I wasn't planing on doing this pairing for a couple of chapters yet but I had a little three a.m. inspiration and this is what turned out. Inspired partly by one of the Indiana Jones movies (I love those movies!) and partly by something that happened to me ;D
It's not beta'd so any mistakes are all mine and a big warning for some major sappiness :D
I blame the whole thing on what three a.m. does to a person's mind :D Enjoy and tell me what you think :D
Ella
Toph/Zuko
The Game Of Love.
Two weeks after joining the Avatar's side of the war the former Prince of the Fire Nation sat on the edge of the Western Air Temple in the setting sun. His legs swaying in the air as they hung below him on one of the numerous terraces, a contemplative, slightly wistful, look on his face.
"Whatcha doing, Sparky?" A now familiar friendly voice called out to him from the other side of the platform as Toph, the younger earth bender walked towards him, her footfalls just loud enough to alert him to the fact.
"Nothing." He replied in a flat tone as she sat down next to him, swinging her feet over the ledge.
"Sure, if nothing means hiding from Katara… though I wouldn't blame you for it, she really doesn't seem to like you." She grinned, finding his situation limitlessly funny.
"I'm not hiding from Katara." He blatantly denied, lying through his teeth.
"Sure you're not, Princess." She snickered unbelievingly. "I can feel you lying." She smirked, waving one of her hands in front of him.
"I'm not! What are you doing here, anyway? I thought you were training with the Av- I mean Aang?"
"Finished." She shrugged and was silent for a moment. "Whatcha thinking about then?" She inquired undeterred by the fact he didn't feel much like talking to anyone.
"Nothing." He mused, twisting a small twig around in his fingers.
"Come on, firefly, you gotta be thinking about something," The obviously bored girl said, needing some form of amusement, of course entertaining a bored blind earth bending master represents quite a challenge, a challenge he tried to ignore, not really feeling in a sociable mood.
"Firefly?" He simply questioned her newest innovation in pet names for him, it seemed to be her job to rename everyone in the group to her liking.
"Hey! I'm asking the questions here, and I still don't have a satisfactory answer." She protested.
"Really?" He distractedly asked as an idea hit him, lightening his mood immensely.
Taking advantage of the fact that she was staring unseeingly into the distant horizon, the emerald green of her eyes barely visible through the milky whiteness that revealed her blindness, he leant down and kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Why don't you guess?" He asked, a mischievous challenge in his tone.
"Alright," She said playfully, a grin and a blush lighting up her face, "Were you thinking about heights?"
"Nope," He responded, brushing back the strands of black hair that she left to hang in front of her face and kissing her jawbone.
"Were you thinking about fire?" She mused, not really wanting to be right.
"Nope," He said, kissing beside her eye, making her blink.
"Were you thinking about water? Or air?" Were some more of her empty guesses.
"Nope, and nope." He said, punctuating each dismissal by kissing her forehead and then brushing his lips against the tip of her nose.
"Hmm, I'm tapped..." She feigned bewilderment, grinning all the while, "Oh, wait, I know! Were you thinking about rock?"
"Close..." He murmured kissing her just beside her lips to make his point. "I was thinking about you."
"Aha," She stated triumphantly, leaning over and kissing him on the cheek.
"I win." He mumbled as they both leant towards each other and kissed in the dying sunlight.
She had a devilish grin on her face after they pulled back, "Wanna play again." He beamed at her words and kissed her on the lips once more, pulling her into his arms this time. "Mmm, I like this game..." She murmured in his embrace as they briefly broke apart for some much needed air before locking lips once again in the fleeting, fading, light of the end of the day.