Day Ten: The First Knot

[peri_peteia]

Title: The First Knot
Rating: PG-13

For: rawles

"Is this really necessary?" Mai deadpanned, and shifted closer to Zuko so that she could use his shoulder as a cushion for her head. Her voice was soft and hollow in the vastness of the throne room.

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[silly_izzy_me]

BEAUTIFUL!

The fact that she would be wedded to the ruler of the Fire Nation didn't really concern her; she would be married to Zuko.

Yes, exactly! That is so Mai.

And they, those few men in the war room who stayed late and drank deep, those that didn't see further than their crooked noses, they would watch and stare and criticise, because they were old and wizened, and saw nothing but a pair of teenagers with a job and duties too huge for them to surmount.

She looked forward to proving them wrong.

The orange glow of the sun sank and sank beneath in horizons in the distance, turning everything around it to fire, setting water and land ablaze. More words drifted out of the war room to her ears; words like 'too young', and 'too green' and 'too much to handle'.

It didn't bother her. She wished that they would shut up, perhaps, but as she stroked Zuko's hair and watched the sun set, she found that their voices faded far into the background.

*_* My heart swelled ten times its size when I read this.

"Maybe. I think it means I kind of love you."

She didn't look to see what his reaction to that was. She knew, from the way he stopped breathing for a second, and the way both his arms came to wrap around her, and the way he pressed his forehead to hers, and the way he stumbled over his next words.

"I… Mai, I-"

"I know," she said.

This time, she curled a hand around his neck to bring him down to kiss her. His hands smoothed over her hair, a short caress, before one came to rest against the curve of her shoulder, and the other along her spine. She felt her heart beating hard, and she pressed her fingers into his neck, near his pulse, just to feel it, too. She had never felt warmer in her entire life. His mouth roved over hers, and when she gasped, just a little, so did he. Breath flowed from one to the other like a lifeline.

I love you too, he breathed, and Mai didn't hear it, but she knew it.

And this. THIS. This this this this.

Was.
So.
Perfect.

[sahara_storm]

*WIBBLES HARD*

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