This isn't technically part of Zutara Month, but I figured this would be a nice was to wrap things up. Just a silly little Dragon Age/Zutara drabble.

The camp fire warms Katara's bones and sets her mind at ease. Which is good, considering the past few days that she's just had.

The rest of the camp, with the exception of Zuko, are in their tents for the evening, asleep, or thinking, or shaking in fear, whichever. Perhaps all at once.

Katara pulls out her dagger and sets it to the side. There's still blood encrusted on the handle from the last time she used it. She'll have to thoroughly clean it again, considering she missed a spot. Although the idea of using it again makes her a little sick.

And then Zuko is scooting up to her and she finds herself very distracted.

"Can we talk?" he asks, a sheen of sweat on his forehead.

Katara tilts her head to the side. "Are you okay? You seem nervous."

He lets out a humorless laugh. "That's because I am." He runs a hand over the back of his neck, clears his throat a couple of times.

"Listen, Katara, when I'm around you my head feels like-" He cuts himself off with a huff and starts over. "You make me crazy, but, but not in ithat/i way, it's just-"

Katara is already smiling. He stumbled over similar wording last time they'd managed a moment alone by the campfire, when he'd gotten the nerve to kiss her for the first time.

"Spit it out," she teases, moving a little closer to him.

He stares at her for a long, unsettling moment before ducking his head and covering his face with his hands. He says something, but it's muffled and she can't make it out.

"Sorry?"

He groans and looks back up at her. "I'm not good at words but, fuck it. We might die, well, you're inot/i going to die if I have anything to say about it, but I might die. And this might all end badly. And I feel really strongly about you and..."

He looks so earnest and she cannot pull her eyes away from him.

"Spend the night with me?" he finally asks, expression both sheepish but eternally hopeful.

And Katara is grinning and resisting the urge to giggle at the same time. "I thought you'd never ask."