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Several officers watched as their Chief's face crinkled into the scowl that they had all learned was not her normal everyday one. Toph had different types of scowls. There was one for when she was annoyed. There was one for whenever she would argue with Councilman Sokka. There was one for when she was mad. However, her officers only saw this one scowl on rare occasions. The last time was when they had brought in Yakone after the trial. Toph may have been in a sling and crutch, but she gave him hell. The scowl they were seeing now on her face matched what she had looked like before she went into Yakone's cell a few years ago.

The man in front of Toph was cowering with fear. He backed away, but just ran into the metal plates of several officers. He whispered to them desperately. "Am I gonna die?"

The officers in turn didn't respond. Their fearful faces answered his question.

On the opposite side, Satoru licked his lips nervously. He had been standing next to Toph for the last five minutes. Being the nearest to her, he could have sworn the ground beneath him was creating a low rumble. He looked over at the chief of police and found one of her arms crossed across her chest while her other was up near her face, her fingers pressing hard into her skin. He knew that scowl as well.

"I'm sorry." Toph blew out a large breath of air that everyone assumed she had been holding in since she had heard what the man had to say. "You are going to have to repeat the whole thing to me again."

"But-"

"Now!"

The man scurried towards Toph and stood a safe distance of five feet from the chief of police. "I-I was just walking down the street when I saw two teenagers mucking around. There was, uh, a girl over the boy's shoulders-"

"What did they look like!?"

"He looked like he was twenty!" The man hid behind his arms. "The girl was fif-no wait- no she was sixteen, maybe? Black hair. The boy had brown hair and was growing a beard. I don't know. The girl had green eyes. That's all I saw before they were swallowed by the ground!"

Toph stood there, a low growl escaping her lips. Both her arms were crossed tightly across her chest, trying to restrain herself from destroying her own police station. "The girl. Short black wavy hair. Bright green eyes. Around five foot five. One of these," She pointed at her scowl. "on her face most likely. The boy. Unruly hair. Patchy hair all over his jaw. Gray eyes. Around six foot something."

"Yes! Yes! That was them, ma'm."

The chief of police strengthened her frown once more. "What happened next."

The man began stepping backwards but answered her. "They were fighting a-and then they just fell into the ground. When I got over there, there was no hole or anything. They were just…gone."

He shrieked at an octave he didn't know he was capable of as Toph bent the ground underneath his feet closer to her. Their faces were a feet apart. "You are going to show me exactly where you saw this happen once I get my team ready. For now," A chair used for waiting visitors came towards them at once. The chief of police sat him down. "you are going to wait here. Somebody! Watch this man!"

The crowd of officers scattered, some going towards the control room and a number to guard the man. Toph turned on her heel and stomped her way back to her office, her husband silently following. When the two entered her office, Satoru felt the metal door swing inches away from his body and slam closed.

"Listen, I actually need you to go. Bye."

He put a hand on his hip. "Yeah, because I got that message by the way you shut the door with me on this side of it."

Obviously, Toph was too frustrated to think about the mistake. "It doesn't matter, damnit! I don't have time to argue with you today. This conversation was pointless anyways. I am right, so just leave, Sat."

Instead, Satoru responded with a question. "You seemed to know the description of the victims fairly well. It wouldn't happen to be one of your daughters, would it? And by the way you know the description of the boy, he must be…what…a boyfriend?"

"Wow. You know, you would have made a decent cop. Too bad you wasted your talents on engineering."

"I couldn't have been entirely right."

"You're right."

"I am?"

"Yeah. You're right that you're wrong. It's a family friend, not a boyfriend. His brother is the boyfriend."

Satoru sighed. "Oooooh. So close."

Toph was turned around and facing her desk. Her hands fidgeted with fixing the metal spools at her waists. Her head lowered so that her bangs could hide the amused smile starting to grow on her. She shook it off at once. No, no, no. "Didn't I ask you to leave?"

Satoru put a hand to his heart. "I'd be happy to help, Toph. I'm not useless."

"Really?" She turned around and leaned on her hand set upon the metal desk. "And what could a grease hog monkey like you possibly help with on a rescue mission?"

"Well, if they went underground, then obviously we are going to be searching the sewage system. I don't know if you remember, but I did help Sokka draw up those plans with the architects years ago. I'm sure it hasn't changed much. If I can get a copy of the blueprints and with your seismic sense, we should be on our way."

His reasoning had almost convinced her, but she wouldn't let him win that easily. "Sokka's here. I could just use him."

"Of course that wouldn't be a problem." He mumbled under his breath. Unfortunately, being born blind meant highly developed hearing.

"And what is that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing, nothing." Satoru had decided he would save the screaming matches for when they were actually arguing about something he cared about. "But anyways, two people are better than one. Especially when that one has been working on the council for the last decade. He'll be a bit rusty."

"Hey-"

"You know I'm right, Toph." His arms crossed. Game set and match. The low growl that emanated from her throat was all the satisfaction Satoru needed. "So this is what it feels like to be needed."

"Alright, smart ass. Listen here." The chief of police walked up to him violently and caused him to bend backwards slightly. She had always been the dominant in their relationship. For Satoru, that wasn't necessarily a bad thing depending on the situation. But as of right now, it was terrible. "Just because you proved a point doesn't mean you can start spewing out shit comments like that. You are still wrong and you will always be, get the picture? I don't think you understand the amount of hatred I have for you, especially standing over you right now. That's right, I'm standing over you because you were the mistake I made all those years ago. Nothing else that happened after you gave up on this," Her finger pointed between them. "was a mistake. It was all you, Sat. You were definitely the mistake."

The fire fueling her fury was stomped on when she felt his hand come and grab her wrist.

Her ears twitched at the recognizable chuckle. "I honestly forgot how beautiful you are when you're mad."

Now, it was Toph's turn to start leaning back in an effort to get away from him. "Fuck off."

"I also forgot how…attractive it was when you used such foul language."

She only gave him silence, lost for words. Toph didn't struggle like this with anyone. As much as it killed her inside, Satoru wasn't just anyone.

Just as sudden as the gesture was, Satoru released her wrist from his clutch. The chief of police backed away until her thighs touched the desk behind her. On the opposite side, Satoru dug his hands into his pocket, a neutral expression on his face. "I'm sad to hear I was a mistake for you, Toph. I don't regret marrying you at all. You were right. I didn't just come here for a visit. I was anticipating a…reconciliation of sorts."

His words were the oxygen to bring her fire back to life. "You must be out of your damn mind if you think I'm ever going to get back together with you."

"You've made that quite clear, Toph."

"I don't give people who fake death second chances. At least now I know that if you really did die in the explosion, I wouldn't have to think about giving you a second chance."

He sighed. "If I had died that night, maybe you'd still love me."

"Well you didn't, so we'll never know. As of right now, you are just wasting my time."

"I wasn't expecting you to run into my arms and forgive me. I knew that for sure."

Toph just scoffed. "Well, I wouldn't stoop down to such cliché actions in the first place."

Satoru just ignored her comment and continued his explanation. "Nonetheless, I still want to be friends. You have always been the easiest person for me to talk to. No matter how much you acted like you didn't care, you always listened. I don't have anyone like that for me anymore. So you may say that getting married was a mistake, but meeting you all those years ago wasn't. We were friends first before anything complicated happened. Let's just go back to that time."

But she knew that things couldn't go that way. Everything got permanently complicated for an important reason and Satoru had no clue that they would be searching for that reason in a few minutes. That reason was lost somewhere in the Republic City sewage system.

"Get out of the way."

"Toph, please-"

"No really." The chief of police took it upon herself to clutch Satoru's clothing and pull him to the side, away from the path of the door. Seconds later, the metal door to her office were shoved open and three individuals stood out of breath.

"Toph, you aren't going to believe this-"

She interrupted Aang at once. "The kids are missing. Yeah I got the memo."

Katara hugged her husband's arm worriedly. "We can't find Tenzin or Su- what is going in here?"

Sokka followed in her sister's shock. "What the hell!?"

Before Toph could explain anything, the chairman of the council had already closed the distance between himself and the man still being touched by her hand. The water tribe warrior's fist pulled backwards and collided with Satoru's face, sending the engineer straight to the ground. Sokka stood over him with his fist still clenched as he watched the engineer spit out drops of blood.

"How are things, Sokka?"

At that, he picked Satoru up by his clothing and pushed him hard against the wall of Toph's office. "Just dandy. I've been wanting to do that for years."

"The pleasure is all mine."

Sokka turned to Toph who leaned against one foot, arms crossed. "What is this dumbass doing here?"

The chief of police looked indifferent. "He's visiting, apparently."

"What do you think you are doing? You are going to wish you had died once I'm done with you." He pulled his fist back once more.

Aang jumped at his brother in law at once and pulled him off. Sokka twisted and fell back towards his sister. Katara caught him before he could fall all the way down. What the group didn't expect was the avatar to turn towards Satoru and blast him with air, sending him to hit the back wall hard. The engineer just groaned.

"Aang!" His wife yelled in surprise.

"How could you do that to Toph?!"

The chief of police had had enough. Her metal cables flung out of the spools at her waist and wrapped her childhood friend effectively restraining his arms and legs. She bent the cables to force him down to the ground. "Alright, you are going to cool it, Twinkle Toes. Two dumbasses in my office are enough."

"Hey! Who are you calling a dumbass?!" Sokka yelled back at his best friend. Katara just rolled her eyes and bent some water out of her pouch. She brought her brother's arm to a spot on the wall and froze his hand to the metal walls. "What the-"

"Shut it, Snoozles."

The healer in the room made her way to Satoru on the floor. She checked carefully making sure nothing was broken. When she determined that he was only suffering with a minimum amount of bleeding from his mouth and a slight headache, he left him to speak with Toph. "He'll be fine."

Katara watched the pale jade eyes roll. "I don't care about that right now. Did I hear you right earlier? Tenzin and Su are missing?"

"Yeah. Tenzin isn't one to not leave a note. Furthermore, he doesn't usually go out this late at night. Suyin was with him on the island so I could only assume they were together."

"Well isn't today just my lucky fucking day."

The waterbender winced at her language but nonetheless, questioned her. "Why? You're saying that like there is something else wrong."

Toph's hand came up to wipe her bangs away from her face for a minute. "I got some fantastic news for you, Katara."

"What?"

"Lin and Bumi are missing as well."

Aang, Katara, and Sokka all yelled out in sync. "WHAT?!"

Toph sighed frustrated.

The avatar attacked her first with questions. "Why didn't you call us immediately? Were you just expecting us to come here?"

"Ugh. My old husband comes back from the dead, one of my kids is gone along with the avatar's first son, I'm relying on a frightened old man to guide us. You tell me how you can focus on anything with a day like mine." Toph scowled fiercely. "And now as a total, both my kids have disappeared along with the avatar's only sons, one of them being the only airbender born in the past one hundred years. I think I'm about ready to retire."

Katara's hand came upon her shoulder. "Well, we're all here now. We are going to find them. Once we find them, we find the people that took them and my motherly instincts are going to kick into full gear."

"Absolutely." Toph's eyes narrowed.

The two women released Sokka and Aang from their restraint. The men got up silently without retort. They brushed off their clothes and stood by both Toph and Katara.

Satoru pushed himself onto his feet. He spat on the floor one more time. "I thought you were assembling a team?"

Toph laughed in the perfect way to make her former husband feel immensely stupid. The chief of police gestured at the three people surrounding her.

"This is the team. Always has been."

I can't stop writing for this story. The plot is really vivid in my head. So obviously this chapter focuses on Toph and the others. I promise the next chapter is just for the kids. I can't wait to write that chapter either. So what do you guys think? Leave a review and tell me how you think this arc is progressing! Is the gaang going to find the kids? Who captured the four of them in the first place? Is Team Avatar going to be able to cooperate with Satoru with them? We'll see!