Title: Two Benders and a Baby: An Interlude

Author: SCWLC

Disclaimer: I own nothing here.

Rating: PG

Summary: So there were requests for the scene you didn't see from Toph's line at the end of the original fic. Here it is.

Notes: You asked for it, here it is. I do hope I don't disappoint.

There they were in the desert, and Sokka was drunk as a skunk-bear on whatever it was that made cactus juice a hallucinogen. Yangchen had begun to complain, and Katara had quickly discovered the little girl was hungry, making Zuko stand in front of her to block the others from seeing her open up her shirt and bindings so she could feed the baby.

That was when things took a turn for the disturbing. "Hey," Sokka said, a strange light in his eyes. "I just thought of something."

"What did you think of?" Zuko asked, not really paying attention to the other boy. He was trying to not turn around and look at Katara. Really, it was very tempting to see if he could get a look at her without a top on.

Sokka turned, looking wide-eyed and with a manic smile on his face. "I know how Katara can save us all from dying of thirst."

"Oh, really?" Toph asked. She looked amused. "I can't wait to hear this.'

Sokka grinned, nodding. "The friendly mushroom told me all about it, just now."

"Oh, Agni," moaned Zuko. "This is going nowhere good."

Sokka suddenly lunged around Zuko at his sister. "Come on, Katara," he said. "Gimme a drink."

"What!" Katara shrieked. She sprinted away from her brother, clutching Yangchen to her chest. "Sokka! What's wrong with you?"

He essayed another lunge at her, which was when everyone else realised what he was up to. Zuko dove for the other boy. "Sokka! Trust me when I tell you that you're going to regret this in a few hours when the cactus wears off," Zuko said from where he was struggling to get the other boy in some sort of restrained position.

Aang, who had been off hunting for Appa landed just then. "What's going on?" he asked, distracted from his grief over Appa by the fight going on.

Katara was busy soothing an understandably upset Yangchen, so Toph answered. "Sokka just tried to get his mouth on Katara's boobs."

"What!" Aang asked, eyes wide.

Katara sent an irritated look Toph's way. "Sokka's totally out of it from that cactus he found, and he thought he should get water by um . . . suckling," she said, trying to be as delicate as possible. A moment later Aang made a face.

"Wow. He's really out of it," the Avatar said as Zuko and Sokka struggled off to the side. Sokka was shouting about Katara and Yangchen hogging the water.

"No kidding," Katara muttered.

"Yeah," Toph said. "Zuko's the only one Sugar Queen'd let do that to her anyhow."

"Toph!"

Sokka wriggled out from under Zuko at that moment. Upon hearing Toph say that, he glared at Zuko. "What's so special about you that Katara would share the booby water with you and not with me?" he demanded.

"Booby water?" Aang, Zuko and Katara chorused. Katara whimpered. "I think that may be the most embarrassing thing Sokka's ever done to me."

Luckily for all of them, Toph tripped over the sand boat then, and the topic was dropped.

"Booby water?" Bato asked Sokka.

"I was strung out on cactus juice," wailed Sokka.

Hakoda just had his head buried in his hands. "You try so hard to raise your children right," he muttered into them.

Katara was bright red and refused to say anything, preferring to pretend she was fussing over Yangchen, who took the added attention with glee.

Toph grinned around impartially and added, "I was right about that, anyhow."

"About what?" Zuko asked her.

"You are the only one Katara'd let put their mouth on her boobs," Toph said with relish.

While Zuko and Katara sat there, blushing, Hakoda and Sokka both moaned and the crew sniggered into their hands.