Chapter 1 - Rings Is Dumb

"Lisn, lisn," Toph slurred. "Lismn. I godda great idea. Greadidea. Lisn." She had to lean close to him to be heard over the DJ. The evening was well underway, almost all of the guests dancing under the balloons and the "Congratulations Katara and Zuko!" banner. Practically everyone had been drinking, except for Suki because foetal alcohol syndrome was frowned upon, so everyone was noisey. And it was a big ballroom, in a big hotel, in Vegas, so there were lots of people dancing and the music was loud too. But Toph was determined that Aang should hear her, so she made it happen.

"'M lisnin," Aang agreed. They were both hugging the bar, practically too drunk to move. Zuko's uncle Iroh was paying for the wedding, so the bar was open and they had both been partaking freely. Toph had long since kicked her heels off and Aang had lost his bowtie somewhere. Which was a shame because he really liked that bowtie.

"'M thinkin'," Toph said, raising a finger in a rough approximation of a lecturing pose. "'M thinkin' everyone's married. Sokk' 'n' Suki's married, an' now Zatara and Kuko're—" She interrupted herself to burst out laughing at her mistake, and Aang joined her once he caught up with what happened. They didn't stop laughing for a long time, but that was okay. Everyone else was dancing and the bartender was used to it. When they'd finally tamed the hilarity—though relapses kept them giggling for quite some time—Toph continued, "What'm thinkin' is, why don't we compee—complene—finish the set? Why don't we married? We like each other, right?"

"Right," Aang agreed. All of this was rolling along very reasonably as far as he was concerned. They were best friends, and had both admitted the other was on their Would Totally Bang lists, and really what else was there? "Les go married. Ger married." But then something occurred to him and he became overwhelmingly sad. "I dun hava ring fer you though."

"S'okay," Toph reassured him, pushing herself up from her barstool. "Rings is dumb."

A/N

I wrote this based on a goofy conversation with Zutarawasrobbed, so major credit goes to her for this idea. Hope you like it! :)

This is 9 chapters long, and I'll probably put one up every couple of days.

All characters are owned by Bryke, Nick, and Viacom.

E.I. signing out.