Chapter Twenty-Seven: Katara

I was burning.

No, truly. Zuko was going to burn me alive and I was going to let him.

I had never been so bare in front of a man. My upper bindings were forgotten somewhere behind me as his fingers made of flames scorched my skin.

It was exhilarating.

Every drag of his teeth against my nipples left me wanting him-no, needing him. Needing more.

My heart raced as he teased me so thoroughly I felt both perfectly ruined and utterly complete. I arched into him for what seemed like the hundredth time and a dark chuckle escaped his lips.

"Just tell me what you want, Katara." He drew out my name, each syllable dripping off his tongue.

'What did I want?'

Strange that I didn't have an answer other than 'more'. I felt like a child unable to form a proper sentence.

"Please.." I urged rather pathetically.

"Please what, Katara?" The smirk on his lips was infuriating. He knew what he was doing to me. Knew exactly how to make me come undone in his arms.

"I want you to touch me.." I ground up on his considerable length just so I could watch his eyes fall shut under the slight pressure. He wanted this as much as I did. My heart swelled with an emotion I couldn't quite place.

"Tell me where…" It was a game now. A game I certainly didn't know how to play. A man has never touched me like this. And I briefly wondered if he could tell how inexperienced I truly was.

"Everywhere.." I gasped back and his lips were on mine again. Rough and certain. A fine enough distraction that I didn't notice where his free hand wandered.

I felt his fingers on the inside of my thigh hesitant as ever. His light touches only fueling my lust, my want.

His frenzied kisses slowed to a gentle, almost leisurely pace as he thumbed the waistline of my bindings. It reminded me of a sabertoothmooselion playing with its dinner.

I couldn't breath hard enough or fast enough before his hand shot clean down my bindings. I cried out, a moan he eagerly swallowed as he continued his slow path of torture.

I could feel the pads of his fingers swirling the thick curls of hair around before finally slipping lower and he moaned appreciatively at the slickness that had gathered between my thighs. Zuko broke the kiss to take a breath and I was finally free to throw my head back in ecstasy.

I couldn't control my cries as he toyed with the little nub at the apex of my thighs. It was too much yet not nearly enough and I began panting.

Then he resumed his teasing, brushing up against it, swirling around and around but never quite-

Just when I considered drowning us both in the ocean to end my suffering he pressed his thumb down just right.

"Oh Agni…" I gasped in a voice sounding nothing like my own.

And he laughed. Low and soft. "Like that, Katara?" I could only moan a response and just barely open my eyes when I noticed he was watching me with fascination.

And at that moment I no longer cared who I was, where we were, or where I had been. I could only focus on his burning fingers.

As soon as I adjusted to the feel of him one finger dove straight inside me. The moistness accepting him with little opposition.

The intrusion was unlike anything I've ever felt as he slipped a second one in to join the first. It was a slow deliberate pace and It did nothing to stop my moans.

My legs fell to the sand and he took the opportunity to slide off the top of me and lay on his side. His fingers still pumping into me at a pace I now realized wasn't anywhere near fast enough.

I met his pumps with a roll of my hips and soon I might as well have been riding his fingers with a wild desperation I only just now discovered I needed.

"That's it.." his little words of encouragement had me moving faster against him. He was hard as granite next to me, his length pushed against my thigh, as I continued to move on his fingers.

A tightness began ratcheting up inside me. I just needed a little more-

Like he read my mind his thumb brushed up against the little nub nestled in dark curls.

"Let go, Katara."

Release barreled down my spine, making my head swim and my toes curl. I cried out louder than I'd ever consciously dare to, his lips covering mine, as though he could devour the sound itself. The waves crashed against us, the tide drowning out the small fire and soaking into the sand around us as it swooped back into the ocean.

I could feel myself shuddering around him still, clenching and unclenching as his fingers moved languidly inside me trying to draw it out as long as he could. He continued to do so until I went limp beside him.

Slowly, he retrieved his fingers and I whimpered at the loss, unable to fight the sensitivity. I marveled at him as he brought those very fingers to his lips and began sucking on them.

On the taste of me.

I closed my eyes trying to make sense of all this when I felt a warm light on my face.

Firebenders and their flames, I wanted to roll my eyes at him but when I turned my gaze to Zuko he remained laying on the sand, eyes shut in what appeared to be bliss. Then I shifted east. To the sun creating on the horizon. It would have been beautiful if it wasn't about to blow our cover.

I shook Zuko aggressively, "come on get up, we have to go." He stirred sleepily before noticing the sun, a litany of curses spewing from his mouth.

I was dressed faster than what seemed logical and we were moving through Caldera a moment later, the impending sun rose at our backs.

As we approached I could see Zuko's balcony and sighed in relief. But at this time the palace was full of life preparing for the day ahead.

Zuko looked nervous beside me as we clung to a wall adjacent to his chamber. We couldn't stay here without getting caught.

I breathed deep before exhaling, collecting the dewy water surrounding us, and releasing the particles back into a fog.

Zuko was climbing before I could finish the bending movement, scaling the wall next to us before throwing his weight at the edge of the balcony and muscling himself up with ease.

And there he was forty feet above me. I wanted to laugh at how unnecessary all of that was as I reached for the water in his mother's pond behind me.

It carried me up like a wave, and I hopped off next to Zuko before returning the water.

"You could have told me you were going to do that." He voiced rather grumpily. I only shrugged, "you should have asked."

I allowed myself to look at him. To really look at him. I wondered if my face was as crimson as his. I kissed him lightly on the cheek before turning away, "thanks for tonight...it was-you were perfect." My face flushed with my inability to form a sentence, it crept across my cheeks and down my neck, and before I knew it my heart was on fire and I didn't know how to quell the flames.

I ran to the safety of my room.

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Hey y'all so I know I promised Friday but I had to work and didn't get the chance to posting it. So here's 27. I hope hope hope I can post again by Monday. If not Monday definitely by Wednesday. Anyways I love you guys and I appreciate the support you've given me.

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