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‘Dancing in the Dark’ by damagectrl on AO3

THIS ONE WAS SO GOOD. gosh i loved it sm.

so basically it’s set sometime in season 2 while everyone’s in ba sing se. zuko and iroh are working in the tea shop in the lower ring and the gaang’s in the upper ring searching for appa. the rumors of the great tea from the lower ring travel to the upper ring and soon enough people from all around are coming for this shop for tea. eventually katara and toph hear about it and travel to the tea shop. also, katara already suspects its zuko and iroh, as people described the workers as a boy with a scar over his entire left side of his face and an old man, so she wanted to check it out for herself. of course, they have a heated encounter and she and toph leave. BUT zuko follows them and makes up a plan to try and capture aang. so the next night, as the blue spirit, he finds katara in a park trying to learn to dance for this festival thing that was being hosted in the lower ring. zuko, being royal, decides to silently teach her how to dance and completely forgets about capturing aang.

so for the next like week, zuko and katara keep having angsty, yet cute moments in the tea shop that do indeed develop into an attraction. but the only thing that happens is between the blue spirit and katara, so while things are happening on zuko’s end, katara just thinks she’s with some random dude under a mask. of course his identity is revealed eventually but i won’t give away too much.

anyways this fic was SO good, i absolutely loved it. the characterization was great and made sense, the plot was amazing, and overall the writing was very good. i definitely recommend it. 10/10

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This is the first time someone has ever asked me for fic recs, I'm so happy!!

There's already other posts on essential reading, the best of the best, famous fics, I'll just include some of my personal favorites.

The GOAT, the one I read every year

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8071780/chapters/18495412

No war AU and druk the dragon

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17389601

The blue spirit marries the painted lady

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4423163

Blutara after season 2

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15713832/chapters/36525009

3 times Katara hugged Zuko

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14807732/chapters/34261961

Zutara by letter

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13135541/5/

Cute toe-curling season 1 zutara

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28150146

Hope at least one of these suits your tastes ^^

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