A/N: Thank you guys so so much for the reviews! I got so many for the last chapter I was shocked! But again, it always makes me happy to read them, and that's what keeps me writing!^.^ So, here's the next chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar, just Serenity.

A couple days passed, and everything had gone on as it normally did. Sokka, Aang, and Toph continued going into the town we were near, and returning with a bunch of new stuff. Apparently Toph was still using her earthbending to cheat at games, which I guess Katara had told them to stop doing. I hadn't really paid attention when they were talking about it. I had something a little more important to worry about.

Like the little living thing that was growing inside me. I had doubts at first, trying to come up with every other solution to explain my hunger, mood swings-and now fatigue was added to the whole thing-without involving a baby, but ended up coming up with nothing. So now there was little doubt in my mind about what was wrong with me.

Katara hadn't said anything to the others about our talk, and I was very grateful for that. I wasn't so much worried about Aang and Toph's reactions as I was Sokka's. I knew how much he hated Zuko, and his hatred only grew after he found out how badly the firebender hurt me. But if Sokka found out that I was carrying his enemy's child, I'm pretty sure he'd have a heart attack.

So for now, this was me and my sister's little secret, and I was going to keep it that way. At least until I got my thoughts straightened out. There was so much going on in my head, and with this added to it, I wasn't sure how I didn't go crazy.

"Guys, I think these scams have gone far enough." Katara said, walking over to us. I looked up at her from my spot between Toph and Sokka, each of them with a bag of money in front of them. "If you keep doing them something bad is gonna happen."

"Would you for once stop being such a sour puss and just lighten up?" Toph said, tossing a coin at my sister who caught it.

"Oh I'm sorry. You think I should be more like you? Like some wild child?" Katara asked, dropping the coin to the ground.

"Yeah! Maybe. Maybe then you'd see how great we have it!" Toph said smiling. "I mean look at us! We're traveling around the world, making easy money, having fun, with no parents to tell us what to do."

"Ah…I see." Katara said. "You're acting like this because of your parents."

Toph gave her a bored look. "Whatever."

"They were controlling over you, so you ran away, and now you act like your parents don't exist. You act like you hate them but you don't. You just feel guilty."

"I do hate them." Toph said glaring.

"I don't think so." Katara said. "I think you miss them, but you just don't wanna deal with that. So instead you act like this crazy person."

Toph stood up, glaring at Katara. "Look. I ran away to help Aang."

"You know what? It doesn't matter." My sister said, and I could tell she was getting angry. "These scams put us all at risk and we don't need that! We've already got some third-eyed freak after us!"

"Speaking of that third-eyed freak." Sokka said, and I looked over at him. "I think I've come up with a name for him. What do you think of…'Sparky Sparky Boom Man'?"

I gave my brother an annoyed look as the others ignored him. "Really Sokka?"

"Just think about it." He grinned and I sighed.

"We have enough money! You need to stop this!" Katara yelled, bringing my attention back to the other two girls.

"I'll stop when I wanna stop and not when you tell me!" Toph yelled back, using earthbending to kick a bag of money up. She grabbed it, and walked off a little ways, before sitting down, and creating a tent of earth around her.

"Speaking of money!" Sokka said, and we all looked at him as he stood up, carrying his sword and a bag of money. "I'm off to spend some. See you guys later!"

I thought for a second, before standing up. "I'll go with you."

The others turned to me, as Sokka stopped and looked at me confused. "Really?"

"Yeah." I said smiling and walking towards him.

"Serenity wait!" Katara said and I looked at her, as she added quietly "Don't you think you should take it easy?"

I stared at her, knowing what she meant. I was glad she didn't elaborate on her question though. "I'll be fine Katara." I said quietly. "Besides, I need to walk around a little." I walked over to Sokka and grabbed his hand. "See you guys later!" I said waving to the other two, before dragging my brother off.

When we got to the town, I couldn't help but feel kind of happy for once. It had been a while since Sokka and I had done anything together, just the two of us, and it was nice to get my mind off things for a bit.

"So….why'd you decide to come with me?" Sokka asked, as we walked down the street.

I shrugged continuing to look around. "I had nothing better to do." I laughed seeing his annoyed expression, before linking my arm with his. "Oh come on Sokka you know I'm just joking! I can't just wanna spend some time with my brother?"

He tried to keep the annoyed look on his face, but failed as a small smile appeared. "I guess so. Its just weird for you to actually want to do something without all of us doing it. You've been kind of down since we ran into you at the village."

"What are you talking about? I'm as happy as can be!" I said smiling, though he saw right through it.

"Serenity…." I hated how he could always tell how I was feeling.

I looked away and let go of his arm. "I'm trying….to get over it. And its working. Slowly, but its working. I guess its just a lot harder to forget everything than I thought it'd be. I figured…if I try to do stuff, it'll keep my mind off of other things."

We walked in silence for a few minutes, until Sokka finally spoke. "Well you know, if you ever need to talk about anything, I'm here for you."

I looked up at him, and saw him smiling at me, and I knew he was right. Sokka had always been there for me, no matter what I needed. And it was the same the other way around. I had always been there for him when he needed me too. We'd do anything for each other, and for Katara.

"Thanks Sokka." I said smiled.

"That's what brothers are for!" he grinned. "Now, lets go do something that will cheer you up! Shopping!"

"That's something that cheers you up." I sighed, but I smiled and let him take my hand, pulling me around town.

We ended up going into a messenger hawk shop, because apparently Sokka wanted to buy one. Why, I didn't know, and I didn't really want to know.

"Hawky, welcome to Team Avatar." He said to the bird perched on his arm, as we left the shop.

"You couldn't think of something a little better than 'Hawky'?" I asked, as I stared at the bird.

"Hey! I like that name! Its original!" my bother said and I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah. Very."

He looked back at the bird smiling. "My name's Sokka, and I'm your new owner. And as such I should warn you there's already a lemur in our group so I don't wanna see any fighting." I watched as the hawk screeched and Sokka pet its stomach. "Good messenger hawky, who's got funny feathers?"

I was about to follow Sokka, who had started walking off again, when I happened to glance at the wall we were near, noticing a poster hanging on it. My eyes widened, as I grabbed my brother and yanked him back.

"Uh Sokka? I think we have a problem…" I said, as we stared at the picture of Toph-the poorly drawn picture at that.

Sokka gasped and ripped it off the wall, as the hawk screeched again. "You're right Hawky, this is bad."

I glared at my brother-who looked at the bird annoyed when it pooped-before looking down at the poster again. Yeah, we had a serious problem.

We walked back to camp immediately, deciding we needed to tell the others about this as soon as possible. If Toph was wanted, then we couldn't stay here any longer. We had to get moving.

We walked up to see Toph sitting on a rock, counting out money. I didn't see Katara or Aang anywhere, but I figured they were okay.

"Toph, when we were in town, we found something that you're not gonna like." Sokka said, pulling the poster from his belt and showing it to her.

I sighed shaking my head, giving my brother an annoyed look. Did he really just try to show a blind girl a piece of paper?

"Well it sounds like a sheet of paper." Toph said. "I guess you're referring to what's on the sheet of paper."

"It's a wanted poster! Of you!" Sokka said, as Hawky screeched.

"They've nicknamed you 'The Runaway'." I said.

Suddenly Toph grinned. "A wanted poster! That's so great! 'The Runaway'….I love my new nickname! Is there a picture of me? Does it look good?"

Sokka glanced between the picture and Toph a couple times, before speaking. "Well yeah actually it does look pretty good." I glared at him and stepped on his foot. "Ow!" he glared back at me.

"Toph you're missing the point!" I sighed. "Maybe Katara was right. You're scams are drawing too much attention to us. Maybe you should just stop."

"Don't be such worry-warts like your sister." She said standing up. "Think of it this way: Now you have plenty of money to help with the invasion plan."

I watched as she seemed to convince Sokka by dangling a bag of money in his face. "You can't be actually buying that Sokka!"

"Well that is true." He said ignoring me, with his hand on his chin. "I had this idea of making armor for Appa."

I glanced at the bison, before looking back at my brother and Toph, as she handed him some money. "Here's a little extra so you can get yourself a nice map of the Fire Nation. You know what, make it an atlas." She added, handing him the whole bag.

"I do like expensive atlas'" Sokka said taking it, and I sighed.

"Of course you do." Toph said smirking, and taking the poster from his hand. "And that's why this wanted poster is going to stay our little secret."

We watched as she waved at us, before walking away. Toph was one interesting girl, I'd give her that much.

"Sokka, tell me you didn't buy a bird?" Katara asked, and I looked over to see her and Aang standing there, staring at the hawk on Sokka's shoulder. I had to say, these messenger hawks were trained really well. It hadn't moved or tried to fly away since Sokka bought it.

"Not just a bird!" Sokka said smiling. "A messenger bird! We can send messages all over the world! Even to Gran Gran!"

"Wow! How does it work?" Aang asked excitedly.

"Hmm….uh…" Sokka said thoughtfully. "I never actually thought about that." I sighed as he smiled at the bird. "Hawky, Gran Gran, South Pole!" We all watched as the hawk shook its head from side to side. "I think he gets it!"

I smiled and rolled my eyes, as Momo suddenly jumped onto Aang's shoulder, making angry noises at the hawk, before jumping at it, as the two began circling and fighting on Sokka.

"Hawky! Make nice! Bad Hawky!" Sokka yelled as the two continued to fight.

I sighed before holding my arm out. "Momo, here."

To the others shock, Momo stopped fighting with Hawky and jumped over, climbing up my arm and resting on my shoulders. I smiled and pet his head.

"How did you do that?" Sokka asked wide eyed, as the hawk glared at Momo.

I shrugged. "I've always been good with animals. You should know that." I looked at Momo as the other continued to stare at me. "Come on Momo. Lets go get you some apples okay?"

The lemur made some happy chirping noises, as I waved to the others, and walked off, to find some food for Momo, and for myself, since I was suddenly very hungry.

A/N: Well that's it for today! I hope it was long enough for you, I made it a little longer than the last couple to help make up for the shortness of Chapter 12. So anyway, I'm getting really excited, the closer we get to the Day of Black Sun, cuz after that...ZUKO'S BACK! =D And I'm really looking forward to writing Serenity's reaction to seeing him again, and all that drama. Its going to be fun. =) Anywho, please review and let me know what you think and I'll try to get the next one out soon!