I would like to thank my reviewers Pretty in Green and . Also i will thank Adridere for reviewing chapter 1.

So updates will be really sporadic over the next week or so because my life will become hectic, between working full time, helping around the house more than usual (Nazi mum) and last night I found out for the second time in 4 months a girl that I REALLY likes has gone back out with their ex… it is like I am in a bad soapy. Yes my life is fun, do you want to swap?

Something I want to make clear… Katara and Aang did not have any cutesy pooh fluffy stuff during third season, I will not define the point at which Aang's feelings changed because I really have no clue myself, you could put it anywhere in between the desert and cities of walls and secrets where Toph is dressed up. If there are a few other things that you guys want to ask me about this, please don't hesitate to PM me, or ask in a review.

I am contemplating re-doing the rest of the third series from this point… if anyone wants me or doesn't want me to do this let me know, review or PM would be nice so that I can cater for my greater audience. Whether you like it or not I will be re-doing the Katara-Aang scene from Ember Island Players plus the finale… I have ideas

SIDE NOTE: May end up doing a few select scenes from the cartoon, requests are welcome for any that people want to see… read.

No avatar isn't mine, would you stop asking me I am becoming depressed every time I am forced to say no!!!

Yeah first person was cancelled, just couldn't work with it.

The Hot Boulder Part 2

Toph's thoughts

'Why does what he said have so much effect on me. Why does it stick in my mind, if anyone would have said I to me I would never have thought twice, why then won't it leave me alone, It was only airhead. I know why, the reason it won't leave my head is because it was such a surprise. For all that time I could be sure that he liked Katara; it was so obvious when I first met them how he would never turn down a chance to splash around in a puddle.

Maybe Aang was talking to me when we were going to gate crash that party, maybe I could have read more into that sorry that he gave me when Appa got stolen. There are so many times that I should have picked up that he liked me but yet I was to busy focusing on Sokka.

Sokka, that is why it won't leave my head, it is because I haven't really spent to much time with him recently, between moving around, training Aang and training myself I have barely spent any time with him. I miss just mucking around with Sokka, his laugh and how he is light… WAIT… why am I thinking of Aang, I am supposed to be thinking of Sokka not Aang. Maybe some sleep with help me focus.

Sokka, Sokkaan, Soaang, Saang, Aang… Aang. Toph falls asleep with a smile on her face. Toph dreams of a hand in hers, two on her shoulders drawing her close, a weak hug and a moment of elation.

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Aang didn't get much sleep that night, guilt had consumed him for losing his temper at Toph and Aang tossed and turned all night about why he had finally snapped but couldn't find a reason. So half way through the night he gave up on trying to sleep instead he decided to do some training. Aang walked around for probably an hour aimlessly looking for a good area to train allowing his mind to wander on why he snapped. 'Maybe it was because he was sick and tired of being the dumping ground of all Toph's ignorance, how she could tell if someone was at the front door, but yet couldn't pick up on the simple fact that I liked her. The dropping of my heart every time that she mentioned Sokka when we would talk, the making sure that she was always comfortable, why must she be so blind' Aang put his hand on head and sat down on one of the many fountains around the temple, wallowing in his thoughts.

"Why must she be so blind," Aang muttered, then his thoughts immediately shifted to himself, how could he have not have seen that she liked Sokka.

This realization caused Aang to yell out, "How could I be so blind," before re-affirming it to himself quieter, almost as a whisper.

It all suddenly made sense; why she didn't notice anything about him. Toph was focusing on Sokka the whole time; how she almost constantly hung of him whenever her vision was impaired, how whenever she would stare off into the distance it was generally in his direction. Aang stood up violently and threw his arms off of his head, causing the water fountain behind him to crack and the water to starting to empty out of it the water rolling over his feet.

The usual calming effect that the water had on Aang seemed to disappear and instead fuelled his rage, "You know what, it is all your fault!" Aang yelled at the water, immediately bending all of the remaining water off the ledge.

After doing so he turned around with a spinning heel kick, Firebending a blade out about a meter from his foot, slicing through the fountain and evaporating the remaining water. Continuing his motion through he roundhouse kicked the know falling top of the fountain, aiding it with earthbending it shot into one of the support pillars, taking half of the pillar with it as it continued into the cavern below. Aang continued his assaults on the fountain, each attack sliced through the top of the centerpiece, cutting it down by no more that a centimeter each time.

Soon the centerpiece got cut down to below the base so Aang quickly launched it into the air and swiftly turned on his heel, punching it over the edge without it touching the ground before retuning to the remainder of the fountain. When Aang launched whatever was left of the fountain he just collapsed into a sobbing heap, constantly saying, "It was all my fault," over and over again, until he felt Toph ascending up the cliff face.

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The rest of the day was spent with everyone off in their own worlds; Katara spent the day cleaning the campsite and a few more of her 'motherly' duties, amongst which was trying to get Aang and Toph to talk about what had happened yesterday.

Aang spent almost the whole day training and trying to distract himself from the incident, whenever he would feel Katara come close, which was almost every hour or so he would always jump up and re-start some random Firebending drill if he had been resting, tell Katara that he was kind of busy at the moment and she would leave without pressing the matter.

Toph spent the day in a similar manner except whenever she would feel Katara come near she would just bury herself underground, leaving a completely empty room for Katara to discover. Katara was getting angrier and angrier every singly time this would happen, sometimes causing her to water whip a large chunk out of one of the walls.

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After 5 frustrating hours the echo of an airship could be heard dropping into the cavern. Aang hears this and immediately takes off to see what was going on. Katara hears it a minute later, grabs her water pouch and watches it come into land, feeling somewhat confused when she sees Aang riding on the top of it.

Katara watches the airship as they attempt to park it, with Aang's help, still unsure of what was going on. With a large crunch the airship finally docked with the air temple, causing a rather large chunk of earth to tumble into the abyss. Aang air bent himself off of the airship and next to Katara.

"So why is there an airship here?" Katara asked as soon as he landed.

"You will find out shortly," Aang replied, making sure to speak loud enough that the now approaching group of Haru, Teo and the Duke would hear.

Toph felt the large airship land and immediately dropped what she was doing, resulting in a large crunch, before almost running to where they had just landed. Aang felt Toph jogging towards them and slowly moved to the other side of the now assembling group, trying as hard as he could not to let the sorrow show on his face. It was just then that the mechanical doors opened and a worse for wear Sokka and Zuko appeared.

"Looks like one hell of a fishing trip, I guess that there is some story behind this," Katara spoke, slightly nervous about what happened, but still slightly relieved that they weren't suffering from any visible wounds.

Toph was about 100 meters away from the airship before she felt who was on board; upon feeling this she turned and started running in the other direction. Aang stopped paying attention to Sokka's longwinded story and wondered why Toph had just run away from the person whom she liked.

"… and look at what we brought home with us." Sokka walked of the airship as two familiar faces appeared, Aang now knew why Toph had ran, he also knew that he would be the one that would have to find her.

"Well I guess I should start cooking then," Katara piped up before heading over to the campsite, everyone followed, the prospect of real food brought Sokka to the front, Hakoda close behind.

Aang ran up to Katara telling her not to wait up on dinner for him, Katara just nodded, half guessing at what he was about to do, This was confirmed when he took off towards where Toph was training.

After running around for a few minutes and coming up with nothing Aang took a deep breath and closed his eyes, looking for his master. Slowly Aang's field of vision increased as he focused harder looking for those familiar vibrations taking what would have seemed an eternity he scoured the part of the temple that he could feel, which wasn't to much of the temple. Then he felt slow steady vibrations coming from a statue right on the edge of his sight, fists clenched staring out into the abyss, breathing slowly, almost in a meditative state.

Aang questioned if that was really Toph, he had never felt her staying so still but then as she slowly inhaled sending fresh she of vibrations out, affirming it that it was Toph. Aang took off in that direction, trying to maintain as light as he could on his feet, not that it would help too much, their was no telling how well Toph could feel while meditating.

Toph unclenched her hands while breathing out, focusing all her energy through the earth, the cold, hard and unfeeling earth, hoping that what she was feeling would just disappear. She did not feel Aang approaching until there was no way to avoid him. He hands immediately clenched into fists, causing her knuckles to go white.

Aang got closer to Toph and immediately felt her become tense, her breathe faster and becoming shallower, her hands could not have been any tighter and were causing her to sink into the ground, as the earth beneath her compacted. Aang had made it to the improvised door that separated him from Toph and was having second thoughts about talking to her. Toph felt Aang hesitate, his heartbeat rapid, loud enough to make Toph realize that she had sunk into the ground, so she bent the land back to even and sat down, still facing off into the distance.

Aang didn't know if he was the best person to talk to Toph, seeing as the last time they had spoke he yelled that he liked her, but with no one else concerned about where she went Aang finally decided to knock on the earth bent door. Upon receiving no answer he tried once more to get Toph to open the door, this time knocking louder, not daring to actually destroy the door. Upon receiving no answer after several minutes Aang gave up on Toph and walked away. She did not know what possessed her to destroy the door as Aang was walking away; the one thought that did pop into her head was that it would be better to have the following conversation in privacy.

Aang heard the explosion and immediately turned and ran back to where Toph was only to see a cloud of dust slowly settling, which revealed Toph sitting in a meditative position. Aang bent the dust into the ground and started cautiously walking towards Toph.

"Toph," Aang nervously spoke, almost causing Toph to smile, "I wanted to apologize for yesterday, I shouldn't have started yelling at you and it was probably my fault that you were sent off the edge, I should have reacted faster and froze the water as it was starting to drag you along with it," Aang slowly made his way into a meditative pose a meter away from Toph, looking at the sun set over the other side of the canyon.

Toph unclenched her fits and lay her hands over her knee's and started speaking in a strangely calm voice, "no Aang, you have nothing to apologize about, I shouldn't have yelled at you for taking advantage of the water, I know I would have done the same thing. I guess I yelled at you because I wanted to blame what happened on someone, when that someone should have been me."

Aang closed his eyes as the sun finally disappeared, allowing him to focus completely on Toph for she was doing the same thing. They stayed their for minutes, both breathing slow deep breathes in unison, not wanting to break the silence.

"So, why did you storm off today when Sokka arrived, was it because of Suki?" Aang asked, finally breaking the silence.

"Yes and no." Toph replied still maintaining her calm voice.

"Do you want to elaborate?"

Toph didn't respond she just sat their, wondering what she should do. Aang didn't push her for a response, knowing full well what could occur so he just bent two small fires in his palm, which grew and shrunk with each breath that he took.

Toph took one more deep breath and decided to speak, "The reason I stormed off is related to Sokka and Suki, but not because they are together, it was because of me." Toph paused again taking one more deep breath, "I would have expected more of a reaction from myself but strangely I felt nothing, like all of my feelings for Sokka had all but vanished."

Aang took several deep breaths, realizing that it wasn't helping to control his heart he decided focus only on the fire in his palms, before finally speaking in a voice that wasn't unlike Toph's, "What happened?"

"You happened," The flames in Aang's hands double in size but his breathing and heart beat remained steady, but before Aang could talk Toph continued, "ever since you said that you liked me it has been the only thing in my head, I spent all of last night trying to convince myself the only reason it stayed was because I had not been around Sokka much and that was why I realized what I felt for you. But when I saw you today and your breakdown by the fountain I realized how much I meant to you and I felt sorry about what I had put you through." Toph paused again allowing Aang to regain his composure, "it still did hurt when I felt Suki on the airship which was the reason I stormed off, but it didn't hurt as much as it did when I felt them kiss back at the serpents pass."

Aang was trying to process what had just happened, his heart beat slowly went back to a normal and then to a slightly elevated pace as he realized what Toph had just said, he was focusing so hard he didn't feel Toph stand up and start to walk away, but he did feel the rock that collided with the back of his head. Aang got up and started to walk towards Toph, who was standing at the doorway waiting for him. Aang grabbed Toph's hand and started to lead them through the maze of hallways, a faint blush appearing on his face when he realized what he just did.

Once they made it out of that temple Aang finally spoke, "so how much of that did you actually hear this morning?"

"All of it, I couldn't help but laugh when you were yelling at the water," Toph paused for a moment before yelling, "It's all you fault," mimicking Aang as much as she could.

Aang immediately lunged at Toph who saw it coming and dodged causing Aang to land in the dirt. Toph took a moment to laugh before she ran as fast as she could back to camp, Aang slowly gaining on her.

Toph's laughter could be heard back at camp, making the rest of the group smile and causing them to wonder what Aang had done more importantly what had Toph just done to Aang. Katara just smiled, knowing that everything had been fixed.

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Ok Aang may be a little irrational, but look at what he went through last chapter plus insomnia which we all know he doesn't cope well with (Nightmares & Daydreams) doesn't portray the most stable mind.

If you didn't really get it I sort of rushed the middle during the day part of the story for several reasons.

1 It really isn't that important, but still needed to be in the story.

2 I really couldn't have been bothered to put to much effort into it.

3 I didn't want to write a 4,000 – 5,000 word chapter.

But if you guys really want me to write it I shall, the things I do for my readers… reviewers.

Their you go… part two, I hope you guys enjoyed it, sorry about the length, but I just keep writing until I am satisfied, unfortunately that means another 3000+ word chapter, let me know if you want me to focus on shorter chapters or if you like this length… please don't like this length… it makes it a rather large pain to try and get it all out in one week, which I obviously failed at.

A note on reviews, as I general rule I review most things that I read, but I make sure that if someone has reviewed me I take a look at what they have written and it compels me to review them… to put it simply review me and I shall review you.