Title: Gummy Warrior
Author: Thallanos
Rating: K
Characters & Pairings: Sokka/Toph
Summary: An AU in which Toph and Sokka are attending a United States middle school. Also Toph is not blind.
This "Sokka" kid was not human, that she was sure of. No mortal soul could possibly down that many Gummy Worms without throwing up. As the dark, lanky boy tore into his fifth package of the gelatinous creatures she could do nothing but stare. I wonder if this is what love feels like, she thought to herself as the macaroni noodles slowly slipped off of her fork and plummeted back onto her lunch tray. By this point every other student in the cafeteria was slowly inching away from the crazy dude gobbling candy like some deranged bird-child.
Toph, however, could only stare as she experienced this thing of beauty in its natural habitat. If only he wasn't so cute, then she might actually have a chance with him. But he was utterly adorable and she hated him for it. He was so close to being perfect. Why did he have to go and be cute? Didn't he know she was terrible at talking to cute boys? She excelled at beating them up and spitting farther than them, but the whole verbal communication thing always threw her off. Where does he even get all these Gummy Worms, she pondered as he slurped another victim into the black hole that apparently resided at some point in his digestive tract. She sighed, already imagining the torturous year of gazing longingly at him from across whatever room they happened to be in.
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