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Author's notes: Further we go with Toph and Suki :P I like this pairing, it's kinda rare to see. Drop a review if you like also.
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"Tumbling Boulder: the Toph Files"
Chapter five "Traveling plans"
Toph panted, smiling around Suki's shoulder. Her teeth were embedded around her bare shoulder, biting hard as she came. Suki whined and arched beneath her, lifting her hips to try and take her even deeper but they were as joined as they could be. Toph had slipped her knot this time, tying the both of them together and they weren't going anywhere anytime soon. Toph trembled as she rested on one knee, the sheets damp and sticky beneath them. Her strong hand curled around Suki's belly, holding her up against her as they trembled through their shared aftershocks.
"Well," Toph panted against her. She lapped at the bite mark she'd left. Not a true mating mark but still….. her blood surged hot again as those thoughts kept her erect. Suki gasped as she rolled her hips against her upturned rear. "Are you satisfied this time?"
"Are….you?" Suki whined. She aimed a glance over her shoulder. Toph blinked milky white eyes in her general direction but she gave her a tired grin all the same. Suki clutched around her alpha's cock, savoring the stretch as they were tied. She was thinking of Toph as more her alpha, but wordlessly, Toph had not marked her with a mating bite. She knew she'd need to say something about that….one day. She had no idea how Toph felt about all this aside from the fun they had physically.
Toph herself had been surprised that Suki had timed her current visit with her heat. Or her heat had been pushed along by her presence. Toph wasn't going to complain. She eased them onto their sides and Toph kept her strong arm around Suki's middle, trailing her fingers up and down her belly and between her breasts. Suki giggled, and the soft gasps she gave as their slowly rolling hips gave more soft aftershocks made Toph's heart swell.
Suki sighed when Toph finally slipped from her, their tie deflated at last. She rolled on her back and hugged onto her alpha with her arms and legs. Toph grinned and settled against her. The way she traced stray hairs from Suki's face with one fingertip touched Suki. She was glad that Toph couldn't see the look on her face then.
"Hmmm….want some more brandy?" Toph asked. Suki kissed her shoulder.
"Sounds like you want more," she said. Toph nodded. She pushed sweaty bangs out of her eyes and yawned.
"Be right back," she said. And Suki had to let her go. Toph staggered off the bed and almost collapsed. Suki giggled. She wasn't the only one who couldn't feel her legs quite properly yet.
Toph made her way to the private garden of her apartment and Suki heard small jolts of earth as Toph bent the ground back where she stored her bottles of liquor in a cool deep hole. She stumbled back in. Toph had taken to cutting her hair short, although her bangs would always be a tangled mess. Suki found she liked the look.
Toph collapsed on the edge of the bed and offered the bottle to her bedmate. Suki sat up and accepted, taking a draw from the bottle. She set the bottle on the bedside table when she noticed Toph's even breathing. Suki ran a hand along the alpha's strong shoulder and covered her with a corner of the sheets that wasn't wet. She giggled when Toph got hold of her in her sleep, pinning her at her side. Instead of being too much, it was just right. Suki leaned in and kissed Toph's eyelids, watching her face twitch in her sleep. Toph kicked her dirt-covered feet and Suki noted the chief of police always had a bit of unkemptness to her, whether it was her feet or her rumpled hair. She was a mess.
But Suki would take the mess.
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Suki kept her gaze on the far wall, her thoughts very far away.
Zuko recognized that look more and more. Each time Suki came back from visiting the budding Republic City as his proxy of sorts, she was distant and obviously thinking over good times. Zuko wished he could have returned her feelings, but past was past and if she'd found someone, he was glad for her. Zuko stopped, cloak flowing and leaned against the same railing alongside the Kyoshi warrior leader.
"Suki," he said gently. Suki blinked. She gave the Fire Lord a sheepish smile.
"Sorry, my lord. Is there something you wanted?"
"Not as the Fire lord," Zuko admonished lightly. He gave a light grin to his friend. "Or with you as my proxy. I take it you had a good trip. You always seem to come back a few steps happier."
Suki blushed. Memories of her heat-filled days and passion-filled nights sprang to her mind and she gave a nervous grin back.
"I did….I do."
"Is there anyone worth noting?" Zuko nudged. Suki was glad when he gently elbowed her in a friendly manner.
But still, Suki kept a clamp around her lover's identity. Nobody in their group knew. And while Toph hadn't named their relationship, she couldn't make assumptions. Not without the metalbender's chief consent. It was agonizing. But everytime she visited, when Suki showed up on her apartment door, Toph yanked her in and embraced her.
Later that day, Suki and a few chief of her Kyoshi Warriors were called in by Lord Zuko. There had been reports of skirmishs in the distant regions of the Erath Kingdom. Earth King Kuei's and Avatar Aang's letters had come within an hour of each other, asking for their friends to help form a team and travel to the far edge of the continent to bring the brigands to heel.
And somehow, Suki knew Toph would be chosen. She cleared her voice. Sine there were a few lords in attendance with this council, she showed deference for Zuko's rank.
"Fire Lord, it is apparent our combined teams need the best forces. I nominate myself. Ming will command the Kyoshi Warriors at your side in my absence."
Her warriors murmured behind her, but it was Zuko's face she focused on. The Fire Lord gave a small frown, but it was her friend's voice that answered.
"Are you sure, Suki? We can send more of your warriors with you. A few teams of my firebenders and imperial soldiers."
"Your firebenders and soldiers will be wanted," Suki nodded. "But just me for the Kyoshi warriors."
"Suki, we can help…" The whispers came behind her. The lords murmured together behind their hands. Zuko cleared his throat and waved a hand for silence of the small room.
"Captain Suki, I will send you with my men and women. Report to me of the battles to come and hopefully a peaceful end can be achieved for the Earth Kingdom's sake."
"Hear hear, my lord!" one of the younger lords rapped the table in agreement. His elder peers frowned at him.
But Suki got her wish. The next day, she left by lizard back with a retinue of firebenders and soldiers she didn't know very well.
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"Well, nice digs you got here."
Suki looked up from a map and flung it on the table. Toph was between the entrance flaps of her large tent, grinning at her. She was dressed in her metalbender breastplate and uniform, but her stride was flippant as she dashed the tent flaps closed with one hand and strode toward her.
"Toph!" Suki barely had time to say her name before the alpha was on her, lifting her by the hips and settling her on top of the table, surging across her for a proper kiss. As the alpha surged against her, hips roiling and pushing between her spreading thighs, a stray thought flitted through Suki's passion-fueled brain. Toph was quite younger. At the height of her game so to speak. She could have any pick of omegas or even betas, in Republic City, here, anywhere, really. And she wanted her, was pushing to get at her, trying to take off their clothing across a pile of Zuko's maps of the Earth Kingdom continent.
Toph grinned against Suki's throat as she struggled to find the clasps of her Kyoshi warrior's uniform. "Damn, these things are too heavy!"
Suki laughed. The kiss she pressed to Toph's mouth was affectionate. "Don't we have to greet your team?"
"Later." Toph's hands were impatient, tugging and tearing at the hidden clasps. When she stood upright, bare feet coiling into the tent floor, Suki noted the bulge between her thighs. She did nothing to hide it, certain of her reception. And Suki was ready to welcome her into her embrace, her thighs widening. She clasped the edge of the table with both hands. "Right now, you. And me. In you. Now."
Suki would have giggled at the alpha's one-track mind but then she was taken in a deep kiss that was so masterful she was left gasping, breasts heaving as she was stripped steadily.
"Please," she mumbled into the top of Toph's head. The metalbender chuckled against her breast. The sharp bite she left at the top of the globe of flesh made Suki arch.
"Anytime you want," Toph murmured. There was a flash of tenderness across her face but then lust grabbed hold of them again. Suki's lower belly roiled, wanting more of the alpha and inside her. She craved it and the weeks apart seemed distant now.
Toph relished the feel of Suki's bare flesh beneath her hands. Again, and again she mapped her curves with her palms. When Suki reached to unlace her and free her shift, she smiled and took what the Kyoshi Warrior was offering. If she didn't have Suki's heart, she at least had her body. And she would take her for both their sakes. When Toph entered her, Suki arched on top of the table, clutching at her hips with her thighs. Toph was surprised when gentle hands framed her jaw. She was pulled down for a deep kiss as their hips began moving.
"Take….this off!" Suki giggled. She groaned as her nipples hardened against her lover's breastplate. Toph snapped her fingers and the hinges of the breastplate opened and she shrugged it off, then her under shirt. When their bare flesh touched, both sighed together. Toph hitched Suki's leg higher around her waist and sped up her thrusts.
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"Chief Beifong."
Several of Zuko's soldiers bowed their heads in respect to her and Toph flashed a grin to no one. After leaving Suki's tent, anyone with a nose could sense what had happened between them, but they were among a team that had no intimate ties with the old Gaang. They were known only by reputation and none of them would tell or care if they were noted to be together. The atmosphere, despite the fighting that was bound to happen, was oddly freeing.
Toph tilted her head back smelling smoke across the distance. Suki stalked beside her and Toph had to refrain from biting off the beta's head that asked her for their current plan. What was wrong with her, Suki knew how to handle herself….
"This is a local gang who refuse to answer to the Earth King's forces. We're to try to…. Negotiate."
Toph nodded. She squeezed Suki's shoulder, offering her strength. "And if they toss it back like I know they will, we'll handle it."
A few of the imperial soldiers cheered and so did the five metalbenders she'd brought. Suki noted they were newer students, people that had never met her before. The more senior of her metalbenders that were on her police force had been left behind obviously.
"Sifu, should we…" one of her students crept closer and Toph actually growled. Suki smelled so good and smelled of both of them that her instincts urged her to defend her claim. As much as a claim she had without a mating mark. The sudden helplessness at the lack of a bite filled Toph with a fury that the young beta did not really deserve. Sort of. He WAS standing close to her lover.
"Well then," Suki said, gaining her attention. "Let's bring the first message to the gang."
Toph nodded, placated when Suki's hand ran down her bare forearm. She shuddered when Suki spread her soothing chi over hers. Without a mating mark, she was a riotous mess. Even after their first fuck after several weeks, she was still coiled tightly.
The negotiations did not go well. They had taken to shouting across half a field and when the leader outright cursed Suki, Toph stomped a foot and aimed a rock across the way and into the outlaw's mouth. A fracas began, and when Suki drew her sword to join in, Toph stayed doggedly at her side.
They were able to subdue and arrest some of the gang, but several had fallen back into the mountains. Toph growled to herself as the firebenders manacled the men and women by the wrist. She snapped a finger and secured the arms of another of the alphas whose stink made her growl.
It seemed everyone was looking at Suki, friend or foe. "Get up!" Toph snapped. She kicked the alpha until he got the word. He gave a sneer toward Suki. The irrational rage that filled Toph surprised her. But Suki gave her a soft look and she restrained herself. Somewhat.
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Toph pushed into Suki's tent and gave a low growl. The firebenders that were conferring with her lover immediately wrapped it up and left, bowing their heads politely as they went.
Suki opened her collar and leaned back against the map table, heavy robes flaring. "You've been very alpha this trip, Toph."
"I have every right to," Toph snapped. Their first brief battle was fast and quick. Only a few of the earthbenders were arrested and held hostage in one of the tents with some of the imperial soldiers. The rest had fled into caves in the mountains.
Toph's chi coiled out and ran up and down her body's energy signature, seeking out her body. Well, technically. Her jaw ached to hold Suki's throat between her teeth and leave her mark. She had dreamed about it before this trip. When she came closer, fingers skimming along her lover's shoulder, she found her collar opened. Toph's blood boiled. "Don't I? You're one to talk."
"I don't know what you're talking about…" Suki said, before Toph had taken her lips into another kiss. Her arms twined around Toph's neck and the alpha was lifting her against her solid body. The next time was on the tent floor, scattered among stray pillows from Suki's bedding. Toph buried her face into the fabric of the tent, her loud gasps erupting beside her partner's shoulder. Suki stroked the short hairs at the base of her neck softly.
"You've staked your claim. Can you work with the others now?" Suki teased. Toph lifted her head and growled. She was pleased when Suki gasped and waited beneath her. She gave a testing pump of her hips again.
"I'll stake my claim if…..when…you need….it…." Toph growled. There was nothing for it, Suki's scent was so good, she felt half drugged. Being inside her was even better. With each stroke of her cock, she could write her scent all over her. And Suki wanted it, clutching at her with trembling thighs, hands trailing up and down her back.
Dinner was delivered and Toph brought it in to her reclining omega. But after they ate and before anything else good could happen, Suki was ill. She had to rush out of the tent in her short under shirt, to wretch and get out the meal. Toph bounded after her, concerned. She didn't care about her nakedness as she crouched beside her partner, patting her back gently.
"You okay?" she asked. Suki nodded. She had felt slightly dizzy traveling here but had put it off to the excitement of the journey and knowing she would see her lover again. She wiped her mouth on the sleeve of her shirt.
"I just need to lie down…." She blushed noticing Toph's nakedness. A few of the soldiers gaped at them then turned away. She let Toph help support her weight back inside the tent. Suki flopped onto other bedding and curled up in a blanket. "I'm sorry, I wanted to do more…..I don't see you so often."
Toph smiled against her shoulder.
"It's fine…."
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Even after infiltrating the boss's cave in the mountains, Suki was not fine. The fighting went on two more weeks. Toph was overly concerned over Suki's health. She was hungry one moment, vomiting it up later in the day. She couldn't seem to regain her equilibrium. And Toph had taken to sitting out any fighting to take care of her. Her student metalbenders braved the battles with the imperial soldiers but even they came back complaining of more insurgents peeling out of caves to halt their progress.
Suki protested at first, but she was so pale and sick she could only accept her lover's help. Toph let her lean on her strength as she walked her back to their tent. Toph stopped her lover and picked her up in her arms, ducking into the tent. She laid her on their bedding. After feeling for a moment, Toph found the nearby bowl of water and wrung a cloth out in it. She settled the cool cloth over Suki's brow.
Her lover touched her arm, stroking her.
"I'm so sorry," she was saying again. Toph quieted her with a kiss to the brow. Suki blushed.
"It's not your fault you're sick. It's really not going away anytime soon, so we need to get you a healer. Don't worry, Sukes. I'm just glad to see you again." Tophi's voice was all gruff, but there was a concerned look on her features. Suki nodded, though Tophi couldn't see it.
"I think I need one….. I'm glad you're here," she whispered. Tophi leaned to pull the covers over her shivering lover.
"Me too," Toph agreed and Suki was filled with a flush of warmth. Toph was glad to be with her. Even though they hadn't lain together in over a week. She was right to come, Toph felt just right….
The reports from their companions later that day was at least better, taking the worst of their day of battling her sudden illness. A leader of the bandits had been captured and Toph pushed into the tent they held him in to help with the interrogation. After bending small rocks at his face to push him along, the metalbender left her students in charge with the soldiers and rushed to help her lover.
Suki was laying on her side, picking listlessly at a plate of dried meat and an apple. Toph knelt beside her and reached for the food by feel. Her hand closed over the apple and she took a crisp bite. Suki swallowed, trying to still her roiling belly.
"Can I get you anything? Whatever you'd like," Tophi said. Suki hugged her middle, laying on her side.
"If the soldiers are making soup….I'll take some of that," she guessed. Toph nodded.
"I'll make sure Zuko's fire boys start that. Don't go anywhere."
Suki had to smile at her lover's glib tone. But when she came back, Suki pushed herself to sit up, helping her lover off with her breastplate. Toph shrugged her outer armor off and settled back with her lover in her trousers and tunic. She crossed one bare foot over her knee as her lover pressed into her side.
"You're shaking like a leaf," Toph said in wonder. "Don't worry, I'll get us to the next village tomorrow. I'll carry you the whole way if I have to."
"I can ride, I'll try," Suki murmured. Tophi nodded. She found herself stroking her lover's shoulder-length hair absently. This was the longest visit they'd had since becoming lovers in the past few months. It was too bad Suki wasn't feeling so good now, but Toph was oddly calm with their situation.
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The old woman made a point of giving Suki a full body exam, asking her to undress. Tophi could feel her lover's chi roil in nervousness as she did so. She crossed her strong arms, huffing a lock of hair out of her face.
"You did well to come to me," the woman said. Her hands ran over Suki's breasts and belly. Suki a small gasp and Tophi took a step forward, one fist raised. "How long have you been unable to keep your meals down?"
"Over a week. I felt kind of strange for two now though," Suki guessed. The woman nodded. She gave a grin to the metalbender who could not see her mirth.
"I can prescribe a drought of carry-me root," the healer said. "But it will only help in the short run."
"Why's that?" Suki wondered. The woman's eyes sparkled.
"I should congratulate you and your young alpha. And you should mark each other for the child's sake."
Toph's spine stiffened at her words. She reached for Suki's hand and found it. "What do you mean child?!"
The woman laughed. "I've seen this so many times before. You're at least six weeks along, young mother. Don't eat anything overly spicy and try to get some rest, don't let your alpha tire you out."
Toph flushed but it was over the news than the tip not to overly stimulate her lover. "Child…. Wow."
Suki's stomach dropped to her feet. She had no idea this would happen, but she had chosen to share her heat with the metalbender. Toph hadn't protested all that much either and they had surrendered to their body's instincts. And now they were stuck with the responsibility of what to do with it. Tears filled Suki's eyes. She hadn't imagined this and Toph may not want a family….
But Toph surprised her by settling her free hand over her belly. It was still flat but roiling with her sickness that wasn't just a virus after all.
"What can I do for you both?" she asked. Suki gaped at her in surprise. A fierce smile spread Toph's lips.
End for now
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6/6/2019