Hey guys! Sorry it took so long to upload this chapter -- I've been having trouble with my computer lately. And, as always, thanks for all the reviews for the past chapter! I hope you all enjoy this one. It was a lot of fun to write, at least. It's kind of ridiculous, so don't take it really seriously. :D

04. D

Doughnut

"IT'S GONE!" The warrior stared incredulously at the flat, bare rock next to his sleeping mat, which still had a little smear of something sticky-sweet on it. He whirled around wildly, his eyes searching frantically for the missing treat -- It's gotta be here! I warned them not to touch it! -- but he found it nowhere. He paused, dejectedly, to think, and arrived at the only other logical explanation:

Someone stole my doughnut.

He turned to everyone at the crime scene and penetrated them all, one by one, with an icy, accusatory stare, eliciting some puzzled -- and even frightened -- reactions.

"Who ate my doughnut?" he asked finally, and though the words came out more quietly and calmly than he would have liked, he felt an almost palpable tension in the air. Six anxious (and possibly guilty?)faces turned toward the (justifiably!)angry warrior, each with different proportions of confusion, interest, and -- ha! Fear! Yeah, they'd better be afraid, because once I find out who did this...

There was the fun-loving vegetarian, who didn't really look guilty; but then again, he was a good liar. He's so used to sharing his stuff, he probably thinks I ought to share mine too! Well, I don't think so! I don't care if he is the Avatar, nobody steals my doughnut!

Katara moved instinctively closer to Aang, simultaneously seeking and trying to give protection. Ha, she's usually so headstrong and argumentative. Look at her now -- bet she's scared out of her mind! Surely that's gotta mean she's guilty...

Next in line was Iroh. He looked amused, but sympathetic at the same time. Just look at him -- I'll bet he absolutely jumped at the opportunity to take some extra food! He stole it and ate it himself, it had to be him!

The prince stood next to Iroh, arms folded, staring back defiantly at Sokka. He seemed to be fighting a grin. Just look at him -- he thinks he's so much better than me! I'll bet he stole it just to make me mad!

He wasn't quite sure how to judge if a bison looked guilty or not, but he calculated that Appa's supper of a few fish and moon peaches probably would not have constituted as a sufficient meal for a ten-ton beast with five stomachs. That pig.

And the lemur -- he's always looking for new ways to annoy me! I guess he's decided that all his squeaking and squawking and climbing all over me aren't good enough. I'll strangle him with one hand if I find out it was him, that pesky little...

His eyes stopped on the last inhabitant of the camp -- the only one of the seven suspects that seemed uninterested in the fiasco at hand. The blind girl. She leaned casually against Appa's fur, arranging some pebbles on the ground into different patterns using some complicated-looking hand movements.

"TOPH!"

She turned her head toward Sokka, chunked one of the larger pebbles at him, then continued with her game.

"Toph, how can you be Earthbending at a time like this? Don't you realize there's a thief in our midst? And you're just sitting there like you--"

He stopped in mid-sentence, his mouth still hanging open slightly, as realization dawned on him. He narrowed his eyes and approached Toph, even though prior experience had taught him that was a bad idea.

"IT WAS YOU!"

The Earthbender rolled her cloudy eyes. "Yeah, someone did something to Sokka. Let's just automatically assume it was Toph."

"It usually is you," Katara pointed out. She was promptly pushed forward by a large chunk of earth and landed on top of Aang in a rather compromising position.

Toph laughed. Sokka didn't.

"Toph, I was looking forward to that doughnut!" he whined, paying no attention to his sister and Aang, who were both blushing madly and taking rather longer than necessary to stand back up.

"Again, Snoozles, who says it was me? You have no evidence that -- mmph!"

"You taste like doughnuts," Sokka told her once he had removed his lips from hers.

Toph's cheeks tinged slightly pink, and her supply of sarcastic retorts seemed to have suddenly run dry. "Okay, so maybe I did eat your doughnut. Whatcha gonna do about it?" she asked, a little more timidly than usual.

Sokka looked at her for a moment, weighing his options. When he finally spoke, his heart rate sped up just slightly and his body temperature rose a fraction of a degree. "You're going to take me out tomorrow and buy me another one," he informed her.

Toph smirked. "Hmm, and I had half-expected you to challenge me to a fight or something. You're not going soft, are --"

"And," he said, cutting her off, "you're going to sit and watch me eat it without buying one for yourself."

Toph's smirk faded, but she didn't complain. She nodded acquiescently.

That wasn't exactly what I had in mind for a first date, she thought as she watched him walk off, but maybe it'll do. She waited until the others had stopped staring at her, then curved her lips into a satisfied grin as she arranged her pebbles in the shape of a heart.

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