A/N- I would like to thank all my reviewers here you go reviewers hands you all a cookie and especially Twilight Rose2 for being my beta reader thank you so much. and also Toph-fan101 for giveing me one of the biggest compliments ever

Disclaimer- I'm to lazy right now to tell you how I don't own avatar

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He turned sword held in front of him his body prepared to fight, but no one was there. His muscles tensed he sensed a trap and didn't lower his weapon. Suddenly a pair of strong arms grabbed him from behind and pulled him to the ground and a hand was shoved over his mouth. And he was dragged into a hole in the ground that was covered by a camouflaged trapdoor.

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Sokka struggled against the arms holding him, it was dark underground and he couldn't see a thing.

"Sshh keep quiet" said a soft voice

Sokka stopped struggling instantly he knew that voice.

"Suki?" he whispered in surprise and relief

"Not now we don't have much time he isn't that far behind you and I wouldn't doubt that he could find the entrance to this tunnel if he looked hard enough" She lit a lantern and started running down the tunnel at top speed, Sokka fallowed close behind his strength suddenly rejuvenated.

The tunnel was about five feet wide and about 6 feet high and went on for about a mile before branching off in two directions, they ran to the left and followed that tunnel for about 200 feet, suddenly Suki stopped and Sokka ran into her back, and fell to the ground.

Suki helped him up "We're here"

In the lantern light Sokka could see a ladder leading up to a small trap door, Suki claimed up the ladder and knocked on the door.

"Who knocks at the guarded gate" asked a raspy voice

"One who has eaten the fruit and tasted its mysteries." replied Suki quickly, the door opened and she quickly went through. Sokka started to go up the ladder but the door was shut in his face, confused Sokka just stood there breathing heavily from all of the running he had been doing, he heard muffled voices coming from behind the door.

Suddenly it was opened and an old man with a raspy voice asked "Do you have the tile?"

"Tile?"

"Yes the pai sho tile"

"You mean the white lotus that Master Piandao gave me? Yeah its in my pocket" he pulled out a bag and gave it to the man. The man looked into the bag and stepped back.

"Welcome Sokka, to the White Lotus Society"

He climbed up the ladder and into a small empty room. "We need to collapse the tunnel in case that guy followed us this far" he said still trying to catch his breath

"That will be no problem" said the man, he stomped his foot onto the ground and moved his hands down, there was a rumbling beneath them and Sokka looked threw the door and saw that the tunnel entrance was no longer there it was replaced by a stone slab.

"You're an Earthbender." Sokka stated dumbly

"Yes and your point is?" said the old man daring him to say something else.

"Sokka you must be tired from all that running, and your nose looks broken I bet that hurts a lot" said Suki in a sweet and caring voice

All of a sudden Sokka felt a wave of tiredness overcome him he was literally out of energy, he had probably run for about 45 minutes straight, and to top it all off he couldn't breath threw his nose or even feel it for that matter and his lungs were searing with pain.

"Yeah I am."

"Here let me take you to a spare room."

"Ok" he took a few steps towards her his legs felt like led and he stumbled and fell to the floor were he promptly passed out from exhaustion.

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"Do you think Toph is going to be ok Katara?, she has been sleeping an awful long "

"Don't worry Aang I'm sure her body is just really tired , plus she's probably really worried

about Sokka"

"What do you mean"

"Well its obvious how much she likes him, trust me Aang I can tell these things"

"Y-You can?"

"Of course I can easily tell when someone likes someone else, you could call it a women's intuition."
'does that mean she can tell that I like her, I hope not' Aang thought panicky

"That's great Katara"

"Yeah I know it's a gift, I just wish she would hurry up and tell him already, I mean how hard could it be"

"Yeah how hard could it be" he chuckled nervously

'Maybe I should tell her now she probably already knows'

"Katara I..."

"Man I really have to go to the bathroom" said Toph rather loudly as soon as she woke up.

"And you're probably hungry too here I made you some stew" said Katara as she got up to dish out some stew, she didn't seem to have heard Aang speak.

"Any sign of Sokka?" asked Toph as soon as she returned from using the bathroom.

Katara handed her some stew "I'm afraid not" both her and Toph looked sullen and on the verge of tears.

"Hey cheer up you two we still have one more day to wait, you just have to keep a positive attitude. How about after Toph is done eating we do some training to help clear your minds, I saw a little stream not to far from here"

"That sounds good to me, what about you Toph?"

"Sure whatever"

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Warmth, that was the first sensation he felt upon waking up, pain was the second, his nose and face were throbbing and it felt like his legs were going to fall off at any second. He opened his eyes to get a look at his surroundings. He was laying down in a bed located in a small unfurnished room, there was a single window on the far wall and it was letting in rays of sunlight, it seemed to be about noon

'Where am I?'

He thought about the nights events. After he had given up hope of ever seeing his friends again he had been rescued by one of the least likely people ever.

'Suki'

But where was she now, how did she get to the Fire Nation of all places and why. He also thought about the others and he wondered what they were doing. He assumed that they were waiting for him at that forest about a days flight from the island there were supposed to meet up with the invasion force. Out of everyone else he thought of one person in particular.

'I hope Toph is ok, that head injury looked pretty bad'

'Of course she is I'm sure Katara healed her up in no time'

'But what if she didn't realize that Toph was hurt until they got to the forest, that would have taken them at least two hours to get there from where we were camped'

'Katara's vary smart she would have checked everyone as soon as they were out of the danger zone, not waited until they landed'

'What if she was to busy worrying about me'

'Your not the only one she cares about you know'

'What's that supposed to mean'

'She likes Aang'

'WHAT!! no she doesn't'

'Yeah she does, come on you've noticed the way she looks at him'

'What ever I have more important things to worry about right now, if Toph is hurt I don't no what I would do'

'I already told you Katara will have taken care of her so stop thinking about that and concentrate on what your going to do to meet back up with everyone else, first you need to figure out where you are'

'But...'

"Sokka, your awake"

He was pulled out of his thoughts as Suki entered the room. She walked across the room and sat down on the edge of his bed and he sat up.

"How are you feeling" she asked in a soft caring voice

"Well to tell you the truth I'm a little confused about how you got here and why, and what in the world is the white lotus society, I'm also worried about my friend Toph, you remember Toph right? Well she had a really bad head injury and..." he was talking really fast and was quickly interrupted by Suki.

"Sokka slow down, breath, first of all lets start with how you are feeling as in how does your legs and nose feel."

"Ohh, well my legs hurt a lot and I can't walk on them because they are so stiff, and it feels like I got hit in the face with a huge oversized hammer."

"Well your face is defiantly swollen, here" she handed him a mirror and he looked through it. His nose looked bigger than normal and was squashed over to the left and the area around it was a deep black and blue color.

"Wow that does look pretty gross"

"You still look handsome to me"

Sokka smiled "Thank you, now what is this place and how are you still alive I thought for sure Azula would kill you"

"First let me get you something to eat and some medicine it should help with you legs and nose" she left the room and Sokka's head immediately began to spin. He hadn't thought about the fact that him and Suki were still kind of together. He didn't know what to do he defiantly liked Toph as more than a friend but she was way to young for him, but he couldn't just stay with Suki knowing l that he no longer liked her in that way could he? He slumped back down on his bed. He was really confused.

A/N- I was going to put Suki's story in this chapter but that would have taken extra long to right and I didn't want to leave you guys hanging for to long so yeah hoped you liked it please review!! Thanks muchly

-Megi