This chapter was originally going to be much longer, but I decided to put some of it in the next chapter instead. Don't forget to hit that little "go" button at the bottom when you're finished reading this. For all you visual people, here is an example of how I picture the gaang in this story. Of course, there are some differences between my visualization and the picture. In this story, Toph is shorter than she appears in the picture, Zuko's hair looks like a slightly longer version of the way it does in the show, and Sokka and Zuko are a little taller than they are in the picture. Just copy and paste the link and take out the spaces. Click on the image to make it bigger. I didn't draw this picture, nor do I own it.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender. There, are you happy Nick and Viacom?! (-goes to cry in corner-)

Zuko: Hey, get out of my emo corner!


Suki's POV

It was the day after the peace celebration party and everyone decided to spend the day together in the beautiful field just in front of the city. Zuko decided to see how Aang's bending was progressing, and, along with Toph and Katara, had him fight all three of them simultaneously in a duel while Mai would occasionally toss a dagger or two to keep Aang on his toes. Sokka and I just hung back and played around with Appa, Cabi, and Momo. Later, around mid-day, Terran showed up with the note Toph had left at his house that morning telling him where we were. Come to think of it, Toph was in an oddly good mood today. I guess that's why she didn't hit him when he picked her up in a hug and caused her to blush a bright crimson. Though she did wiggle out of his hold and launch Aang into the air when he laughed at Terran hugging her. Toph excused herself from Aang's training and started pushing Terran over to where Cabi was. That's when Sokka suddenly became very interested in starting a sparring match with me. I was more than ok with it, it was just that Sokka kept getting distracted by Toph and Terran playing with Cabi. Now, he was starting to get on my nerves.

"Sokka, pay attention!"

Sokka turned in my direction and got nailed in the head with one of the metal fans I threw at him. Seriously, that was the fourth time that happened during our sparing match. He got up, rubbing the spot where he got hit and looked at me sheepishly.

"Sorry Suki. Try that again, I won't get caught off guard this time."

"Sokka, that was the fourth time I caught you by surprise. What is with you today?"

Sokka glanced back at Terran, who was being chased around by Cabi. I noticed he no longer looked at Terran with distrust, but his eyes now held an emotion that I didn't have enough time to identify before he looked back at me and readied his sword.

"Nothing. I just got a little distracted."

I quickly put my fans into my belt and drew my katana sword as Sokka came at me with a series of swipes and jabs, all of which I was easily able to counter. It shouldn't be this easy. Normally, I'd have to pay close attention to Sokka's every movement just to have a chance at beating him, but today, I was barely breaking a sweat. I could tell Sokka's mind was still elsewhere. Five minutes later found Sokka on the ground with my foot on his chest and the tip of my sword pointed right in front of his nose. Sokka dropped his sword and raised his hands in defeat.

"I win." I said with a half-hearted smirk.

"Can I get up now?"

I sighed and lifted my foot away to let him stand. I put my sword back in its sheath and smiled at the yellow gemstones that Sokka had Aang help him decorate it with late last night. He even carved my name and elaborate designs into the wood with skill I didn't know he had. But my smile faded a little as I remembered him sitting on the bed in our room when he was carving the designs. He looked like he was thinking really hard. Like something was troubling him. But when I questioned him about it, he simply denied anything being wrong and went to sleep. Now, it was obvious that wasn't true.

"Sokka, what's wrong?"

He picked his sword up off the ground and put it in the sheath on his back and sighed.

"I already told you Suki, it's nothing."

I walked up and hugged him from behind, hoping I could coax it out of him. "Sokka, whatever it is, you know you can tell me."

For a moment, Sokka actually looked like he was going to tell me, until we heard high pitched squealing/laughing. I looked up to see Toph squirming on the ground under Terran, who was tickling her.

"Aha! So the greatest earthbender in the world does squeal." said Terran as he continued to tickle Toph.

"Alright, alright! I admit it! Just stop, please!"

I giggled at the sight, but noticed that Sokka didn't find it so amusing. Instead, he stared with his mouth slightly open and a pained look.

"Sokka, seriously, lighten up. It's obvious that Terran has no intention of hurting Toph in any way."

"It's not that; it's just…I'm the only one allowed to tickle her."

"What? Sokka that's ridiculous. Since when?"

"Since…I don't know. Haven't you ever heard of unwritten rules?"

I watched Terran finally let Toph get up and Cabi roll over on her side for one of them to rub her belly.

"Well, looks like that unwritten rule just got rewritten. But I still don't see what the big deal is."

Sokka just shook his head, then turned to me and smiled. "You're right; it's not a big deal. I don't know what I was thinking."

Momo flew over to me and tried to hide behind my head in a desperate attempt to keep away from Terran, who for some reason was trying to get him.

"Come on Momo, all I want is the peach."

Momo swatted his hand away and screeched. Smiling, I plucked the mischievous little lemur off my head and held him.

"If you ask him nicely Terran, he'll give it back." I looked down at Momo and stroked his head. "Momo, will you give the peach back? You know it's not yours."

Momo purred in my arms before reluctantly giving the peach back to Terran. Toph walked up next to him followed by Cabi and Momo jumped onto her shoulder.

"Well Snoozles, looks like Momo has someone else to steal food from."

Terran looked at Momo and scratched his ear. "But this is one piece of fruit you won't be getting, little guy." As Terran raised the peach up to his mouth, Cabi licked it out of his hand and ate it. Terran stared in disbelief and whimpered at the loss of his precious peach.

"Toph, aren't you going to do anything? She just ate my peach."

Toph just stood there and smirked. "Sorry, but there isn't anything I can do. Badgermoles are like wolves; if they see you as a leader, they'll respect you. If they don't, then be prepared to have your food occasionally stolen. She tried to do the same thing to me, but I quickly let her know whose boss. Just give it some time."

"Hey, what's going on over there?"

Everyone except Toph turned to look where Sokka was pointing. We saw Aang sitting on the ground hugging his legs to his chest and his face buried in the top of his knees. Katara was poking Zuko repeatedly in his chest and seemed to be fussing at him. We walked over to get a closer look.

"All I said was that he needs to work on his firebending some more. I even offered to help!"

"Zuko, you know how much pressure Aang is under. Between all the diplomatic meetings, being called out to settle disputes, and helping rebuild the nations, I'm surprised he has time to sleep!"

Toph cut into Katara's ranting. "You know Sparky, we've all been pretty stressed out these past few years. The only break time we get is this festival and a few weeks a year to visit home."

"Fine, just forget I said anything." he said with a sigh.

Katara knelt down next to the stressed out airbender and lifted his head.

"Aang, how would you like come with me to the Golden Oasis day spa. It'll give you a chance to relax. In fact, we all could use a few hours of relaxation."

Aang looked at her and smiled. "Ok, sure."

Sokka folded his arms across his chest in defiance. "There is no way I'm going to a day spa. They give you facials and do your nails."

Sokka is a sweet person, but in the words of Toph, he can be a real meathead sometimes. "Sokka, quit being stupid. There are plenty of guys who go to spas, and to be perfectly honest, your toe nails could use some attention."

"But…but…but-"

"No. I refuse to spend another sleepless night with your claw-like toe nails raking my skin off. Just consider yourself lucky we're not going to the Fancy LADY day spa."

Toph and Zuko snickered causing Sokka to blush and scowl at them. "Well I don't know what you're laughing at, Toph. You're going too."

"Ha! Yeah right."

"You're coming with us Toph. You and I have some things to discuss." Katara said as she grabbed Toph's arm and pulled.

"No, wait! Terran…was…going to take me somewhere, weren't you Terran?"

"Actually, I'd like go too." Toph glared up at him. "What? I've never been to a spa before."

Toph slapped her forehead as Katara smiled triumphantly.




Toph's POV

I can't believe that book worm sold me out. I mean, come on, he's my boyfriend! He is supposed to be on my side! And I don't like the way Katara spoke to me. It's like she knows something. What if…no. There's no way anyone knows that Terran and I are officially together.

When we got to the day spa, we left Appa and Cabi outside, and we all walked in. I could feel two workers approach us. They were obviously thrilled that the Avatar and his companions had chosen to spend some time at their spa and didn't even care that Momo had come in with us. We were each given a robe to change into and then everyone went their separate ways. Well, sort of. Katara and Aang went to the massage rooms followed by Momo, while Suki literally dragged Sokka away to do something about his toe nails. I felt Zuko and Mai walk up from behind me and I heard Mai's dull voice.

"Wanna watch him suffer?" I caught a hint of a smile in her voice.

"That's not even a question."

I knew that going in the room meant that the attendants would be scraping the bottom of my feet in an attempt to clean them, but listening to Sokka getting tortured with a pedicure would be more than worth it.

We walked in, and I could feel Suki force Sokka to sit in one of the chairs as I found my own place to sit. Terran and I tried to stifle our laughter as we heard them arguing.

"Suki, this is embarrassing! Look! Even Mai is laughing at me and she hardly laughs at anything."

"I don't care. Either you do this, or you're sleeping on the couch for the rest of the week."

Sokka groaned and I felt him slouch in his chair. I feel sorry for whoever gets stuck with dealing with his feet. As the woman in front of me struggled with scraping the vast amounts of dirt off my feet, I tried not to kick her, but it was proving to be difficult. Every scrape was like someone screaming directly into my ear.

"Toph, are you ok?" Terran asked next to me, sounding really concerned.

"I'm fine. It's just very irritating when people touch my feet."

But I quickly forgot the aggravating scraping when I heard Sokka yelp at something the attendant did to his feet.

"OW! Suki, when is this going to be over?"

"Maybe if you would try keeping still, it won't hurt. Now stop acting like a big baby."

When the attendants were done with our feet (including Sokka's), Katara walked into the room and pulled on my arm.

"Come on Toph, lets go to the steam room and chat for a while."

Before I could protest, I was dragged off down the hall to the women's steam rooms followed by Mai and Suki. Suki was the last one in as she shut the door behind her and we all sat on the benches. This didn't feel right.

"Alright Sugar Queen, what are you up to?"

Katara answered in an innocently sweet voice. "What? I can't sit and talk with my best friend?"

"Ok, I'll play along. How's……life?"

"It's good. Soooo…you and Terran must be getting pretty close, eh?"

Frankly, I didn't want to reveal that bit of information yet. I wasn't in the mood to put up with Katara saying 'I told you so! I told you so!'

"We're just friends, Sugar Queen, so back off."

"Really? Because you two looked like way more than 'just friends' after the party last night."

"What?! I don't know what you're talking about."

"Give it up, Toph. I saw him kiss you just before you got out of the carriage."

I think my heart just skipped a beat and I just knew I was blushing like mad. Suki gasped excitedly and Mai chuckled softly to herself. Great. Now they were going to rub it in my face.

"Kissed? Hey, Toph, I thought you said you didn't like Terran that way." Suki said in a teasing way.

"Cram it, Suki! I know what I said."

She pressed on. "Looks like you're not the odd one out anymore. So when did it happen? Was he romantic?"

I groaned and flopped down on my back. This is exactly what I wanted to avoid. My only choice was to give a decent answer or I'd be hounded until I did.

"It just happened, ok? There weren't any sappy confessions, poems, or other sickening romantic crap that guys do. Happy?"

I heard Mai shift to put more water on the hot rocks in the middle of the room. "Whatever. I'm just glad he isn't annoying."

"So what do you like about him?" Katara asked with excitement.

I rolled over on my stomach and sighed. "I guess…I like that he doesn't feel sorry for me just because I'm blind and that he likes me just the way I am. He doesn't complain about my "dusty" appearance and actually likes my tough attitude. Plus, he's actually a really cool and fun person once he stops being so shy. And his lava bending is pretty sweet. Even I didn't think of that possibility."

Mai sat up on the other side of the room. "Lava bending? I thought that was just a myth."

"It's not. Aang was telling me how Terran taught himself to lava bend. He even promised to show Aang how to do it when we get back to the Fire Nation." At least Katara so far wasn't teasing me about her being right. "I think it is so sweet that you've finally found someone to be with, Toph. The two of you look so cute together. I told you that you liked him. Maybe now you'll start listening to me. Oh! Now we can give you advice!"

I spoke too soon.

"No way. Sorry Katara, but that is where I draw the line. If you three are done with your interrogations, can I please leave?"

Katara got up and made her way over to the door. "Yeah. The baking contest is about to start and I need to get to my stand and see if my waterbending students are done setting everything up. See you guys there. And Toph, if you ever change your mind, my offer still stands."

Katara left the steam room and I finally saw my chance to escape more prying questions. I made my way to the massage tables, not feeling too happy about the thought of Katara and Suki wanting to give me dating advice later on.


Terran's POV

At the baking contest, I was completely overwhelmed by all the sweet-smelling baked goods that surrounded me and was told we could get priority picks on anything we wanted. As I looked around to decide on which booth to visit first, a bunch of little kids rushed past Sokka walking in front, almost knocking him down. All of them crowded around Appa and Cabi and started bombarding Aang and Toph with millions of questions.

"Cool! A badgermole!"

"Is it true that this is the last sky bison?!"

"Can I pet him? Please mister avatar?"

"Is the badgermole friendly?"

Aang and Toph looked at each other confused as I struggled to keep Cabi calm, who unlike Appa, apparently didn't like all the attention and made a distressed cry as she tried to slowly back away from the children. Something had to be done quickly before someone got hurt. Fortunately, my prayers were answered when Sokka stepped in front of the children and tried to get them to settle down.

"Ok kids. Settle down. My friends here will answer your questions one at a time. Also, you need to keep your voices down, because Cabi," they all turned their little heads to the badgermole he was pointing at, "isn't used to being around so many kids. She has very acute hearing and your loud, high-pitched voices make her feel uncomfortable. Understand?"

Sokka was answered with a unified 'yes sir' and once he walked away, the kids calmly turned back to ask their questions one by one. Cabi calmed down and I could finally stop pulling on her reigns. The kids actually weren't so bad once they were orderly and Cabi even let some of them pet her after some gentle reassurance from Toph. A little water tribe boy with a tooth missing in the front looked at Toph confused.

"Aren't badgermoles supposed to be bigger than this?"

Toph scratched Cabi under her chin. "Yeah they get much bigger than this, but Cabi is still growing and eats tons of food to do so."

The little boy's eyes brightened and he grinned. "Can we feed her?"

"Sure. Just don't give her anything spicy and absolutely NO frosting or whipped cream. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes master Toph." With that, the kids scattered to different booths. Toph turned to me and smirked.

"You don't mind if Cabi follows us, do you? I need to make sure those little crumb-snatchers don't try to sneak her anything she shouldn't eat."

"Not at all. Come on Cabi."

I tugged on her reigns and she shuffled alongside us. We made a stop at Katara's booth to get a slice of one of the many sugar berry pies she made and gave Cabi a few whole ones to keep her from raiding the place, though the constant coming and going of kids with various baked goods to feed her with was more than enough to distract her.

In the distance, I saw several game stands lined up in a row offering prizes. Upon closer inspection, I saw that one game in particular was offering stuffed mooselions as one of the prizes.

"Hey Toph, lets go to that game over there!" Toph looked at me with a huge fake grin and waved her hand in front of her face. "Right…sorry. This way."

I made my way over to the game in question, which featured a bell you had to ring by hitting the lever with a heavy mallet.

"What are we doing here, Book Worm?"

"I want to win a stuffed mooselion to replace the one my brother's friend burned to a crisp and this game has one as a prize."

Toph raised an eye brow in skepticism. "You really think you're strong enough?"

I looked at some huge guy who nearly knocked the bell off its place at the top of a wooden pillar.

"It's worth a try. You want me to win something for you?"

Toph shook her head. "No thanks. If I want something, I'll get it myself."

As I waited in line, I noticed Sokka and Suki emerge from the crowd of people. Sokka said something to Toph, who said something back and pointed toward me. Sokka burst out laughing and didn't stop when Suki and Toph lightly shoved him. Toph then turned to him and spoke in a challenging tone before pushing him toward the line I was standing in. I looked at Toph questioningly.

"What just happened?"

Toph pushed Sokka in front of her and smirked. "Sokka thinks you're too much of a wimp to ring the bell. So I bet him that if you do better than him, then he has to wear a dress for one whole day and I get to pick when."

"Yeah, and if I do better, then Toph has to be my personal servant for one whole day." Sokka said, pushing Toph's hands away and straightening his shirt.

This didn't sound good. I didn't want to be responsible for Toph losing a bet. "Guys, I don't know if-"

Toph cut me off before I could finish. "Relax, Book Worm. I won't get mad at you if you lose. Besides, judging from your vibration signature, I can tell that you'll give Skin And Bones over here a run for his money."

"Hey! For your information, I'm a lot stronger than you give me credit for. Besides, I've been working out lately." As he said that last part, Sokka rubbed one of his biceps affectionately.

Toph, however, didn't look convinced. She crossed her arms and smirked. "The only thing you've been working out is that bottomless pit you call a stomach. I'm surprised you haven't gotten fat."

Sokka narrowed his eyes. "Ya know, that's a lot of talk from someone who could barely hold up the mallet and had to cheat to win at this game."

I expected Toph to start firing insults back at him, but instead she just laughed in his face. "You have no idea what I'm capable of doing. In case you haven't noticed, I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm way stronger than I was during the war, and I'll prove it to you without cheating." Just to make it clear to him, she grabbed Sokka in a headlock and laughed as he struggled to free himself. I heard Suki a short distance away yelling something along the lines of 'Don't kill him' as she supervised the kids playing on Cabi, who was still snapping up any food they gave her. As much as I didn't like the idea of Toph losing a bet because of me, I was very interested in knowing what Sokka would look like in a dress.