Okay, so here it finally is. A Tokka drabble. I was looking through my reviews and went "Dang, I knew I forgot a shipping!" Some of you guys made Tokka requests, and I apologize for having taken so long :P
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Vibrant
Toph lay back on the grass, silent. Her eyes seemed to graze the sky above, looking so intensely at… nothing. Yet there was definitely something there. Sokka couldn't stop staring at her.
"What?" she finally asked, bringing him from his trance. A drop of sweat fell and a rush of heat flew to his cheeks at having been discovered. He shifted nervously on the rock he was leaning against.
"Uh, nothing. Nothing at all."
She wasn't buying it. "I could sense you looking at me. I may be blind, yet I'm not Sokka." Then she chuckled. "Yet you seem to be the only person here who doesn't seem to remember half the time."
"Well," he said in self-defense, "can you blame me? You're so independent, strong and vibrant… it's just hard for me to believe that you can't see. Yet somehow you can." He turned his own blue eyes to the clouds overhead. "When you look up to the sky, what do you see?"
Toph shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly, and continued to stare above, unblinking. "Earth. I see you, the trees, Aang and Katara in the-"
"No, no," Sokka said, also trying to forget what he was about to hear in the last part of her sentence," I mean, what do you see in the sky?"
"I don't get it."
He took a breath. "What I mean is, you have to see something. You have to at last feel something to get a glare that intense at nothing."
Toph sighed, and blinked. "If you mean what I think you mean, then I see… my mom and dad. I see my old life, cooped up and letting loose. I see you guys setting me free. I see all those nights again flying comfortably in Appa's saddle by my friends, just hanging around. I see… life," she said with a shrug.
Sokka kept his sight on her, digesting this all. He never thought of this before, about what would run through her mind when she was alone or refrained from making any sarcastic comments, quietly in the background.
He left his rock behind and moved closer to Toph, laying down in the grass next to her and closing his eyes.
Toph looked to the side raised her eyebrow at him. "What are you doing?"
He was silent except for a simple answer. "Trying to see like you."
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