Chapter 7

The bright morning sun trying its best to peek its sharp head in to his room, there was a persistent ringing, he couldn't quite place it but he knew he had heard it before. As he came out of his drunken comatose, his head ached and his vision was burly. He opened his eyes, looked around his room was littered with clothes, he was confused for a minute, but then it all came crashing back to him. Dinner was great and Zuko had one too many drinks, it was a night to celebrate and he was doing a lot of celebrating. After the event was over he and Katara got a cab, and went back to his place, she had a couple of drinks her self but not near as much as Zuko had. They had started in the elevator up to Zuko's apartment, and finished in his bedroom.

Zuko sat up, looked over and saw the bare back of a sleeping Katara. Her messy dark brown hair was all over the pillow that held her pretty head. It took Zuko a second to recall the exact happenings of the night and early morning. Then he leaned over her and kissed her neck, she breathed deep, and snuggled under the thin sheet, telling all of her curves. Zuko quickly found something to cover his bare bottom, and proceeded to clean up his mess and fold up Katara's. He went and showered, then after made some breakfast, gave Katara on of his t-shirts, and workout pants he had, they were slightly big on her but not by much. They spent a very leisurely day together, until she had to leave, she had to go home and finish up some things for work and Sokka demanded to know where she was, and she needed to taste his newly perfected meal.

Katara stood in Zuko's door way, leaning on the jam, looking up in to his light brown almost golden eyes and smiled.

"I had fun." she said playing with his shirt

"Me too" he said looking at her, his hand on her waist holding her close

"See you on Monday." She said

Then kissed him goodbye and walked down the hall to the elevator.

Zuko then opened his phone he had 32 missed calls all from, Iroh.

'This can not be good.' he thought to him self.

He called his uncle back.

"Hello?" Iroh said

"Hi."

"Oh, now you want to talk." Iroh said being sarcastic

"What's going on?" Zuko asked

"Well I was going to tell you that the security guard showed me the tapes from the other night. We saw you with Katara, in the elevator. Zuko this better not cost me any money in sexual harassment charges." He said slightly angry.

"Ummm…" Zuko said "…I don't think…" Zuko looked down on the floor of his bed room. A pair of black underpants lacy and pretty…. "there will be…" he finished. He picked them up and put it in his pile of laundry to do.

"I'll see you on Monday okay." He told Iroh and hung up the phone.

Katara came back to her apartment Sokka was in the kitchen cooking up a storm, she quickly went and changed out of Zuko's clothes. She put them in the bottom of her laundry basket, and quickly changed in to her own clothes.

"Smells great." She said "What is it?"

"Seared pork loin, with an apple-cranberries salsa." He said, tossing the meat in the pan making it fly for a second before it landed with a sizzle back on the hot surface.

"Did you go to an after party?" Sokka asked

Zuko and the memory of a brief passion flashed in her mind. She held her breath, as she relived the experience of being with Zuko.

"Hello Earth to Katara!!" Sokka said

"…yeah I went to the after party."

"Oh well that's cool. Here you go." He said handing her the plate of wonderful food.

Sokka went to put something up in the fridge, and stopped and smelled Katara.

"Why do you smell like fancy cologne?" Sokka asked Katara, wondering exactly what went on at the after party.

"I hugged someone and haven't had the chance to shower yet, gosh." Katara said lying to her brother.

Katara had some weekend chores to do; she paid some bills, sent a payment for Sokka's culinary school. She had some thank you cards to drop off in the mail, and then went out did some shopping for the week.

Zuko had been working hard all day; he cleaned up the breakfast dishes. Washed his sheets, but kept the pillow case that Katara had used her perfume still lingered in the room and it was something that he liked. He lay on his naked bed, and remembered the night before. He remembered her skin, soft and delicate the color that covered her, he hadn't seen such beauty before. Zuko remembered her and the softness of her lips but mostly the way she kissed him. He didn't really have this in his plan, he was going to let her know that he liked her, and he was going to date her but passion and lust got in the way. Zuko's family was known for good fertility. He often wondered if that's why Azula has so many kids. Then he worried. What if…he couldn't even think about it…he was so drunk he didn't remember if he used a condom or not. He calmed him self down, 'we will worry about that later if we have to' he finally thought.

Katara had been thinking about last night for a long time, every time she blinked she could only see Zuko and the expression ecstasy of that his face held. She had thought about calling or just going over to see him, any excuse to go over there. She wanted to see him the more she thought about it, the more she wanted it, the longer she waited the more she needed to see him. She finally text him and asked if it was cool if she came over. The minutes it took him to respond felt like eternities. Then finally she felt her phone vibrate the familiar rhythm. She opened her phone and the message.

Yeah but better get over here fast ;)

She smiled at his response, and made up some excuse about going in to the office for something, she took a cab and arrived at his apartment building. She rang up and he let her in, went up in the elevator and knocked on his door. He answered the door buy pulling her in shutting the door and pulling her in to a passionate kiss in one fluid motion. He pulled away and smiled.

"I missed you too." She said

She left her bag by the door; Zuko picked her up and carried her back to bedroom, and placed her gently on the bed.

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