(A/N)- *kicks down door* HAPPY NEW YEAR HAVE AN INTERLUDE CHAPTER!

Can't believe I'm almost at the home stretch for Season One, finally. I hope in the New Year to update this more consistently (but we all know how well that's been working out lol) but for now enjoy this little break from the main story.

Disclaimer: *begrudgingly looking at the Netflix show* Maybe it can have SOME rights?

Interlude: Oogies

Toph picked up a change of vibrations in his earthbending echos, soft fleshy waves rather than smooth solid stone ones, and tilted his head slightly, listening to the heartbeat to see if he could identify them.

One-two, one-two, one-two, it sounded like it might be... Sokki?

Taking a chance at guessing it, Toph crossed his arms and nudged out with his foot, finding a shoe that felt very Water Tribe, all velvety leather and fur. "Sooo any particular reason you're being an obstacle on the floor, Sokki?" he asked.

There was a heavy sigh and then a smack of skin on skin like the girl had splayed hands over her face and was wearily smearing them down her cheeks.

"Katar and Angka are in there doing that thing again," she complained in a low grumble.

"What thing?" Toph asked, blinking and genuinely clueless.

"You know, that thing where they're all—" Displaced air swishes followed, and Sokki pitched her voice up a few levels higher in a heavily sarcastic mimic of the two. "Oh Ankga, I love you sooooo much!" Several wet kissing noises followed. "You're the best thing that's ever happened to me!" More sloppy noises. "I just want to hold your hand and sit close to you and be yours forever!"

Sokki ended her tirade with an over-exaggerated gag of disgust.

"All that mushy stuff," she finished.

A beat.

"...So normal boyfriend-girlfriend things," Toph concluded flatly.

He could feel Sokki's full-body shudder.

"It gives me the oogies."

Bemused smile taking over his face, Toph turned his shoulder to lean on the same wall Sokki was pressed up against. "You know, they've been dating for a year," he pointed out. "You're going to have to get used to it at some point."

More displaced air with Sokki's sharp gestures. "It's my brother, and my best friend," she argued. "I am never going to get used to it."

Toph's grin widened. "Wait until they're ready to have babies."

He didn't need to see to picture the way Sokki's face curdled in disgust.

"Oh no no no, ewwwwww! Toph! Don't put that image in my head! Gross!" she complained, loudly.

Toph peeled away from the wall and cupped his hands around his mouth. "She's gonna start tracking her cycle and then wearing skimpy negligee!"

"Nooooooooooo!" Sokki wailed, clapping hands over her ears and shifting in Toph's earth sense, getting up.

Toph pursued the girl as she tried to flee down the hallway.

"She's gonna give him the come hither eyes and he's gonna go all braindead and melt into her arms!" he yelled after her.

"Shut up shut up shut up shut up!" Sokki cried as she tried to physically run away from the conversation.

He ran after her, passing by the open doorway to the room where Angka and Katar's heartbeats intertwined adorably around each other's indicating the two were snuggled up together on the divan.

"Then they're gonna get naked and bump uglies!" he shouted teasingly after Sokki, chasing her further down the hallway.

"Stoooooooooop!

Sokki was almost in tears as she pelted out of there.

Laughing, Toph ran after her.

-ATLA-

Angka glanced up in concern as she heard the ruckus behind them, craning her head over the top of the divan to see Toph chasing Sokki past the door.

"What's that about?" she wondered, settling back down comfortably into the crook of Katar's arm.

He gave a clueless and noncommittal 'I dunno' kind of noise and shrug, and pulled her closer to him, enjoying the warmth of her body as they cuddled together.

The afternoon sun slanted warmly into the room to illuminate them as they leaned into each other's sides.

(A/N)- Katar and Angka are excessively adorable and it grosses Sokki out, and Toph is absolutely going to take advantage of it. XD

Toph's perspective was fun to write this chapter.

Not sure how long the first "The Waterbending Master" chapter is gonna take, hopefully two/three weeks, in-between some other fics, but we'll see.