Her eyes fluttered open at the sound of cracking branches outside her tent. She sat up and looked around, seeing a dark figure.
"Hello?" She pulled her sleeping bag closer to her chest. The figure opened the tent.
"Hey, it's just me," Zuko said quietly, as he turned to face her while he awkwardly shuffled his feet.
Katara let out a sigh of relief; "hi."
"I, um, couldn't sleep, so,um..." She thought it was cute how he couldn't find the right words. "I was just going to, um, come lay down with you..."
"Well, I'm awake now... But you still could if you want too," she smiled.
He looked down at his feet, and then into her eyes. "Do you want to come look at the stars with me, then?"
He held his hand out to her and she took it; lifting her out of her sleeping bag and onto her feet. He led them out of her tent and toward a grassy patch, as they did their best to tiptoe out of camp so they didn't wake anyone up.
Zuko sat down on the grass and Katara did the same beside him; hands still interlocked as they lay side by side on their backs.
"That's Orion's Belt," he whispered, pointing to a cluster of stars with his hand that wasn't in hers.
"It's very pretty."
"And that's Andromeda," he murmured, as his hand directed her vision to stars that had been lost and found once more in the dark.
She turned her head to face him; "how do you know all this?"
He opened his mouth to respond, but was otherwise interrupted.
"Hey! Will you and Zucchini quiet down out there? Some of us are trying to sleep!" Toph yelled, as she sent a small quake of rock toward Katara and Zuko.
"Ha! Zucchini! I'll have to remember that!" Sokka snorted, as a stifled giggle came from Aang's direction.
Zuko clenched his fists and sat up, only to have Katara gently push him back down; "shh, it's okay, they didn't mean anything by it."
She smiled and crawled on top of him. "Let me tell you a secret."
"What could you possibly tell me?" Zuko laughed.
She planted a soft, sweet kiss on either side of his face; "anything, everything."
He made a sound in his throat and cut it off with a small growl and a laugh.
"Anything else?" He encircled his arms behind her neck and pulled her close.
She smiled into his skin.
"Nothing I can think of."
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A/N: SOMETHING IS HAPPENING TO ME. I DON'T EVEN SHIP ZUTARA. BUT I WROTE IT. WHAT IS THIS! Anywho, was it alright? xo :)
