OK. Someone suggested that because I said Zuko was holding her down it was "rape".

To start off Toph is the last person on the show who'd get raped (theoretically, of course there's no rape on the show). I'd even put Sokka down before her. No one would get close enough, unless they encased her in plastic or sand or something... to... ewww...

I don't even want to think about it.

Point is... Anyone who tries is getting a serious butt kicking.

So I decided to be sweet and reconstruct the kiss I mentioned in the last chap. Enjoy!

Oh, by the way Zuko's not a pimp daddy. Those kisses with Mai and Katara are only one or two time occurances but good to pinpoint why Toko is the only way to go!

Ahhh... I'm getting swallowed by the fluff!

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She'd tripped him up several times. But he wasn't going to let her get the better of him.

He smiled as he watched her circle her hands in a trademark tiger's paw attack stance. She'd pushed him to this fight. Almost teased him into it. The young fire lord would never guess that she did this subconsiously to get close to him. She expected she'd gotten over that childhood crush a long time ago and he had no idea about it.

She waited, listening. He moved. She sent the earth rumbling under his feet and he jumped and rolled out of the way then jumped on her and held her down before she could make another shot.

She raised her head, he held her wrists to the ground.

"It's not going to work" she said noncholantly. "Earth benders can bend with their faces."

Her smirk grew wider.

His expression didn't change. "Try me."

She bent her neck up further and pressed her lips to his.

It wasn't a kiss like Katara's life-giving, fluid kiss. One that made him feel like she was hiding something from him. Yet he knew that it probably wasn't the same way she kissed Aang, with whom she had nothing to hide. She'd wanted to give him hope, but that hope meant ignoring everything he was. He didn't become Blue Spirit to protect Aang as Katara would have liked to have believed, but to protect himself. But she never wanted to know him that way - the prince who wanted to restore his honor above all things. As a simple water tribe girl, she knew nothing of honor.

It wasn't a kiss like Mai's. At first deathly passionate like a vampire who wanted to suck the life out of him, but by the second time her lips had grown cold, like it didn't matter anymore. Something told him that she was dead inside, although it wasn't a thing that showed on the outside, and he fought hard to not join her in a state of morbid unfruitfulness.

It was a kiss like a true fire lady's. Regal, trusting, tempting. As coming from one of the richest families in the world, she knew how to be forthright, yet retain some sort of regal honor deep within her character. But as someone who could break stone with her scalp, the kiss hit him like someone had slugged him in the back of the head with a pail of rocks.

She was still smirking. She always found it amusing to have to upper hand in a situation. So did he.

His mouth drew wide into a matching smirk and he pushed on her, enjoying that she meant it somewhat in pain.

Something told him that this was a fight that wasn't going to be resolved, as their smirks met in another satisfying kiss.

He released her. She broke away, flicked her wrist and saw him sink into the stone floors. She stopped it when he was trapped.

"Looks like we have a winner." She said and got up, went to exit the room and let him up out of the floor just before she shut the door hard behind him.

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Whew! And THAT'S what made Zuko propose a la... one shot before.

Not twenty reviews yet... no wedding.

You can throw stones at the annoying ones who favorite a story and don't review! Why! Why!

I'm over it.

I'm retiring. Only betaing and co-writing for me anymore.

Toko fans with ideas... PM or review. :D