Prompt: #056 Teammates
Title: Four Sparrowkeets
Word Count: 260
Rating: K


Aang and Zuko made their way back to camp with barely a word spoken to the other the entire trip. Sure, there was the "conversation" they had before they set out, but that didn't count. Not to Zuko, anyway. Zuko's eye moved from the three fish on the line in the monk's hand to the four sparrowkeets strung together in his own hand.

"They're no elephant koi, but I think they'll do! What do you think, Katara?" Aang held the fish up for her inspection.

"They will do just fine, Aang." A small smile played it's way across her lips as Aang handed her the fish before bounding off towards the bison. Zuko heard the avatar call out something about a bath, but paid him no heed as he watched Katara, who was currently smiling up at him. "And, what do you have for me, Prince?" Her smile brightened and he couldn't help but return it.

He lifted the birds as he sat next to her. "Ah, sparrowkeets. You got four of them, too. Not bad." Silence settled upon them as they each went about their own tasks–Katara gutting and scaling the fish while Zuko plucked and cut the birds for roasting. "You two must work well together to have gotten as much as you did," was Katara's quiet comment to Zuko.

"Hn," was the response she get from the fire prince. Not that she was surprised, of course. "I think we work better together," he finished as he motioned to the cleaned fish and birds. Now that was surprising.