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Toph groaned at the knock that on her office door. Her feet remained up on her desk but her hands hid the bottle under her desk. "Come in."

He entered with a small creak of the door. Aang had wondered why she hadn't called him by any nicknames and found that she couldn't tell who was exactly coming in with her feet off the ground. He closed the door behind him and stood in front of it.

"Who is it?" Her voice was indifferent.

He didn't know why he didn't answer. He just continued studying his Sifu. One hand remained under her desk while the other was behind her head. Aang sighed. She was drinking.

Toph put a foot on the floor quickly. Her body relaxed as she felt the familiar heart beat of the avatar resonate to her senses. She rolled her eyes. "Twinkle Toes. You know I can't tell who it is with my feet off the floor."

Aang shook his head. "Yeah. Sorry." He made his way to sit on top of her desk. It was metal, just like the entire room. Suddenly, he found himself laughing.

The chief of police blew her bangs away. "And what, shall I ask, is so funny?"

He let his laughter die down. "What's the point in you having a desk anyways?"

She smirked. "So, my good friend finally remembers that I'm blind."

"I don't think I'll ever fully remember that you are blind, Toph. Everyone forgets." The avatar crossed his arms.

"It's all good." She shifted in her seat so that her body was laying lower. "I find it hilarious when I get to do police reports."

He looked back to his earthbending teacher. "They let you do police reports?"

"You'd think a secretary would remember. After a while, you get tired of hearing, 'Chief I need you to sign….um.'"

The airbender found himself laughing again. This time, Toph joined him. Afterwards, Aang patted the portion of the desk in front of Toph. She quirked an eyebrow. He only patted the spot again.

"What?"

It was his turn to roll his eyes at Toph. "I know you're drinking. At least share."

She continued giving him a confused look. The brown bottle appeared from under the table slowly and made a gentle sound as glass hit metal. Aang took it by its neck and sipped at the liquid. He smacked his lips together once the alcohol went down. "This isn't all too strong. I'm surprised."

Toph just scoffed and took back the bottle. "I can't get too hammered. It's only the afternoon."

"Take the rest of the day off."

"Nah."

Aang watched her take one more sip before placing the bottle on the desk and letting her hands move away from it. Both hands were put behind her head. Both of them closed their eyes and listened to the other breathing. It was obvious that the two had an equally rough day.

He beat her to speak. "Did Sokka talk to you yet?"

"He left twenty minutes before you got here, Twinkles."

"Oh."

She groaned loudly. Obvious her frustration was getting to her, Toph placed both her feet on the floor and let her arms rest on her knees. The chief of police restrained herself from downing the bottle.

"Where do you think he went?"

The curiosity in his voice allowed Toph to relax. Unlike everyone else who had come into her office today, Aang didn't ask her with the intention of making it her responsibility. Sure, it probably is her responsibility since Yakone was locked up in one of their higher security cells waiting to be transferred to the boiling rock. But it would be nice if she didn't have the press on her back.

"Chief Bei Fong! Why do you think Yakone escaped so easily from your jail cells?"

"Chief! Do you regret your decision to withhold Yakone's transfer for two months?"

"Why wasn't he transferred immediately?"

"Do you think your police force needs to adjust its protocol of handling criminals?"

Toph turned her head away, scowling at the wall instead of Aang. "I have no idea. He couldn't have gotten out on his own so I'm probably right when I say his little gang helped him out."

"No doubt about that." He leaned back on his hands that were flat down on the desk. His fingertips skimmed the bottom of the brown bottle. "But it's okay. I took away his bending. He can't do anything anymore."

Toph's anger returned towards him. "So what if you took away his bending? He is still out there. He escaped."

Aang sighed. "People are going to be worried now, but after they realize that Yakone is not much of a threat, the press will die down. We've dealt with the media before. They come and go as quick as a wave on a beach."

He was startled when she grabbed the bottle violently and chugged half the liquid in the bottle. Toph was so forceful that she had to wipe away a good amount that had not made it into her mouth. The glass slammed back down on the desk. "I don't care about the press or the people being scared of Yakone. I care that he escaped right under my nose!"

"Ahh. There it is." Aang scooted to one side of the desk. He picked up the bottle and finished the rest of the alcohol before he laid down, his legs dangling over the right side. The avatar carefully balanced the bottle on his forehead.

"What?" Toph asked annoyed.

Aang moved his head to test the position of the bottle. "That's why you're mad."

"Of course it's why I'm mad." She deflated. "He was my responsibility."

"Now you're just letting the press get to you. He was my responsibility too."

The chief of police nudged her former student. Aang shifted farther to his left making room for Toph to lie next to him. She walked over to the left side of the desk and put herself in the same position as the avatar on the opposite side. Aang took the bottle off his head and placed it on Toph's.

"It's just…after the trial, after I got to throw his ass in jail, I thought it was over. I thought we won. He wouldn't come near us or the kids ever again. But now he is running around like a free man and it's disgusting. Him in general, as a person, is disgusting."

The avatar put the bottle back on his head. "Does he haunt you?"

"What is he? A ghost?" The bottle was back on her head.

Aang took it back. "You're still scared, huh?"

Toph took it upon herself and grabbed the bottle on her head. "I'm not afraid of Yakone."

She placed the bottle on his chest. "Was it the bloodbending?"

He rolled the bottle down the metal plates of her uniform towards her neck. "Yeah it was the bloodbending."

The two lay in silence, the only sound from passing the bottle back and forth from each other. Surprisingly enough, Toph never got annoyed by the action. Aang assumed that she was really distracted.

When the bottle came back to his possession, he held it in his hands while turning his head towards hers. "I didn't sleep that night. The night when Hama bloodbent Sokka and I. We never talked about it did we? I'm shocked you never asked."

Toph took back the glass object by poking her thumb into the hole. "Sugar Queen was really upset about it. I do know when to hold my tongue. It didn't matter in the end anyways. I ended up finding out myself."

Aang's eyes closed slightly. He was staring at the ceiling, unsure if he should tell Toph about the darker bending abilities of airbenders. As a boy, he had heard stories from his friends of rogue airbenders, learning how to manipulate the very air in a person's lungs. It took the saying "sucked the life out of him" a bit too literal. He shouldn't have been surprised when she questioned his three minute silence.

"What is it?"

The avatar was brought out of his daze. "Hey."

Toph shrugged. "What?"

"You can't speak without the bottle."

The chief of police just rolled her eyes. She grabbed the bottle and tossed it towards the door. Brown glass shattered everywhere. Toph didn't even flinch at the knock that came a minute later.

"Everything alright, Chief?"

"Just in one of my moods, Kira. Go back to work."

The footsteps traveled back down the hallway. Aang just giggled. "She sounds like she has heard that response before."

Toph scoffed. "That little lady has been here since I was pregnant with Lin. She isn't fazed by me anymore."

"What?" The avatar faked gasped. "Someone not intimidated by Toph Bei Fong? I never knew thought I'd live to see the day."

He yelled out when Toph punched him in the arm.

"Chief?"

She yelled back again. "I'm fine!"

The commotion in the room slowly died down after a few more punches. Aang and Toph were back to lying on her desk. The avatar quickly forgot about the pain in his arm, his pain tolerance very high for obvious reasons. The chief of police laid still, her hands atop her stomach. Toph waited long enough so that Aang would take her seriously once more.

"So what were you thinking about?"

Aang scratched his bald head. "What were we talking about?"

"Bloodbending, you ding dong."

"Oh right." He took a deep breath and prepared his words. "I never told anyone this. Not even Katara."

"Okay…"

He reached for the bottle above her head but remembered that it was in pieces on the ground. Aang didn't know why he felt he needed the bottle's permission to speak. "Airbending supposedly has a similar sub skill."

Toph froze. Aang had felt it and sat up. He looked on with concern when Toph shifted. He didn't know if she realized it, but she was moving away from him. The upper part of her body came up and she hunched over, her back what Aang would be talking to now, he assumed.

"What are you talking about."

Aang suddenly got up. There was awkwardness in the atmosphere that he had never felt with Toph. Never in the thirty years that he had known his earthbending sifu, from the time he met her in the swamp as a vision to their own little party in the office at the celebration hall during the anniversary, was Aang ever afraid to approach Toph. No matter how abrasive the chief of police was towards him or when he would cringe at her booming voice, Aang would always come to her in the end. She would never admit it, but she needed someone like that. Toph needed someone who wasn't afraid as a friend. There was Sokka, but there had always been something complicated about their relationship. Satoru was too much of a softy and allowed Toph to come talk to him when she felt she wanted. Aang was always just there, when the other men in her life were being difficult. He picked at his robes and stuttered out a reply. "Sorry. I shouldn't have said anything. That was more of a thing to keep to myself. You know what, I'll just leave. Sorry."

The moment the avatar opened the door, it slammed shut. Aang looked to Toph and she was sitting on the edge of the front of her desk. Her arms were crossed and she pointed her head to the spot next to her. He didn't argue and returned to her side. Their shoulders touched.

The earthbender cleared her throat. "Thanks, I guess for telling me. You don't need to go into detail, please don't, but I know how you are with your nomad culture and everything. I don't know if I'll ever understand why that stuff is important- sorry I didn't mean that -I guess what I'm trying to say is thanks for trusting me."

"You're welcome, Toph." Aang knew she was trying her best. They had been battling it out about traditions and such ever since they were thirteen and even up to now. In the end, they blamed it on their different upbringings. They always made up in the end anyways.

The chief of police let her bangs hide her face. "It isn't the ability that makes the mad man anyways. I know you and Katara would never resort to such…inhumane methods. It depends on the person. Yakone was definitely out of his mind."

He put an arm around her in comfort. "Definitely not. You can trust us, Toph. Till the very end. Republic city has trust in you as well. They just need someone to blame for a little bit. You could only imagine how much I got when I first came out of the giant hunk of ice."

"You know what I'm really scared of?"

His ears perked up at the word "scared" coming out of her mouth. "What?"

She sighed. "I'm really hoping the kids don't have to deal with the things we had to witness during our lifetime."

Aang let out the biggest breath of relief. "Good. I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that."

"I don't know what's lurking out there, but I really hope they don't feel this tired by the time they are our age. They should feel like they still have a lot of drive in them, you know?"

The avatar scoffed. "They'll be fine. What can be worse than fighting in a war?"

Toph brought a hand up to her chin. "Maybe a revolution in the city."

"Or the spirit world taking over the real world."

"Or the fall of Ba Sing Se."

"That already happened, remember?"

"Oh yeah."

The two laughed gently at their ridiculous comments.

"Yeah, right."

The chief of police stretched her arms upward allowing her back to pop several times."At forty two, I think I've seen enough. Crazy ass firebenders, bloodbenders, bears."

He nudged her. "You don't see at all, Toph."

"You know, I think I prefer correcting you guys rather than the other way around." The chief of police rolled her eyes.

They pushed each other back and forth as they continued talking.

Aang sighed. "Technically I'm a hundred forty two, but I've been only conscious for forty two. I feel old."

Toph laughed. "We aren't even middle aged yet."

Their back and forth game continued.

"I don't feel the slightest bit tipsy. That stuff in the bottle. What was it?" The avatar asked suddenly curious.

"Onion- banana juice."

He instantly stopped moving. "Really?"

"It's an acquired taste. What kind of police chief would I be if I got drunk on the job?"

"Well how about after you're done with your job we go get some real drinks."

"Please tell me you are talking about tea."

"I think we qualify as senior citizens now at the jasmine dragon."

"Shut up. We get stuff there for free all the time."

"I'll feel less guilty."

"I think I know who is the senior citizen between the two of us."


Here is a lighter story. Idk if I'm going to update this or even continue really. I may just write whenever an idea pops into my head. I don't know. Tell me what you guys think I should do! Through Reviews! Thanks for reading.