Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
She flung her arms around his neck, pulling her body flush against his. "Don't," she sobbed quietly, nails digging into the solid muscles of his shoulders. "I can't...you ask too much..."
"I know." His raspy voice pleaded. "But you must."
Katara buried her nose against his neck inhaling deeply. She committed his smell, faint from so many months in the Spirit World to memory, along with the pleasant weight of his arms wrapped around her body and the tantalizing shivers his husky voice at her ear evoked.
These things she greedily took knowing she'd soon never experience them again.
