Fic: "Or Else This Heat Might Turn To Frost"

[redbrunja]

Title: Or Else This Heat Might Turn To Frost
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: R
Author’s Note: Written for zutara100, prompt 001 "Beginnings"
Summary: “This was the true beginning: the heat of her skin, the taste of saline and sweetness."

This was the beginning.

This, Katara’s skin under his lips, her nails scraping down his back, her hips bucking against his. She muffled her cries in his shoulder, biting on his neck as his fingers and mouth and cock made her writhe and twist.

This was the beginning.  Not when he first met her and threatened to destroy her village, not when he bound her to a tree, not under Ba Sing Se: this.

The heat of her skin, the taste of saline and sweetness as he licked into her and she dug her heels into his back and bit her lip and broke apart under his ministrations.

He imagined he could use the sound of her cries, the slow smile she always got after, and erase his mistakes, or at least ameliorate them, that he had found the beginning of a path after years of stumbling half-blind, in dark forests.

This was the end: Katara harshly yanking her hair back, hiding the dishevelment that his hands had wrought, and saying, voice cool, “This was a mistake, and it’s over.”

Comments

Re: cold, Katara

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I get the same twisted amusement out of him that the writers do, I'm sure, but there have been plenty of times I have wished him dead. For me his annoyance factor/sliminess is balanced by the entertainment I get from him, though I wouldn't shed a tear if they did kill him off. They've already passed up a few prime opportunities. Still, I liked him better when he used to be all-out crazy than when he's merely self-serving. I miss him talking to walls and shouting "NO MORE MR. NICE GAIUS!" That phase has passed, I'm afraid, and I don't like his new religious fervor, affectation though it may be.

I haven't totally broken up with BSG, but I don't watch it with a lot of expectation either. I wait long weeks and watch several episodes at once to catch up, then go another few months without. This system works for me. I had mixed feelings when the series began, and I never loved it, but what entertainment I did get has dropped significantly. Season 3 is better than the second half of season 2, but only because I stopped paying attention to anything the cylons said or did. The whole premise of them in this show is based on bad logic and nonsense in the first place, because the way they've behaved up until now doesn't make sense for even their own self-professed goals. And the religion thing... it just hurts to think about it. Why have a race of killer robots if you're going to make them behave like fanatical humans? Why not just have fanatical humans? The whole point of killer robots, even the pretty ones, is to act like killer robots. If they're not going to, then pick some other plot device. It's the logic trap-- robots need logic to make them robots. If you're going to make them use logic, then just make them aliens. Aliens can be explained away without a pretense of logic. A pretense that a child could find gaping loopholes in.

What does shank mean?

Die, Die!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

See, I never found Gauis amusing, which meant that so, so much screen time was just painful to me. And shank is prison slang for stabbing someone with a (usually homemake) knife.