Author's Notes: Just a little something to appease a Tokka craving, based on the whole "opposites attract" thing that seems to be so favorable to ships like Zutara and Taang. What about complementary elements? Anyone ever heard of "fight fire with fire"? Just me rambling, I guess.

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Alisa

Just Him and Her

Attraction

Opposites attract.

Fire and water. Air and earth.

This mentality has always been lost on Sokka. Why should he, from the Water tribes, be limited to someone from the Fire Nation? And Aang, why should he be limited only to Earth Kingdom girls?

What if he likes Earth Kingdom girls? What if he likes their pretty faces and curvy little bodies? And what would happen if he liked a girl like Yue, from his own tribes? Would the world's equilibrium be thrown off? Would the balance of yin and yang be tipped and life itself altered? Why would it matter anyway, if you're in love?

Sokka doesn't understand the concept of water and fire, and of air and earth. What about water and air? What about water and earth?

Now that is a concept that Sokka knows, and one that he knows well. Water and earth. He's seen his fair share of Earth Kingdom girls over the years, and even dated a few. They were pretty and strong and not so hard to fall in love with—he has the personal experience to back that up.

So what did it matter that they weren't Fire Nation? He's seen quite a few Fire Nation girls, and ignoring the fact that they were trying flambé him, they seemed quite alright. Not as funny or dependable as Earth Kingdom girls, but alright enough.

So he isn't one of those "opposites attract" guys—but what's wrong with that? What's wrong with earth and water? What's wrong with complementary elements?

Sokka likes earth—and he definitely likes Earth Kingdom girls. They are strong and independent and just a little sweet and with such a pretty face and when did those hips get there? Loud and brash and sarcastic and proud and just the right height to throw his arm around her shoulders, if she would let him. Pale pouting lips and dark bangs hiding glassy eyes—water and earth, they just fit.

They aren't opposites at all—earth and water, they're more alike than they think, and Sokka knows this. They complement each other in ways that water and fire could never manage. Earth is strong and steady and reliable and stable; water is always changing and fluxing and moving and adapting. They work together and everything is right again. Fire and water create a cloud of steam, and then they're both gone. But water and earth together—they're the world.

She's his rock, constant as the earth beneath their feet, and he hopes he can adapt to her like water adapts to earth.

But most of all, Sokka is just glad Toph is from the Earth Kingdom, or they would both be lost in a rush of steam.