I'm back with an all-new story! MWAHAHAHA! I'm so obsessed with Linzin/Tenlin. This is my first LoK fic. Enjoy.

Chapter 1

Lin didn't turn back.

Not even when he begged her to stay, so he could reason with her and explain that this was better for both of them. That night was a mistake. It shouldn't have happened. But when he was telling her about his new love (a girl way younger than him) and babbling apologies again and again, all she could think about was what happened that night two months ago. When they both had gotten…carried away.

She couldn't be with him anymore anyway.

That young Air Acolyte-Pema-had taken Tenzin away from her. Lin didn't even get the chance to tell him. Lin refused to beg him, to tell him to come back. They both had other duties. Even if she and Tenzin did get together, there was no definite chance that their children could be airbenders. Pema was a more suitable choice for him. She was…nice and not headstrong or rude like Lin was. Or, like Tenzin had said, "challenging."

Lin would miss him, but she had to forget him.

As she walked to her small house, she absentmindedly put her hand on her stomach.

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"Kuzon! I thought I told you to stop putting your stuff on the dinner table!"

He met her eyes and grimaced. "But Mom…"

"I don't want to hear it." Lin snapped. "Put your stuff in your room. Where it belongs."

Kuzon sighed and used his earthbending to get his stuff off the dinner table. His books, clothes, and his glider were now sitting on the rock. He levitated the rock to his room, where he threw everything smack in the middle of his room.

Kuzon's room was never tidy. The green covers of his bed were half on the bed, half on the floor, his clothes were thrown on his desk, and a newspaper with a picture of Avatar Korra was on his training dummy in the corner of his room. However, the only thing in his room that stayed in its proper place was his glider. Flying on it was both terrifying and exciting. He wasn't an air bender himself, but he always thought of himself as a pro ever since his mom gave it to him for his fifteenth birthday, just four years ago.

"Now can I go out? I really wanted to walk in the park today." Kuzon pleaded.

Lin rolled her eyes and sighed in defeat. "Fine. You can go."

"Yes! Thanks Mom! I'll be back for dinner!"

"Don't go too far."

"I won't!" Kuzon promised and ran outside with his glider. The air whipped his short, black hair back a little and his gray eyes showed excitement. Truthfully, Kuzon wasn't actually going to the park. He was going to Air Temple Island.

He had many reasons to go there. One, he wanted to meet Avatar Korra. Okay, maybe he sort of had a small crush on her because she looked, well, beautiful. He was awed that she was also a probender. Well, was. Kuzon knew that ever since the Equalists attacked the Probending Arena. His mom had told him all about it. Republic City was in chaos. He kind of blamed Lin for it, because she shouldn't have resigned. She was the best Chief of Police ever! Well, maybe after Grandmother Toph. Or maybe Lin was better than Toph. Oh well! He couldn't decide. But ever since Saikhan took over, Tarrlok was using him to do his bidding. He couldn't believe it! Kuzon liked Saikhan. He used to give Kuzon candy behind Lin's back. Now, Tarrlok was gone of course, but Kuzon and Lin still held a slight grudge against him.

The second reason was that he was curious about the airbenders. He had only seen Tenzin at one of the meetings when his mom took him along to see his future as the Chief of Police. Kuzon was impressed with the tall, bald man and his powerful voice. Yet he seemed sort of familiar and Kuzon thought there was some sort of gravitational pull to him.

For some reason, Lin did not want Kuzon around Tenzin. When he asked her why, her calm face vanished for an instant and he saw that she looked broken. She quickly recovered and told him he was too busy, with a little anger in her voice. But Kuzon was convinced there was something she didn't want to tell him about the air bender so he dropped the subject.

When he finally reached Yue Bay, he flew over it to Air Temple Island. Kuzon landed as quietly as he could on a tree. He climbed swiftly down with his glider and froze when he heard a little girl's annoying voice.

"C'mon Jinora! Let's play hide-and-go-seek! Or we could fly around the island with our gliders! Ooh! Maybe we can find some baby crocodile-birds!"

Kuzon heard a sigh of annoyance and peeked through the branches. An older girl with brown hair and pale skin was holding a book and trying to ignore the younger girl, who had dark hair and snow white skin. He covered his ears. He immediately thought that someone should kill her, she was that annoying.

"Ikki, why don't you go bother one of the Air Acolytes?" the girl named Jinora suggested, obviously trying to get rid of her.

"I already did. They told me to go bother you!" Ikki said happily and continued to chatter with the older girl.

Kuzon felt a strange sense of pity for Jinora.

"Bother Dad then, or Mom. Maybe Meelo." she said to Ikki.

Ikki said, "Okay! I'll go bother Dad!" She skipped away and hollered, "Daddy!"

Jinora sighed in relief. Then Kuzon started to panic. He lost his footing on the branches and he heard the rustling of the branch. Jinora looked in his direction and saw him. His palms began to sweat and he plummeted to the ground.

"Oh my gosh! Who are you? Are you okay?" Jinora asked, helping him up.

Kuzon rubbed his head. "Yeah, I'm fine. Sort of."

He extended his hand for her to shake. "Kuzon."

"I'm Jinora. Where'd you come from?" she asked, now intrigued by him.

"I came from Republic City. I kind of crashed here when my hands slipped from my glider." he lied and showed her his glider.

"Wow! How did you get a glider? I don't think you're an Air Acolyte." she frowned. Jinora was puzzled.

Kuzon mentally cursed himself. "Um, someone gave it to me. I like using it. It's really cool, flying in the air."

"Yeah it is. I'm pretty good at it myself and I'm only ten. How old are you?" Jinora asked.

"Nineteen."

"Oh! Hey, you remind me of someone."

He backed away from her nervously. "Do I?"

"Yeah! Um, not Mom, or one of the Air Acolytes. Certainly not Oogi…" she muttered.

"Well, I should go." Kuzon said and started to leave.

"No, wait! Don't go. Sorry if I made you uncomfortable. If you want, I can show you the island." Jinora offered.

Kuzon tried to fight his curiosity unsuccessfully. He gave Jinora a small smile. "Okay. Let's go."

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"Here are the dorms! And over there, way back there is the meditation pavilion. And over there are the White Lotus's sentries quarters." Jinora showed Kuzon, pointing to everything that she named.

A dark haired boy with pale skin and gold eyes walked towards them from the men's dormitories. . The boy was slightly taller than Kuzon. He wore a frown on his face and looked a little surprised that Jinora was accompanied by a stranger

"Hey, Jinora. Who's your friend?" the boy asked

Jinora smiled pleasantly at him. "Mako, this is Kuzon. Kuzon, Mako."

They shook hands. Mako had a firm grip. Kuzon bit his lip as he let the slight pain subside. Then he remembered. Mako was the former probender guy. He was a member of the Fire Ferrets.

"You from Republic City?" Mako asked.

"Um, yeah."

Mako pursed his lips. "Then how come I've never seen you before?"

"I spend most of my time working in the Metalbending Police Force." he answered, straightening up a little.

Mako nodded disapprovingly. "Were you there when they arrested me, my brother, and Asami?" he asked demandingly.

Kuzon shook his head calmly. "Nope. When my mother quit, so did I. There wasn't any point to stay there."

"Your mother…" Mako muttered thoughtfully. Then his eyes widened. "No way. You're Beifong's son!"

"Yeah. I am." Kuzon replied proudly.

"I never knew Lin had a son." Jinora said. "Who's your dad?"

He looked at the ground. "I don't know. My mother said he doesn't know I'm alive."

"Oh. Sorry, man." Mako said sympathetically.

Kuzon shrugged. "Whatever." he said. "I don't need to know he is anyways."

Mako turned to Jinora. "Do you know if Korra's doing alright? I can't check on her because your dad won't let me. He said I'm being too obsessive about her health."

"Korra's fine, Mako. And Dad's right. You worry too much about her."

Kuzon's eyes widened. "Korra? Avatar Korra? She's here on this island?"

"Yeah, but she's recovering from Tarrlok's attack. Hopefully she'll be fine." Mako informed him and bit his knuckle in worry.

"Oh."

Jinora said to Mako, "Dad's right. You are really worried about Korra. I think," she smiled mischievously. "you LIKE her."

Mako blushed and scowled at her. "What? No I don't! She's my friend! I'm just worried about her. I'm with Asami!"

She shrugged. "You're in denial, Mako. C'mon Kuzon. Let's go talk to someone else. Someone who actually KNOWS WHO THEY LIKE!" Jinora yelled at Mako, making him blush more.

A gorgeous black haired girl with mesmerizing green eyes came out of the women's dormitories. She looked at Jinora, then at Kuzon, then at a very red Mako.

"I heard shouting. What's going on?" the girl asked Mako.

Mako gave Jinora an evil glare that clearly said, I'll kill you later.

Jinora smiled at him deviously then she turned to the uncomfortable earthbender standing beside her. "Do you want to meet my dad?"

"Tenzin?" Kuzon asked nervously. "Um, I don't think so…" He looked at the sky and it was already getting dark. He needed to get home and he wasn't sure what Lin would say about him meeting Tenzin.

"Oh. Well, maybe another time. Can you come tomorrow?"

"Maybe." he said carefully. "Maybe after work."

"Okay. Bye Kuzon!"

"Bye Jinora." he said and flew away on his glider towards Republic City.

It seemed like the longest ride back home. Throughout the whole time, he was distracted by his adventure to Air Temple Island. He was disappointed that he didn't see the Avatar, but at least he got a tour of the island. Jinora seemed pretty cool and it was funny seeing Mako blush and spaz when Jinora accused him of liking Korra. That made him uncomfortable too since he liked Korra as well. She was his type of girl. Beautiful, amazing, strong, and rebellious. The kind of girl who wouldn't give him any time of day. Kuzon sighed. Looked like she was already Mako's.

He arrived in front of his house. He opened the front door and found Lin tapping her fingers on the table, looking at her soup that had now gone cold.

She looked up at him and gave Kuzon one of her signature scowls. He scowled back. It was some sort of a greeting for them but he could tell there was something wrong. Her cowls weren't usually that angry.

"Kuzon."

"Mom."

She stood and glared at him as he sat across from her, drinking the soup. "Where were you?"

He lied before placing the spoon down. "At the park."

"Really?"

"Yup."

Lin slammed her fist on the table. Kuzon flinched. "I went there for awhile. I didn't see you there."

He placed another spoonful of soup in his mouth. "That's too bad. Maybe you didn't check the whole park. It's pretty big, you know."

"I know. I did search the whole ground. Ten times, Kuzon, ten times. I should have been able to spot you. I was there for an hour." Lin growled.

Kuzon gulped. "Oh. Um, maybe you were unlucky."

"No Kuzon. I don't think you were at the park at all."

He drank more soup before replying, "Oh really? So where do you think I was?"

"I don't know. I was expecting you to tell me."

Kuzon clenched his grip harder on the spoon. If she found out, she would tell him it was too dangerous to get caught up with the airbenders and Team Avatar. Even though he didn't get the chance to meet them all yet.

Lin noticed he was bending the spoon. "Kuzon, you're going to break the spoon." she pointed out.

He noticed and he set it down. "I'm not telling you." he said stubbornly.

She bit her lip. He was stubborn. Like Toph. "You'd better, Kuzon. I was worried about you. What if the Equalists got you? I'd never forgive myself if I lost you or if you lost your bending."

This was one of the few times when Lin expressed herself clearly to her son. This was one of the times that he was reminded that she cared about him. Her own mother had done it in other ways, but she had trouble telling people how she felt. It was hard. There was only one person who she trusted wholly and told everything to. She shuddered slightly in the memory. She looked away.

Kuzon suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of guilt.

"All you need to know," he said carefully. "is that I was safe, Mother. Don't worry about me. I'm nineteen. I can take care of myself."

"Don't do anything you're going to regret though. Okay?" Lin asked.

He gave her a reassuring smile. "Okay, Mom."

Done! Tell me what you think of this!