It was a slightly uncomfortably warm night. A fact that kept both the avatar and his wife from falling to sleep for what felt like a long time. After kicking off the blanket keeping only the thin white sheet over them, they were able to sleep. After only a few hours Aang was woken by an almost silent yell, and Toph almost sitting up in the bed next to him. When his eyes were able to focus a little better he saw Toph as she turned to face away from him. Pulling the white sheet around her even more despite the heat.

"Are you ok." As he spoke he turned to face the window, as she was doing. He carefully wrapped his right arm around her waist, pulling her close to him. The heat had kept them at a distance from each other out of necessity to get some sleep. Now however it was a necessity for him to comfort her in some way.

"Just a dream."

She tried to pull away from him, because she knew he wasn't going to let it go. She also needed to get some space, the tightly pulled sheet and his presence added to the heat was not very present when you wanted to fall back to sleep as quickly as possible. She however was on the edge of the bed already, so there was nowhere for her to go.

Once they had been married Aang quickly learned that Toph suffered from nightmares, she also on a few occlusions had dreams that in a way became reality. The night before she had first meet Aang at the earth rumble, Toph had a dream. She was in cage, but after what seemed like an eternity of being trapped in the cage, a strong gust of wind came and blow it away. Setting her free. The night before the final battle, she had the only dream where she was able to see. She was falling through the air towards the earth. It was getting closer, and she couldn't take her eyes off it long enough to soften the ground below her. The dream ended when everything went black again, as she hit the earth. There was nothing that he could do to help her. She tossed and turned so he just wrapped an arm around her, holding her close. He did that now knowing that did little good. Aang had noticed that Toph was having these nightmares more often recently, and it worried him

"Tell me about it." He had to be careful how he approached the issues or Toph wouldn't tell him anything.

Toph now moved her right hand to hold onto Aang's that was placed around her. "I was standing on the top…..of this tall hill. I could see. I saw for miles. Villages, lakes everything. It was beautiful." Aang held her a little closer "I was so happy. Then everything started to shake. I tried to stop it but... everything ...it went up in flames. The flames didn't reach me, but I heard people screaming."

This dream was similar to ones Aang had, had when he was younger. It killed him that Toph would have to see that too, that maybe one of the only things she has seen, through her dreams was something like that. Something filled with pain and confusion. He pulled her a light closer.

"I wanted to move, but I couldn't. I got so angry. Then this huge wind stared to blow...it just made the fire worse. I started to cry." Her voice was now really starting to crack. Despite the laugh she tried t force at her crying. Aang kissed her on her bear shoulder, to let her know she didn't have to go on if she didn't want to, but she kept going. "The wave covered everything, it was all around me. It was. Just me and this endless darkness."

Aang gentle pulled back, turning Toph over to face him. When he finally saw her face, he saw a single tear running down her check. Placing his right hand to her face he wiped it away. Her eyes seemed to have a strange green glow to them, but it was the fear in them that Aang was worried about.

"It's ok, it was just a dream." He now pulled her into a hug. "I'm here, I won't leave you alone I promise."

Toph wanted to pull away, yell at him. He didn't get it, he never did. To him they were just stupid dreams, but she knew there was more to it than that. At least he was trying, that was all she could ask for. If she didn't fully understand about the dreams, then how could she expect Aang to. That would be rather hypocritical of her.

In truth Aang did have an idea about what the dream meant, but it scared him too much to even voice it. He had wanted to tell Toph, about everything he had learned from avatar Roku. There just didn't ever seem to be the right time. When he had first found out there was the possibility that Toph may be pregnant again. That had been the only thing on ether of their minds. Once it was confirmed that she wasn't pregnant, all he wanted to do was focus on the future.

Telling Toph that she was a reincarnation, and had the potential to be more powerful than he was, was just going to bring up things that they could live without at the time. The longer he put it off, the harder it was to tell her. She had lived her life so far without knowing. What good would telling her now do. They were just staring to get their life back on track, the last thing he wanted to do was mess that up. The only time that she would ever need to know about any of this was if something threated them that he wasn't strong enough to deal with on his own, or with her help as she was. Which was already pretty powerful. He couldn't think about that, about there being something that he couldn't protect her from

As the back of his mind, Aang had the horrible certain knowledge that ignoring the issue wasn't going to make it go away. It could even in the long run make it worse. Then he would look at Toph. She would being smiling, or just seemed to be happy, content. The way she has been before the miscarriage. He couldn't tell her, he never wanted to be the one to take that smile off her face, not again.

Thank you for reading. As always I really hope that you liked the chapter and will also keep enjoying the story as it goes on. I would very much appreciate any comments or feedback that you have to give. Thanks.