Zuko_vulnerable

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Stormbenders, Ch.8
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[ ... Holding the cloak shut with one hand, she unlocked the apartment and re-entered it. Zuko was fully awake, now, and the door to her room hung open. He was peering inside when the front door squealed shut and he turned around: "Oh." ]

[ ... He shifted on his feet, then gave her an odd, suspicious look. "Why are you wearing my clothes?"
Until this point, Katara had not really considered herself to be wearing someone else's clothes. She was simply borrowing them the way she might borrow an extra blanket -- an apt comparison, what with how the cloak actually fit on her. Her hands disappeared inside those voluminous sleeves; it must have looked as though she had lost her other arm. "Oh, sorry. I just didn't want Rari to-"
"Oh. Right."]

[ ... He didn't move. She suspected he was annoyed about her taking his things -- he kept scowling at her bare legs poking out from under his cloak. Angry color stained his good cheekbone and spread down his neck to his bare shoulders. He swallowed and she saw the tendons working. He really did seem smaller, now. She remembered his neck always seeming so thick, before. Maybe it was just a trick of the eye -- his hair had gotten absurdly shaggy and it overshadowed the other features. But she could have sworn his arms used to be bigger, scarier. Maybe he was always like this, under his uniform.]

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