Where It All Began

An Interesting Afternoon

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Zuko paced outside his tent deep in thought. The sun shined over head and beat down on him warming his core, giving him the energy he needed for the day. He had woken up late in the afternoon only to find that no one had been in the camp. He continued to walk back and forth, if there was trouble he would have been captured, so where were they?

"Looks like princess decided to grace us with her presence. Hows it goin' sparky, still sore from last night?" He heard the voice and let out a groan as he recognized the young blind earth bender who had given him quite the beating the day before; his back still ached from the memory.

"I DID tell you I would get you back for my feet." Toph said her usual goofy grin plastered on her face.

"Where is everyone?" He questioned ignoring her taunts.

"Alright, I guess your not much of a people person when it comes to conversation." She said to him. "They went out." Toph answered his question the smile disappearing from her face. He noticed her sudden change of behavior and asked if something had been bothering her.

"Awwww didn't know you cared!" She replied back to her normal self. Or so it seemed. "I'm fine. Even if I wasn't I don't think I would ask the burned exiled son of the fire lord for life counselling." she said with a wry smirk.

Zuko turned his complete attention to her and looked into her sightless eyes, ignoring how beautifully green they were. "I don't mean to pry but it's starting to get hard not to."

Her mouth formed into a thin line, she was obviously upset no matter how much she would like to deny it. "Leave it be My Lord, we have stuff to do." she stood and stretched.

"What do we have to do?" He asked confused.

"Good question." She replied

"What?" he said even more confused.

"Well, we are all alone today so might want to spend sometime thinking on what ta do. I'm going for a walk kay?" she said getting up and leaving the small clearing with a now very confused Prince Zuko standing in the middle.

Toph walked through the Forest feeling extremely agitated, why did everyone care if something bothered her? Even though she knew the answer to her own question she ignored it. Because they care. Yeah, right.

She breathed in the cool air relaxing and she thought back to earlier today.

Toph woke up to noise coming from outside. She sat up and rubbed at her eyes. Grumbling she crawled out from her earth tent and felt for the source that had woken her up so she could properly kill it. She hadn't been sleeping well lately and it did not help her mood. She felt movement in the ground and recognized Aang, Katara, Sokka and Suki.

Aang was tending to Appa and she felt his light feet touch the ground when he noticed she was awake.

"Good morning Toph." He said cheerfully.

"No twinkle toes it is NOT a 'Good' morning! What are you people doing out here! All of this noise woke me up." she said clearly agitated.

"Oh! ah, sorry, I didn't think that it would really wake you." He replied apologetically.

She let out a sigh and decided to leave it for now as Katara walked up to them.

"Hey Toph." Katara said happily.

"Oh? And what are you so cheerful about?" Toph asked.

"Ah, nothing really. Um we were going into town, And we need you to stay behind and watch camp for us OK?" Katara said, this time a little less cheerful.