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“Tell me you didn’t know about this,” she said.

“Know about what?”

“Oh, I don’t know, the fact that Azula wants me to colonize my own people?”

Zuko shook his head and held up his hands. “I didn’t know! I swear!”

Katara hated her voice for coming out raspy and weak. “So this wasn’t just part of the plan? You’re not just springing it on me now because I agreed to this?” She pointed at the necklace.

Zuko’s mouth opened, then closed. He looked at the floor. “No. I promise. She surprised me, too.”

She held one trembling hand up. “Because if I find out that you knew, Zuko, I swear to you, we’re done, it’s over-”

“Katara.” He took hold of her hands at the wrists. “I didn’t know. I promise. If I had known, I would have told you. You have to believe me.” His eyes seemed to almost glow. Then he shut them and she saw the tremor in his jaw. “ Please believe me. Please.”

“I want to,” Katara whispered. “I want to believe you because I think you’ve really changed and if you betray me now I won’t ever, ever forgive you-”

Then her face was crushed up against the armor and she smelled clove oil and wool and leather, and under that odd spiky surface he was shaking just like his hands and his voice. “I won’t,” he said. “I won’t betray you. Ever. I promise.”

“ Please don’t let this be Ba Sing Se again…”

“It’s not. It’s not. I promise you, it’s not.” His arms circled her waist. “I made a terrible mistake that day. And I won’t let it happen again. I won’t let you down.”

“You did,” she said into the armor. “You let me down and it hurt so much because I felt so stupid for trusting you and wanting to believe you could be different and for offering to heal you and… And then you just…”

“I know,” he said. “But I know now what I should have done then, and I’m trying my best to do it.”

She sniffed. “What’s that?”

His chin dug into her shoulder, and she felt the rough scrape of scar on her ear when he pulled her up closer. “This.”

Something in her blood tingled. She had re-imagined that moment hundreds of times, had seen the possibilities breaking away from it like jagged impact fractures in smooth ice, had wondered what it be like to heal such a large wound and whether the water would have worked and if I had just done it sooner, would he have come with us? And sometimes her speculations ended in grateful hugs or a smiling face, but they had never ended this way: with Zuko holding her and making her feel safe and promising to never, ever hurt her again. They never ended with her lifting her arms up around his neck and standing on her toes just to do it, or the odd sigh that sagged out of him when she did that, like he could finally put something down, or the way his hand came up and found her hair, fisted in the carefully-wrought curls. They never ended with his unsteady breath on her neck creating a helpless tickle in her spine or the way her hips moved in response or the way he hissed and tightened his grip and-

-the door banged open. “Waterbender’s needed; Fire Lord’s orders.”

In her ear, Zuko cursed very softly. He turned so that he stood between her and the guard. “We’re not finished.”


Stormbenders, by Fandomme. Go read it now! One of the best Zutara fics out there.
Loved this scene so much. <3<3<3
Liked how Katara's hair came out. Zuko'd back looks weird to me :\
Hope you like it.

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Good one- Katara looks so melancholy there.

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awesome! i love the pic especially Katara! ^^

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Absolutely gorgeous. Love the coloring as well as the emotion in this piece. Well done.

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Love it! I didn't really think about Zuko's back until I read your comments.....:D

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This artwork is simply beautiful. I can feel the emotion in the picture, especially after reading the scene you depicted. Zuko's back looks a little odd but I think that's how it's supposed to be because he's slightly hunched over right?
Beautifully done! It really captures the emotion of that scene. So freakin awesome! And SB is my effin' fanon. If Avatar doesn't end in Zutara (Which I still believe it will ^^-), this will ALWAYS be my fanon story. That or her other fic, "Ozai's Vengeance," also a very good read. ^^-

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Hehe, it looks weird to me.
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Yup he's supposed to be hunched over but it still looks wierd XD

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