Title: Just Hold Me

Author: tanikara kohitsuji

Theme Used: 8. on a day like this

Pairing: Zutara! Zuko x Katara

Just Hold Me

There are days when Zuko just holds her. Holds Katara close as she cries. Some days, he just stays with her and lets her let it all out.

In their years together, he's learned how to read her signs. When he wakes up to her rigid form, he knows she needs to get relief. He'll wait until she wakes up and then he just pulls her into his arms.

She breaks down then sometimes, sobbing into his chest as he strokes her hair, muttering sweet nothings to calm her. Other times, she protests, trying to push him away, insisting he run the kingdom.

That's when he kisses her, shutting her up with his lips. "They can manage without me."

So he'll just hold her as she cries. Because she needs to. And he swore the day he took her as his wife that he would always be there for her. Or maybe back when they were still fighting to save the world he swore to never let her cry alone.

He holds her in his arms and thinks how lucky they are that they found each other. In the middle of this crazy world, they somehow found each other and held on through the good and bad.

A/N: Wow. Umm. I originally wrote the first part in my head. And then wrote it down while I was falling asleep. Not a good combo. But it came out all right.