Well, it's the last day of Tokka Week y'all, its been fun. This one is a little rough, I hope I get everything across.
(posting three things tonight because I forgot to post here last night.)
Enjoy
Tokka Week - Day 7 - Reality
Sokka was afraid Toph would be upset. His past had come back and it came back with a vengeance. After the council meeting a young woman was waiting for him near his office, a young woman who looked eerily like his mother, a young woman who said she was his daughter. When he told Toph and his friends what had happened she didn't get upset or lecture him on the way he'd lived his life during his twenties, she just told him it would all be okay, and if this really was his daughter she would welcome her into their life.
That night she just wrapped her arms around him and held him tight. She knew that his mind was a jumble with what ifs, confusion and emotion. Her capacity to love and understand him never failed to amaze him. She was always exactly what he needed. The next morning would be hard and he was grateful that she would be there with him.
Toph sat, leaning against Sokka's desk, listening. Today she wasn't his mate, his partner, or even his lover. Today she was a friend with a special talent that he needed her to use to help him. He needed her to tell him rather or not these women were telling the truth.
The younger woman, Kimi, was twenty years old. She had come to Sokka the day before and told him that he was her father. The older woman, her mother Shima, had come with Kimi to Sokka's office so that he could question them both. Sokka admitted that he had been with this woman over twenty years earlier and she had left suddenly, so it was all possible, he just needed to know that it was true.
Toph felt the woman looking at her. She knew that Shima could tell that she and Sokka were much more than just friends, but that was none of this woman's business. Toph listened as Sokka questioned the women and they answered. This girl was his child, a child who had been conceived during a time when Toph was secretly in love with him, but Sokka was so busy being a Casanova that she didn't want to be bothered with him. She'd known about his lifestyle back then, but it had been so long ago that she never thought it would come back.
But here she was, this young woman who'd grown up without her father, but wanted nothing more than to know him. And here he was, raising a child who wasn't his, never knowing that a child of his was out there in the world. She knew him well enough to know that if he had known about Kimi nothing would of kept him from her. So she would make room in their little family for his daughter, just as he had made room for hers.