Okay everyone, chapter two is up now, this isn't a very long chapter, and mostly it's just a good explanation of some things. :) Enjoy anyway and Chapter three should be up later today!

By the time she arrived back at the camp, everyone was causing total havoc. Toph and Aang appeared to be having a strange sort of dance lesson…oh no, they were playing Tag, apparently, and Aang was 'it'. Suki and Sokka were huddled up together, but Sokka seemed to be tormenting Momo with his feet. The poor creature was hissing its disapproval quite loudly when Appa finally stepped in-literally. He threw his body mass to the ground between Sokka and Momo, causing mass panic from Toph and tremors. You see, she goes away for an amazing…weird…moment…THING, and everything falls apart. Or so she likes to think.

"Katara…why are you all wet?"

Sokka, Aang and Suki looked up at her dripping form, confusion etched on their faces.

"And why are you in only your bindings?"

She glanced at Toph. Did she know that Katara had been with Zuko the whole time? If she did she didn't mention it. Which was fantastic and as grateful as she was it set her on edge a little.

"I was practicing my bending actually, until you opened that giant mouth of yours anyway. It's your fault I am all wet!" she huffed angrily. The lie came to her so easily. Normally she was a terrible liar, and any other day she would be worried that someone could see through her pathetic excuses. But today, right now, she couldn't let anyone know what had really happened, and so she thanked her lucky stars that her mind was quick enough this time. Besides, she was angry, just not for the reason she claimed to be.

Sokka shrugged her off, either too hungry, or too naive to care. No one questioned where Zuko was. She was relieved as everyone carried on as normal, but a fleeting glance at Toph confirmed her suspicion. The curl of the girl's delicate mouth was worth a thousand words. She excused herself to start on the breakfast, met with much applauding from Sokka. He obviously had some kind of death wish that day, and she couldn't bear not knowing what was going on in Tophs head, so she separated herself from the others. Somewhere she could be alone with her thoughts of Zuko, of the kiss, of the water cascading down the both of them, of the pirates.

"I'll save you from the pirates."

Her heart began to soar at the memories, at the flashes. Was this all because of the dream? Was that dream messing with her; making her imagine things that aren't real. Had that been some sort of early morning mirage? Had she really nearly lost her virginity to Zuko? It had to be real, because there was no way she could have dreamed that sort of thing up! Why would she subconsciously dream of sex with Zuko? She touched her lips gently, already missing the scorching contact of his lips on hers. Where ever Zuko was right now, she hoped he was coping with this better than she was.

Which of course, he wasn't.

He had stopped heating the water and dunked himself below the surface repeatedly. He was so…ready. He had wanted to her sex with Katara. Everything about her drove him crazy. He really hadn't expected this to happen when he had woken up this morning, and now he had no idea what to do with himself. He climbed out of the water; drying himself with a towel he'd had waiting back on a tree branch. He needed a nice calm, quiet place to think about this, as obviously this spot was the centre of every emotional state other than calm. Had she wanted that? She didn't scream, nor did she run…did she feel what he felt? Had she regretted it even if he hadn't? He started on his way back to the camp, hoping not to run into Katara too much today. He knew very well how he felt about the feisty water bender, but he was the crowned Prince of the Fire Nation, in the midst of a war. This was no time to have sex, love, or anything in between. He clenched his fist, trying hard to distract himself from the image of her, grinding over him, her bindings soaked and transparent…

Sighing, he gave up and returned to the water.

Of course Toph knew Katara had been lying, she could tell she was lying straight off the bat. She was trembling before she even got to the camp. She had felt Zuko waken early this morning, and she had felt Katara rise not five minutes later. Sugar Queen and Sparky had been up to something that they didn't want the rest of the group to know. The question is what was it that they were up too?

"Hey Toph, TAG!"

"That's cheating Twinkle Toes!"

That cheating swine! She didn't care about their game anymore anyway, not when something so suspicious was going on between those two. She huffed at Aang, and she felt him grin triumphantly. They'd been playing for nearly half an hour and he had only just managed to catch her now, while her attention was diverted. She had half a mind to punch that smirk right off of his face, but that thought left her when a dripping wet, grumpy looking Sparky showed up.

"Oh hey Zuko! Katara just started making breakfast!" Sokka called out, as clueless as ever.

Geez, did it not even cross his mind to ask why he was wet after his sister just turned up equally wet and annoyed? Although, judging by her suddenly stillness, she assumed Suki had just but 2 and 2 together. She said nothing though, which was probably for the best. Toph was determined to keep it secret to use as blackmail later, though Suki was much more honourable, so she probably kept it secret so that Sokka didn't blow a fuse and kill anyone.

"Oh um…good."

She felt him sit near the tents and start meditating. Everyone just left him too it, but she knew he wasn't concentrating. She could feel his heart quivering, feel how on edge he was. Now, Toph was never one to assume, but if she didn't know any better, she would say Sparky and Sugar Queen had been up to something…grown up. Something icky that she personally wanted no part in knowing. Sure, she knew very little about being kissed, but what she did know is that "just kissing" doesn't end like this. So that meant that they either had a horrible water-related fight, or they had been doing something much too disgusting for Toph to consider too carefully. People are gross sometimes.

"Breakfast!"

She heard Kataras voice signal her arrival back to the camp at the exact same moment she felt Sparkys heart leap in a way that couldn't be healthy. HA! She must be right and them being gross after all, because not soon after she had felt Zukos heart go, she felt Kataras go too. She knew then and there that today was going to be a torturing for everyone involved. Torturing for them to see each other, and torturing for the rest of the group who had to see it, but most of all, torturing for her, the one who had to feel it. At least Katara was wearing more clothes now, that's a positive sign at least.

"FINALLY! We have work to do and empty bellies to fill, so let's get too it!"

Sokka was really getting on her nerves now, and she was not beyond giving him a punch too, but Katara beat her to that one.

Katara took in a deep breath and massaged her hand, ignoring Sokkas whines. Agni, Zuko was right there. She could smell him from here, his spicy fragrance that was so similar to chilli and cinnamon. A strange but luckily controllable part of her wanted to leap upon him and rip his clothes off. She wanted to taste him again, run her hands through his wet locks. She blushed furiously at her vulgar thoughts and quickly busied herself in serving breakfast. Aang was grinning happily and asking Zuko what kind of thing he would teaching him today, Suki was nursing Sokkas wounded ego with food, casting sneaky glances between Katara and Zuko (something that was not missed by Katara) and Toph just sat and started at her, her blind eyes piercing right through her. Great, so Toph was probing her mind with her eyes, and Suki was defiantly on to them too, if that look was an indication. She was going to have to talk to Zuko about this and now, before breakfast seemed the best time. Mostly because now wasn't later and she knew she would have lost her courage by the afternoon. So, with her head held high, and a nonchalant expression in place, she approached Zuko and said with all the dignity she had.

"Let's spar."

Done done DONE. I already have most of the third chapter written, so I would be worried if I were you. this stuff is getting intense.

Peace out!