A/N-Okay I know I said that this was only going to have 10 chapters but I was suddenly struck with an amazing idea so now it will be longer. Also sorry for the long wait but my Internet broke and I couldn't get on for a long time and then I started slacking off with my writing and with Christmas and all. Please don't kill me (hides under couch)

Thanks to Twilight Rose2 for betaing

Disclaimer- Christmas has come and gone and I still don't own Avatar

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He started to row and row and row. Minutes turned to hours and soon the sun was rising on the horizon. Finally with the sun burning high above him he spotted land on the horizon. He rowed faster his arms burning with effort.

"Suki. Land." his voice was dry from lack of food and the exercise.

He didn't bother to tell her it might not even be the right island that wasn't important right now.

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There was small jolt and the sound of wet sand scraping the bottom of the boat as it ran aground on the shore of the unidentified island. Sokka scooped Suki up in his arms and placed her on the wet sandy shore.

"I'm not sure where we are exactly because we both sort of fell asleep and no one was steering and well this is where we ended up." he glanced at her waiting for some sort of anger or emotion but there wasn't any. She just stared out to sea her back facing him, so he couldn't se her face. "Well I'm going to see if I can find any help okay, I'll be back in no time I promise," no answer, "Suki if you…."

"Sokka! Just go!" her voice sounded a little bit angry but mostly it sounded hurt.

"Okay."

He started his trek across the island, soon coming to an incline in land, and started to climb up it. He couldn't see what was on top of the hill, so it was his to his great surprise when he felt something collide full force into his stomach, when he reached the top.

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She was running as fast as her legs could carry her, hardly believing her own feet, surely they had to be deceiving her, Sokka couldn't be here. But then she got closer and could feel his heartbeat and knew that it wasn't in her mind, he was actually here. She collided with his midsection and wrapped him in a bone-crushing hug, momentarily forgetting that she was supposed to act tough and uncaring.

Sokka looked down at the person now attempting to squeeze the life out of him, and was shocked to see Toph. He instantly forgot about Suki's plight as relief flooded his body. Katara had healed her up, she was alright, the only thing he noticed of the head injury was a small bump but that was perfectly alright with him. He examined the rest of her and couldn't believe his eyes she seemed to have grown even more beautiful in the few day they were apart. He was pulled out of these thoughts when Toph stopped hugging him and much to his surprise started yelling.

"I should earthbend you clear into next year, Meathead! Do you have any idea the kind of worry you put Katara through!? I had to put up with her crying and short temper! Do you have any idea what that's like?" she smiled "And I might have missed you a little bit also." her voice was soft and her head was facing the ground effectively hiding the small blush that had crept onto her face.

Toph was taken by surprise as she felt Sokka pull her into a much more gentle hug than the one she had given him. She decided that it would be okay to hug him back, but just for a little bit. As she hugged him she relished his scent, and the feel of his bare skin against her cheek.

Wait, bare skin! she pulled away, blushing even more. "Umm Sokka, what happened to your shirt?"

He suddenly remembered Suki. "Oh crap! It's a long story Toph but right now I have an emergency. Where is Katara, Suki needs medical attention fast."

"Suki?"

"Yes Suki."

"But where…"

"It's a long story. I'll tell you later, but please I need Katara."

Toph vaguely pointed, "Over there."

"Thanks Toph." he said before rushing off.

Toph just stood there to stunned to move. How could Suki possibly have gotten to the fire nation and found Sokka? It was an impossible notion and yet somehow it was true. She was glad Suki was alive, but she was just starting to think that maybe her and Sokka had a chance and then this happens. She even kissed him and she was sure she felt him give a happy and joyful reaction to that kiss. Now she would have to sit back and watch as Sokka and Suki got closer and closer, Sokka never to know how much he had hurt her. She walked away to be by herself she needed time to collect her thoughts and hide her emotions.

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"Sokka!" Katara screamed and rushed over to him. She had tears streaming from her eyes as she hugged him close. "I missed you so much, how did you get here? And what happened to your face?" she asked referring to his most likely broken nose

"I missed you too and I'll explain everything later but right now Suki needs serious medical attention."

"Suk….Ahh."

Sokka pulled her forward as he ran back to the beach where he left Suki. As he ran past the spot where he met up with Toph he briefly wondered where she went.

'Maybe she went to go help Suki'

'I hope not that would be awkward don't you think?'

But these thoughts soon passed as he scrambled down the hill nearly tripping and reached Suki, who was laying on her back in the sand. Katara immediately rushed to her side while Sokka hung back.

"It's my left ankle and please be careful the pain medication has completely worn off and it hurts really bad."

"I'll be careful," Katara pulled water out of her trusty water skin and bent over to closely examine Suki's ankle. She removed the splint and other wrappings from around the injury, and saw the sever open fracture. She gasped "Sokka how did this happen?" she went right to work on healing her with out waiting for Sokka to answer.

"Well we were going down a steep hill and she tripped and rolled down the hill and then hit a tree. When I got to her, her ankle was like that so I had to splint it but then she went into shock. I had to help her calm down and get her back to normal before we could continue. When we did I carried her all the way to the docks."

"Wow that sounds horrible. It's a good thing you have Sokka around to protect you," she said addressing Suki.

"Yeah, good thing." a small tear slipped out from her eyes unnoticed by Katara. Sokka saw this and it made him wonder how much he had hurt her, it made him feel bad and he almost regretted what he had done. He also saw how Suki was making a point to not meet his gaze or to even look in his direction. She must also be mad he concluded.

After about 30 minutes Katara stood up. "Well that's all I could do right now, it was very serious and there may be permanent damage. I'm not sure only time will tell. You won't be able to fight with us tomorrow you'll have to stay here and we'll come back and get you."

"Okay."

"Sokka and I will help you to our camp and I'll make you some tea and lunch, you guys must be exhausted, and you'll have to fill me in on exactly what happened okay?"

Sokka slowly walked over to Suki and put his arm out to help her up. She didn't even glance at him.

"I think I can take care of myself Sokka." she stated huffily. Sokka withdrew his arm and backed away without a word, Katara watched this interaction with interest. Suki seemed to be mad at Sokka for something and she wondered what could have happened. Suki slowly stood up and gently placed weight on her injured ankle. She took one limping step forward and then another, her face contorted with discomfort.

"Suki you really shouldn't be walking on that foot so soon after being healed. Why don't you let me and Sokka help you?"

"I guess your right." she said defeated Katara and Sokka stood on either side of her and she placed her arms over their shoulders. They walked all the way back to camp in silence. When they reached camp they saw Aang absently airbending a leaf into the air. When he saw them approach he immediately jumped to his feet.

"Sokka! Suki! When di…how... Bu..." he stuttered unable to collect his thoughts.

"We'll explain every thing in a minute. But first I'm hungry." Sokka and Katara gently placed Suki on the ground. And then Sokka went immediately to the pile of bags and blankets, after a minute of searching he pulled out a small bag containing lumps of jerky, sat down and started to munch on them. He offered some to Suki who was sitting across from him.

"I don't want any of your jerky Sokka." she still seemed mad.

"Okay just thought I would offer." Sokka was trying to be civil to her but she was making it increasingly difficult. How were they supposed to get over this break up and continue being friends if she was acting this way?

"How about I make some tea? I think we have enough ingredients for a vegetable stew I could have that ready to eat in an hour." said Katara effectively stopping the glare that Sokka was shooting Suki, who in turn was not bothering to look his way but instead had her head turned to the side with a very sour look on her face.

"Sure whatever. Hey have you guys seen Toph? She sort of disappeared after I went to get Katara." asked Sokka in what he hoped was an offhand voice. Unfortunately Suki saw through this and immediately got angry.

"So is that why you took so long to come back with help? You had to stop and talk with Toph while I was laying on the beach in pain."

"We didn't talk that much we mostly hugged."

Suki scoffed in indignation, "Like that's any better…"

Sokka's anger was rising he stood up, with his voice slowly rising he said "What? I'm not allowed to hug someone whom I've missed and worried about for four days?"

Attempting disarm the situation Katara quickly spoke up taking a step towards Sokka "How about you let me heal your nose it looks broken."

But no one was paying attention to her, they were both staring daggers at each other.

"Well if you missed her and care about her so much why don't you go find her, then you two can spend all your time together!"

"You know what maybe I will! Come on Aang." He grabbed the Airbender's arm and pulled him to his feet, dragging him out of camp. Once they were out of earshot he exploded "Can you believe her Aang? She's being impossible!"

"Did you two have a fight?"

"No, why would you say that?" he answered calming down.

"Gee I don't know." he said sarcasm dripping from every word "I just figured that since you two were practically ripping out each other throats that maybe you might have fought, I mean normal people don't normally do that with out reason you know."

Sokka sighed and looked at the ground "Well maybe there was a reason besides fighting"

"Really, like what?" he asked curiously.

"Imighthavemaybebrokenup with her." he mumbled

"What? I didn't quite catch that."

"I broke up with her!" he shouted

"What? Why?"

"Why do most people break up Aang? It's because I don't like her in that way anymore."

"Wait when did this happen? When you heard the Kyoshi warriors were in Ba Sing Se you were practically hopping with joy. And according to Katara when you found out it was Azula in disguise you were so worried about Suki maybe being dead you were depressed for like two weeks."

It took Sokka a minute to respond and when he did he spoke like he was choosing his words very carefully, "I don't know. It's just that I started thinking of her less and less, and I accepted that she was probably dead. And then other stuff happened and when she showed up so suddenly I knew that I didn't like her in that way anymore. But I still like her as a friend and she's acting so angry and mean. All I want is to be friends but I don't know if we can or not."

"Well I don't think I'm the best person to be giving you advice. If truth be told I'm sort of having lady problems myself." He smiled sheepishly

'He better not be talking about my sister'

'But if he's not talking about Katara then he has to be taking about Toph' He reasoned with himself.

'Good point. He better be talking about Katara' he glanced darkly at Aang, which he didn't notice.

"So why did I have to come with you to find Toph anyway?"

"Well…." Sokka wasn't sure why he dragged Aang along. He just didn't want to be alone with Toph just yet. "I guess I just needed someone to rant to."

"Oh, Okay."

They continued their walk in a content silence.

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"So what happened between you and Sokka?" Asked Katara from the cooking fire. She was adding ingredients to the vegetable stew that was slowly cooking in a pot hung over the fire.

"He..." She took a deep breath to steady her voice, "He broke up with me."

"He what!?" Katara dropped what she was doing and walked over to the sniffling girl and put a comforting hand over her shoulder. "Did he say why?"

"He said…" A few tears and another deep breath, "That he didn't like me in that way anymore and that…" sniffling and an involuntary sob, "That he liked someone else."

"Ohh" Katara had a feeling that Sokka liked Toph but now she had proof. Who else could Sokka be talking about? "Well you know Suki, you'll find someone else I'm sure. I honestly don't know what you see in my brother anyway, he's rude, sarcastic, he smells funny, and can be very annoying."

"Yeah but he's also brave and smart and funny and good looking." Suki was now bawling all over Katara's shoulder.

"Just let it all out." she patted Suki's back in a comforting manner.

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Stupid Suki, Toph punched the ground causing small cracks to appear in the earth beneath her fist. Why did she have to show up and ruin everything?

She sat down on the ground in defeat. But then what really did she ruin? Its not like Sokka was going to instantly fall in love with me and whisk me off my feet to some unknown land far from my parents. No that's a stupid thought he obviously loves Suki and they will get married as soon as possible. After tomorrow when we defeat the fire lord its straight back to Gaoling for me anyway. I probably won't get to see him or Aang and Katara ever again. a small tear escaped from her eye, as she felt footsteps approach her. It was Sokka and Aang; she quickly jumped to her feet and got in her earthbending stance, so that way it would appear like she was doing something useful.

"Hey Toph!" Sokka shouted from about twenty feet away. Toph heard him and noted that his voice still sounded a little funny, she had noticed this earlier when they had first met up but never got a chance to ask him about it. For some reason just hearing him right now filled her with anger she didn't quite understand. She slammed her foot into the ground causing a rock to jut up from the ground in front of the warrior's feet making him trip and land on his face. Toph let out a hearty laugh pretending to be amused rather than angry which is how she felt at the moment. But she stopped as soon as she heard him yell in sever pain, normally he just grumbled and got back to his feet when she tripped him. Aang rushed to Sokka's side to help him up.

He stood clutching his face. "What did you do that for?" he shouted angrily.

"Thought it would be amusing but I didn't know you were going to get all angry. What did you do scrap your knee?" she said nonchalantly.

"No. For your information Toph." he said speaking through his hands, which were still covering his nose. There was blood seeping through his fingers. "I fell on my face. Which just so happens to have a broken nose on it?" he said heatedly

Toph instantly dropped her attitude, her face changing from one of uncaring aloofness to that of deep concern. "Oh I'm sorry I had no idea. Are you okay?" her tone was soft and gentle, though

Sokka looked at Toph she is so cute when she's worried he noted. He couldn't stay mad at her even if he wanted to. "Yeah I'm ok, its not bleeding it just hurts a lot."

"Sokka you're lying. I can tell. How do you always forget that?' her voice returning to its natural hardness.

"I don't know…"

"Well when you figure it out tell me. Now why didn't you have Katara heal you up?"

"I was to busy eating and fighting with Suki. But enough of that I'll tell you later. Lets all go back to camp so I can tell you what happened and you can tell me what you guys were up to." He proposed, "Also my nose is bleeding really bad and I'm starting to feel a little light headed."

All three of them walked back to camp in relative silence, Sokka occasionally let out a small gasp of pain, and Aang absently humming to himself.

Toph's mind was whirling. Why had Sokka and Suki been fighting? Could it possibly be that they weren't together anymore? Maybe Suki had met someone else and had broken up with him. Whatever the reason Toph was sure to find out soon enough.

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A/N- sorry for the weak ending but I couldn't decide how to end it and I didn't want to waste any more time in getting this up. Please review and tell me what you think

-Megi