I'll Be There

Looking into those dull eyes I began to realize that I saw more than just a warrior. When I saw the faint glimmer of moonlight glaze itself across the evermore downplayed color of eyes that so playfully wondered in the light of my own. I wondered if the one gazing at me could truly make out accurate detail anyone else cou . . .

Toph: When?

While gazing at me she said.

Sokka: . . . . . Hmm?

Toph: I know I'm not the type that is usually contemplative but I've been thinking lately. . .

She paused because she knew that I had an idea of what she was leading towards speaking on.

Sokka: Toph, if this about Lin you know I will be there for you.

Toph: But when she gets older and begins to understand how things truly work in our world . . .

Sokka: I'll be there to to show her wrong from right.

Toph: But what if she is hurt?

Sokka: I'll be there to mend her wounds. . .

Toph: And when she might fail?

Sokka: I'll be there to help guide her to where she should make it back to.

Toph: And what if she grows to not like you?

Sokka: I'll be there to ensure that she won't. . .

Toph: But . . .

Sokka: I'll be there.

Toph: . . .

Sokka: I'll be there when she takes her first steps,

I'll be there when she speaks for the first time,

I'll be there when we discover she's a bender or not,

I'll be there when she goes off to school for her first day,

and there to pick her up.

I'll be there when she grows into a young woman,

and learns about the complications of this world.

I'll be there when she learns the truth about me and who I am,

and I will tell her, that I told you, that I promised that I will be there.

The prominent glare and shine of her eyes then receded into their protective cage behind her strands of hair as she tilted her head down and away from me. Oh Toph, what could it possibly be that will satisfy thee. Must I cut into my own soul with blade; shall I gaze Koh in his eyes full of glee? What will please this woman, what will please her?

Sokka: Toph. I'll be there.

Toph understand this, the reasons I say these things is because I want to be there for Lin.

I will be there for you, because I know you will need the support. I cant bear the thought of seeing you without the . . .

Toph: Sokka. Stop. What do you think I am?

Sokka: Toph read my heart rate if you will, only you would be able to tell if I'm lying. Toph I . . .

Toph: Sokka I'm not a single mom charity case. I have all the money I need in order to support Lin. . . I can do this.

The next words have to be the most decisive ever for me truly break into her head.

For her to really understand. Knowing that she could probably provide for her child on her own: something still urged

me forward. I knew me feelings were beyond general concern, they were beyond mutual standing.

Sokka: Toph . . . I'll be there for her because. . .

even though it may have not seemed like it,

I've always been there for you and

I will always be there for you.

What I said tore deep this time. I had to have struck a nerve. It was if she was slung into the ropes of a pro-bending

rings and propelled back, the genuine weight of that statement plunged not only deep into mind but into her heart

latching itself onto the very fiber of her thought process. She seemed as if she finally found a solace place in the world,

by what I could tell from looking at her, but something seemed incomplete about this conversation. I noticed by the way

she began to cling to me. As she grasped the cloth of my shirt, clutching all that she could of the fabric in her hands

, ruining the lining of my clothing she released as sorrowful sigh throwing her head into my chest. This was totally unlike

herself.

Sokka: Toph. Everything is going to be alright. Don't you understa . . .

Cutting me off she pushed me away from herself while still keeping a grip on my shirt and spoke the last thing that bothered her. The two most difficult words any man could hear from the woman he so cared for.

It would mean everything to Toph that I would say the right thing. For Her everything was now out in the open showing me that she wanted was a man in her first child's life and one in the second's now. But the only words I could say, the only response, the only words I could muster up were. . .

Sokka: Toph. . .

I'll be there.

END

Yeah so, I'm just testing my skills by doing something short here and there I should have made it a little longer with some more depth but tell me what you think. You like? You no like? Fav? Follow? Hate? Hopefully Love? That underlined portion is actually iambic pentameter. I think it was nice, the statement in his thoughts is full angst in my opinion. (Ya Know add a little suspense. . .