ZPOV
She smiles amused, I glare at her, "Glad to know you find my pain funny." She laughs and her eye…twinkles…
"Aw, Zuzu, are you hurt by a little water?" I look her up and down, fury surging through my veins at my sisters nickname for me.
"Don't call me that!" I yell. The beautiful petite water bender looks hurt. She flinches and I instantly feel bad, "Katara? I'm sorry." I mumble, not use to apologizing. She shakes her hair to the side and smiles again. The sun catches her beautiful chestnut hair perfectly. I intake a breath, taken aback by her beauty.
"You're sorry? Wow, I feel privileged." She laughs a tinkling laugh. Fire surges through my veins again, how can she make me so angry? I go into a fighting stance and shoot flames at her. She barely has enough time to bring up a wave of protective water. Her mouth drops in surprise. She quickly gets over it and moves into her own fighting stance. We fight out our battle in a matter of minutes. By the end we're both breathing heavily with sweat running down our faces. I just realize something.
"Hey, where is everyone?" Katara snickers.
"Did you just notice they were gone? Everyone went to town this morning, supplies or something…" This is perfect.
"Oh?" She nods hesitantly. I walk over to her, smirking. Inside I'm more hesitant and frightened, but I reveal nothing. I've been…entranced… by her too long to hesitate. She looks at me questioningly.
"Zuko?" Her tone has lost all pretense of joking. I stop in my tracks, I must look like an idiot.
"Um, sorry, what?" She smiles more confidently.
"There's something…that has plagued me…well its better than a plague much better." She smiles and steps towards me. She hugs me and I hold her. She looks up in my eyes and moves her lips to kiss me, before chickening out and kissing my cheek. She blushes and smiles.
"Where's your confidence?"
"My heart."
"And where is that?"
"I don't know, you stole it."
"An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart?"
"But I like yours too much."