My first attempt at writing for the Avatar fandom. I'm more fond of Aang x Katara than anything with Sokka, but hey, this works too.
Sometimes, Toph lies awake at night, listening.
The night is usually quiet, unless the gang is sleeping in the hotel room of a city, which doesn't happen very often. So when Toph lies awake in the middle of the night, there's usually nothing to hear.
But sometimes, as Toph lets the silence fall around her ears and waits for sleep to come, she can hear a single sound.
It is the sound of a young man, whispering a name, in a soft voice strangled with love and longing and pain and sorrow, all together.
The name is indistinct and hard to hear. But Toph always did have good hearing.
"…Yue…"
Toph listens to Sokka as he whispers the name of a lost love, filled with distress, and feels sad herself, but not for the same reason.
Anyone who complains about the length will be eaten by Appa.
RRE.