Disclaimer: Yeah, not insulting your intelligence or anything, but I think its pretty obvious. I do not own Avatar.

AN: IT'S TOKKA WEEK! I absolutely love Tokka week! The first one as so much fun, and though I've been busy for the first two days, I can't wait for the rest of the week! I may post some other, Tokka week related, drabbles later on, but right now I'm just updating with the newest chapter.

17. Weather

"Sokka?" Toph's voice called out through the mists of his ostrich pig filled dream.

"Mmmm?" was all he could manage to answer in his sleeping, but almost awake state. She was calling his name again, but his dream was so enticing. A whole valley of ostrich pigs, playing, frolicking, lining up for the fire where they would be cooked and then Sokka would devour them…

"Wake up you big oaf before I wake you up myself." Toph cried and, though leaving all his little piggies was a sickening thought, not waking up to Toph's call was even more sickening.

"Yes?" He asked. He felt something shaking beside him and with a sudden intake of breath he realizes it is Toph.

"Toph, what's wrong?" he asked, wrapping his arms around her shaking frame.

She neither tried to deny it, nor did she tell him that just because she's shaking and gasping for breath does not mean she's not scared. "Listen," Toph muttered, burying her head in Sokka's chest. He listened. It was raining, heavily, the rain beating hard upon the roof and walls, but it had rained before and Toph had never been scared, but while he was thinking that, something exploded. Or at least that's what it sounded like to Sokka, who was surprised the whole hotel wasn't shaking.

"What the hell?" Sokka asked.

"I don't know," he heard her muffled response from somewhere deep within the folds of the blue tunic he slept in.

"Is that thunder?" And it happened again, and Toph made some strangled noise that he would torment her about later.

"I'm blind! I don't know! It just sounds so horrible and please, please make it stop"

"How does being blind ha-" A knock interrupted them and Sokka looked down at Toph, well as much of Toph he could see; which was just a few tresses of her dark hair, mixing in with the darkness around them.

"I'll get that." Sokka announced, and he began to get up but Toph was still clutching at his tee shirt, one of her legs completely wrapped over his side. "Toph, how am I supposed to walk with you-"

"Deal with it." She snapped, and he had no choice to do it, so he awkwardly got out of bed and thankfully Toph at least put her feet on the ground so that she could walk, but she was still holding on to him, facing backwards and he stumbled to the door, as the thunder or whatever the hell it was, roared again.

Sokka pulled open the door to find Aang, sheepishly playing with the hem of his orange shirt. "Katara said it wouldn't be proper if I slept with her but I have no idea what's going on and…"

Sokka sighed and Toph let go of him, while Aang barged into the room falling into their big bed. "Wow! Your bed is huge!" He spread out, like he was making snow angels in the mountain of fluffy blankets.

Being with Aang in a new place was like being with a child.

"Aang!" Toph chided. "Stop jumping on the bed! It's almost as annoying as the thunder." And of course, it came again and Toph shuddered.

"Come on Toph," Sokka said and he pulled her into bed with him. "Scoot," he said to the large, orange lump that took up space in the middle of the bed. Aang scooted off to the far side of the bed, curling into a ball and for a moment everything was silent, and then the thunder roared again. Aang pulled the pillow over his ears, and Toph burrowed even deeper into his shirt than before. For maybe twenty minutes, they laid like that, Sokka stroking Toph's hair, murmuring soft words as overhead, the thunder didn't let up and instead seemed to get worse as the thunder was now sounding closer and closer together until there was another knock.

Sokka stood up, and yet again, Toph clung to him. "Toph, come on…"

"I'll just snuggle with Aang then," Toph threatened. Sokka looked over at Aang, who nodded.

"I love to snuggle!"

"Fine," And Sokka got up, only this time, Toph didn't even put her feet down, instead wrapping her legs around his torso, and her arms around his shoulders. He grunted as he carried himself and Toph across the room to answer, again, the door.

"Zuko's out cold, and we're a bit freaked out." Mai said when the door was upon to reveal her standing in the dark hall.

"We?" Sokka asked. From what he could see, it was only Mai, standing there and no one else...

Mai entered the room, Ty Lee holding closely to the back Mai's black robe. "We."

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Yawning, Zuko rolled out of bed, landed on the hard floor and grunted. Oddly, he heard no laughter from the bed so he glanced up and was shocked to find the bed empty. "Mai?" he called, wondering if maybe she was in the bathroom. She wasn't.

He clambered out into the hall, still drowsy with sleep, and knocked on Ty Lee's door. No answer. He walked farther down the hall and knocked on Katara's, and then even further and Aang's. Finally, he knocked on Sokka's door, heard what he thought might be a greeting and then let himself into the room.

Toph and Sokka lay in the middle of the bed, entangled together in appendages, with Mai, lying completely straight, except for the arm that stretched over Toph's side and the hand that held Ty Lee's. Aang was curled into a ball on the other side of the odd couple, and Katara was lying on a chair with her feet on the bed and her head close to Aang's. Ty Lee was sprawled across them, her head resting on Sokka's stomach, her legs on top of Katara's, one arm wrapped around Toph's neck, and one hand clutching Mai's.

"I don't even want to know what went on last night." Zuko directed the comment to Sokka who looked like he was somewhat awake, and then walked out of the crowded hotel room.

AN: This really happened to me! I was at the beach and it started thundering, horribley and I had heard nothing like it before and so I curled up with my pillow... Too bad I don't have an awesome boyfriend like Sokka to cuddle with. I'm not sure if this is modern or in the Avatarverse, or why they are in a hotel, but thats just how it is... Reviews, as always, make me happy so review please!