Author's Note: Hey everybody! Happy Tokka Week! This is my first time doing a shipping week, so I'm psyched, and hopefully you are too! Today is August 1st, 2012, the first day of Tokka Week. The prompt is: Bending the Rules.

Enjoy!

"Oh come on! Don't be a baby!"

"Toph, you're the Chief of Police and an extremely important public figure! You can't just go doing stuff like this!"

"Says who? Besides, it's like you said- I'm a very important public figure and the Chief of Police. There should be a statue of me on top of the police station!"

Sokka groaned. Already, he could see that he wasn't going to win this argument. But he wasn't about to give up.

"Toph, there's a statue of you at the metalbending academy- isn't that enough?"

"No. That's my school; Snoozles- of course there's going to be a statue of me there! But I'm the first police chief of republic city, and people are gonna remember it! Now, does it look like me?"

Sokka reluctantly studied the statue, then Toph, then back to the statue, then back to Toph. The statue was good- it captured her strong chin, her confident stance, the way not a strand of hair fell from her bun, but how her bangs were always in her face. It showed all the details of the chief's uniform that she wore. It even sort of captured the blankness in her eyes.

But what the statue failed to capture was the black color of her hair, or the softness of her skin. The statue couldn't show you the pale, milky greenish gray of her eyes, or how she could cover her bare feet with spare metal stored under her protective leg braces.

"It's pretty good." Sokka said, rubbing his chin.

"Pretty good? Please! It's an exact replica!" Toph said, crossing her arms.

Sokka rolled his eyes. "If you're so sure, why did you ask?"

"Because you were supposed to tell me it was perfect, oh great smart one!" Toph said, jumping down from the ledge above the entrance. She landed crouched, with one arm out for balance, before straitening up.

"Well I can't help it if no statue can ever be as perfect as you." He said, pulling her close. Toph rolled her eyes, but she was smiling.

"Isn't this bending the rules, oh great Councilman Sokka? Being as our relationship isn't exactly… public?" Asked Toph sarcastically.

"The rules could stand to be bent once in a while." Sokka said.

"So… I can keep the statue?"

"I'm going to have to do a lot of paperwork… but yeah, you can keep the statue."

"Thanks Snoozles."

"Only for you Toph."

"Yeah, because someone else is going to come and demand they have a statue place on top of the police department."

"Well, yes, but you're the only one I'd ever consider bending the rules for."