Maybe it was the silence that stretched between them, but sometime while playing with Boots, a thought struck Katara-- it was rather relaxing, almost peaceful sitting here with Zuko like this, idly playing with the kittens gathered around them.

Who would have thought the words 'Zuko' and 'peaceful' could be put together in one sentence? Katara certainly didn't think it was possible, but she was proven wrong. Since when did things start to change between them?

There was a concentrated furrow in her brow as her mind tried to lapse back through the months that passed. Getting into that fight with Zuko in the lobby, once again in the Secret Area, then a third time in the Training Center... the kiss that happened when they fell in the creek, and being the cause of his broken clavicle not even a week later. Nursing him back to health, being paired with him in dance class, helping him with his plants in Home Economics, now caring for kittens and Chicobos with the Firebender. It was as though all the initial hostility between them had faded over time, and instead a mild friendship, or at least understanding had settled over them.

How strange.