STILL SO MUCH FLUFF YOU COULD MAKE A CUSHY BED FOR APPA!

Side 1:

Okay, just to humor you, I'll add some drama and action into the mix this time. But there will still be fluff…… Heh, fluff. That's a funny word.

Side 2:

Just as long as it's not too gushy, I'll be fine….. Hey, what are you doing? Aaaarghhh!

chokes

Side 1:

Looks for discreet place to hide Side Two's body

Chapter 2

Sokka awoke from a, well, detailed dream about Suki, and stared about himself. Everybody else was still in their bags. Wow, he thought to himself. He usually awoke two to three hours after everybody else, receiving a hearty slap in the face from Katara for snoozing while everyone else toiled to pick up camp. Now he would clear up everything before they even stirred, and would rub it in her face. That would teach her that he wasn't always worthless. He stretched, and walked over to the smouldering remains of the campfire, and extinguished them with a handful of sand, scooping them up and burying them to leave no trace behind for Azula to track.

Toph stirred in her sleep. She was feeling the vibrations from Sokka lumbering around camp, and her senses of sight by vibration integrated themselves into her dream. A Fire Nation soldier was stumping towards their half-circle of sleeping bags, a churlish grin on his face as he summoned flames to leap from his hand, and bent towards the sleeping figure of Aang…

"Watch it!" She had awoken with a screech, and had apparently Earthbended a large boulder towards the soldier in her dream. "What just happened?" she asked shakily.

"Well," started Sokka despondently, "you must've had a bad dream or something, because you leapt up all of a sudden and nearly crushed Katara when you threw that huge rock over in the direction of her and Aang's sleeping bags." She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yeah" she mumbled. "Just a bad dream." She now noticed, well, felt, that Aang and Katra were both still sound asleep, for there were so few vibrations coming from their direction that she could hardly distinguish them from the earth.

"I can't believe they're both still asleep after that." Sokka was turning from his work to glance over at his sister and the Airbender. "Usually they only sleep in like that if they've been up all night fighting or something. And they're usually are awake a few hours before me, even a few hours before you. And they would have woken us if there was trouble…" A strange look like that of comprehension began to spread over Sokka's face, and would have ran over to the pair and shaken them awake, yelling, if Toph had not just then covered his mouth and restrained him. She really was strong.

"Get those ideas out of your head, Snoozles," she said with a slightly offended tone. "It's fine, I heard them talking in the forest last night, about Aang's feelings. Nothing big. Just a quick hug. Plus, you've just gotta get used to the fact that they like each other. Don't worry. They'd never get past a little makeout, they know their places, their age, and their duties, and wouldn't do anything stupid. Calm down."

Aang was stirring in his bundle, and Katara was starting to groggily get out of her bag. "Act normal, now, or I might just have another dream and nearly knock your skull in," she hissed. This shut up the warrior for the rest of the day, and he dared not get on the topic of Katara and Aang with her again. Sokka was just returning from a bush with his usual pitiful supply of strange nuts, and was trying to find a way to render them edible, when Katra and Aang, both fully awake now, went to join Toph, who was sitting with her back against Appa and using her Bending to crack the nuts between slabs of stone, masterfully leaving nothing but the meats left, shooting the shells away along with the rock. "Hey, Twinkle Toes, Sugar Queen." She grinned. The group had finally submitted to her strange nicknames for them, and now answered to them just as quickly as their real names.

"Hey," said Katara. She grinned at Toph and Aang when Sokka's back was turned, probably searching for something made of meat to down with his boomerang, and she giggled as she slipped many more nuts and berries from inside her pouch to join Sokka's meager amount. This had been their little game for weeks now, enlarging the amount of food Sokka had procured, and sniggering at the way he boasted of his work when they "admired" the great amount of food he had brought. He was so stuck up, Katara once managed to add three fish to his stockpile, and he boasted about them without even looking to see what the group had commented on, as if he couldn't remember how much he had gathered, and was open to any possibilities of himself having caught enough food to supply them for a few days. Katara then began to mix up a porridge with the nuts, berries, and some rice she had found growing by the riverbank over a fresh fire made artfully by Aang, after the group shouted their daily "compliments" to Sokka, who was now far off into the woods.

Aang, as usual, was using his free time, as he always did, to stare at Katara and daydream. When she cooked, healed them, or did just about anything else with the group, she was motherly, caring, and by Aang's standards, even more enrapturing than usual. Toph thoughtfully made no comment of Aang's distant look, nor of the fact that when Katara passed him his breakfast, he lost his balance and fell face-forward into the sweet, mushy concoction as he turned rapidly on his knees to stare the better at Katara as she gave Toph her meal, then went off into the woods in search of Sokka. Toph chuckled lightly to herself. She normally gave no thought to the idea of love, but Twinkle Toes and Sugar Queen looked so cute together. She wouldn't let her mischievous nature get in the way of the inevitable between her two best friends. Aang, absentmindedly picking balls of goo off of his face, was once again staring off into space. He sighed, then both he and Toph jumped to their feet as a scream and scuffling, followed by a quickly stifled shout from Sokka, echoed through the valley.