Don't own Avatar. Want to hear me sing it?
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"You told her?" Came the voice from the background.
The Avatar looked as though he wanted to smack himself in the head with something or at least Sokka.
Maybe he could earthbend him into the ground again. Well, ok... it wasn't him that did it last time, but he still was in the ground which was good enough for him (exactly where a good place for him would be right now).
Aang dropped Katara's hands and got up, stretching in an exaggeratory fashion. "Well, we best be getting some rest."
Katara on the other hand looked at her brother pointedly, ignoring Aang's escapist tactics. "No he hasn't."
Sokka looked at Aang who had a pained expression. "Well... tell her now! It's like I'm not even here" he said, edging closer to the action.
"She's asleep isn't she?" Katara argued back to her brother.
"Uhhh... Katara... No, she's not" He said, staring right at her.
Grinning sheepishly Aang covered again "it's late. We can do this all tomorrow."
"No" Sokka said stubbornly. "I'm not waiting another minute to see you hit on my sister. You either do it now like we planned or I'm going back to sleep."
"What?" Shrieked Katara.
The young airbender looked ashamed. "I'm sorry Katara. I wasn't going to tell you" He shot Sokka a look. "Right now." Abashed, he turned away. "I can understand if you don't want to see me right now... it's just.." he took a deep breath and let it all tumble out.
"You said before that you needed me and after I lost Appa... I realized that I needed you too."
"Hit on me?"
He had no where to run, so he just didn't look at her and didn't answer.
"Hit on me?" She continued.
"Yep" filled in Sokka, being oh, so very helpful "he had it bad there for a while, but I told him it's now or never. Someday you're going to have to grow up and..."
But Katara was ignoring him, focused on Aang.
"You!" This time it was Katara's fury that got the better of her "You!" she repeated "Mister 'Well, I'd rather kiss you than die'!"
Aang still didn't turn around. This was so humiliating in front of Sokka. He still didn't know... but it was a life or death situation anyway. He was sure he would have understood. "Yeah, sorry about that."
"So I suggest we kiss, me... and when I suggest it's a bad idea! and now all of a sudden you're like 'I like you'."
"I didn't say that" he said quietly.
"Well do you?" She said angrily.
"Yeah. Do you?" Said Sokka eyeing him suspiciously and realizing he hadn't got the whole story here.
Toph's rock tent door came down and she stormed out, adding to the yelling. "What is going on out here?"
"Shhh!" said Sokka, putting a finger to his lips and she put her foot down, sending the earth cracking beneath his feet and disturbing Appa who let out a low half growl, half moan.
Was he going to get any privacy here?
"Yes!" Aang yelled, took up his staff, swung it out into a kite and jumped on... going sailing out into the cold winter night.
"That went well" mused Sokka as Katara started walking away herself. "I'm getting all emotional now." He looked at Toph. "Where's Momo? There's something I want to tell him."
She sent one last earth rumble underneath his feet and went back to her makeshift tent.
"Fine! Don't pay any attention to the boomerang guy talking about love in the middle of the night!" He said, then got back in his sleeping bag grumbling and fell straight back asleep.
