Revenge II

In the land of the blind one eye is king.

Disclaimer: I'll say it in dutch: ik heb de rechten van Avatar niet.

Ok, here is the next chapter, still doing my best to make it longer. I can't stress enough how much a review can help, so please review.

The next chapter will be a lemon (between Toph and Sokka of course). I hope to see you then.

Oh and D4rk, let me know when you drop the first chapter of that new story of yours, I'd love to read it.

Chapter seven: drowning sorrow

Toph pressed his body against hers and cried a little. She was sad, mad and sorry she dragged him into this. After a few seconds she asked him. "Are you alright?"

Sokka replied in a weak voice. "No... not really."

"Tell me what are your injuries."

"He cut my cheek... Slashed my che..st, stabbed me ... in the chest and, he he ... my eye..." Then he fell in to a silent cry.

She placed her hand on his face to see what he meant. Slowly she let her fingers creep up to his eye, to see what he meant, she expected something like a big scar beneath it, but then she found a hole, and was schocked when she realised what it meant. "Sokka ... I'm sorry."

"Don't you ever be..."

Meanwhile

Hurio was depressed, one of the worst nights of his life had just gone by, now two in the morning he walked towards his favorite café and inn, as it entered his sight he remembered, he remembered all the drinks he had here with his best friend, all the solved cases and all the toasts to celebrate them, all the late nights of trying to crack a case, pumping themselves up with tea and cafeïne... Those times were gone, they'd never be again. He felt his tears come up again, whiped them away and tried to hide the rest, still pouring from his eyes.

The pub was quiet, it was 10 in the morning after all. He looked around, there were four more guys and one woman in the bar, he wasn't interested now, he was to depressed. He didn't come here to celebrate a case, he was here to drown his sorrow.

"Tori!" He yelled from the entrance moving up to the counter "The strongest you've got."

Tori Lamar, the bartender obliged. "What's the problem mate?" he asked, pouring his special.

Hurio gulped it down in one go. "He's dead Tori, he's dead." He sat down on a stool, and laid his head on the counter, covering it with his arms and hands, crying.

"Hey, hey, come'on Hurio, who's dead?"

"Fang damnit!"

The rest of the bar looked over to the wreck that sat at the counter, but he didn't care.

"What do you mean?"

"Fang, he's dead..."

"No, that... that can't be." He brought up another cup and filled it, along with Hurio's. They both finished their drinks."People, could we have one minute of silence please, a dear friend has past away."

"He didn't pas away, he was murdered..." Said Hurio after the minute. Finishing another drink.

"Murdered?"

"Yeah, I got the son of a bitch."

"But it doesn't make you feel any better now does it?"

"Not the least..." They drank another glass. "He was just a boy Tori, just a boy." It should have been me, not him."

"Don't talk like that, man."

"... He isn't the only partner that died today..."

"What! What the fuck is going on these days."

"Yeah, Tygh died to, slashed open with a broken bottle, and another guy, Lorenzo, he was knocked unconscious."

"Shit... Was it the same guy?"

"Nah... Some girl most likely."

"To Fang, Tygh and Lorenzo." Tori raised his glass.

"Fang, Tygh and Lorenzo." Hurio raised his glass and they drank them in one gulp. "And i got sacked..."

"My gods, you had a bad night!"

"Are you trying to be funny!?" he broke his stone cup by uncontrolled earth bending.

"No, no, no..."

"I'm sorry, I'll pay for that."

"Don't worry." Tori paused for a minute. "So you got sacked?"

"More or less. They said I'm getting to emotionally involved and that because of 'the recent developments' I might have lost the nag for the job. They sent me on paid vacation for now."

"Oh, sorry man."

"What am I gonna do Tori? What?" He couldn't suppress the tears anymore because of the alcohol.

"You could allways come work with me."

Hurio looked around his favorite café, one of the men and the woman had left, it was extremely empty. "It doesn't look like this place has need for another employee, my friend." He laughed softly and weakly.

"Yeah, well it's dry season."

"It's always dry season man."

"I make enough."

"Enough for one, not for two."

"You might be right." They finished another drink, and after this one, Hurio couldn't count them anymore.

"They fucking pulled me of the case, but I'm gonna get revenge for Tygh and Lorenzo, I'm gonna get that stupid girl and that prick of a boyfriend of her!"

"Easy Hurio, Easy I think you'd better sleep on this for a while."

"I'd better drink on this for a while that's what I should do."

After that it got quiet for some time, Hurio placed himself in a corner of his favorite café with a bottle.

Meanwhile

Sokka rested his weight on Toph as she flung his arm around her and did her best to carry him outside. He did his best to keep up and let his feet walk, but he was weak, he had lost a lot of blood and was still bleeding, he'd need rest and care soon. He didn't know how they got out of there, he couldn't see well with one eye missing and his other blurred by his own blood. More then once they rested, that he knew. But how many times? He couldn't count. One time that they rested Toph tried to reassure him that they could get out easily because everybody went to greet the boss, but she seemed to try and reassure herself more then him. He smelled her scent, her healthy coating of earth, the smell he missed. But he also smelled fear. Eventually they reached the door.

Toph layed him down on the ground, her way out proved to be more easy then her way in. They hadn't been spotted yet but every second they spent here was a second they could be discovered. On the outside there would be guards, she knew that, she'd just have to eliminate them quickly and then disappear underground with Sokka to find a place to stay, and then maybe leave this city for good.

BANG! The door flew open. Toph lowered her foot, and ran with her sword to the man 5 metres from her right. His sword in his right hand came down, aiming at her shoulder, with her left hand she grabbed that arm and threw him over her shoulder. Meanwhile the guard on the left side of the door came running at her. Their blades crossed and Toph's had such force that she made his fly out of his hand. He desperately bended a chunk of earth out of the ground and sent it flying at Toph right before she sliced his throat and lowered herself by spreading her legs oppositely of each other to avoid the boulder. The first guy got up behind her while the second was squirming on the floor desperately trying to stop the blood from pumping out of the huge gash in his neck. She aimed the sword to directly behind her and it stabbed him in the stomach. He fell on his knees clutching his wound as more and more of his robes turned red. She got up and faced him, placed her foot on his chest and pushed him over. His eyes were wide as he fought to breathe. She went back to grab Sokka, who now had completely passed out and bended them into the ground so that they couldn't be found.

They resurfaced somewhere in an alleyway in the city. Toph wished more then anything that Katara would be here right now. She could try to clean his wounds as she had learned in her classes back at home, when she was a kid, but she feared it wouldn't suffice. She started to talk to Sokka to keep him awake. He wasn't responding to well. In the alleyway there were clothes hanging out to dry and a few barrels of water. She did her best to clean the wounds with the water and teared some of the clothes to make for bandages and the others to replace the bloody ones of not only Sokka but also herself. She didn't know what colours they were but she hoped they wouldn't attract attention. They were normal robes and since they were in the earth kingdom she expected them to blend in. When she finished putting on her clothes and turned around, Sokka had awoken, she couldn't see but he was smiling softly. "You look nice." He whispered.

She got on her knees and bended her back to kiss him. He wanted to say something else but she silenced him, "Save your strenght." she said.

She offered him a piece of cloth to use as an eyepatch. "Uhm, Toph?" Started Sokka.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Would you mind not giving me a pink eyepatch?" He laughed.

Toph didn't laugh, instead a single tear rolled over her left cheek.

They got up again as soon as Sokka found a piece of cloth to his liking, to find a place for Sokka to rest, Sokka who was still leaning on Toph. They found an inn, relatively empty, There was one man in a corner drunk and asleep, with his head in his arms. Toph payed a lot of money and they were sent upstairs.

A few hours later

Hurio got up, he must have fallen asleep on the table in his favorite café and inn. For a second he didn't know what he was doing here, but then he remembered everything, all of his grieve. Tori walked towards him, apparently closing up the business. He suggested that Hurio would stay in one of the rooms. Hurio, who was in no condition to walk home alone, obliged. He knew where the keys to the rooms were, and to his surprise he saw that one of the rooms had already been rented. Something he hadn't seen in months.

"Perhaps you'll make enough for me to work here after all." He joked.

Tori looked at Hurio pointing at the missing keys. "Yeah, a couple checked in a few hours ago."

Hurio didn't really listen, he just grabbed the keys to a room and said "aha."

"Yeah, a cute girl and a guy. But you know, it was the strangest couple that has ever rented a room here."

"Sure you don't mean the only couple?"

"Hahahaha, I'm laughing my ass off." Said Tori sarcastically. "I mean he was a foreigner, nobody here is that brown, and had one eye, and she was cute but blind."

"Yeah yeah." mumbled Hurio.

He went up to the hallway with the rooms. He was already trying to open his door when he realised the words Tori had said. It couldn't be, it had to be coincidence. It couldn't be that easy. Yet he had to know for sure, he walked to their room and got ready to break it down.

A/N I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you'll review.

Also, those of you who read the lemon of 'revenge' can you tell me, what needs improvemend? Be quick, I'm counting on you guys to help me out of this.