Title: Swing of Your Hips
Prompt: #036 Enthralled
Notes: This actually has no relevence. None at all. There is absolutely no point that Zuko sees Katara dance in the series, and this is probably considered post series but I have no idea how long after the series. This drabble simply…exists. Enjoy. (P.S. I know I updated 3 days ago. Sue me, I'm a review whore feeling more whoreish than normal.)
Swing of Your Hips
It's not that Katara is a good dancer. Because she isn't, if everyone is going to be completely honest. She can follow dance moves with the same sort of grace that she follows her Waterbending moves. She can preform amazing acrobatic tricks with the same sort of agility that she uses in her Waterbending tricks. But merely placing her out on a dancefloor with music could only result in an awkward, boxy little series of movements. So no, it's not that Katara's a good dancer.
(That needed to be established.)
It's just that when she dances, really dances with her weird, awkward, boxy, silly, painful, stupid little moves…well, something in Zuko sort of tightens up and steals the breath from his lungs and makes his heart squeeze.
And he's heard before of women's dancing making men go more than a little insane. Heard of True Love being found in a single, senuous dance. Why not, he's from the Fire Nation after all. They may be uptight but they were definitely rather sexual.
(An oxymoron, yes. The Fire Nation is full of them. The rest of the world just sort of nods and goes with it.)
But Katara is not a good dancer. Her movements are not senuous, not sexual, not even graceful. They are ugly and strange and embarassing and everybody knows it, even Katara. Zuko finds himself madly in love after a single dance anyway.