Disclaimer: Not mine.

AN: Sorry about the wait guys! And girls! Yet another one with Suki. I'm beginning to like her, but still my friends today were deciding who would make it out of a fight unharmed and at first they were like, "Well, Brooke(that's me) definently wouldn't." Then one said, "Wait, what if we tell her that the person we're fighting was trash talking Tokka... and a fan of Suki!" And they amused themselves for the rest of the hour ( One litterally drew a picture of me jumping on someone going "For Tokka!") with the thought of my rabid attacks. But, just because I poke fun of her a lot with my friends, doesn't mean I'll ever bash her. Or write her bad. So, read on.

78. Drunk

Suki did not pine after Sokka. She had completely gotten over him, and was so glad she had dumped that stupid "warrior's" butt all those years ago. And, no matter what anyone would say, she was neither sobbing nor drenched, and her makeup was not running down her face. She was simply sitting on the edge of the fountain she had not fallen in to, when Sokka ran up and tried to apologize for pulling her off the table while she was dancing for the extremely nice men who went as far as to offer her twelve gold coins. And she danced like that because she wanted to, not because she thought being drunk would get Sokka back… and not because her mind was addled from all the alcohol she had not drunk.

"Suki," He muttered softly touching her shoulder.

Suki flinched away from his hand. "Don't touch me," She muttered.

"I'm sorry… Is you're shirt wet?" Sokka asked.

"No!" Suki yelled a little too quickly.

"Did you fall in?" Sokka asked and he couldn't help but laugh.

"No! I just… leaned over a little too far and a little bit of my shirt got wet!" She screeched, and she stood up and stumbled over to a bench.

"I'm sorry Suki," Sokka muttered, full out laughing by this time.

"No you aren't. Just leave me alone!" She yelled and she tried to scoot away from Sokka but ended up falling off the bench. Sokka laughed but tried to pull his drunken friend of the ground.

"Stop it Sokka! I hate you!" Suki shouted.

"That's not what you said early tonight in one of the twelve attempts to get me to go to bed with you."

Suki rolled her eyes. "I'm not in love with you."

"I know." Sokka answered, as he pulled her up from the ground and this time she didn't flinch him off.

"I'm completely happy as a single person." She announced with a hiccup. Shaking her arm out of Sokka's grasp, she teetered off towards the opposite direction of the inn she and her fellow Kyoshi Warriors were staying at.

"I know" Sokka trailed behind and softly grabbed her shirt to turn her around.

"I just saw you and you were alone and I know you never" hiccup, "go to the bar" hiccup "without Toph" hiccup, "so I thought you two were over." She started to doze off, and Sokka had to put an arm around her to keep her upright. "I thought maybe… you'd like me again if I tried to act like Toph. You know… drunk and stuff" she muttered in a soft, sleep muffled voice, her head resting on Sokka's shoulder and her eyes slowly closing.

"Suki, Toph is Toph and in anyone else, I would have found her so annoying but… you are you and even if you were more like Toph than I still wouldn't like you because you wouldn't be yourself and I loved you the way you were, but not in that way… you understand?"

His only answer was a light snore from his sleeping companion. Her auburn hair was wet and plastered to her mascara streaked face and her limbs lay limp in her green dress. He sighed and delivered her to the hands of her other warriors, thanking spirits he wouldn't be the one with the killer hangover in the morning, before returning to his house he shared with Toph, Katara and Aang.

"Nice night?" Toph asked after he kicked off his boots and climbed into bed with her, kissing first her forehead and then her swollen stomach.

"Hmm, would have been better if you were there," he muttered into her dark hair.

"I know. And on my part, I had a horrible time alone. I swear this baby better be the prettiest, most skilled, most awesome baby in the entire world for keeping me off alcohol for an entire nine months. Did I miss anything?"

"Well... Suki-" Sokka started but was cut off by his wife's excited response.

"Suki's in town? Sweet!" There was a pause before Toph smiled and Sokka knew she was up to no good. "I'm gonna have to visit her tomorrow. We'll swap notes on ways to torture you." There was a month or two of awkwardness after Sokka and Toph started dating, but the two women could not help but to bond over their love of teasing Sokka.

"I'm not sure she'll be in the mood for any visitors tomorrow. She tried to reenact her escape from the Boiling Rock, complete with arm flailing, head jumping and making her own theme music."

"Oh Spirits," Toph and Sokka laughed together over poor friend, who, if she was lucky, would not remember anything the next morning.