Sokka couldn't stop shaking after he had locked the door behind Jet. He slowly trudged back to his room, he had no idea how he was going to explain this to Katara in the morning but right now he didn't care.

He finally laid down in his bed and closed his eyes.

Sokka was held closely to Zuko's chest as the two of them lay in a bed. He sighed in contentment and moved to get closer. "I told you, you are mine," hissed a cold voice.

Sokka's head shot up and instead of Zuko looking down at him it was Jet's cold eyes glaring at him. Sokka tried to get away from him but Jet's arm just held him tighter until he couldn't move at all. "You lied to me Sokka. You should have told me I have a son!"

"He's not yours! Stay away from him!" Sokka screamed not being able to do anything else.

"He is mine and I will take him!"

"NO!"

Sokka flew up gasping as he realized that it had just been a nightmare. He hadn't had one since he found Zuko, he wasn't used to them anymore. This nightmare had just surprised him, yeah that was why it scared him so much.

He quickly jumped up and ran to where Tao was sleeping just to make sure that he was still sleeping safely. He sat down next to Tao's small bed and just watched his son as he slept peacefully.

"Sokka what are you doing?" asked Toph noticing that he was still awake.

"Just having a bad night," he sighed.

"Want to tell me about it?" she asked sitting down next to him.

"No."

"I can tell you're lying."

Sokka looked up at the blind earthbender, she already knew more about him then his own sister did. Maybe he could trust her with the rest of his dark secrets too. "I just had a nightmare..."

"What could be so frightening that a warrior like you can't sleep?" she asked punching him in the arm slightly.

"Jet"

"What?" Now Toph was really curious to what he was talking about, or hiding.

"He's Tao's other father. He just found out and my nightmares of him doing something to Tao have just gotten that much more real and I don't know what to do."

"How can Katara still like him, trust him even?"

"She doesn't know," Sokka admitted quietly. Toph's jaw dropped as she stared at him. "I couldn't...I'm already useless not being able to bend and all but to admit how weak I really am was just too hard."

Toph nodded understandingly but didn't know what to say. Sokka didn't like the awkward silence that fell between them after that. "We should get some sleep, tomorrow is going to be a long day looking for Appa," he smiled standing up.

Toph followed his example and walked back to the room that she was forced to share with Katara. Sokka sighed as he stood up and went back to his own bed.

The rest of the night all he could do was toss and turn. Every time he closed his eyes he felt as if somebody was waiting to attack him. Jet knew where he was now and he wasn't about to just let him go unscathed.

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When Sokka finally woke up the next morning his eyes were bloodshot and he felt like hell. He sighed in annoyance as he slowly stood up and went to the washroom to get ready for this hellish day.

When he walked out of the washroom he was surprised to hear Katara talking about Jet. "I don't know where he went, he just left!" she sighed sadly.

"Maybe he decided to go on another man-hunt or something," he growled sitting down at the table to eat breakfast.

"I didn't like him," Toph responded her face dark.

"You barely got to meet him. When did you get time to judge him?" Katara asked glaring at Toph.

"It comes with the whole blind thing, I end up seeing people more clearly," she shrugged. Katara wouldn't stop glaring at her but Toph didn't notice as she continued with her breakfast.

"Hey I got some more posters with Appa on them we can hang them up around town," Aang yelled running into the room. "We can split up and go through the lower rings too, just in case."

"Sokka and I can take the third ring!" Toph yelled happily. Aang and Katara looked at the two of them quizzically. Sokka just shrugged as he stood up and followed Toph out of the house.

"What was that about?" Sokka asked when they were passing through the second ring.

"I thought if we ran into Zuko you can at least talk to him or something, with Katara or Aang you might have to fight him or worse," she shrugged acting as if all of this was completely normal.

"Oh, thanks." He was surprised at how helpful and understanding the blind earthbender could be.

"Besides if I ran into any of those Dai Lee goons Katara or Aang wouldn't let me bash their heads in," she whined. Sokka laughed as she walked ahead of him.

They finally arrived in the third ring and started putting up the posters that Aang had had printed. Long Feng had already told them that they shouldn't be hanging posters and a whole lot of other things but all of them had ignored him. They no longer cared what the rules were.

"You still haven't found Appa?" asked a familiar voice.

Sokka looked up surprised to see Zuko watching them sympathetically. "Hey I have to do something, over there," Toph laughed as she ran away from the two.

Sokka's cheeks instantly turned red as he heard Toph laughing as she walked away. "So she knows?" asked Zuko watching her.

"Yeah, but she promised not to tell Katara," he laughed nervously.

"What's wrong?" asked Zuko cupping his cheek. Sokka looked at him quizzically, "Since you came into the third ring you've been looking around like somebody is about to jump out and attack you, even when I just said hello you got into a defensive stance," he pointed out.

Sokka bit his lip not knowing what to say, Zuko already knew about him and Jet. "Jet came to the house where we are staying, he knows about Tao. I've just been on edge lately," he admitted.

"Is that bastard threatening you?" Zuko growled. He knew Jet was insane and that was fine as long as the only one he harassed was Zuko but as soon as he went after Sokka he had gone too far.

"Not since I kicked him out," Sokka admitted quietly.

"What happened?"

"We got into a fight and after I smashed a vase over his head I told him that if he ever came back I would kill him." Zuko just stared at Sokka, he knew that the other teenager was a warrior of the watertribe but he had never heard Sokka threaten death to anyone, even him when they were enemies.

"Hopefully he gets the message," Zuko sighed praying that Jet really would leave Sokka and Tao alone.

"We both know he's not done," Sokka sighed leaning against the wall that was behind him. "He won't stop until he gets what he wants or is dead."

"Well he isn't going to get what he wants so I guess that leaves only one option," Zuko promised before kissing Sokka.

"I'm so sick of that bastard thinking that I'm his!" Sokka sighed annoyed.

"Then let's show him your not" Zuko grinned grabbing Sokka's hand and pulling him roughly into a kiss. Sokka was surprised by Zuko's actions and opened his mouth to say something but before he could Zuko's tongue filled the space.

Sokka couldn't remember the last time they had kissed this passionately and wasn't about to stop it. He wrapped his arms around Zuko's neck pulling their bodies closer as the kissing got even hotter.

Zuko loved the taste of Sokka's mouth as his tongue went over every crevice and tasted every inch. Finally the two of them had to pull apart to breathe. Sokka looked up at Zuko surprised, red highlighting his face. Zuko smiled at how cute Sokka looked when he was acting shy. "That should send him the message," Zuko whispered into Sokka's ear.

Sokka was about to say something sarcastic but he saw Toph walking up. If he said anything now she would have questions and there were certain things that he did not want to tell her.

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Jet watched as Sokka kissed that bastard of a firebender. At first he had just been confused, Sokka's mother had died at the hand of a firebender and now he was making out with one. But soon his confusion had just turned to anger. He had warned that whore and now he had to pay!

Jet ran from the building he was standing on as he saw the blind girl approach. He didn't know how but she saw everything and he didn't want Sokka or that bastard of a firebender to have any kind of warning for what he was about to do.

Just as he was about to disappear Jet heard Zuko whisper "That should send him the message." His hands curled into fists, if that firebender wanted to send him a message then Jet should return the favor.