disclaimer: I don't own ATLA

Sorry it took so long to update. My life decided to go down crazy street and hectic vill, hard core.
Then me and my new editor where have problems with geting the chapter back and forth. But I think we have a stratagey now. And also for not totally bit my head off, I gave you two chapters instead of one.

enjoy. :

Toph's memory

We seemed to run for hours. The rising sun warmed my skin as I listened to the sound Sokka's beating heart. The sound of waves came into ear shot as we rushed to the docks. Unknown voices yelled at Sokka for taking to long and they teased saying that they just about to leave him behind. He rushed across an unstable surface, which I assumed was the bridge to the ship, but that the sudden shift made me panic and wrap my arms around Sokka's chest for dear life. He slowed down, forgetting that this was new to me and he walked across more slowly, easing my nerves. He placed me down on the deck and my body longed for him to hold me again. But I shrugged if off feeling as if I was being too 'girly' and tired to stand. But it proved difficult for the ship move with the waves of the ocean. I decided it was too troublesome for this early in the morning so sat firmly in the ground refusing to move.

"who is that?" on of the unknown voices asked, and I knew he meant about me.

"This is Toph, and she'll be coming back home with us. " Sokka stated firmly.

I herd the crowd snicker and whispered gossiped lies, and I all-of-a-sudden didn't want to be there anymore. They shut up imminently thought, which I could only guess was that Sokka had give them some sort of glare. They all shuffled off the deck in a hurried frenzy as he kneeled next to me. "don't worry about them. They are just anxious to get home.." I knew that it was a lie, and his tone made it seem as if he herd what his men had said.

The next two days the ship was our only home. The first i spent trying to balance myself on the rocking ship. And Sokka was there to talk to, but he still had to watch over his ship, so we didn't have a whole lot of time together. I was also the talk of their ship. All the other water bender and warriors would whisper thing when they thought I was out of ear shot. Things like:

"She's that woman who the chief brought along..."
"I herd that she was the one who the chief spent all of his time with while we were in the Earth Kingdome."
"Yeah, well I herd that she's a super powerful Earth Bender and her and the chief where traveling with the Avatar and ended the war."

Some of the things where true while others, which I will not recall, where total lies.

The second day I don't think I will ever forget in my life time. I assumed that the sun was covered by clouds so the wind whipped around the ship and the temperature dropped about 30 degrees. Sokka had found me early in the morning and I timidly shown that I was cold as I clung to his body for any spark of heat. He got me one of his parkas and I wrapped myself in it's warmth, but then secretly wished that I was wrapped up next to Sokka. "hey I have these special shoes for you." Sokka said, bringing me out my wish. How dare I think of him that way. He probably didn't even like me that way anyways. "They will protect you feet from the snow and they will still allow you to see."

Nnow feeling comfortable with the ocean's waves, I followed Sokka to the lower parts of the ship, where the rooms where placed. I could since the other members in the halls of the ship but as soon as they saw us they hushed there conversations abruptly and just watch the two of us walk by. Sokka opened on of the doors and led me inside. I sat down on the plush, furry bed as I herd Sokka dig threw the closet. He came a few minutes later and began to place the shoes on my feet.

"There how do those feel?"

I touched my feet to the floor and tried them out. they did keep my feet warm and I could see almost perfectly still.

"They'll work. Thank you Sokka." I said with a sincere tone realizing what he had to go threw to get them custom made like that. I began to feel him fiddle with something in his pocket. I wondered what it could be and then his heart beat began to rise. "S-So.." he began. his deep voice was now shaky and almost scared. "I-I was w-wondering if you could um...close your eyes..?"

"Why do you want me to close my eyes?" I asked, wondering where he was going to go with that.

"Duh! So you won't see." He blurted out, his heart beat still rising. I shot him a 'stupid-I'm-blind' look which made him slouch and rub the back of his neck.

"oh, right...sorry. w-well there's n-no time like the p-present." His voice squeaked a little as he finally pulled out the object form his pocket. I sensed his hands next to my neck and then there was a small click before a new weight pulled down on my throat. My hands quickly went to it as my face twisted in confusion. He waited patiently as I felt the object, but his heart was now pounding so hard and so fast that I was afraid at it would explode.

My fingers went around the thick leather that was now clipped tightly to me. My finger tips then wondered down to the odd gem that was nestled between the V of my collar bone. It was in the shape of a circle, about an inch thick, and width was that of a golf ball. The material was interesting to me as well. It was like some unique crystal that felt like ice. I stocked the gem and realized that there where also carvings on it. I tried to decipher what they meant but the groves swirled and twisted in some odd patter that I had never felt before. "S-So..?" Sokka's scared voice popped my mind back into the room with him. "So what..?" I asked.

"Yes or N-No?" His voice deep voice cracked so much on the 'no' it was almost laughable. But now I was even more confused than before. Yes or no o what? Did he want to know if I liked the necklace? But then why was he so nerves? I had better make sure first.

"yes or no to what?"

He let out a shaky chuckle before he began. "Ummmm...w-well...you see...i-it's, i-it's...ummmmm...ahhh...well...let me s-sart over...i-it's-"

"Spit it out already!!"

"itsabetrothalnecklace!"

He blurted out before smacking his had to his mouth as if he had just shouted vulgar language to bunch a kids.
It took me a moment to get what he had just said, but when I did, it was my heart's turn to race. I couldn't believe that I had totally forgotten about that! The Fire Nation gives hair clips, the air nomads give bracelets, the Earth Kingdom gives rings, and the Water Tribes give NECKLASES!!!! Which means that Sokka was asking me to marry him...HOLY HELL, Sokka was asking me to marry him! I could fell my face flush as my mind buzzed with a million thoughts.

"Toph..." Sokka's finally broke the silence. "So…Yes or No?
Holy Crap! yes or no, YES?! or NO?! I felt like kicking myself for thinking that he only wanted to give me the necklace...So there was only one thing to do now...

"Sokka I am sooooo sorry-"

I felt his heart go limp and his blood began to thicken. he leaned in to unsnap the necklace when I cupped his face in my hands.

"I'm sorry...That I didn't say 'yes' sooner." There was a short pause before:

"Yes...?"

"yes." I reassured him. His saddened tone turned to a joyous one he let out a hearty chuckle and hosted me up in the air, by my waist, and spun me around the room. It frightened me from not having my feet placed one the ground, but I made an exception as Sokka pour out his happiness. He soon stopped though, and pinned me up against the wall, using his thighs to keep me in a sitting position. His heavy breath blew across my face and the mixture of that and my rosy cheeks, I felt as if I would break out into a sweat.

I was off in my own little day dream of mine and Sokka's future. Our ice palace, lushuse furniture, long walks underneath the winter sun. Of coarse I had no idea what the homes where like in the water tribes, but hey, a girl could dream. I was soon snapped back when I felt Sokka's finger cup around my chine, and gently pulling it up to his. My sightless eyes widened to their capacity was I felt Sokka's lips press against mine.

It stated off light and sweet. His tongue traced across my lips and when I granted it access the Kiss simultaneously became something more that what it was before. His tongue rolled around with mine own and Sokka had moved his body closer to mine so I has now sandwiched between him and the wall. His hands wondered threw my hair and the curves of my small figure. His hands to be searching for something, though I didn't quite know what, until he founded it. A tinny point behind my ear. Just his slightest touch there sent my body going crazy with a uncontrolling urge I had never felt before. He apparently realized this for he continued to stroke the spot and trace across my ears with just the slightest contact of his fingers. I wanted more of him, and pulled him even closer to my body, but it still wanted more of him. His hips grinded against mine, pushed me hard against the wall. I moaned in his mouth, but that still didn't cure the urge, but actually only made it worse. Was he even trying to help me stop it, or did he want it to become intense?

(about 5 minutes later)

I had left the room feeling light headed and dizzy. I didn't what to leave of coarse, but both of us knew that the other ship members would come looking for us...well mostly him. I felt my face flush once more as my mind raced a what had just taken place.

"Did you hear?" Came a hustled and hushed yell. My heart shot out of my chest as I hide behind a pillar of the ship, almost as if I was intimidated by their presents.

"yeah, The chief just proposed to that Earth bender and she said yes. that's so romantic." came a female's voice.

"you may call it romance, but the rest of the ship says otherwise. "

"what do you mean?"

"Well when we first landed in the Erath Kingdom, there was a rumor that the chief HAD to marry a female of high stature for the treaty to be signed. We shrugged it off thinking they where just whispers of a bored general, but then he comes back, out-of-the-blue, with an earth bender, and 'old friend', who just-so-happens to be the daughter of one of the most wealthiest men in the entire Earth Kingdom."

My heart stopped at his last sentence...was that really true? The happiest day of my life just took a drastic turn in the other direction. I began to analyze crucial things, like: why was me and my father at and peace signing, he was a LAND LORD, for crying out loud. And how come, when Sokka took me, my father didn't sent any earth benders after me. Surly he would have...if Sokka wasn't supposed to take me in the first place.

I slid down to the floor and pulled my legs in close, as if they could comfort my acing heart. I had always wondered why Sokka had chosen me. When he could have someone like Suki. She was a fellow warrior, and would be a better fit for the roll of the Chief's wife. But now my eyes where open and I finally understood,

I had money and Suki did not.

Dun dun duuun. : P
sorry.
Is that really true?
Dose Sokka not really
like Toph and is only
marring her for peace?
or is there more to the story
then what she had just herd...