Pain with a Thousand Teeth

There was an ambulance at the Moretti's house. The constant flickering of the red and blue lights woke Katara from her peaceful slumber. What happened? She ventured out into the hallway and heard soft voices speaking from downstairs. She slowly crept down each step careful not to wake her brother Sokka, her father looked up at her smiling half heartedly.

"Hello Katara" Her father Hakoda and our neighbors parents the Bei Fongs' were all sitting at around a circular wooden kitchen table. Mrs. Bei Fong was crying, and both her father and Mr. Bei Fong held stern faces but their eyes glinted with worry.

"What happened?" She asked her eyes begging for an answer, her father scooted his chair in and glanced down at the floor.

"We aren't sure." He responded flatly as Mrs. Bei Fong began to weep harder.

"What if it had been are little Toph in that ambulance something could have happened to her-" She broke off in tears, "I couldn't handle that, I wouldn't be able to take this and, and.." She laid her head down on the table and sobbed Mr. Bei Fong put his hand around his wife's back.

"Listen," He said grabbing her chin and directing her face towards his. "It's not our Toph, right now our Toph is sleeping in their living room now you need to stop this nonsense, you do realize that it is one of the Moretti's children in that ambulance? That they are the ones hurt not Toph?" She nodded silently and sniffled away her tears as Katara slowly drifted off into the parlor searching for Toph. She opened the French glass doors and found the girl laying on the sofa wide awake staring into space.

"Hey." She whispered not looking up. Toph seemed traumatized, but who would blame her. She and Katara both knew that whatever was going on at the Moretti's she could see. That is why Katara had assumed she had elevated her feet up, away from the site of the ordeal next door.

"Who is it?" She asked plain and simple. Like any other ordinary question but this one had a much bigger difference behind it this meant life or death for Katara. Toph looked up at her wide eyed, her mouth was slightly hanging open and her eyes were huge and unreadable.

"Don't worry Katara it's not Zuko again." She said dryly sitting up and staring off at the wall holding her knees up to her chest. The weight in Katara's chest seemed to vanish. Zuko was okay! Nothing happened to him and he was fine! She let out a breath of relief that she didn't even know she was holding. But it didn't take long for realization to hit Katara and smile and upbringing glee change rapidly into a frown when she came to the conclusion of the tribulation next door.

"Does that mean…" Toph looked up at her and Katara saw tears coming to her eyes. She wanted to go comfort Toph, so they could cry together, but she couldn't move she just stood there with her mouth ajar and her hand held in front of her lips. She couldn't understand why this was affecting her so much. Maybe it was just the heat of the moment, or the fact that someone no matter who it was, was hurt right next door. But she did know for a fact that she never did and probably never will care for Azula Moretti yet here she was spilling tears over her. It was quite ironic. They had hated each other so much and yet here she was crying a muck over the girl she had so desperately wanted to get rid of yesterday.

Azula had always been a royal bitch to everyone and everything around her. But at the same time you couldn't help but feel that there was a deeper side to her. That she had some sort of compassion towards something at least anything. But you would never tell people you hoped that. Everyone hated Azula and yet everyone worshiped her. Maybe it was because they were jealous or that they thought if they were her friends they would become as undeniably and wonderfully perfect as she was. She did have some "true" friends though, well her biggest followers Mai and Ty Lee. The only difference with these two was that she actually talked to them. At one point in Katara's life, one point, she and Azula were somewhat friends. But it didn't last, now Azula ruled all social statuses and Katara was just the normal girl from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But none of that mattered right now. What mattered was getting Toph going back into the kitchen and telling her family what happened and then going and finding Zuko.

"Toph," She said patting the girls shoulder lightly. "You need to tell me what happened so that we can go and tell our parents and so that they can-"

"So that they can what Katara?" Toph said jumping out of her seat. "So that they can tell the entire community about the Moretti's family problems! So that they can sit and gossip about all the things that Mr. Moretti could have done to prevent this! No Katara telling your parents is NEVER a good idea, and you would be stupid to consider it." She stood there shocked from her outburst telling herself that Toph was just emotional and didn't mean a thing. She had expected Toph to be gone by now to have stormed out of the room in rage but she didn't. She stood facing Katara waiting for the girls response.

"I was going to say help." She whimpered and Toph's glare softened a bit and she opened her mouth to speak.

"Fine, I'll tell you what I know and then our parents can help." She said the last part with venom.

Random story i know. I really don't no where this came from it just kind of happened and yes it is a series i just hate making one-shots. As you have probably noticed by now all of my stories are, well very short but i am working on increasing them. I hope that you people enjoyed this story oh and i have a disclaimer to say. I do not at any point own any of the avatar characters or the city of Philadelphia for that matter. The characters belong to Byran and Mike and the city belongs to the people of the United States of America. Also that title up there i didn't make up that was written and or said by Sir William Watson, just to let you all know.

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LifeTimesWorth