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"Hey."

"Yeah?"

"It would be totally awesome if we get grandchildren together."

"Ha ha ha. Yeah. It would be totally awesome."

"And they would be totally awesome like me when they grow up. The greatest earthbenders in the world."

"I'd rather have them as airbenders. You know? Populate the Air Nomads again?"

"Well... I guess I'd understand. I just have to live with the fact that my grandkids would be wimpy. You know? Like their grandfather."

Tenzin was outside, ignoring the pouring rain. He was wearing totally different clothes than his usual Air Nomad colors so as to avoid attention. He was in a district wherein a councilman would be unfit to be seen. He even sported a hat and a pair of black gloves to hide his arrows. It was a thing he hated since, like his father, he was very proud of his blue tattoos.

But this time he would make an exception. He was already in front of his destination. It was a pub. It's washed out sign was already about to fall off being a few centimeters off on it's right side. He sighed at this but that was not really his intention on being there.

So he entered the building.

He found her drinking alone on a stool in front of the bartender's stand.

Tenzin sighed and shook his head. He approached her and sat on the empty stool beside her. Lin ignored him but he knew his presence aggravated her. She started to shake her leg, a sign he knew all to well that she wanted to leave soon. Very soon.

The bartender approached him Tenzin. The airbender was glad he did not recognised him and was about to refuse an order but the young man was already in front of him so Tenzin raised a finger and the bartender quickly understood to give him a shot. Smooth fire whiskey was what he served him.

Lin turned her head towards Tenzin. Her eyes widened as he drank the strong alcohol in one gulp.

As for him, he wanted to spit the liquid. He felt his eyes get teary but he wanted to relate to the woman beside him. The liquid burned his throat and as it traveled down to his stomach, he felt the warmness that made his guts boil.

Lin took the small glass away from Tenzin and gave it back to the bartender. "What are you doing here, Tenzin?" She hissed.

"Your subordinates told me you were out drinking." Tenzin replied flatly. He knew it was not the answer she wanted to hear and to his expectation she grunted as a reply.

"Walk away Tenzin. Stop ruining my night." She said.

"I haven't done or said anything." He replied. He wanted to say yetbut stopped himself.

Lin sighed, frustration lingering on her. She turned and stood up but Tenzin took her wrist gently. He knew all too well that she will try to break way from his grip and she did.

"I don't want to see you again here." And she walked away, leaving the bar.

Tenzin turned to the wooden surface of the bartender's station. He rested his elbows there while he rested his chin on his interlocked fingers.

Lin.

She took it pretty hard when her men got captured by the Equalists. That was one thing he had always disapproved of her personality. She blamed herself wholly.

A letter from a distant cousin, a son of Toph's own cousin, had written to him a month after they broke up. He didn't want to open it for he was sure that it probably contained disappointment for his decision of ending their eighteen-year relationship for the sake of procreating. He even told himself that it was not his fault. It was his duty to spread the Airbenders, a task his father failed to do when he only managed one.

Tenzin never learned of the letter's contents until last night. Jinora gave it to him when she rummaged an old chest. Pray tell, he told himself, what would have happened if his other children were the one to discover the letter. He praised his eldest for her respect of privacy.

When the letter was on his hands he trembled. But it has been years since Lin and him broke up. He might as well read it.

The contents of it are what made him go and find Lin in the first place. He knew it would have been too late to talk about their separation but it was not late to comfort her about her captured subordinates.

He got a surprise though when he opened it.

Tenzin.

I know you have a duty to the airbenders and to your father. But was it really necessary for our love to end? I'm so sorry for my choices. I know we are not getting younger but please give us a chance again. I love you so much. I have realized I do want to bear your children.

I know what I told you then and I don't care what I said. What I know is that it was my own selfishness that made me refuse to bear a child. I always kept telling myself that I'm scared for I know I am reckless. Holding for a life is hard but two? I just don't want to disappoint you and myself. Especially myself.

But I know my own insecurities will not help me. I will have to face bearing a child and at the age of 34 my body won't be able to carry a child for you soon.

I'm sorry for everything but please let us try again. I am willing to try for you and for our future child.

I love you, always.

Lin

Tenzin felt himself tear up.

He felt gentle tapping on his shoulder. It was the bartender.

"Hey buddy. Was that your friend?"

"Yes."

"She didn't pay."

Aang looked at Toph with a mocked ego. But he knew her all to well to forgive her immediately. Besides she couldn't see his hurt expression anyway. He just smiled with her as he looked at their children sleeping side by side. Although he did felt sorry for Tenzin since Lin took away his favorite pillow.

He tapped Toph's shoulder. She nodded, turned away, and Aang closed the door.