Avatar: The Last Airbender } Good Vibrations
Word Count: 457
Genre: Romance, Fluff!
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ships?: Toph/Aang
Characters: Toph and Aang.
→Mentions: Sokka and Zuko.
Rating: G.
Spoilers: Season 2 - Episode 6: "The Blind Bandit".
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender or any related characters. This was written out of enjoyment of the series, and no profit is being made.
Notes: Happy New Year's/Merry Belated Christmas xlovelylightx! 8D Takes place after the war ends.
Aang and Toph take a breather while traveling the world.
Good Vibrations
The Avatar exchanged an abashed smile with the mother who walked past him out the door. He spotted Toph in a spot of slanted sunlight across the store. He laughed to himself as he approached, amused by the look of sheer concentration on her face. It was so easy to forget she couldn't see.
“Amazing craftsmanship, don't you think, Miss Bei Fong?” he whispered in her ear.
She flinched away from him, bringing her shoulder up to her ear. She shoved her palm in his face and pushed him away. “Geeze, Twinkles! Walk at least a little heavier, wouldya?”
Aang laughed. “Sorry, Toph. Couldn't help but wonder why you ending up wandering to a music shop. There’s an armoury right across the street.”
She ignored this. His earthbending teacher turned back to the harp she had been… ‘observing’, for lack of a better word. “My parents used to make me play this all the time.”
Aang leaned forward to look past Toph’s bangs. Her pale green-grey eyes shifted towards his. “What?” she asked.
“You play the harp?”
“Eh,” she shrugged. “Used to at least.”
She tried in vain to ignore the note of enthusiasm his heartbeat took on. “Well, I’d love to hear you play, Toph.”
“Not in a million years, Twinkletoes.”
The Avatar cast a look around the nearby shelves and grabbed a long wooden clarinet. “I can wait a million years, if I have to.”
She turned to him, her long bangs swishing. “What makes you think I have a million years?”
The smile on his face faded immediately. “Because you’ll be with me.” He was completely serious, completely sure of it.
Her whole face softened before she could stop it. He bit the reed in the mouthpiece nervously, and if it was Sokka or Zuko or anyone else, she would’ve smacked him for property damage. But this was… This was Aang.
She wanted to kiss him right there in the store, so hard she’d press him into that shelf and knock it over and they’d get kicked out.
But instead she exhaled a long breath through her nostrils and turned back to the harp. “Alright, fine. What do you want to hear?”
---
Ten minutes later, the two brunette teenagers were thrown out onto the dusty Earth Kingdom streets, laughing hysterically. Aang stood up, offering a hand. “When you say you haven’t played the harp in a while, you mean it.”
Toph took it and stood. “Have I ever lied to you before, Aang?”
His mouth twisted in an odd line. “Well there was that one time.”
She snorted and started walking down the street. “Suck it up, you baby.”
“But that komodo rhino could’ve run me over!” he shouted as he jogged after her.
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Genre: Romance, Fluff!
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ships?: Toph/Aang
Characters: Toph and Aang.
→Mentions: Sokka and Zuko.
Rating: G.
Spoilers: Season 2 - Episode 6: "The Blind Bandit".
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender or any related characters. This was written out of enjoyment of the series, and no profit is being made.
Notes: Happy New Year's/Merry Belated Christmas xlovelylightx! 8D Takes place after the war ends.
Aang and Toph take a breather while traveling the world.
Good Vibrations
The Avatar exchanged an abashed smile with the mother who walked past him out the door. He spotted Toph in a spot of slanted sunlight across the store. He laughed to himself as he approached, amused by the look of sheer concentration on her face. It was so easy to forget she couldn't see.
“Amazing craftsmanship, don't you think, Miss Bei Fong?” he whispered in her ear.
She flinched away from him, bringing her shoulder up to her ear. She shoved her palm in his face and pushed him away. “Geeze, Twinkles! Walk at least a little heavier, wouldya?”
Aang laughed. “Sorry, Toph. Couldn't help but wonder why you ending up wandering to a music shop. There’s an armoury right across the street.”
She ignored this. His earthbending teacher turned back to the harp she had been… ‘observing’, for lack of a better word. “My parents used to make me play this all the time.”
Aang leaned forward to look past Toph’s bangs. Her pale green-grey eyes shifted towards his. “What?” she asked.
“You play the harp?”
“Eh,” she shrugged. “Used to at least.”
She tried in vain to ignore the note of enthusiasm his heartbeat took on. “Well, I’d love to hear you play, Toph.”
“Not in a million years, Twinkletoes.”
The Avatar cast a look around the nearby shelves and grabbed a long wooden clarinet. “I can wait a million years, if I have to.”
She turned to him, her long bangs swishing. “What makes you think I have a million years?”
The smile on his face faded immediately. “Because you’ll be with me.” He was completely serious, completely sure of it.
Her whole face softened before she could stop it. He bit the reed in the mouthpiece nervously, and if it was Sokka or Zuko or anyone else, she would’ve smacked him for property damage. But this was… This was Aang.
She wanted to kiss him right there in the store, so hard she’d press him into that shelf and knock it over and they’d get kicked out.
But instead she exhaled a long breath through her nostrils and turned back to the harp. “Alright, fine. What do you want to hear?”
---
Ten minutes later, the two brunette teenagers were thrown out onto the dusty Earth Kingdom streets, laughing hysterically. Aang stood up, offering a hand. “When you say you haven’t played the harp in a while, you mean it.”
Toph took it and stood. “Have I ever lied to you before, Aang?”
His mouth twisted in an odd line. “Well there was that one time.”
She snorted and started walking down the street. “Suck it up, you baby.”
“But that komodo rhino could’ve run me over!” he shouted as he jogged after her.
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