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Zuko was visiting Sokka at his apartment. After knocking at the door, he instantly heard something crash from the other side followed by mild cursing and footsteps, then the door opened to reveal a disheveled man that took Zuko a moment to recognize as Sokka.

"Zuko?" he asked blearily. Then he grinned and opened the door wider. "Come in!"

Zuko hesitantly stepped in, watching Sokka's face warily. Sokka had chin stubble, his cloths loose and dirty, his grin a bit too big, and his hair was down. His suspicions were confirmed the second the door closed and the smell a beer intruded his nostrils. Then he saw something else.

"Who's that?" Toph asked, standing from the couch and turning to face him with unseeing eyes. "The pizza guy?" she asked, swaying gently form side to side.

"It's Zuko!" Sokka exclaimed happily, beaming at her.

"Oh. Sparky then." Toph said uninterested. She plopped back down on the couch and mumbled into the cushions, "Hey there. Want a beer?"

"Um.. no." Zuko carefully refused.

"What? Come on!" Sokka said encouragingly, slapping him on the back. "You're already here; how about a bet on who lasts longer?" he offered, wiggling his eyebrows with an arm draped over Zuko's shoulders.

Zuko cleared his throat awkwardly, suddenly feeling very trapped. "Actually.. maybe I'll just visit at a later time. Next week?" He lifted Sokka's arm off his shoulders carefully, then started stepping back to the door.

Faster than he could process, Toph jumped from the couch and ran at him with perfect accuracy that shouldn't come with being blind, while yelling, "No! We have to-" She stepped on a empty bottle, slipped, and fell to her face at his and Sokka's feet. "Ow."

Sokka and Zuko looked down at her. "As I said," Zuko said. "See you in a week." He made his escape as Sokka continued watching Toph lying on the floor impassively.

A week later.

Zuko hesitantly- very hesitantly walked up the stairs that led to Sokka's apartment. Slowly and softly he knocked on the door half hoping it wouldn't be answered. It was. "Hey Zuko," Sokka greeted, his cloths clean and neat, hair pulled back into his 'wolftail', and smiling warmly.

He opened the door wider and welcomed him inside. Zuko took a tentative step into the apartment, quickly scanning the room. No beer smells, bottles, or drunk Tophs. He sighed with relief. "So, it looks like everything's back to normal here." he commented dryly.

Sokka gave an awkward laugh as he closed the door. "Yeah.. sorry about last week. Me and Toph, well.. yeah, we take challenges way too seriously."

"A drinking challenge?"

Sokka laughed. "What? No. Katara called up saying that you had visited with her and Aang for a few days, and you were making your way up here next. So Toph and I decided to mess with you. Toph said we should cuddle you, and kiss each other while doing so, but I said-"

"Wait, what?!" Zuko interrupted, horrified with the idea. "Why would you two kiss each other just to mess with me?

"What?" Sokka asked, seemingly confused. Then his face cleared. "Oh, we didn't tell you? We're dating now." He laughed at Zuko's surprised face as he led him to the couch in front of the t.v set on the nature channel and sat down. "Anyways, we went with my idea first. Unfortunately, you were a couple days late so we stayed drunk both day and night for two days until you actually made it here."

"That can't be healthy." Zuko said, grimacing at how terrible their plan was.

Sokka winced. "No, it wasn't. We were throwing up and with headaches until yesterday. But anyways, we agreed to go with her plan next time you came." He leaned back into the couch lazily.

"Her plan?" Zuko asked. Then he stiffened. "Wait, you mean the one with-" Suddenly, Toph popped out of nowhere on the other side of Zuko on the couch. Quickly, Sokka and Toph hugged Zuko, each throwing a leg over one of his own, and started kissing. Aggressively. "No!" Zuko shouted terrified. "Get off me! Let me go! Find a room!" He continued thrashing, but Sokka was just as strong as him, and Toph wasn't weak either. They continued making out. "Stop it!"

After several minutes, Sokka and Toph separated. Sighing contently, Sokka commented, "Your idea was better." as he and she leaned away from each other and whatever was between them. Then Sokka remembered.

"Huh," Toph said, wiping her lips with one hand, and feeling the side of Zuko's head with the other. "I forgot he was there."

Zuko stared fixedly on the t.v screen. After all, it wasn't showing anything much different than what just happened on top of him. And it was a whole lot less scarring.


So, um.. I hope you don't mind drunk and kissy humor. :P And I also hope you liked it.