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Seven figures where huddled around a sad little campfire, while the summer moon was shining on them in pity above the Western Air temple.

They failed during the invasion. All the adults told Aang, Katara, and Sokka to take the young warriors, while they where forced to surrender and where lead to a fire nation prison until Aang and his followers attacked again.

Haru and the Duke made shapes with their hands in the shadows of the fire. Teo and Toph where in deep conversation about their disabilities but how they over came them. Surprisingly they where both blushing…who would have thought? Sokka stared blankly at the moon, obviously still contemplation about Suki and the things Azula told him. This left Aang and Katara, leaning on each other, watching the rest of their newly formed group.

But one thing was on both of their minds. The second before Aang left to go to the empty Fire Nation Palace, he kissed Katara. On the lips.

They hadn't spoken a single syllable about this gesture of attraction, but now that they sat so close, leaning on one another for support, it seemed inevitable.

"Aang…?" Katara asked tentatively. He looked up at her, his steely eyes shining in the starlight.

"Yeah, Katara?" he asked hesitantly, knowing what she was about to ask anyway.

"I wanted to know why - before you left to go the palace – you sort of…"

"Kissed you?" Aang finished. Suddenly he was feeling braver that he really was. She nodded, and looked towards her ankles, trying desperately to hide her blushing face. Aang sighed.

"I was afraid I would never get to again." Aang told her truthfully. Now it was his turn to hide his reddening face.

"What I'm trying to ask Aang is – well – what exactly is, uh, going on between…us?" she asked saying the last word in a hoarse whisper. Aang was silent. "Why did you kiss me?" she asked him softly, now biting her lip in anticipation.

Their eyes where locked so intensely that they didn't even notice Teo and Toph listening in.

Aang's mind went back and forth; to tell Katara, or to lie to her? He released a breath he didn't know he was keeping.

"Because…Katara, I-I don't know. I can't tell you." Aang told her. He was about to reveal the truth – that he was falling in love with her – but he lost his courage as quickly as he received it. Katara looked slightly heartbroken.

"Oh. I just thought that maybe, you –err- might have some…feelings for, uh, me or something…" Katara mumbled, severely disappointed.

"What if I did?" he asked boldly. She stared blankly, and a smile played on her face.

"Do you?"

"Do you?"

Neither of them where about to budge.

"For God's sake you too!" Toph called from across the campfire, the Earth beneath her denting in her outburst. "You're practically in love! Just go somewhere Sokka can't see you, and make out already!"

Aang fell off the log he had been resting on, and Katara rapidly ran her fingers through her hair, both laughing at Toph's 'joke'. They caught eyes, and realized that their secrets had been let loose. Aang sat back up and Katara disentangled her fingers from her hair.

"Why don't we go for a walk?" Katara suggested. Aang nodded, while Sokka remained oblivious to her sister and the Avatar's severely spilled secret.

Teo and Toph sat giggling at their 'master plan'- or rather Toph's ability to shout other people deepest and darkest feeling in the rudest manner she could come up with in a couple seconds notice.

"Sugar Queen's heart beat was so fast I though she'd had a stroke!" Toph said through laughs. Teo laughed along with her, and wondered if she cared that he couldn't walk. The laughter quickly died down, and the two sighed. Suddenly they where both very serious, frowning thinking about how uneventful THEIR love lives would be.

"Life sucks for us, eh?" Toph asked him sadly.

"What? With you being blind and me not being able to walk?" he asked, answering it himself, "I don't think so. You can see with vibrations, tell when people are lying, and even bend metal…you're amazing…" he complimented her, and she blushed wildly, surprised at his care.

"Yeah, well you get to fly around, and … uh see and stuff…" she told him, doing her best to give a compliment. Teo chuckled.

"Thanks."

Sokka came out of his daze, and looked over at Teo and Toph. He was shocked to see how rapidly their friendship had sprouted. He didn't think he had ever seen Toph giggle. It just – wasn't something Toph did. After all she was – well Toph.

As Sokka contemplated if Teo and Toph would ever fall in love, somewhere not too far away a brave young man in a tomato red air balloon, drifted closer and closer, not worried about containing his grin.

The Ex-Prince Zuko hung his head out of the swiftly traveling balloon. He considered the fact that when he reached the Avatar – or Aang he should call him now – when he reached Aang's temporary hide out, how they would react.

The water-bending girl would surely not trust him – especially after the decisions he made in Ba Sing Sa. He sighed in regret. What would his mother think of him if she knew?

His frown lightened, and broke out into a grin at the hope of his mother being alive out there somewhere. Just one question; Where?

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