Day 22: Forbidden
'Forbidden fruit tastes sweetest.' An old saying, but many adulterers can attest to its truth.
Perched in a tree and wearing his Blue Spirit guise, Zuko eyed the window, knowing the prize that awaited him inside. Tonight he'd make Katara forget all about her much-vaunted 'powerful bender' of a husband; they would share forbidden fruit under the cover of darkness.
He crept noiselessly through the window, stole up to the bed—and froze, when he realized that Katara wasn't alone in it:
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"Kuzon had a nightmare," Katara explained resignedly, gesturing at their son snoring on Zuko's pillow. "Sorry, not tonight…"
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