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“Holy water”
Rating: T
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Relationships: Katara/Zuko
Tags: POV First Person, POV Katara (Avatar), Bloodbending (Avatar), Surfing, Southern Water Tribe (Avatar), Firelord Zuko (Avatar), Short One Shot, Friendship/Love, Teen Romance, Kissing, I Have No Interest Or Intention Or Disposition To Follow Canon, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:
My hand goes to the space just below his collarbone.
He's fine. Hot.
For @creativepromptfills. August Prompts #2: Underwater.
It’s no secret that my first experience with bloodbending was anything but pleasant. I admit it, even now I start shaking and I have nightmares, but I am glad I didn’t turn my back on bloodbending. If I had scratched it just because of what Hama did—to me, my friends, to an entire village of innocents—I wouldn’t have learned there are so many good uses to it.
I know I should start the list by saying something about healing, but right now the only thing I can think of is that without bloodbending I wouldn’t be able to surf at the South Pole. (It’s just a matter of heating myself, although that’s a bunch of medical mumbo-jumbos.) Who knew?
I swim back to the surface after falling from my board. Note to self: It isn’t always practical to surf on a board made of ice.
“You sure you’re okay in there?” Zuko asks me from the shore. He has to raise his voice for me to hear over the waves.
“Yeah!” I say. “You sure you don’t wanna dive in? You can heat yourself too, so you won’t freeze!”
I smile despite having to raise my voice so much.
“I’m on political duty, I can’t risk myself to catch hypothermia!”
“You’re not on political duty right now, it’ll be hours before the meeting with my dad!”
“You have an answer for everything, don’t you?”
“That’s why I’m fun to be around!”
I laugh somewhat to myself, but I catch a glimpse of Zuko smirking too.
He is wearing his royal attire, ever so showy. I like them but a part of me misses the times when we were kids and he dressed more… relaxed. More like himself. Besides, wearing his Firelord cape with such a thick coat must be very heavy!
Melting my board, I swim to the shore. “Seriously though, don’t you think you should relax some?” I say within his earshot. “You’ve been very stressed with all the traveling; I think you deserve a break.”
He doesn’t budge easily. “That’s very sweet of you.”
I roll my eyes. “If you don’t do it for yourself… do it for me?”
He stares at me for a few seconds and I do my best to put on puppy eyes.
After that, he finally unties his topknot before taking off his cape, coat, and shirt. After taking off his shoes, he dives into the water as I said.
“Okay, you got me into the water.” Between gasps for air, he shoves his wet hair away from his face. “Now what?”
My hand goes to the space just below his collarbone.
He’s fine. Hot.
“Now we go surf,” I say.
I freeze new boards both for him and myself and we paddle our way to the waves. Zuko has never gotten the hang of surfing as much as me but he’s grown better over the years. Nostalgia strikes again when I see him break through the waves; he used to fall every time he tried, all those years ago when he dressed differently too. For a second, I wish we could go back in time… well, I wish we could go to a time when our lives were easy. But they have never been.
Still, we have surf. I half-laugh at the thrill of it while Zuko watches me.
Eventually, I fall again because, you know, the ice.
Opening my eyes underwater, I see the bubbles sparkle around me. It’s like being in another universe. I swim up and catch Zuko emerging from the waves as well. Guess we both fell.
“You know,” he tells me, brushing his hair away again as I do the same. “I’m starting to see ice boards have their flaws.”
I snort. “Idle minds.”
He chuckles. And he kisses me, his hands cupping my face. Even when I heat my body with bloodbending, I can still feel the different temperatures around me. I can tell the water is cold, but with Zuko’s hands surrounding my face, his enhanced heat so close, I feel we are in a sea of fire instead of ice.
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