Verity (jokeshopgirl) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2013-08-12 17:29:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, toph bei fong, verity |
Who: Toph Bei Fong and Verity
When: After This Exchange during the Body Swap Plot
Where: Picking up Toph, then the aquarium
What: Girls night out, Ver has to show Toph... everything.
Rating/Warning: Low/None
Status: Complete
Verity was pretty excited to get to show her friend things. There were so many things that Toph hadn’t seen before, Verity wanted to show her them all. Maybe the movies weren’t the best place to start. Maybe something else would be better? She pulled up to the curb and popped out of the car to head up into the house and ask for Toph.
Except Toph was already outside, peering at everything and anything she could, because -- well. This wasn’t a chance she got very often. It was a little funny when Verity walked right past her -- and who wouldn’t? Toph was normally a short, spunky looking chinese girl with brightly colored hair. And today? Well. She was a skinny blonde.
The only reason she knew it was Verity was because the woman walking by her was obviously pregnant. Telltale give away, right?
“Yo!” She said, grinning stupidly.
Telltale. Verity spun around at the sound of the ‘yo’ and broke into a grin. “Toph? Seriously? This is what you look like when you can see?” She teased, then reached forward to give her friend a hug.
“Apparently,” Toph said, returning the hug with more enthusiasm than she usually might. Sure, this probably sucked for everyone else, but fuck if she wasn’t enjoying it. “It’s also what I look like as a blonde. A blonde who needs a sandwich. Wanna get lunch? Somewhere cool to look at, obviously.”
Verity laughed. “Obviously. Come on, you’re asking a pregnant woman if she wants lunch? Please.” She turned to lead Toph back to her car. “Where do you want to go? Maybe...” She was trying to think of somewhere that had interesting things to see--and was keeping in mind that Toph could like, see things through her Earth Bending stuff. “Um... the Aquarium?” Water wasn’t earth, right?
It sure wasn’t. Toph rose an eyebrow and then gave an easy nod. “Yeah, sure,” she agreed as she piled into Verity’s car and looked around the inside of it. She was really just looking around at everything. A lot. “Let’s see some fuckin’ fish.”
Verity laughed and pulled away from the curb. The drive to the aquarium wasn’t that long, but they got to see some cool stuff along the way. Okay, so maybe Verity took a scenic route just to be able to show Toph some pretty awesome things. They pulled up, walked in, bought tickets, and soon they were looking at some fuckin’ fish.
And otters.
Otters were awesome. Toph liked them immediately. The fish were cool too -- actually she liked them a lot. It was nice to know that not everything was cute or pretty. Some of these fish were downright displeasing to look at. And that was-- well. Really nice. Somehow. It was hard to explain.
“I’m going to be kind of sad when this is over,” she admitted, while they stared at some glowing jellyfish.
“You’ve got plenty of time.” Verity said, arm looped through the other woman’s as they wandered around looking at the jellyfish. “I mean... these things last a week on average. You’ve got a whole week to enjoy it. What does Aang think?”
A week was good. It was better than Nate-vision because she didn’t have to feel weird about it, didn’t have to ask permission. And because she could look at whatever she wanted, not just what Nate was looking at. Sure, she’d prefer her own body, and she sort of missed the bending, but still.
“What?” Oh. “Hah. I haven’t spoken to Aang about it yet. Weird, huh?”
“Weird.” Verity said, moving to look at some seahorses. They were so little! So cute, though. She wondered for a moment if that meant there were problems between Toph and Aang? She should probably ask her. “Did you know that it’s the male seahorse that carries the young?” She said, pointing to one of the little creatures in the tank.
Toph stared at the tiny creatures behind the glass and gave a wistful smile. She really was going to miss seeing things. Then again, at the same time, she supposed she kind of missed her Earthbending too. She’d never really minded being blind, had never really been bitter. But getting sight kind of made her think she might be when this was all over.
“I didn’t know that. But it’s pretty badass. You tell ‘em, seahorses. Gender roles are for chumps.”
Just looking at the woman with Toph’s mind inside her could have fooled anyone. Verity didn’t really notice by looking that this was actually Toph, and not Gwen Whateverhernamewas. But when she said things like ‘Gender roles are for chumps,’ it was obvious to Verity that this was actually her blind, childhood friend and not some strange, skinny, blonde chick.
“Yeah, they mate for life, too. From what I understand. I could be wrong.” The signs up and around the room would probably tell her all kinds of groovy things about seahorses, but Verity didn’t want to stop and read them. “We should go look at the Sardines. They swim in these huge schools.”
Toph only smiled, lopsided and amused. “Yeah, alright. Let’s go.”