Long Overdue - A TAANG Story
[Author's Notes: In the TV series they leave many things unresolved, and I think that what happened at the library was one of those big mistakes. It was an opportunity for Aang and Toph to grow even closer. (Maybe that is why they did it, or they would have added some TAANG to the series) This story isn't an offshoot of 'A Kiss in the Night of Ba Sing Se,' and so Aang and Toph are not involved. Young men can be dense and thus need to be prodded into understanding just because things aren't said, doesn't mean they don't exist.
Time has passed, and now Aang is ready to make amends. How this plays out… well, read on!
Standard Disclaimer: I don't own the Avatar: The Last Airbender
So as always… On with the Story!]
Chapter 10
Other Worldly
The void of unconsciousness began to slip away from me slowly. The last thing I recalled is the world closing in on me and Aang rocking me into the most excellent orgasm- ever!
Now, where am I?
I feel like I'm floating, and where is that hunky, stupid Twinkle Toes?
Wait if I'm floating, maybe I'm dead? I don't feel dead, but I've never been dead; that I can remember.
Oh man, if I'm dead, then what a way to go! Death by O! A big O! No, a HUMONGOUS O! Who knew sex with the Avatar could be fatal. Not me for sure! If I knew, maybe I would have said - Nah, it was definitely worth it!
Hey, can anybody hear me? I guess I am dead. I don't even hear my own voice.
You're not dead Toph.
Aang is that you? More importantly, why are you in my head?
Yep, it's me. Are you okay, Sifu?
That's a tough question Twinkle Toes. Define - okay?
Are you hurt? Do you feel any pain at all?
Hey, why do I hear you in my head, Twinkle Toes? And why can't I hear my own voice? Oh! By the Earth Spirit, we are dead!
No, we're not dead.
Then why do I feel like I'm floating?
Because, we're in another world.
Another world? Do you mean like the Spirit World? Then we must be dead!
It's not the Spirit World. The guru took me here when he was teaching about clearing my chakras and all this. Look around!
Look around? Hello doofus! I'm blind!"
Ha, ha, ha! Toph, my love. This is not the natural world. You only think you're still blind. That's why you can't see anything. Focus on seeing this world in your mind, just like you use your earthsight. And to me, you're standing there with your eyes closed.
Don't laugh at me! You want me to focus on something, but I'm floating in whatever this is! I'm not touching…
But you are touching. You're touching the cosmos and everything here. I can feel you, see you, and by the Four Winds, you're gorgeous. Trust me; just focus your mind.
Focus on what? I'm an earthbender! We need something to touch, to feel, to hear!
Then focus on my voice. Just listen to me.
You mean that annoying squeaking you're doing? I thought you already went through puberty.
My voice is probably this way because I was only 12 the last time I was here. It's what I remember.
Can you please change it. I feel a bit weird about doing it with a kid. I'm not Sweetness.
Why would you say something like that about Katara? She was never inappropriate…"
Uh, did she kiss you when you were still 12? Are you gonna tell me you two didn't do other things? I know how busy your hands got when you kissed me on that beach, loverboy. I never had anybody feel me up before.
You were older! Uh, and what Katara and I did back then is none of your business!
A bit snippy, aren't we? Well, that answers that! You two might not have had intercourse, but I'm sure it was the closest thing to it.
'….'
So now you're going to give me the silent treatment because I'm merely stating the facts? Aang, I could hear you two trying to be all secretive at the inn. All that panting, moaning and groaning that night was disgusting. Seriously, had your balls even dropped yet?
So you were jealous?
Damn straight! I cried that night while you and Sugar Queen were on your adolescent path of mutual discovery. I wanted you to be discovering me!
Tell you the truth, Toph. I wanted to be discovering you too. I'm not going to lie; Katara was a turn-on. Up to that point, I'd only looked at her tits. That night she let me touch them.
Hope it was all your little pervy mind thought it was.
It was. But even when I was with her, I often thought about you. She would ask me where I was when my mind started to drift.
So, does your mind drift when you're with me? Do you want to be with her when we're together?
Never, not even once. You fill me... my heart, so much that all I can think of is capturing every moment!
How do I know you're not lying to me Twinkle Toes, just to keep stringing me along?
Guru Pathik told me that in the Cosmic World, lies could not be spoken. Since we connect to the ultimate truth, a lie is overwhelmed in this state. We are talking to and through each other's spirits. To even try creates intense pain in the center of your very existence.
Okay, so you can't lie, and I can't lie or was this Garu Pathetic just feeding you a load of wolf-bat guano Twinkle Toes? How do you know he wasn't fibbing just to make himself seem more significant than life?
I don't think he would do that Toph. I mean - why would he?
Maybe as some kind of test Aang. You know to see just how gullible you are. We both know you're pretty susceptible to stupid suggestions.
What? I am not, well, not anymore. For spirits sakes Sifu, I was only 12 years old when you met me and the whole world was different. Now that I'm almost 20, I think I've matured.
Matured, you, really?
Yes, me really, Toph.
And this is coming from the same guy who thought it would be great to live on an island with a bunch of stooges 'pretending' to be airbenders… yeah. What about that is mature or even realistic!
I know they're not airbenders Sifu, but they are trying to follow the ways of my people.
I think that we already covered how well that worked out for your 'people,' Twinkle Toes.
"..."
See, reality. It may not feel good, but it will help you get through the day, and tomorrow without clinging to the past, Mr. Avatar.
Is that one of your catchy phrases, Sifu?
You don't have to get pissy Twinkle Toes. Iroh told me that when I wanted to go back to the good old days. He reminded me that they were neither good or old. I just thought I'd pass it along. Wow, I guess that pathetic guy was right! I can't lie here! I was going to take credit for it just to irk you!
So you think I'm clinging to the past?
Like a hungry baby on its momma's tit.
Am I that bad?
I was trying to go easy on you using that example Twinkle Toes.
Wow, thanks for holding back.
No problem. You've sounded like you're ready to cry after that statement I made about your people.
You know that's a sore spot for me Toph. Why would you even bring it up?
Because it's also a matter of denial for you Aang, I'm not trying to hurt you, just trying to get you to live in the here and now. There are things you just have to let go of so that you can live, Twinkle Toes.
Guru Pathik told me the same thing back then. He even told me I had to let go of Katara and focus on being the Avatar.
Did he tell you that?
Well, in not so many words, but yeah, that was the gest of it.
We all know you didn't listen to that because you ran to her rescue and nearly got yourself killed. Have you considered if you would have just stayed and got stronger?
(Sigh) All the time. Zuko might not have sided with Azula. He told me as much. It wasn't until I got there that he decided to go her way. Maybe if Katara did heal his scar, that would have healed his soul as well. The city wouldn't have fallen, Azula might have been captured, and the Day of Black Sun would have had a different outcome! The war could have been over before that damn comet arrived. I certainly screwed things up!
Oh my, you have put a lot of thought into it. One suggestion, though.
What's that, Toph?
Forgive yourself Twinkle Toes. You were young and going through a bunch of stuff. Even that pathetic guru fella should have had more compassion and understanding for a 12-year-old kid who lost everyone he ever knew, like overnight! Katara was everything to you; even I understood that back then. You can't expect a stupid kid to act like a grown man, no matter how powerful he is.
When did you get so wise, Sifu?
I think - it was the day I fell in love with you, Twinkle Toes. Back there on that island when you took that spirit journey into your past life. I don't know why, but I felt like we had been together before like we are now. Who do you love the most Aang? Me or Sugar Queen?
If you asked me that question when we were twelve, Katara would have been my answer. When I turned thirteen, I was unsure, even though I was dating her. When I became fourteen, you were always on my mind, Toph. I mean, you were in my dreams, my thoughts, like all the time. I even looked for you just walking down the street. So, when we hugged on that beach, well, I just couldn't stop. I thought if I just let you go and not at least try to show you how I felt, then I would never get the chance again.
So you were infatuated with me - since?
Since I saw you in the swamp. Well, not you actually, but a vision of you. Your smile and laughter were like an angel; that's what I thought at the time. I was conflicted between you and Katara. I reasoned it was because you were to be my earthbending teacher and that those other feelings were because you were, cute. So I worked hard to focus on Katara until Pathik told me to give her up. But in my mind, if I gave her up, then I would have to deal with all those feelings for you.
Feelings for me. Why didn't you want to deal with these feelings for me back then?
Because, (sigh), you scared me.
Scared the mighty Avatar? How did I do that?
It wasn't like being scared for my life or anything like that Toph.
What was it then Twinkle Toes?
I was afraid to have something, someone just for myself Toph. My selfishness leads to the destruction of all my people; that's what I thought at the time. The whole world was in chaos because I chose to run away from being the Avatar.
You know now that Sozin would have probably killed you, right?
Of course, I realize that now, Toph.
Especially with that dumb pacifist mumbo jumbo…. Sorry, I'm doing it again, aren't I? I shouldn't speak ill of the dead. Sorry Aang, I'll keep those thoughts to myself.
I appreciate that Toph. I do think there was a happy medium, a balance that they ignored. One extreme or the other is equally bad.
Omygosh, you have matured, at least a little.
Glad I could surprise you.
Now and then you do, Twinkle Toes. Alright, back to the main topic. You were afraid to be selfish. How was having feelings for me being selfish?
With you, my world is all about you, Toph. I don't think about being the Avatar or the loss of my people, or even my feelings for Katara. Back then, I was so taken with you; I didn't know if you were a person or a goddess. Maybe that's why I got so angry when the sand-benders took Appa. I blamed you because you weren't meeting my expectations.
A goddess. I can see how you would think that. I am pretty awesome.
Yes, you are.
Hey, am I blushing Aang?
Uh, yeah, you look like your face is about to explode.
Whew, I thought for a minute, I was going to catch fire or something.
Um, how do I look Toph? Like I said before, you can open your eyes here. You've never seen me before so I was just wondering…"
Aang, to tell you the truth, I took a peek, and it was just too much. It was so bright and, uh, I guess all that stuff was what you call -color, maybe. My head was just too full to make sense of it all.
(Sigh) I guess for someone who hasn't had sight her whole life; it would be a bit much. This realm is fierce for even sighted people. It took me a while to get used to it, and I've been to the Spirit World. Let me tell you though, you're absolutely beautiful, here and there!
I did take a peek at you, Twinkle Toes. That staff of yours was a bit scary. Thinking about how you ram that into me - no wonder my little V gets so sore! But overall, you're pretty easy on the eyes. But anybody might be to me since this is my first time seeing like this.
Thank you - I think? I'm just glad you liked what you saw because Toph, I certainly love what I see!
There you go saying embarrassing things again.
Want me to stop?
Hell no! Keep 'em rolling until I tell you otherwise Twinkle Toes.
As you wish, Sifu.
So back again to the how you were scared back then. But you weren't scared of me as much as being afraid of what Aang?
I think I was scared of losing. I saw this vision of Katara like absorbing the Air Nomads, and she was all that was left. When he told me to let her go…
You saw it as letting all of them go. Not just going, but dying a second time. That must have been rough.
Yeah. It hurt Toph. Just remembering that still hurts.
It's okay to cry, you know. I'm here for you Aang.
Thanks, Toph. I think Guru Pathik wanted me to realize that.
Realize what?
That you were here for me, even back then. That storm that drove Appa down into that mystic swamp. All of it was leading me to you. I think destiny or fate just saw Katara as a hindrance.
So you think we're destined to be together Twinkle Toes? Like we have some red thread tying us together?
Open your eyes.
I don't wanna!
Trust me, Toph. I just want you to look at my hand.
Nothing big and scary?
Nope, just my pinky finger and yours too.
Okay… uh, what is that thing? Is it tied onto your finger?
Sure is. Look at your finger.
Oh shit! It's tied to mine too. The same uh, string?
Yep. The same 'red' string! That's the name of the color, and we are indeed attached. Why did you close your eyes now?
There, there's this big, eh, uh, really big dude standing behind you!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Why are you laughing Twinkle Toes? What if he squishes you? Or worse, what if he squishes me!?
Toph… hahaha, he's not going to squish anybody!
How do you know?
Because that's me! Well the Cosmic me. It looks like me, but it is actually made up of all the past Avatars. When the new Avatar is born, it'll look like him or her.
Well, don't squish me!
Now, why would I squish you Sifu?
I mean, what if that big fella there gets horny and wants some of my sweet Tophy lovin'! I don't have any place that could fit that! I can only imagine the size of his down-under. His balls must be like boulders!
Trust me; he's not going to attack you. But I can't say the same about me. I'm getting all stirred up just looking at you.
Are you that easy Twinkle Toes?
I guess I am. When you first made that mad face at me, that night I had this massive wet dream. In the dream, you were making that face and demanding that I go faster. I couldn't help myself. That next morning, I couldn't even look at you without getting a hard-on. Katara noticed my erection and thought it was about her. She told me I needed to use more self-control.
Did Sweetness offer you a helping hand?
NO! We weren't even dating then. Why would you ask such a thing?
Just curious. Knowing Sugar Queen's nightly habits, I just figured she'd help you out. Water's not the only thing she good at making flow if you catch my meaning.
So shall we get going back, Toph?
Wha… are you just going to ignore me?
You know, time doesn't pass here Toph. We'll go right back to the moment we left.
Oh, I get it! You'll just keep redirecting until I get tired of waiting, is that it?
Pretty much.
Alright, I've had enough fun. By the way, if it's the exact moment, then that means….
Toph's body shudders as if electricity is coursing through every fiber of her being. She suddenly feels the deck of the gondola beneath her; once more in her familiar dark world. The drool that falls from her mouth is running down and across her chin as she smiles wildly. The echoes of her orgasmic tremors start to fade as her inner walls and anus noticeably continue to twitch.
"Are you okay, Toph? We're back, and Appa has landed. You were shaking like crazy, and that moan! WOW!"
"OH YEAH! Best landing ever Twinkle Toes!"