A/N: if these are the readers following Sense then good but if you are from the readers who haven't read Sense previously this fic will come as a shocker.

I apologize for sounding so lame.

The summer was warm that if you focus to one point in the distance you would see waves of heat dancing repeatedly in the horizon. Toph could only feel it, of course, but it didn't lessen the effect of burning skin under the sun's rays. Though the freezing cold water licking her skin did lessen the affect of the rise temperatures.

"I wonder what everyone is doing right in this instant." Toph said, manipulating the ground beneath her to be afloat. It was all Sokka's idea to sneak out of their duties at the Republic City and the hotness sizzling in the atmosphere to get some fresh air or fresh river dive out of their routines. Nevertheless, Toph accepted, figuring it'd be a chance she couldn't pass even though the others did. It wouldn't be a surprise if as she asked this the others were doing the same. But if Toph ever thought about it she would smile figuring they'd regret not joining them.

"Oh, I know," Sokka declared somewhere near her, "not here."

Then he started laughing hard and harder that Toph image that he was crouching from the pain that she started to laugh too. For a few seconds all you could hear was their voices horsed in creaking laughter.

"Uh," Toph complained. "My face muscles hurt."

Then they started to laugh again, uncontrollably. Toph knew she had to stop; too much of anything is not good, even if it means just a moment of joy. Toph took a deep breath then let it go along with the humor she had on. When silence was inedible she figured Sokka ended it too.

Toph stretched making small currents move. "Why didn't they come, anyways?"

There was a hesitation, which made her guess that he was trying to remember or recall what it was she was asking to explain. "Zuko said that he liked it when it was hot, I figure it comes with being a FireBender. Aang said that his responsibility was to the city and if Katara didn't come he wouldn't either. And Katara won't come because she said that she couldn't handle rivers or lakes while she was pregnant."

Toph huffed as she made an attempt to roll her eyes. "It's almost one hundred degrees out. I wouldn't pass this for the world."

Sokka shuffled in the water, when Toph heard a gasp she realized he took a dive. "So, why did youcome?"

Toph made an effort to move towards Sokka feeling his vibrations in the river ground and Bending the earth towards him. "Didn't you hear what I said? It's almost one hundred degrees. You think I rather toast on metal on a crowdie office. Besides, the water is so clear I can drink from it." Toph shrugged as she cupped a handful of water and brought it to her mouth.

"In any case, I should confess I already used it as bathroom."

Toph widen as her hands dropped and she then spat the water from her mouth. "Oh, my God!"

Sokka chuckled, secretively. "I should also confess that I was lying."

"Ugh!" Toph stance herself then Earthbended Sokka, shooting him up in the air and not until she heard a gigantic splash did she smile, pleased with herself. From the distance she heard Sokka groan and she sneered even larger.

"What you did that for?" Sokka shouted from afar.

"Thought I save you from the contaminated water."

"But," Sokka hesitated, "that means that you risked you're life to save mine."

"Huh?" Toph can only say.

"You're standing in the middle of the 'contaminated' water."

Toph shrieked, realizing her mistake then sighed defeated. She could hear his snort from where she stood, and she just offered a smile and raised her hands in a defeated gesture. "You win, okay. Now can we go eat?"

"Sure," Sokka sounded much closer than he was before.

They ate in silence interchanging their meal. They both didn't say it but Sokka had more of an appetite for Earth Kingdom food and Toph had a crave for Water Tribe chow. She liked how it was totally different from what she was use to, from the hardness to the taste to the form and if she could see she'd guess that the color too. It was perfect. Best of all, it didn't resemble her native food in any way, because not like hers that represented the past and her home and the disabilities, his were new and challenging and it was like a piece of him, a beginning. She didn't say it, but in a way she wanted more.

They supposed that they had to wait an hour for their food to settle and for them to return to the river once more. So, Toph took the liberty in beginning the conversation. She started to talk about the Police Force of Metalbenders she created for the Republic City; how hard a task was to find Earthbenders who understood the possibility, probability and capacity of Metalbending; but that she knew somehow that it would be the best Force to ever be discipline or the best risk to be taken. Sokka added that the great City all of them manufactured was incredible. But it all started with Aang and it became their next topic to discuss. Then the indelible get together (A/N: I know it sounds stupid but I had a limit for the words) of him with Katara. "They took no time in reproducing after their wedding," Sokka remarked as usual. "Yeah, now she's having her third," Toph laughed. "Mind telling her to stop," Sokka joined.

Not until they stopped hooting their breaths out did they realized the hour had come and gone.

They started to stand. "Race you to the shore." Sokka declared.

Toph brushed sand from her knees as she huffed yet again. "Sokka, we're twenty-something years old, I think it's immature."

Toph felt him slump. "Yeah, guess you're probably right."

"Who said I wouldn't do it?" Toph grinned as she began to race, using her Earthbending to move faster but then a painful ache stabbed her in the abdomen. She pressed her stomach, choosing to ignore it and kept moving. She wasn't going to let this bother her, again. And when she reached mid way through the river did she stop because the ache had increased. She tried to keep her feet at the ground but she slipped and when she tried to find it she lost it again. The last word she heard before she drowned was: "You sore cheater!"

The water filling her lungs was stingingly hurtful and closing in on the pressure, begging for the air she couldn't give. She flapped her arms and feet but that only worsen the problem, making her sink in. Her Earthbending wasn't useful when she couldn't center herself on the ground and if she did it was for a mere second. Ironically, all her life flashed between her eyes but all she heard were voices and felt lost touches, the images were all black on black. But beneath dark waters the only thing that repeated itself was her past and her parents- that don't know what she'd done, don't know where she'd been or what she'd said or worst of all what she'd missed. Beneath dark waters the only thing repeating itself was Sokka and what he meant to her and the fact that she lost him before even drowning.

Something grabbed at her arms then pulled, making her head feel light as the force of the water was doing the inevitable on shaking her down. But then the air that circulated her lungs was so rich and new even if she haven't tasted it for just a few seconds that she gasp and spat the resting of the river out. And not until she heard him talk did she realize it was him who saved her.

"God, Toph are you okay?" Sokka's grip tightened around her arm and waist.

Toph coughed and gasped one more time. "That was not what had I planned."

Sokka sighed, irritated. "Geez, Toph can you say something less obnoxious? You scared the life out of me."

Toph offered a weak smile. "Look at the bright side: this time it wasn't Suki who saved my life from a possible drowning death." (A/N: this happened on an episode in which Toph thought it was Sokka.)

"What?" Sokka sounded insulted.

"That this time around you were the one who did the charity work."

"I never said it was that."

"But I think it is." Toph shifted.

Sokka was frozen stiff. "Toph, I never considered saving your life a community service." Toph puffed. "You're the most capable person I know. And if I made this is because I wanted to, because I care. I care about you"

Toph sighed, annoyed. "Can we move? I kinda want to go now."

But he didn't. Instead he turned her towards him, then caressed a hand to her neck until it reached the back of the head. The other hand did the same and then the pushed her forward until their lips met. In her head this was what she'd been waiting for so long and somehow she wanted it to never happen. Even more now when a cramp stabbed her abdomen again, reminding her of how impossible it is. If she could freeze time she would, and live in this moment forever but it seems that every time she took two steps toward possibility it just paced one million steps in front of her, though now as it takes one millions steps back to her she takes two steps behind.

And like this she takes two steps back from Sokka, fresh tears rolling down her eyes. "Sokka, I'm pregnant."

A/N: :O shocker. I'm sorry for the readers obviously reading this fic who were desperate to find out what happened after Sense. I remind that this was old and I'm so embarrass of how poorly it went but I hope the newer stuff can make you guys feel better.