Woo, I'm finally branching into the ATLA fandom! And of course, it's with my otp of the series, Zutara. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm going to attempt to post things on their respective days, but I just recently decided to contribute to Zutara Week, so my ideas aren't completely shaped out yet. We'll see how it goes. :P

I don't own Avatar.

Serendipity: a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful without looking for it.

"What are you reading?"

She looked up in surprise, uncurling from her position on the couch. Zuko stood next to her, wiping his face with a towel.

He must have just finished his training with Aang—he was shirtless, his body still glistening from his exertions. Katara forced herself to look into his golden eyes. She was used to seeing naked chests—Sokka and Aang walked around shirtless all the time—but Zuko was on a whole other level. Just looking at the rippling muscle made her wonder if his abs were really as hard as they looked.

Inwardly shaking away awkward thoughts, she held up the book so that he could read the cover.

Surprise lit up his face. "Love Amongst the Dragons?" He made to sit next to her on the couch, and she moved her feet to give him room. "Where did you get that?"

Katara stretched her legs back out, resting her feet in his lap. Zuko looked down at them incredulously but didn't comment on it. "I was looking for an extra blanket," she responded. "I found some boxes in the attic, and this was in one of them."

An unreadable look passed over the prince's face. "I didn't know anything was still up there. My mother used to read this book to me."

Katara looked at him worriedly. It couldn't have been easy to bring the whole gang to this house on Ember Island—it had to be full of memories, mostly bad ones. "Zuko…"

"What do you think?" he interrupted her. "About the story so far?"

Katara decided not to press it. Their friendship was still in its early stages, and she didn't want to run him off by nagging. "The storyline is great, but I'm not really sold on Kuzon and Rika's relationship."

"What do you mean?" he asked, agitated. "They're the main characters. It's their story."

Her lips twitched, but she refrained from outright laughing at him. Zuko was obviously a Love Amongst the Dragons fanboy. "You're right. But I feel like their relationship is a little forced. Rika has more chemistry with Li."

Zuko looked aghast. "Li?" he parroted. "How can you even say that? Kuzon is the hero!"

Katara's temper flared. "And just because he's the hero, he deserves her? What about what Rika wants? Doesn't she get a say?"

Zuko was quiet for a moment, pondering her words. His amber eyes studied her cerulean ones, and she fought not to squirm under his scrutiny. "But Li was the villian," he said quietly. "He's made so many mistakes."

Katara got the sense that they were no longer talking about the book. She held his gaze. "And he's learned from them," she responded just as quietly, poking him with a toe. His abs were solid. "I like him. He deserves to be happy just as much as Kuzon does."

The air between them changed, suddenly filled with something neither of them wanted to identify. Zuko was looking at her as if he had never seen her before.

"Hey!" Sokka's voice sounded ridiculously loud, and they both jumped. Katara snatched her feet back. "What's for lunch?"

Katara sighed, happy her brother hadn't noticed her lounging in the lap of a sweaty, shirtless Zuko and exasperated at his bottomless pit of a stomach. "Soup," she replied, standing. She set the novel on the couch."It's already made. You just have to heat it up."

She left to fix lunch for her hopeless brother.

She felt Zuko's gaze follow her.

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