The earth kept shaking harder and harder, cracks forming near the cliff side where Sokka was sitting. Toph finally felt the rumble and decided to go where it was coming from. When she got a bit closer, she felt Sokka's heartbeat and debated whether she should check on him or not. She decided on it because the pounding of feet and fists were too much for her vibration-sensing-feet.

Toph was going to storm to Sokka and demand that he be quiet. She wasn't going to let him off that easily. And frankly, she still had her head in a daze.

She breathed in and out from behind a bush and put on her mad face. Stomping her foot one by one and making the earth rumble so that Sokka would notice her.

Sokka felt her coming and was about to open his mouth to say something but was cut off by Toph's finger.

Toph stopped a few feet from Sokka and made one last hit towards the ground.

"I just ha—" she was immediately cut off by the side of the cliff cracking and breaking.

"Uh oh." they both said in unison.

Just then, the cliff fell from the earth and into an abyss.

Sokka and Toph were screaming on the top of their lungs. Sokka's scream was like a little girl at first, but then became lower when he started to call Toph. They screamed each other's names like their life depended on it. Which it did, actually.

The abyss was really deep so they had some time before they reach the bottom.

After some hectic screams, they finally got their head straight. Sokka was the first one to think ahead.

"Toph! Toph! Toph, listen to me." he said in a comforting tone, reaching for Toph.

Both of their eyes were filled with water because they knew that this would be the end of it.

Sokka finally got a hold of Toph's arms and at first she was hesitant because of the unknown touch but she later realized it was Sokka and pulled him into a tight hug. She held onto him like a koala bear, never wanting to let go. Sokka did the same.

She buried her face into his shoulder and cried more and more. "I'm so sorry, Sokka! I did this. It's all my fault. Now we're going to fall and... and... we're going to... to... die!" she cried some more and Sokka just held her tight and tried hushing her.

But they both knew who was responsible and Sokka had no control so he just cried as well, hugging Toph for what seemed the last time. He buried his face in her hair and took in her smell of earth—they smell he had so grown to love, the signature scent of him best friend.

They both cried in each other's arms.

"No, no, Toph. Don't say things like that! This isn't your fault. We shouldn't have stayed near the cliff. It's my fault, I was the one making all the noise. Now don't you go thinking this is all your doing. Because it's not, Toph! It's not!" he voice was demanding, yet comforting. He fought back the tears and embraced Toph even more.

"No, Sokka. This is all my fault! If I hadn't been stomping around this wouldn't have happened! I'm so, so sorry! Now look at us, we're falling to our deaths! We might as well be honest with each other." she said persistently, pain and fear in her words.

Sokka backed away a bit, just enough so that he would be able to look at Toph with her unseeing eyes. He held her chin between his fingers and said with a somewhat cracking voice, "No, Toph, no." She opened her mouth to protest but Sokka kept talking. "If it's anyone's fault, it's both of ours. It isn't one-sided." She nodded. "Now if we're going to be completely honest with each other, I have something to say."

"For a Sokka, he seems to be taking this pretty well. Not at all what I expected. He's just like how he was when I was dangling in the air on a battleship during Sozin's Comet. Put together and determined." Toph thought to herself.

She wiped the tears from her eyes and said before Sokka could continue, "No, I have to say something." Sokka just nodded in approval. She stammered quite a bit before realizing this would be her last chance to talk to Sokka and she didn't want to mess up.

"I've been wanting to tell you this for a long time now, but for specific reasons, I can't. Mainly, Suki." He raised an eyebrow but said nothing. "For almost three years now, I have grown to have feelings for you. I care for you more than a friend. Not just a crush. And since we don't have much time left," she shed tear, "all I can say is: Sokka, I lo—"

She was cut short by Sokka's lips pressed against hers. Almost instantly, she replied by deepening the kiss. It was just like a faint brush on the lips, but it was enough for them. That one kiss had all the emotion, the passion, the love, the feelings they had for each other. All of the doubt and hesitation and waiting was swept away with that one kiss.

It felt like eternity until parted, but none of them were gasping for air. It felt so right, so perfect, like everything stopped for them at that moment. Heaven and Earth collided for even just one second, and their lives were absolutely divine and perfect. Nothing bad surrounded them. They weren't falling to their deaths. The light of the moon shone so brightly on just them. And the others could have sworn the rest of the world was dark while that one spotlight was just on them.

Sokka could feel his surroundings getting damper and darker by the second and he knew it was almost time. He parted with Toph and looked into her eyes, brushing her bangs away. He chuckled and said oh so perfectly and sweetly, "I love you, Toph."

Tears of joy fell down Toph's cheeks and she replied with a divine, "I love you, Sokka."

They embraced each other for one last time as the ground was getting closer and closer. But at that moment, the both of them didn't care anymore. As long as they had each other, as long as they were in each other's arms until the end, and as long as they both said how they felt, nothing else in the world mattered. It was just the two of them, the dynamic duo against the world.

As they awaited the final impact, they both murmured to each other at the same time, but with all the powers