Chapter 2

Calming A Warrior

They had both gotten dressed as fast as they could. Sokka got dressed faster, and decided two things. First, he would go straight to Suki and explain everything. That it wasn't what Katara made it seem. The second thing Sokka had decided, was Katara would not come with him, as he knew things would only escalate and the screaming match of two girls might cause a rockslide.

"I'll be quiet if that's what you want from me." Katara begged her brother to take her along. "Please, I want to apologize to her, I know I made things horrible between you two, I at least want to make sure she hears it from me that I was wrong." She then crossed her arms to let him know she was serious.

"It's hard to argue with you sometimes, but this is between me and Suki." Katara looked away from him as he put a hand on her shoulder. "You understand right?" He asked, trying to be as calming an influence as he could.

"You can't do this." Katara muttered just loud enough so he could hear. "She came along and… it all changed, everything changed." He words felt like coals on the back of his neck. He didn't want to hurt either of them, but he had to make a choice.

"Katara, we talked about this." He felt like he had told her a hundred times over, he had hoped the last time would be the last time. "You have Aang and I have Suki and that-"

"That's not it Sokka, not for me!" She hissed at him. He felt he was being scolded in some manner.

"Well it is for me!" Sokka raised his voice a little louder than intended. After a couple seconds he calmed his tone. "Okay?" He tried his hardest to consol her, unfortunately it only made things worse.

"She enjoys it doesn't she?" She asked, her tone somewhere that Sokka didn't know if she was about to laugh or cry. "What you do for her." Katara chuckled a little. "She'd be crazy not to." She mused.

"Do you do that thing for her, where you use your tongue and fingers?" She asked as if it was a very normal question she would ask anyone else.

Sokka sat directly on the floor and buried his face in his hands. He couldn't believe he was going to actually answer her. "If it makes you feel better then yes, I do that thing with my tongue and fingers for her." He had enough now. He then picked himself up and started walking away towards Suki's room on the second level of the temple.

Suki was out in front of her door with her fans, wearing her two piece fire nation style bathing suit; she had started watching Zuko practice firebending with Aang and had created a form based on Zuko's personal style of firebending. For this reason alone, whenever she practiced this particular form, Sokka knew she was either angry with someone or just in a bad mood in general.

"Suki." He said trying to get her attention. She didn't stop her form, either she didn't hear him or she didn't care to listen. "I think we need to talk." Sokka tried once more, rubbing the back of his head as the awkwardness set in all around him like storm clouds.

"Talk?" She grunted through a spinning kick. "Why, you've made up your mind already it seems." She explained coldly. "Or are you on the fence about which one of us you want?" She did an aerial and finished the form crouched with her fans extended out to each side. Her face was covered in sweat, so much so that her bangs that let loose during the form were damp. She stood up and started walking toward the door to her room. Sokka simply stepped in front of her, blocking her path.

She just glared at him. "Don't bother, you'll just loose again." She threatened in a low tone.

She reached out for his shoulder to move him aside. He rolled his shoulder to knock it off, quick and hard. They both just stood there for a split second, stubborn and neither wanting to move. Suddenly she went for his face with a palm strike, he sidestepped her sending her tumbling to the ground. "You were saying something about me losing?" He mocked with a grin. She then tried to sweep kick him, it worked, but Sokka just did a backwards somersault and rolled out of the fall to break it, he was back on his feet in less time it took her to execute the sweep kick; he had improved since their last real fight when she was angry with him. She had been holding back before, now she had no reason to. He had wounded her very deeply, and this was her way of getting back at him, even if it meant she only landed one good solid hit. That's all she wanted from him… and she would not be denied!

All at once Suki launched a roundhouse kick, which flowed into a hand chop that came at him with just the same momentum and force. The kick Sokka just stepped back quickly to avoid and blocked the chop with the inside of his forearm this allowed him to counter with an arm bar, surprisingly enough, it worked. They both panted heavily, and Suki grunted slightly under the pressure of the lock she was now in. "Damn it Sokka." She rasped out of exhaustion, unable to yell. "Let me go." Suki commanded.

"It wasn't what it seemed like, I promise." Sokka explained visibly struggling under Suki trying to break out of his arm bar.

"Have long have we known each other Suki." He grunted against Suki still trying to free herself. "We've fought side by side, so what possible reason could I have for lying to you about this?" Sokka had completely lost all hope with that last sentence, but then, Suki stopped fighting him. At first he thought, Katara might have shown up. His attitude changed when he saw her tears hit the floor.

"Because you told me what life had been with her." Suki sobbed, she was tired of fighting with him, all energy had gone out of her body. In truth she felt she had lost her will to fight, especially if he was going to choose his sister over her.

"I love you Suki." He released her, and she fell to her knees. Sokka joined her, sitting on his knees as well. He leaned in and kissed her. They both saw Katara standing at least ten feet away; Sokka caught sight of a water skin by the girl's hip. "Hey Katara." Sokka tried to act as friendly as possible. Katara's hair was undone, criss-cross along her forehead, matted with sweat. She wore nothing except her white cloth bindings.

"I've thought it over Suki, about me and Sokka." Katara's breathing was heavy and labored, as if she had been through ten rounds with Toph just moments before. Katara walked over slowly to Sokka, the same sway in the hips he remembered about a year ago when they first kissed, a sly smile on her face.

Knowing full well what his sister was up to, he immediately tried to protest but what came out of his mouth was radically different. "Katara hey, h-how are y-you baby sister." He stuttered through what he was saying, his concentration gone from Katara's thigh brushing the inside of his own. "W-well that's kind of nice." Sokka's mind was gone, the girl was like a really, really addictive drug, with the plus of a really, really good high.

Suki on the other hand was shocked, and truly didn't known which one of them she wanted to hit some sense into more. It was then that Katara's head pivoted to the side and faced Suki; the rest of the waterbender's body still involved in 'being a good sister.'

"I figured since we both want him, why don't we share?" Katara suggested. Suki shrugged in agreement, it was decided. So with that Katara celebrated by kissing her brother, teasingly at first and then more passionately until both siblings seemed out of breath. Suki came over and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, while Katara's were still about his neck. He looked over at one girl, and then the other, and then back again as if he couldn't choose. The fabulous thing was, now he didn't have to.

"So Sokka?" Katara asked indirectly.

"Hmm?" He answered, clearly still under the influence of one girl or the other.

"What do you think we can do with the afternoon?" Suki finished the waterbender's sentence. "Because we both have an idea but need a second opinion." It was at this point that Sokka was now being dragged back to his tent by his arms, one girl on each. He stopped just before he was about to duck down under the tent's flap.

"Wait a second girls, there's something I have to take care of first." Sokka turned and seemed to realize someone was looking at him from afar. "Okay, go away now." He started off, almost yelling. "The alternate universe fiction has been resolved, I know you were hoping this would turn into something really hot and horribly erotic… but it won't." Sokka stood smirking. "Do you know why?" Sokka walked over to the two girls and hugged them both, "Because you can't have them and because reading about how good they look in next to nothing is the same thing." And with that the three of them went into the tent howling and giggling over how many angry reviews and flames the author might be getting right this second… wait, wait WHAT? That was not part of the deal Sokka! I gave you both of them you bastard!

I feel like I pushed the fourth wall stuff a little far, let me know how I did. Maybe I'll go back and change it at some point, maybe add another chapter. Or no… how would you like that? Probably not very much, that'd probably taste terrible.