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I'm a Lover not a Hater. That is a good point he could have. That would have been the better option. It would just have been the less interesting to write.


The only noise in the entire house was the wind, as a large breeze blew in through the window. Blowing Toph's lose hair into her eyes, and she still didn't move an inch. Her eyes that where now slightly covered by hair, and had a tendency to normally wonder, stayed fixed on the same spot. The silent man in-front of her.

"I will wait as long as it takes for you to give me an answer." There was a gentle teasing tone to her voice, but it couldn't hid the firm tone underneath.

Letting out a sigh of annoyance, Toph walked towards Aang. When she reached him she took his right hand into hers. "Tell me. We promised that no matter what, we would always be honest with each other." She gave his hand a squeeze. "Tell me or I will beat it out of you." Her tone was not threating, but that didn't take away from her sincerity in what she said.

Aang opened his month to say anything, anything at all. He really didn't know what was going to come out. What did end up coming out was a question he had wanted to ask Toph for years. "Why do you stay with me, when all I do is bring you pain." He slowly took his hand out of hers.

He didn't really expect an answer that would do him or anyone any good, make things any clearer. He in fact was not really asking this question to the girl in-front of him. He was asking it to the one that somewhere out there was sleeping in their bed. Waiting for him, needing him.

"Aang..."

"I don't deserve you."

The pain in his voice was so clear, it brought out Toph's most nurturing instincts. She wanted to take him in her arms, to comfort him. She put on as much of a fake smile as she could muster onto her face as she spoke again. "The avatar, who saved the world isn't good enough for a blind girl." Her efforts to make light of the now tense situation was in vain. Unknown to her, her words were too similar to ones Aang had heard before, from her.

Aang looked into her eyes. "You are more than that, much more and you know that. You are a warrior, an herbal..."

"Aang please."

Her hands now rested on the top of his arms. He didn't think he had seen her look so concerned about him before. Aang matched her position, placing his hands on the top of her arms as well. He never took his eyes off, of hers. He thought they looked greener than they normally did.

"You are the bravest warrior, the gentlest healer. The strongest most talented bender and the most beautiful girl...women. I have ever met. All I have ever done is cause you pain. You got dragged into this, nearly killed, because of me." His grip on her arms had now tightened, as her arms fell to her side.

The tears he had wanted to cry since he saw Toph, his Toph sleeping in the bed that morning, finally feel. Toph lifted her arms, again to wrap around his waist, pulling him into hug. She let him cry on her shoulder, letting out whatever it was that he had been holding inside. She felt their daughter returning to the house, lavender in hand. Turning her head to the left, facing the window, she moved her face into an expression Coda would recognised. As the girl passed the window, she met her mother's eyes, and turned back to play outside a little longer. Giving her parents some space.

Once he had stopped crying after only a few seconds, he was always very good at controlling himself and his emotions. He had to be as the avatar after all. She decided to give him an answer. The only answer she could think to give him that he might understand.

"I love you...that is the only reason I have for you." She flashed him a small smile. "It's not much, but it's all I have for you. The only way I can explain it. And that is enough for me. How about you."

"I love you to, more than you know. But I keep hurting you..." He was now looking at her again right in the eyes. She felt him looking right through her. No one else could ever do that.

"You have never deliberately hurt anyone in your life, and you never would. I know that. You have given me the two most important things in my life. Coda and my freedom...When you love someone you give them control of your heart, it's bound to get hurt a little bit... I trust you." She wasn't sure who had told her that, but it made sense. Whoever it was she was grateful she would never have been able to come up with something that mushy.

Her hands slowly sled from his back, to his neck as she pulled his head closer to her. As they kissed, Aang's hand moved from Toph's back to run through her hair. Both of them forgot that Coda could come running through the door at any minute. Aang took a step forward, knocking Toph into the table behind her, as the kiss deepen he lowered Toph on to the table.

After a few seconds he pulled away for a brief second. As he looked down at Toph,her eyes were closed for a second. An image flashed across his mind. Toph lying in their bed sleeping, with a peaceful look on her face. Aang slowly pulled further apart. In response Toph moved to sit up on the table. "You have something on your mind." There was no anger in her voice, which surprised Aang a little.

"Yeah." He couldn't bring himself to look at her.

She was silent for a few minutes, as she bit her lip, and came to a decision "You need to sort things out. Why don't you just take off on your glider and travel for a few days. You will be back here in sixteen days anyway." He gave her a confused look. "Coda keeps count." She jumped off the table, and kissed him on the check "You better go before she gets back. The longer your here that harder it is when you have to leave."

Placing his right hand on the back of her head, Aang pulled Toph in for one last kiss "When I do come back, can we forget that I ever came this time." For an answer she just nodded.

Once he left Toph fell back against the table holding onto it to keep her standing. She had never known him to act like this, it was like he wasn't really there. All she could do was hope that he would have sorted himself out before he came back. It wasn't just Coda it was hard on, when Aang left. Toph missed him too, more than she ever thought it was possible to miss someone. She just put up with it, because she saw it as her fate. She couldn't not be with him, and no one should get to be as happy as she was when he was there, all of the time, so it had to balance out.

Aang didn't realise he was running till he came to the trees. He slumped down under one, and closed his eyes. The only thing on his mind was Toph, his Toph. He saw her the way she was when they first met, her earthbending on the day of black sun, dresses up like a doll for some formal occasion. How beautiful she looked the day they got married again, on the platform where the air kisses the earth. All he wanted to do was get back to her, hold her in his arms, let her know that whatever the future held, they would face it together.


I hope that you like it. There are only two chapters left in this part of the story. I haven't looked over them in while. So I may add them together I don't know. Either way there is not much left and I should be done by the end of the week.