This is a prequel to All I Have Left and After the War. I'm not sure if I should continue this, because I have some ideas. Bah, idk.

Disclaimer: I don't own Legend of Korra or any of its characters. Only Kuzon and the story.

If you had told Lin Beifong two years ago that she would give birth to a baby boy who's father is Tenzin and that he would dump her for a seventeen-year-old, she would slap you.

Unfortunately, it was true.

Lin sat on her bed after finally getting her six-month-old baby to go to sleep. Although she was tired, she couldn't help wondering about her ex-lover.

Flashback

Lin and Tenzin were having dinner at Narook's Seaweed Noodlery. They both loved the noodles there and went after Lin was off from work. She noticed Tenzin didn't seem like himself. He was more distant.

She knew that she had to tell him. Her mother had just found out and was horrified. Katara found out as well and wanted to tell Tenzin, which Aang wanted to do too. But it was against Lin's wishes; she preferred to tell him herself. Besides, once she told Tenzin about the baby they could finally settle down. After years of trying, she knew that this baby would survive.

"Lin, there's something I need to tell you." Tenzin said once they finished their noodles.

"What is it?" Lin asked.

He looked at his empty bowl. "Well, this is going to be…I can't tell you this, but I have to-"

"Spit it out already, Tenzin."

He looked at her mournfully. "We're done, Lin."

"What?"

"I'm sorry, Lin. But we've been trying for ten years to have a baby but it's not working. I need to reproduce so my race will live on." Tenzin explained.

She looked at him, shocked. But their baby…

"It's Pema, isn't it?" she spat.

"Yes, Lin. She just told me she's in love with me, so maybe once she's older we can-"

Lin stood up. "Fine, then. Leave me for some…some girl!"

"Lin! Please, be reasonable. You know I will always love you, but I have a duty to my people." He was pleading now. "Lin, I love you but-"

"If you truly love me, then you wouldn't be leaving me." Lin told him and stormed out of the Noodlery, trying to fight back tears. Now her baby would never have a father.

End of Flashback

Lin walked to her son's crib and looked at him. He was asleep, his chubby little arms grabbing his green blanket. She stroked his soft ebony hair until he awoke. Kuzon sleepily opened his eyes and then giggled when he saw Lin. He reached for her and she carried him in her arms. She sat on her bed and sat Kuzon in front of her.

"You know, originally I didn't want children." she said.

His eyes began to fill up with tears and he bawled loudly. Lin worriedly took him in her arms and rocked him gently.

"Shush, shush. I didn't mean it to be that harsh." she soothed and wiped his tears. He whimpered and looked up at her.

"I just didn't know how to deal with children. It's so much work, which was the biggest argument I had with your father. Which caused him to leave us, but he left before I got the chance to tell him about you."

Lin stroked his soft cheek. Kuzon started to relax in her arms and his tiny fist clenched the sleeve of her pajamas.

"We don't need him, do we?" Lin asked her son.

He stuck his thumb in his mouth and silently watched her with his big gray eyes.

"Yes, you're absolutely right if that's a no." she said. After a minute, she said, "I'm sorry."

Kuzon cocked his head.

"I'm sorry that you have to be without a father. I know how it is. But he's with a younger woman. A woman who's sixteen years younger than him. Quite an age difference, huh? If he doesn't want me, then-"

Her son drooled a little. Lin scowled and wiped it off with her thumb and wiped it on her sheets. Kuzon scowled back, his thin eyebrows furrowing.

"Sorry if I'm being a bit too bitter. Being a mother is a giant milestone. I'm not sure what to do with you. Your grandmother Katara would be much better use to you then I would. Maybe I should send you to the North Pole so you can live with her." Lin told him.

He blew a raspberry at her.

Lin smirked. "I guess not. I wouldn't do that to you, but I don't like leaving you alone when somebody could break in and take you."

Her son put on a look that said, I can take 'em.

Lin snorted. "Yeah right. I don't even know if you can get out of your crib, let alone bend. Probably not at this age."

Kuzon did nothing, merely looked at her. His gaze reminded her of Tenzin.

She cupped his face in her arms. "You, Kuzon Beifong, are all I have left. You're all that matters and the only gift your father gave me that's worth keeping. If there's one thing I'm grateful to him for, it's you. And I swear I will protect you at all costs. And that's a promise I intend to keep."

Kuzon nodded solemnly. "Ah wuv you mama." he said in a baby voice.

Lin was stunned. They were his first words. A bit garbled, but she had understood. She smiled lovingly at her son. "I love you too, my son."

She held him tightly in her arms. He snuggled closer into her arms and started to sleep.

"All I have left of Tenzin." she muttered as she looked at her sleeping baby. "Sleep well."

Yup. It's a fail, I know. But I wanted to explore Lin's feelings of becoming a mother and how she resented Tenzin for leaving her. And writing about baby Kuzon was pretty fun even thought it was brief. He even scowls at such a young age. He's definitely a Beifong. :D