Don't you just love this drabble? Toph looks cute when she blushes and I'm pretty sure she is not used to real compliments, and coming like this surely can make you blush like crazy, just see why I say this.
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36: Goddess
Zuko coughed, it was something he have been doing lately for about a day, and they were getting worried about the fire prince condition; he had been okay two days ago, but then suddenly he just passed out while they were flying on Appa; only the reflex of Sokka saved him of falling to certain death; they just never though that Sokka would save his so called enemy, but even the water tribe warrior had changed his view of Zuko, specially when they rescued Aang from Zuko's sister.
That fight ended when Toph was nailed with a powerful attack of Azula and then she felt from the ship into the cold water, Aang and Katara were still fighting Azula so it was Zuko who jumped for her, but he was too tired and his system was not a hundred percent, that's why his fever returned full power.
Toph felt unusually guilty and responsible of Zuko's illness, something she wasn't quite used to, and it made her feel uncomfortable while Katara placed a damp cloth over Zuko's forehead; she made a nice hut for them to rest, and also for Zuko who was delirious now and mumbled incoherently from time to time.
Right now Aang, Katara and Toph were the only ones in the hut while Sokka and Iroh went to the closest town in search of medicine for him; Katara's healing abilities weren't useful with natural sickness, specially the ones of firebenders.
"Is he alright?" Aang said, after all it was Zuko the one who risked his life to rescue him, not once, but twice now.
"He still has a really strong fever, combined with his abilities as a firebender… well, another person would be dead by now, he is fighting against it, but I don't know how much he will resist like this, I just hope they can find medicine for him" that only made Toph feel even more guilty, and she didn't want to feel like that, she wanted to blame Zuko, but knew that it was going to lead nowhere; she simply shrugged her shoulders while getting closer to the sick firebender and tried to make his ground 'bed' softer, at least that way he would rest more; in that moment Zuko opened his eyes and looked at the black haired earthbender at his side and furrowed his eyebrows.
"Am I dead?" he asked, his voice was so weak that they had a hard time hearing it.
"No, you're not, but you'll be if you don't rest, now go back to sleep" said Toph trying to represent her rock hard side, but even Aang could see she was worried about Zuko.
"Then why am I seeing a goddess?" Zuko said closing his eyes and went back to sleep never noticing the red faces of the benders in the hut, specially the two looks of shock that Toph felt that were focused on her which made her blush even more.
Two days later Zuko recovered and could walk around freely, but he didn't understand why Toph blushed when he told her good morning that day, and neither Aang nor Katara would tell him why, even though they were ready to laugh at some kind of memory.