Sokka ran down the steps that lead into the temple. He had found them, they were so close! "Katara! Toph!" he yelled after he had entered the temple trying to find where they had gone.

"Sokka?" Katara asked unbelievingly, walking out of one of the many rooms.

"Sokka!" Toph screamed running at him. Sokka hugged both of the girls as soon as they were in arms reach. "What are you doing here? How did you escape?" she yelled excitedly.

Sokka's turned a bright red as he tried to think of a way to explain. Toph was already out of his arms and running to the stairway that Zuko was still hiding on. "Hey Hot-head get your ass down here! We want to talk to you!" she yelled slamming her fist into the wall and making the stairway almost collapse.

Zuko fell from the trembling stairs landing right in front of the two girls and Sokka. "He helped you escape?" Katara asked with disgust glaring down at Zuko.

"Yeah, but Katara," Sokka said making her look back at him, "what happened to Aang? Did h-he...is he..." Sokka couldn't finish his questions, the words just not coming to his mouth.

"He's fine, no thanks to him," Katara growled at Zuko. "Right now I think he is exploring the temple with Teo and Haru." Sokka smiled, Aang was alright and alive. He hadn't died because Zuko betrayed them in the cave.

"What is he doing here?" Sokka looked up to see the people that they had just been talking about walking down the stairs, Aang did not look happy.

"Good news twinkle toes, we solved the problem of you needing a firebending teacher!" Toph laughed.

"I am not learning from him!" Aang growled, "How do we know we can even trust him?"

"We can't!" Katara growled glaring at him. Zuko did not like the way this conversation was going. He looked to Sokka for help but Sokka wouldn't meet his eyes. Zuko frowned, had Sokka known this would happen? Was that why he was so desperate to be with his friends again? "Just get out of here!" Katara growled throwing him back with a water whip.

Zuko looked at Sokka one more time before turned and walked away, he could have lied to Sokka and kept him all to himself but he had decided against that. Now he would have to deal with the consequences whatever they might be.

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Sokka's head was buried in his pillow as he cried. This was not what he wanted, but was it right? Sokka was so confused and there was no one that he could go to for answers! He screamed as he smashed his fist into the bed.

"Wow, the mood swings already started?" Toph asked sitting down on the floor across from the bed. Sokka tried to wipe away the tears to hide that he had been crying then remembered Toph couldn't see them.

"I don't know what you're talking about," he growled.

"Oh yes you do, I can tell you're lying and I can feel its heartbeat." Sokka froze, so she really did know! This was one of the times that he wished she was just a normal blind girl. He hadn't been ready for anybody to know yet. "Does Zuko know?" she asked quietly.

Sokka shook his head, "No, I didn't know if I could trust him," he sighed quietly. Toph nodded sympathetically. She wanted to say that Zuko was a jerk and that Sokka could do better but even though she was blind she could still tell how much the two loved each other.

"Maybe you should talk to him," she suggested quietly.

"And tell him what? I'm pregnant? Again! That I want him to come back even though none of us can trust him?" Sokka knew that even if he did say those things Zuko would come back happily. Or at least the Zuko he thought he knew would be like that.

"If thats what it takes, then yeah," Toph said, her nice side slowly fading and her stubborn side starting to come out. Sokka knew there was no way he was going to win this argument against Toph but he wasn't about to give up.

"Toph..."

"Sokka, get up and go talk to him!" she growled shoving him. "This isn't like with Jet and he has the right to know that he is going to have a kid!"

"Shut up!" Toph stared at him not believing what she had just heard. "Don't tell me what I am supposed to do or what Zuko deserves! Leave me the hell alone!" Sokka stormed out of the room, he couldn't talk about this anymore. He would sleep by the fire tonight.

Toph sighed as she felt the footsteps fall away. This was not how she thought the conversation would end but Sokka was acting different then usual. She couldn't tell if that was a part of the pregnancy or if Sokka really had changed when he was gone for so long. She stood up and walked out of the room, there was only one person that could answer that question for her.

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Toph could feel that Zuko was nearby as she walked over the top of the temple. It was strange, Sokka and the others had told him to get lost and yet he had stayed so near. Was it because he hoped Sokka would change his mind? Or maybe it was something as simple as he had nowhere else to go?

"Hey Zuko!" she called as she finally found the break in the trees that he was staying in.

"Toph?" he asked standing up, "Is that you? What are you doing here?"

"I came to talk to you idiot," she laughed. She sat down at the fire that Zuko had created, across from him. "I want you to come back."

"Nobody wants me there, there is no way they will trust me after what I did!" Zuko argued.

Toph glared at him until he fell silent. "They will have to get over that because Aang needs a teacher and Sokka..." she caught herself before she said anything more.

"Sokka? Does he miss me? Did something happen?" Zuko asked his heart pounding with the idea that he actually still had a chance with Sokka.

"Never mind, just come back! she growled standing up. "If you aren't back in the temple by morning I will be forced to come back here and drag your ass all the way down there."

Zuko watched as Toph walked away, a look of knowing on her face. He sat back and stared at the fire. Did Sokka need him? Had something happened? He fall back onto the ground, everything was becoming more and more confusing. To make things worse time was running out before the comet came and everything would be decided.

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Zuko slowly made his way into the temple. Hopefully Katara didn't wash him off the side of the mountain, she seemed like the most dangerous out of the group right now. He stopped when he saw them, he had never been more scared in his life. He took a deep breath before he continued into the temple.

"What are you doing here?" Katara growled when she saw him.

"I just..."

"Get out of here!" Aang growled. This was going worse then the first time he had tried.

"Please just let me explain!"

Aang and Katara both just glared at him, Zuko didn't see any of it. Sokka had just walked into his view and he looked like hell. Zuko wanted to run to him and help him with whatever was making him so sick. He almost felt like crying, had staying with him done that to him? Maybe it would be better to just get out of here.

"Start talking Zuko before I throw you off the mountain!" Katara growled dangerously.

"Aang needs a firebending teacher, there is no one that you know of other then me! There is no time, your choices are limited!"

Aang's eyes were hard, nothing Zuko had said meant anything to him. "I think we should let him stay." Everybody turned to Sokka, wondering if they had heard correctly. "Aang needs a teacher and Zuko is the best choice," he whispered again.

Zuko smiled, that had to mean that Sokka forgave him or at least was willing to trust him again. "Thank..."

"If you betray us in anyway or try to hurt Aang I will kill you," he growled before turning on his heel and walking away. That was not what Zuko had wanted to hear but he really shouldn't have expected anything else.

Katara and Aang glared at him before walking away too. Zuko sighed as he fell against one of the walls, this was scarier then when he had seen his father. "That went well," Toph smiled leaning against the wall next to him.

"Sokka hates me, he just threatened to kill me!" he growled.

"Yeah, but he was the one who wanted you to stay. Since your here, maybe you could talk to him," she shrugged before walking away.

Zuko sighed as he slowly stood up straight and started walking in the direction he had seen Sokka gone. Hopefully Sokka would want to talk to him and not slam the door in his face.

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