Thank you for reading. As before I will try and have a new chapter up-dated each weekend from now on.

HoneyC. Thank you, I'm glad to hear that. I always felt that Toph should have had some closer with her relationship with her parents. I get that there was other more important stuff to tie up in the final it would have been nice though. Still we have the comics maybe it will come up there.

Most of the talking around the breakfast table was done by Poppy. Aang had the feeling that it had been a long time since she had had someone other than her husband to talk to. Toph didn't speak at all. It was like the first meal he had at this table all over again. Once the plates were taken away he noticed her starting to fidget a little. There was nothing else to delay it any more. She had to see her father.

Surprisingly she was the first one to stand up. She turned to face Aang who sat next to her. "Will you come with me."

He nodded and took her hand. She returned his hold with a tight grip. He turned to face her as they walked along the corridor, offering her a smile of support. Though she didn't see it, he still liked to think that she understood what he was trying to say without words. That he was there with her.

He was about to let her hand go before he pushed the door to her father's room open, but she held on tighter. He squeezed her hand back. Her father's eyes searched for hers the second she entered the room. He had not seen her changed eyes before. Aang watched his eyes finally met Toph's. For a second he almost looked like he was going to smile. He must think that she had her sight returned to her. The making of a smile left his face when he realised that if she could see she was avoiding looking at him. When a second later realised that while he eyes were a different colour, she could still not see through them, all trace of a smile left. That was only for a second as the fact that she was in-fact standing in the same room as him sunk in.

"Toph."

"Hello….Dad."

The old man's eyes feel from Toph to her hand still linked to Aang's. As if his stare could truly burn, Aang found himself slowly letting go of Toph's hand.

"You don't know how good it is to see you again."

She simply nodded. From the formally joined hands, Lao's eyes finally seemed to catch sight of Toph's rounded stomach. Then quickly shot over to look Aang final in the eyes.

"Could you please get me some water." While he was still locking eyes with Aang he directed this question to his daughter. Not knowing what to do, Toph simply said ok and moved to leave. "Thank you. It will give me some time to talk to your husband man to man."

At these words Toph almost froze on the spot. Aang quickly placed his hand on her shoulder and gently pushed her out of the door. He was by no means looking forward for the conversation he was about to have, the first real conversation maybe he would have with his father in law. He just knew as well as she did by his tone that this was not going to be a fatherly chat. He didn't want her to have to listen to that. It would only led her to fight back, which with everything else that was going on was not the best thing to happen.

"Sir." Aang bowed a little.

Lao did give much of a response, instead he gestured towards the chair by his bedside. "There is much we have to talk about and little time to do it in."

"Then go ahead."

"You have married my daughter. She is having your child." A proud smile crossed the avatars face as he nodded along. "I trust that that means that you will not hurt her…"

"Never."

"Let me finish. I know that you would never hurt her intentionally…but because of who you are. It may be unavoidable."

"I can't promise with absolute certainty that I won't hurt her without meaning to. That I will always be able to but her and our child first. A lot of my life is beyond my control. Like loving her. I can say with certainty that when I can choice. I will always put my family first."

"That is easy to say."

"I know. I also know that you know that to." The older man now moved himself to sit further up in his bed. "For good or ill you have always tried to keep your family together. I won't do it the way you did, but I will keep my family together."

Grin know crossed Lao's face. "I always knew that you had this stubbornness. You wouldn't have been able to do all that you have if you did not."

"Your daughter is to thank mainly for that."

"That doesn't surprise me. I couldn't see her being with you if she didn't see that in you herself."

"Thanks."

Aang was really surprised to hear something like that from his father in law. He knew that he was still not the older man's favourite person, for nothing more that he had taken his only daughter from him, as he saw it. On top of that he had swooped back in when he had her in his life again, married her and now she was having his child. That was quite a lot of reasons to make him dislike and distrust him. So this was the best he could realistic have hoped for.

He saw Lao open his mouth a little to say more, but he stopped when his eyes lifted to the door way. Toph walked into the room and Aang got up from his seat so Toph could sit down. In her hands she was holding a small green tea cup which she handed to her father as she sat down.

"Mum said you had to drink this."

A little reluctantly he reached out and took the cup from her. "Your husband and I have been having a nice chat." Toph was about to speak when he father spoke first. "And I think it is time you and I did the same." He gave Aang a look letting him know that his presence was no longer wanted.

Placing a hand on her shoulder, before bending down to kiss her on the forehead he met her widen eyes. Begging him not to leave her here with her father alone. "I'll be outside." He whispered, but he was sure Lao heard him too.

Deep down Toph knew that this was something that she had to do. She was about to be a mother, she had to at least try and make peace with the only blood parent that she had left. Her child might want to get to know their only blood grandparent one day. No matter how she felt about that, if that was what her child wanted then she would not stand in their way.

"I thought you were dying."

Lao scoffed. "Sorry to disappoint you."

"Why change the habit of a life time." She laughed. "I'm sure to you I have done my fair share of disappointing."

Lao's eyes widened. "You have never disappointed me. You are just not the daughter that I planned for."

"If I was a boy, then I'm sure that I would have exceeded all your plans." Her hands lifted to rest on her stomach. "Guess marrying a powerful man and caring on the family bloodline in the end, I kind of did end up following the plan after all."

Reaching out he took hold of his daughter's hand. "All I have ever wanted was for you to be safe and happy."

"I am."

"No, you seem to thrive on putting yourself in harm's way."

She felt his eyes lower to her stomach. "That is what this is about. You don't like that I am having his child."

"You are putting your life at risk."

Knocking the chair to the floor as she did she pulled her hand from his hold and stood up. "That is your option."

"Yours too." Toph was about to move away, but she froze. "I know you worry about that too."

"I have felt it kick, the child will live…"

"The child yes."

"I'm not my mother."

A hint of a warm smile crossed Lao's face. "No you're not, but you remind me so much of her."

"You are trying to scare me, but I don't know why."

"I am trying to protect you. That is all I have ever tried to do."

She didn't know what made her move forward. She blamed it on her hormones. Slowly she moved forward, bent down carful by her father's bedside and took his hand in hers. Trying her best she aimed to looking into his eyes.

"I know…you're scared. So am I." Gently he ran his finger over her hand. "I have to believe that it will be ok…..I just have to. I am not her. I can't not live my life of her that the something will happen to me."

Lao lifted his gave from their joined hands to meet her eyes. As he did he saw the pendent that she wore. He knew it will. Part of it that was, the other half he didn't have to guess where that came from. It had never fall hit him, not at the wedding, not when she stood before him a few minutes ago pregnant. She was married, she had her own family. She had had her own family long before she was married in fact.

"I understand and I don't hate you. I just don't think we can be around each other."

Lao nodded his head and slipped his hand from hers. "I hope you will come and see me again…...once my first grandchild is born." He saw her about to say something. "I don't want you to see me like this."

"I have never seen you." She joked.

"Please. You should be home, resting."

She nodded and slowly pulled herself to her feet. "Goodbye dad."

As she walked towards the door she knew Aang was not going to be on the other side waiting for her. She had felt two servants coming and leading him away almost the second he left the room. Closing the door behind her she let out a deep sigh and walked toward her room. The second that door was opened Aang almost jumped up from his seat to me her. Silently she walked over to him as he walked to meet her half way. Wrapping her arms around his waist she rested her head on his chest.

"We're going to leave in the morning."

"So it didn't go well."

"No…..it went better than expected. We still just need time."

He nodded and kissed her on the top of her head as he held her little tighter. He didn't know what he had expected. He couldn't imagine the whole thing going any better really if he was honest. He could easily imagine it having going worse. It was hard to know if leaving so soon was the best thing. This could be the best chance for Toph to mead her relationship with her parents. He was glad though that they where leaving. The sooner they got home and could rest the better he would feel.

As I said before this is going to be the last major part of the story. So if there is ant character that hasn't been in this part so far that you would like to see in the story before it ends than please let me now so I can work them in. Any other ideas that you have for the story, comments are all very welcome.