Hello. This is part seven of the on going story that I am rewriting at the minute. In addiction to rewriting the fifth-teen parts that I have already rewritten, I am going to be adding five new parts to the story, this is the first. I am adding the five parts as in going over the story I realised that I focused mainly on the main plot, do I am adding the new parts, in some cases to ad more of the other characters that I didn't deal with. In this case it would be Katara and Toph's relationship, as I never did much with Katara when I first wrote the story. So as I am making this up as I go along with no deal plan, except I have one thing I want to do, and how I am going to end it to link to the next part, I am open to any ideas. So let me know if you have any, it would be very helpful.

The screams of the very vocal one year old filled the entire house. Katara held her nephew a little closer to her, as she kept rocking him from side to side. Suki had said that this always worked, she had also said that he wouldn't wake till much later in the afternoon. It seemed that the loving aunt would have to take what her nephew's parents told her about how good a baby he was with a pinch of salt. "There, there Suten. Mummy and daddy will be back soon." her own words, don't worry he wont be any problem at all, rang in her head. What an idiot she was. She lowered her head to whisper in the baby's ear. "Please be quite for aunty Katara and aunty Toph."

"Oh no you don't. Do not drag me into this any more than you already have. This was all your idea, you deal with it." Toph had been lying on the couch hiding her head under a pillow. Katara had thought she was asleep, and was a little shocked to hear her voice and she her head pop up into view.

The waterbender now allowed herself to sink into the chair in the corner of the room, with Suten trying to pull her hair loop out. "Oh give it a rest will you. I know that being called aunty may make you feel uncomfortable, because it implies that you are part of a family, something I know you hate, but just get over it and help me instead of complaining."

"One sweetness, well done in growing a pair and standing up to me. Two I was not complaining, and Three I only agreed to make this little detour because you kept going on and on..."

"OK! Toph I get it." the older girl know fell back leaning against the wall. You looked so defeated. It hadn't been a day, not even a day and she was already starting to lose it. Sokka and Suki were only going to be gone for two days, it hadn't seemed so long when she had talked them into going away for a break to visit an old friend of Suki's, now it seemed a life time. She just had to get through the rest of today and tomorrow then they would be back early the next morning.

Toph finally got to her feet, and walked towards the aunt and nephew. "Why don't you just tell him a story or something. Sokka said he liked to be talked to." she didn't stop walking as she spoke, she just kept walking towards the large slid door that lead out of the house. Suten had been quite while his two babysitters had been talking, but now he again began to cry again louder than before.

Reluctantly Katara pulled herself onto her feet, resting Suten's head on her shoulders. She gentle rocked him again, but like before it did little good. As much as she hated to admit it Toph's idea of talking to him, telling him a story seemed like a good idea. He had been quite while they had been talking, maybe just like his father he didn't like silence and tried to fill it. Katara searched her mind for any story she remembered being told as a child, but none came. "Do you want to hear a story." in response to the question, Suten spit up a little. "I'll guess I'll have to take that as a yes." Katara picked up one of Suten's blankets that needed washed from the pile by the door to clean her shoulder with. While she did she tough of all that she and the others had been through during the war. they were always been asked for stories about that, but These where not the best material for stories to tell a one year old, but she figured that it didn't matter, he just wanted to hear a voice anyway. "once there was a brave group of warriors that were journeying to a far off land, a journey that was filled with many dangers they made this dangerous journey because..." that's were she stopped. She didn't feel right going on with the story. Even though he wouldn't understand her, she didn't feel right telling a one year old about a journey to end a war, were many had died and that as they believed at the time would be ended with the death of the fire lord.

If he just wanted to hear a voice they she could just talk to him about anything. Her first thought had been to just talk about Aang and Zuko, there was plenty she could say about them, but that would lead her back to the war and all that, that included. She finally settled on telling him about his father and her childhood. "Your father and I grew up in the south pole, we..." she again found herself unable to go on. There would be a time to tell him all about his family, his grandmother this was not it. Katara also felt that a lot of that he should hear from Sokka not her.

That left her with only one topic she could think of to talk about, that wouldn't lead her down a dead end if she was careful. "Your Aunt Toph is a earthbender, a very good one. Maybe you will be one one day too, and she could teach you. She taught the avatar, like I did. I think it was harder for her though. They don't always see things the same way." when she realised what she just said she let out a little laugh, at being able to get a way with a slip like that without Toph hearing and making a sarcastic comment. Unfortunate as she laughed a little, Suten cried a lot. He was telling her to keep going. "They are very different people, your aunt Toph and uncle Aang, they do have something in common though. They hate being told what to do, being stuck in the same place for to long. They both act like they don't really care much for each other, but I can tell they do care. They changed..."

Katara almost froze as she hear the door being opened as Toph returned to the house. She had her back to the door and had almost been caught taking about Toph behind her back. The fact that it was a one year old that she was talking to wouldn't matter to Toph. "sides realising they were being lied to by the evil king. With the new followers the brave prince was able to get everyone in the country to rise up against the king. The king fearing the treatment he would be given if he didn't back down, did so. The prince took the throne married the beautiful princess from another land, and had his father sent to live out the rest of his life on a island far from land. With only one servant to look after him."

while Katara had been trying to make up the end of the happy story she had never started in the first place, Toph walked over to the kitchen area without saying a word. She was caring a small sack in her right hand. She opened on the work surface to reveal six red apples, two of which almost rolled onto the floor. Pulling out the silver dagger with engravings on the handle that she had taken from a fire nation noble that once held it to her throat, when she was engaged to Zuko, Toph started to peal and Cut the apples. "With everything that we have been through, all the stuff I missed out on, and that is the best story you have to tell."

Katara now sat at the table that separated the cooking and living area of the house. Suten was placed on her knee, as she gentle pumped him up and down, by tapping her feet on the floor. "I didn't think telling him some of that stuff was the best idea. He's only one."

placing one of the pieces of apple in her mouth as she placed the rest into a bowl, Toph moved to sit at the table across from the aunt and nephew. "You are too overprotective. He will have to hear all that stuff at some point. At lest you would sugar coat it, sugar queen." Toph was now mashing the apple in the bowl into a muss for Suten's dinner.

"That's not really the point Toph." Toph had sled the bowl across the table to Katara, and was now leaning back in her chair. "Then what is. Come on, wasn't that part of why you gulited me into coming here with you. Because we haven't seen each other in so long." Toph's over dramatic fake tone as she spoke cased a slight frown to cross that older benders face as she tried not to rise to the protraction.

"The point is Toph that I don't really want to remember some of what we went through and I didn't want to talk about it either plus, We needed a break after the last few years. Aang is back and Zuko is getting on a lot better. We have earned it. That's why I wanted us to come here."

"Fair enough. For the record though, taking care of a one year old, not my idea of a break." Toph now got up from the table and started to walk away. "I'm going to bed."

"It's not that late."

"I know, but he is going to be up half the night crying, and will wake up first thing. This way I still get a doesn't about of time to sleep."

her mouth opened to say something, but no words came. She couldn't argue with the blind girl, she was right. Going to bed early was the only way to get any really sleep. "I hate it when she's right." she spoke in a whisper, but Suten seemed to hear her clearly as he looked up at her with his light brown eyes. "That doesn't matter though dose it, cause I just got the best idea for a bedtime story. You'll have to wait till after you have your bath first though."

Katara now moved over to the large bucket of water that Toph had collected earlier that day for Suten's bath. She may not do anything to help directly with Suten, but she seemed to be taking care of everything else. As she bathed the one year old Katara started to give a detailed guild to the basic waterbending forms, it was the only thing she could talk about for a long time and also be able to let her mind wonder.

There were two other rooms to the house. Suki and Sokka's bedroom that Suten also slept in, in hos own crib. The other had a small futon that pulled out. Katara would be sleeping on that, and Toph would sleep on the floor. The crib had also been moved into this room, as Suten had to be watched all the time according to Suki. Katara herself did find this a little unnecessary, but went along with it.

Once he was washed and dried Katara quietly made her way to the spare room. She expected to see Toph lying on the floor under the window sleeping, but the room was empty. As she walked into the room she saw a small black figure lying on the ground a few feet from the house. A faint smile crossed the waterbenders face. "Aunty Toph really doesn't like to be kept inside, Dose she." she looked down at the one year old she was balancing on her hip, as if she was waiting for him to respond, agree with her. Of course he didn't, he did though give a small smile at the mention of Toph's name. "So time for your bedtime story then."

thank you for reading, I hope you liked it. I know that this wasn't a very good or interesting chapter, but it will get better. This part of the story isn't a major one, but it will lead onto one of the main points in the story that I didn't do a lot with the first time round. The dagger Toph has is the one she got in part 5 of the story, she has kept it all this time and will keep it through out the story. You never know it may play an important role in the plot. Please review and let me know what you think, good or bad. I would also love to hear if you have any ideas of this part of the story as well.