Phoenix's Soul: Alright everyone it's story time. (Crickets chirp) Hey, where is everyone? (Crickets chirp again) Come on this isn't funny.

Toph: Yes it is.

Phoenix's Soul: Waaaaaaahhhhh! (Grabs at heart and breathing heavily) Don't do that.

Toph: Whatever. Sokka said you were over here talking about something weird. I just wanted to see what you would do if you thought no one was here to help you do whatever it was Sokka was supposed to do.

Phoenix's Soul: You know if you don't be a little nicer I won't tell everyone the rest of the story. (Audience members bind and gag Toph)

Toph: (muffled yells and screams)

Phoenix's Soul: Ah man. Now I'm gonna get it. Oh well, I don't own anything from Avatar the Last Airbender and all that jazz. Now on with the story.

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"Where are they?" Katara whispered as she gazed out into the now developing blizzard.

"Don't worry," Aang said sitting down next to her. "I'm sure they're just fine. After all Sokka knows what he is doing out here."

"Yeah I guess you're right," Katara said smiling warmly at him.

Aang smiled back and placed his hand on hers'. Katara gave his hand a soft squeeze. What did she have to worry about any way? Sokka is perfectly capable of surviving out in these conditions and he has Toph with him to keep him from freaking out. She let out a sigh of relief and rested her head on Aang's shoulder.

"Sleep well, Katara," Aang whispered into her ear.

Katara mumbled a soft thank you and drifted off to sleep a small smile on her face. Aang looked out and watched the blizzard rage.

"Sokka, Toph, where ever you two are, I hope your both safe," Aang said to himself.

Sokka pulled off his soaking wet gloves so that he could use his numbing fingers. He had to get Toph warmed up, or she would go from sleeping to worse. He fumbled with the clasps of his bag thankful for its waterproof sealing. Finally undoing them he dumped the entire contents of his bag on the ice. Rummaging through all the stuff he finally found the one thing he needed most right now. The blanket he had used the other night. He unfurled it next to Toph, and then bent over her.

"I hope you can forgive me later Toph," he said as he began pulling her freezing clothes off.

Damn he was afraid of this. She had been in the water so long that the water soaked clean through her coat and into her clothes. He gently worked her boots off trying to keep from pulling skin off with them. Now came the part he feared most of all, he had to get the rest of her things off so they wouldn't soak the blanket and do more harm than good right now. Swallowing hard and shutting his eyes he began his very hard task. Sokka didn't open his eyes until he had wrapped her bare shivering body in the folds of the warm blanket.

He smiled as he watched her slowly stop shivering. As he began to rise a great surge of pain ran up from his left leg. Stumbling over to his right trying to keep from falling on Toph Sokka hit the wall with right arm sending even more pain through his body. He had nearly forgotten about his own problems in the face of taking care of Toph.

"Well I guess it's my turn," he said pulling off his own coat.

He winced as he felt his skin tear as he removed his injured arm from its sleeve. The blood had apparently frozen to it. Looking over to the pile of junk from his bag he soon realized that he didn't have any medical wrappings. Taking off his tunic he ripped a good long piece off he wrapped it around his arm tied it tight to keep it from bleeding any further. Tearing off another piece he dabbed at his cheek to check if it was still bleeding.

"Good. Not as deep as my arm, and its stopped bleeding. Now what am I going to do with about you," he said looking down at his broken leg.

Pulling his pants off (Author's Note: He is wearing a pair of skin tight leggings under those. You know like Thermal Underwear.) and looking at his leg he could tell it wasn't bad, not good but at least it wasn't bad. It was broken in several spots, nothing severely out of place. But he didn't have anything to treat broken bones with; the best he could think of right now was splinting it up, but with what? Once again his eyes fell upon the tusk. It had saved him once and he was sure it would save his leg. Placing it against his leg he tore up the rest of his tuck using the fabric to bind the tusk to his leg keeping it straight.

"Now I need to get a fire started to dry out her clothes and keep us warm till we're found."

Digging through his stuff once again until he found what he was looking for. Which were: a fire pan, whale oil, striker, and some wire. He started a fire by filling the fire pan with the whale oil and then lighting the oil with sparks from the striker. After a few more minutes he managed to hang both Toph's clothing and his pants to get them dry. Sitting down next to the fire he began to realize just how tired he was. His vision started to blur and his body was getting cold.

"Sokka?" called a soft voice.

"Toph, you're awake," Sokka half shouted crawling over to her.

"What's going on, Sokka?" Toph asked trying to move inside the tightly wrapped blanket.

Sokka began to tell her what had happened since she passed out in his arms. He watched as her eyes widened and her face became red as he mentioned having to get rid of all her clothes and wrap her in the blanket.

"You saw me naked?" Toph asked shame filling her voice.

"Uh-uh, I closed my eyes till I had wrapped you up in the blanket."

"Oh," was all Toph said turning her face from his. Her mind raced once more with so many feelings. Part of her was glad that he was respectful enough not to look at her, but another part was telling her other things. She came crashing back to reality when she felt his arms around her.

"What are you doing, Sokka?" Toph asked looking up at him.

"I'm moving you closer to the fire. Gotta keep you warm till your clothes get dried and you can put them back on."

It was then that she noticed something different about him. It was the way he was moving. He seemed to be struggling with her weight, but that was impossible she was so much lighter than him. He shouldn't be having this much trouble carrying her.

"Sokka, what's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong," Sokka said in that voice of his whenever he was trying to hide something.

"Sokka," Toph said sternly. "You know you can't lie to me. Especially, when I can feel your heartbeat."

His heartbeat quickened as she said this. She knew he was trying to figure out what to say to her. He finally sighed and laid her down next to the fire. It felt warm to her face.

"I'm just a little beat up is all," Sokka said coolly.

"How beat up?"

"My left leg is broken, I've got a long deep cut along my right arm, and a few scratches on my face," Sokka said quietly.

They spent the next few minutes in silence, with the exception of the howling winds. Toph fidgeted a little bit and the blanket loosened around her and she was able to crawl a bit though rather clumsily. She stopped when she landed on something long and heard Sokka wince. She had apparently crawled on to his broken leg.

"Sorry," she said softly trying to move off.

"It's alright," Sokka replied reaching down and moving her more easily over to his other side and laying her across his lap.

Toph lay there frozen not from the cold but from shock. She hadn't expected him to bring her so close to himself. Then she felt something running through her hair. Even though she couldn't see Toph still looked up at him.

Sokka sat running his fingers through Toph's hair not really paying attention anymore. He was growing tired actually, tired and cold. His arm was getting stiff, and his eye lids were getting heavy. Slowly he started to lose consciousness and left his hand resting on Toph's head.

Toph could feel his heartbeat slowing down. She started to panic when she felt his body temperature plunge drastically. She was losing him, but she couldn't lose him. Not now, not after everything that has happened.

"Sokka," no response. "Sokka!? Sokka, please wakeup. Please Sokka wakeup!"

His only reply was the gradual slowing down of his breathing. Toph was terrified, she couldn't think. Her fear was keeping her from thinking clearly. Then she felt something fall across her lips as she squirmed in his lap. They were his fingers. She knew there was only thing she could try left.

"I'm sorry, Sokka, please forgive me," Toph whispered softly.

She then opened her mouth and his fingers dropped into her small mouth. A single tear fell down her cheek. She bit down, and bit down hard.

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Phoenix'sSoul: Well that's that.-looks around apprehensively- I just hope Toph hasn't gotten loose yet.

Toph: It's a little to late for that.

Phoenix'sSoul: -I whirl around to face a bunch of giant boulders- Oh man. This is not good.

Toph: You're right it's not good. Now I'm gonna kick your butt.

Phoenix'sSoul: Um ok guys I'm gonna have to leave yall here for now. "Until Next Chapter."

Toph: If I get my hands on you there won't be a next chapter!