WIP: Pull Me Under (ZUTARA fanfic)

Post-war Zutara slowburn / emotional longing / ocean-fire symbolism
After the war, Katara thought life would finally become simple.
No more battles. No more running. No more impossible choices.
But peace is quieter than she expected... and far more dangerous.
When Team Avatar temporarily parts ways, Katara unexpectedly finds herself alone on Ember Island with the one person she never truly understood how to let go of: Zuko.
As old tension slowly shifts into something softer, deeper, and infinitely more dangerous, both of them are forced to confront emotions they buried long ago beneath duty, guilt, anger, and fear. Zuko struggles against feelings he believes he has no right to ask for, while Katara wrestles with the terrifying possibility that the person who understands her best has been standing beside her all along.

Between ocean tides, moonlit nights, firelight, healing hands, and moments too intimate to ignore, the distance between them begins to disappear.

And for the first time since the war ended, neither of them wants to pull away.

A slow-burn Zutara story about restraint, healing, longing, and the kind of love that grows quietly before consuming everything.