Nature

A/N: I had no ideas for this prompt lolol. I ended up doing a futuristic bit. How bending is natural I guess? Idk but it's cute tho.

Summary: Toph knew it would be in her son's nature to bend, she just didn't expect it to happen so soon.

Toph felt the moment that her son's feet left the ground. (It was the same moment her heart dropped in fear.)

There was nobody nearby that had grabbed him, and actually the way his foot lifted it felt like-

"Airbending?" Toph whispered.

Then she panicked.

"Gyatso!"

Toph frantically ran to the place he had been standing at- did he go straight up? Or did he go at an angle, would she be able to catch him? She held her arms out helplessly. If he went straight up and straight down he should land in her arms...

"Gyatso, where are you?!" She yelled hopelessly. Why wasn't he making any sounds? She didn't know where he was.

"Aang, help me!" She screeched, hoping that her husband would hear. Probably hopeless, she couldn't even feel where he was at the moment. Probably in the house somewhere.

Her heart was racing, she had never been so scared before, not even when she was hanging from an airship with nothing to sense but Sokka's hand.

Babies were fragile little things. She had to catch him.

How horrid it would be if he got hurt just because she couldn't see-

Suddenly, she heard giggling right above her and felt the ends of her hair blow in a sudden gust of wind. She raise her arms up and jumped, hopelessly grasping at the air for her baby.

She snagged his foot and dragged him down. She released the breath she had been holding in pure relief. Gyatso laughed hysterically as he struggled against her grasp. She grunted as his other foot kicked her jaw. "Gyatso, you little gremlin, behave."

Toph wrestled with him as he wriggled around, trying to secure him enough that she wouldn't drop him on his face.

"Toph!"

Oh, there he was. Some savior of the world. Always late to the party.

She felt Aang's light foot steps run into the yard. "Did you see that?!"

Toph sighed as she finally righted the fidgeting almost-one-year-old. "No, Aang. I didn't."

"He just airbended! Our son just airbended!"

"I noticed. Thank you." She held Gyatso out to him. "It was terrifying, so I'm gonna go lay down."

Aang took him eagerly, holding him up in adoration. "My baby boy is an airbender!"

She felt Aang throw him into the air, and by the sound of his giggles, much too high for her liking. "Look at him, he's a natural!"

Would this airhead ever understand the whole blind thing? She shook her head in exasperation.

She was so not looking forward to this... a child that could jump from heights, that could hide from her sense, that could sneak up on her like his father so loved to do...

"This child is going to age me, Twinkles."