Author: That Bloody Demon
Prompt: # 069 – Seasons (Spring)
Title: When the snow melts
Word Count: 90
Rating: K+
Author's Notes: Idea from Fruits Basket.
It shocked him, really. How he asked her such a simple question, with such an obvious answer. But somehow…she didn't say the obvious. She said what he wanted…needed to hear. Perhaps that was why he allowed her to take his arm on the way back.
"When the snow melts, what does it become Zuko?"
"Water, duh!"
His mother laughed. "No, silly. It becomes spring." She laughed again at his confused face.
"Katara…when the snow melts, what…what does it become?"
"Ah! Spring, of course!" She laughed, linking her arm through his.