Lullaby

I thought I should pay my respects to the adorable ship called Tokka at least for the last day of Tokka week. I'm so pumped! This is my first avatar fan fiction and my first Tokka story! Yay! Okay, here we go!

Takes place two years after the war.

Toph's POV

I lay awake listening to the heartbeats of my friends, Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Zuko. The sound is extremely comforting to me for some reason. Just knowing my friends are still with me after everything we have gone through.

We are camping in the middle of the earth kingdom, just for old times sake. Just like old times. I'm surprised Zuko got away from work as the fire lord, but I think he said Mai is watching everything while he's gone. Sokka was rather sad because his bitch- I mean girlfriend (AN: Toph, by this time in the story has at least a little pint up anger at Suki, but she hides it and does not exactly let it show, or that would in time blow her Sokka crush cover.) Suki couldn't get away from the Kyoshi warriors to come with us, but I'm not complaining.

I don't hate her, It would just be easier without her. Look at it this way : she is probably prettier than me, she does not have any annoying parents to hold her back, and she has the one thing I want. Im not gonna say what, because it is strict secret. Ah, who am I kidding? Everyone knows besides him! This is frustrating, after everything, all the hints and he still has no clue! Will he ever know? Whose to say? Great, now I'm getting all preachy.

As far as I could feel everyone was asleep. And that's when I heard something I never heard come out of Sokka's mouth.

"Hey sweetie, what's up?" was he talking to me!? He couldn't be! Keep dreaming toph. It was obvious that he was dreaming about Suki. Well, it wouldn't hurt just to pretend what it would be like to be her maybe if I pretend to be her, he will respond back. Maybe he will think I'm Suki! Holy shit, I'm going crazy. This whole idea is kinda dumb, but it can't hurt to try. But what if one of the others wake up?

Just knock them out and when they wake back up pretend it never happened. So simple! Hurry and talk before he just thinks up what she would say. I crawled closer to his sleeping bag and started my Suki act.

"Hey strong guy" I whispered in a girlie tone and giggled quietly. This is so fun! Sweet spirits, what have I become?

"You didn't tell me you were coming here" he said dreamily. I wasn't exactly sure where 'here' was because I couldn't really see his dream, so I improvised.

"Well, here I am. Did you miss me?"

"More than you know." this feels so cool! Im so desperate I'm willing to talk to him while he's asleep. Nice....

"Wait, why does you voice sound different?" he said. Oh no!

"Um..... I have a cold silly" I said quickly. That's was close.

"Oh. Okay. So what have you been doing?"

"Um... just fighting, training and awesome girl power stuff like that." How stupid was that?? I could have thought of something way better than that!

"cool. I love you. You know that right? Even when I don't say it out loud because everyone else is around. Just remember that. And I'm sorry I don't get to spend as much time with you anymore. Things keep getting in the way. All the time, I think about you, even if I never let you know." He said with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"Its okay Sokka. I understand it. I love you too" this is really sad that I have to listen to him go on about how much he loves her. It just reminds me ill never be his. And he will never be mine. I think I need to quit it.

"I'm gonna go ok? I need some thinking to do." I said as I crawled back to my earth tent.

"Wait Toph! Don't go." he said, still in his dream. Wait, back up! DID HE JUST SAY WHAT I THINK HE SAID?! After all that time! He was talking to me! It wasn't exactly him saying he liked me, but it was good enough. I was pretending to be Suki for nothing! And everything I said fit me too? Oh wow. This was interesting. I sighed as I realized that Sokka just confessed without even being conscious. "Goodbye Sokka, and tell me in person next time. I go to great lengths just for you to talk to me." I whispered to him as I backed up.

I crawled back into my earth tent. Sokka's words rang through my head over and over, like my own personal lullaby.

Fin

I know, I know. You don't even need to say it in the review. Having a detailed conversation with some as they sleep is very difficult, and most likely impossible! But this is Tokka we are talking about. Anything is possible with these two! This fic is strictly for Tokka week, and I thought I should do my part and at least do something! Please review it! Mind you I am just starting out, so don't be mad at me if I messed up real bad!

R&R please! :]