Title: Love in a Teacup
Prompt: #043 Giddy
Notes: After all the gloom and doom and seriousness…FLUFF! Or as close to fluff as one can get within the bounds of cannon. Okay, this also takes place during 'Avatar Aang'. I'm sorry. There's just so much Zutara/Aangst/Other Fun Stuff potential in that episode!
More personal author note, I have finally come back from a long trip. And thus things will be updated. Including Timeline (SHAMELESS PLUGGING) and Little Things. To get me back in the groove though, I'm offering a free Zutara gift fic. Whomever claims it first in reviews gets it. Leave a plot of some sort and a title (if you've got one). I'll write it. Thanks!
Love in a Teacup
It's a Pai Sho game. Between Mai and Suki. Who had, up until this point, loathed each other with a passion unmatched (even if Mai did assist with getting Suki out of jail, she still helped put her in there too). But apparently Pai Sho allows even bitter enemies to become friends. Or something. Katara's just snickering behind her wide green sleeve and trying not "disturb" them.
She glances over and see Zuko heading toward her with a tray of tea in hand. She silently prays that it is his uncle's tea merely reheated by Zuko. Because really, no matter how hard he tries, Zuko can't make tea. Or at least tea that stays down.
He gives her the sweetest smile in the world as he gives her the tea cup. Katara's heart does little twirls and her whole body is racked with something resembling shivers. In this single moment, they can say 'I love you' with their eyes.
"Zuko, stop moving!" Sokka wails. The moment is broken. As always. Katara rolls eyes as discreetly as possible. Mai and Suki (and Zuko, for that matter) are staring incredulously at Sokka and Aang is still distracted with Momo.
Katara chances a hand brushing Zuko's. She's giving him her tea cup, if anyone asks. Nobody needs to know she's bent the tea within into a tiny heart. Their fingers brush. A tiny flare of heat. A moment. It's love. Love in a tea cup. How ridiculous. How perfect.