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

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Okay, wow. I have to say, I'm surprised at how many people seemed to think Katara was being premeditated about this. I was writing this thinking she feel to prey to her lusts, and then was breaking this off because she couldn't handle being in a relationship with someone she should hate.

(Not that that's a bad interpretation.)

And thanks for being so detailed about what worked for you - I love knowing what exactly I'm doing right.

So good to read fresh new, well-done Zutara in the morning! :D

Isn't it?

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

Oh, let me clarify! I actually didn't think that Katara was being premeditated (although I also don't think that's a bad interpretation). By my Hama remark, I only meant the fact that Hama would love knowing that Katara was choosing to hold on to hate and past wrongs and inadvertently stinging a Firebender to the quick.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. But yeah, Hama would love that, especially because (in my head at least) Katara's really miserable with this.