped off Katara's top revealing golden brown skin wrapped in white undergarments. He forcefully tossed the shredded clothing aside, this time knocking a lamp off the night table.

Four doors later the servant jumped as another loud crash rang out. She lifted her hand to the fifth door.

Amidst the growing passion, the two benders had ignored the sound of breaking furniture, but it was the gentle knock of a castle servant that stopped them in their tracks. Zuko glared over his shoulder at the wooden door, daring the person on the other side to disturb them again.

Knock. Knock.

He groaned in annoyance and turned back to Katara who was stifling a chuckle at the exasperated look on his face.

"Is someone in there?"

Zuko sighed, dropping his head onto Katara's shoulder. "No." he whispered to himself. "Go away!" The waterbender shook below him in a fit of silent laughter.

"Hum… must be rats. Better tell Lady Mai," the maid concluded, finally shuffling away.

At the mention of Zuko's fiancé, the two teens froze. How could a single name turn him off so quickly? The Fire Lord lifted his head and glanced at Katara. He could tell she'd been put off by the reference as well. Katara sighed, not meeting his gaze.

Her thoughts drifted away as she pondered about the current position she was in. When had she become the other women, she wondered. When had she decided that what she and Zuko were doing was not a complete act of shame and cruelty? And when had she come to the disturbing conclusion that she didn't care?

Katara felt Zuko shift above her and immediately she remembered. The love, the passion, whatever they had, however corrupted it was, made everything that was wrong about their relationship non-existent. Zuko knew it too. The lust, the hate, the anger, strangely all of it was just something too good to pass up. Outside this room, they masked their growing attraction with arguments, but it was the constant bickering that tempted Zuko the most. Sometimes it took all his concentration not to grab her and have his way with her right then and there. And even though they both knew that the more they fed this monster they had created, the more it would destroy them; in the end, death was the only thing that could stop this affair.

Acknowledging that they weren't going to go any further this time, Zuko and Katara got dressed. But when Katara reached for the doorknob, Zuko grabbed her unexpectedly. He pushed her against the wall, effectively trapping her beneath him, and captured her lips with his own. He kissed her deeply, making it a point to leave her begging for more. It had to be the single most sensually poignant experienced of Katara's life. Because she knew that, more than a kiss, it was a promise, an oath, that the next time, and there would be a next time, he would have her and he would take her and nothing would to get in his way. And what was most frightening, was that she relished the thought.

As suddenly as it had started, the kiss was over and Zuko was gone, leaving Katara to draw in a long shaky breath. She closed her eyes and clutched her chest, willing her heart to slow its fervent beating. He was going to be the death of her, she mused.

Outside the window, dangling innocently from a lemon-orange tree, Ty Lee's hand covered her mouth in utter shock. She swiftly slid down the branch and hurried over to the castle doors. What was Mai going to say about this?

"So good you've got to abuse it.
So fast that sometimes you lose it.
It chews you up when you feed it
But everyone needs to eat.
Am I too much for you?
Cuz your too much for me?
You still wanna be and I still wanna be
Corrupted."