ATLA: Bonds Within Bending

Bed Bites

Sokka's POV

The journey back from Iroh's felt like we were walking for miles, even though we used the subway and only walked for probably 15 minutes. I thought I was going to drop dead before we even touched the apartment building, I don't even want to talk about how the fact the elevator was broken. Grumbled at Aang and Katara to say goodbye, opened the door.

"Home sweet home", I huffed whilst Toph shut the door behind us, then quickly dragged me to the couch with an excited grin on her face. She shoved me against the arm, forcing me to fall onto my back, I had no energy to sit up so I accepted my fate.

Toph sat beside me with an excited gleam in her eyes, she leant over me, her face not too far from my own, "Tell. Me. Everything".

Ah I forgot I had to explain what happened, I did tell her that I would so I can't turn her down now, "alright, alright. Give me some story telling room though won't you?", I sighed, pushing her face away gently.

"The floor is yours", She grinned and got comfortable, crossing her legs and sitting upright still facing me, eager to listen to every little detail.

"Soooo, as it turns out Aang is the avatar, he went into some weird avatar setting that makes him super overpowered and unreasonable so everyone could've died, Yue ordered her henchmen to attack him so everyone was in a mini war", I raised a brow as I was trying to remember everything that Toph would want to know.

"The fire bunch turned up and pretty much saved us from certain death, Aang got out of the state he was in, then we all went to Yue's to sleep, oh yeah we forgave her I think, I have no idea, but that's what happened", I shrugged, to be honest there's probably more to tell her but I can't be bothered.

"WHAT? HOW? wait WWHHATTTT???", Toph grabbed my shoulders and shook me with a shocked expression on her face as what I said sunk in. "THAT IS SO COOL", she continued to shake me out of excitement, "Hey let's go ask him to do it again so I can see this state thingy", She got up.

As she began to walk quickly towards the door, I pushed myself up and caught her by the waist and pulled her onto my lap on the couch, "You can't tell him anything, he doesn't know we know", I sighed as I explained to her. I was expecting a retaliation, for her to argue back or something.

She sat silently, her back leaning against my chest, has she ever been this quiet? Her hands dropped to mine that were still holding her waist, just incase she tried to run to the door again. I held onto her tighter, expecting her to take my hands off so she could make that move.

But her hands simply held onto mine, her shoulders relaxed slowly and she leant her head back, resting it under my chin. Damn she really is short, I could feel her face heat up against my neck. I didn't let go.

"Okay, I won't say anything", she mumbled, struggling to get her words out for once, she tilted her head and planted a small kiss on my neck before taking my hands off her waist and standing up again, "I'm getting a soda, do you want one?", she slowly walked towards the kitchen.

"uh yeah, thanks", I zoned out, not sure what just happened or how it made me feel. I could hear her in the kitchen as I lifted my hand and placing it on the spot of my neck where she placed her lips, what the hell does this mean?

And what do I do about it?

Azula's POV

I offered to get a car to take everyone back but everyone refused, I guess a walk could do some good or whatever, the others seemed quite icy, I didn't realise that we've all fallen out, what happened? Approaching Ty Lee's we came to a stop.