Dim Sum

by PhoenixMageFire

Dim Sum is always served with tea. They are tiny portions with endless variety and come with the occasional dose of crack. Drabble series; standard spoiler alerts apply. The kitchen is open.

12. Zutarra?

Disclaiming Banner: I make no claim to ATLA. I would if I could, but I'm the little engine that can't.

A/N: Sorry to any die hard Zutarrans. In my mind this is really the only way it would work out.

The Only Way

It was absurd. Some days it made her ill with the meaninglessness of it. Fire and Water. Zuko ... and herself. Them. Katarra and Zuko; like some cosmic joke!

But no one was laughing and neither of them had been born fortunate. They understood hatred, and duty, and the sheer momentum of staying alive. So when Mai had died giving the Fire Nation an heir and Zuko a son, Katarra had been there to keep him going. Those first few days were to spite the Universe in general, the next few years were for his little boy. And when Aang was slain, too, too young, in an uprising, Zuko was there for her and her son.

And eventually that had nothing more to do with duty or spite.