A/N: So I was eating some egg pie when this idea entered my mind and I kind of liked the idea. So I also hope you do..
Bumi stood in her doorway as she thought of alibis to avoid Bumi's send-off party. The man smirked at her and said, "Aww come on Linny. It will be fun." The earthbender quirked an eyebrow as she thought of what she was going to say.
"I can't Bumi," she snapped. "I don't want to and besides I don't want to start with a hangover tomorrow to start my shift."
"Then don't drink like there's no tomorrow," Bumi reasoned. "Just come to the party and have fun with us. Kya and Tenzin will be there, you know."
"The answer's no," she said again firmly. She was about to shut the door to his face when his snide remark made her change her mind.
"I see you still don't feel comfortable being with Ten-ten in the same room," he sneered. "Still bitter Beifong?"
"Oh please," she snapped.
"Then prove it," he chided. The man was clearly very persuasive. She bent her armor off her body and donned a denim jacket as she grabbed her purse.
"I'll take that dare my friend," she finally said. "Let's go before I change my mind and shove her face in my toilet."
"Alriiiiiight!"
Lin sat with ten bottles of beer in front of her; six of them were all drained. She peered at the airbender sitting just across her looking really red. She smirked at Tenzin as he tried to gulp another swig of the soft liquor in his glass. As his face contorted in disgust at the bitter drink, her snigger became obvious.
"What's so funny?" Tenzin asked.
"Oh nothing," she said melancholy. "I didn't know dear Pema's husband could manage to swallow ten mL of beer."
"Really Lin," he said. "It was more than ten mL."
"Right," she mocked, "Ten point one mL."
Bumi approached their table and draped an arm around Lin as he sat next to her. He whispered something to her which made her look in Tenzin's direction and laugh uncontrollably. It was actually the alcohol doing all the laughing now. Tenzin's face went five shades of red deeper as Bumi wiped a tear from his eye from the laugh he just had with Lin. "So, I did remember that Linny. Ten-ten was quite the screamer."
"What are you two talking about?" the airbender scolded.
"Just that time when you got trapped by that mountain by Omashu," Lin chuckled.
"He wasn't trapped by the mountain," Bumi corrected as he winked at Lin and took a swig of alcohol again. Tenzin's eyes widened in the realization.
"You trapped me in there, didn't you?" he pointed a finger at Lin who let out a drunken laugh again.
"I can't believe it took you thirty years to know Lin's evil doing at the time," Bumi snorted. "How was that scream again Lin, when he saw that badgermole?"
"I believe he screamed 'Mommy help' and an over-the-top girlish scream at the same time," Lin sniggered and then let out a loud howl.
"You're drunk Lin," Tenzin said in a concerned tone. "I think we should call it a night." He grabbed Lin's arm and pulled her from her sit as he put her right arm around his neck to support her. He hoisted her again as her knees gave in the weight of her. "Come on, Lin, let's get you home."
"Leave me be," she slurred. "You go home. I'll be perfectly fine."
He ignored her rant and half-carried her out the bar. On the way out, they met Kya. "Oh good, you're here, help me bring her home," Tenzin told his sister.
"Oh you'll manage," Kya said. She left them and he took his bison whistle and blew on it. A few moments later, Oogi arrived and he carried Lin and set her down on the bison's saddle.
"You are such a worry wart," she mumbled.
"You would if you were in my place," he said.
She puffed an air in mockery of what he said and threw her shoe at him as they took off. "Tell me about your perfect life, airhead. Bet it turned out how you wanted it to be, didn't you? It was supposed to be me."
He froze at what she said. Is this one of her drunken confessions again? He turned his head and looked at her. "You left me, remember?"
"Oh you wuss!" she stammered. "Fuck off! If you were in my place you would have also done the same thing."
"You want to trade places now, Lin?" he said. She snorted and as an unnoticed falling star crossed the sky Tenzin said something he wished he never said, "I just wish you know how it feels to be the last airbender. Come on, trade places with me."
Lin woke up the next morning feeling surprised as her head didn't hurt that bad at all. 'Nice, no hang over. What a surprise!' she thought. She scanned her room but was surprised to see Pema, yep, dear Pema snuggled against her. She pushed the woman away and staggered from the bed. 'Shit, what am I doing in Tenzin's room?' She ran a hand down her face but was surprised at what she felt. 'Why do I have Tenzin's beard on my face?' She shook off the thought and tried to calm herself. She was nearly as calm as a lake but when she saw herself in the mirror, she woke up the whole island.
"HOLY MOTHER OF –"
What? She cupped her sex and felt that it was elongated and then she passed out.
Tenzin woke up to a very painful pounding in the head and in a bit of a messy bed without his wife or Meelo snuggled to him. He looked at the clock at the bedside table which says 8:15 in the morning. 'Great, I just missed meditation,' he thought. He got up and nearly stumbled as he stepped on metal boots. 'Wait, this isn't my room.' He scanned his surroundings and was shocked to see that he's in Lin's apartment if he wasn't mistaken. He ran a hand on his bald-wait- "I have hair?" He looked at his chest to see two mounds and no beard to hinder the view. Just after a minute, a girl's head poked by the door.
"Oh good you're awake," she said.
"You're not Pema," Lin's voice came out of him. What? How did this happen?
"Because I'm not," the girl chuckled. "Mom, are you still drunk?"
He looked at her in a confuse manner. "Who are you?"
"It's Yan, your daughter?" the girl said, sarcasm was at the tip of her tongue.
"Lin has a daughter?" he asked her, but seemed to ask himself. She did look a lot like Lin, not to mention the uncanny smirk she was donning. She was as tall as Lin too but she looks more like his mother too.
"Are you still drunk?" the girl asked as she approached. "You're scaring the shit out of me."
"Get away from me," he shrieked and tried to bend a strong gush of air at the girl but no air came, not even a single puff.
"Are you trying to puff some fire at me or something?" Yan asked in a concerned tone again. "Look, pull yourself together, you're late for your shift and you look like some ten-wheeler truck ran you over. I mean, have you even looked at yourself in the mirror?"
'Look at myself in the mirror,' he thought. 'Good plan.' He slowly went out of the bedroom and into the hall. "I'll just do that," he said and he went to the bathroom and locked himself in. He let out a sigh but then when he saw himself in the mirror—
"ROKU'S BEARD!" And then he, too, passed out.
"Daddy," a little voice said. "Daddy wake up." Lin opened her eyes and saw one of Tenzin's airkids looking worried at him. 'Who was this again? Ginger? Mickey?' She got up from the floor and Bumi, Kya, Korra and her sidekicks where looking at her worriedly. "What are you looking at Avatar?" Tenzin's voice came out of her. "Oh can you please all leave me the fuck alone."
All of them gasped and Kya said, "Language Tenzin! There are kids here." She turned to one of them. "Jinora, bring your siblings outside." Oh right, her name's Jinora. "And tell your mother to bring that tea in."
"Bro, you got us real nervous back there," Bumi said. "I guess that beer really did some serious damage then, eh?"
"Shut up Bumi," she snapped. "I need some chicken noodle soup to clear my head."
"Ah, Tenzin? You're vegetarian," Korra pointed out.
"Vegetarian? Hah! The sorry excuse for men who don't know how to hunt?" she mocked. "Have you seen Yan?"
Bumi and Kya gasped. "How did you know about her?" Bumi asked.
"Oh maybe Lin confessed to him last night," Kya said. "Tenzin, you really seem off. I suggest we just cancel your meeting with the council."
"Oh, about that," Bolin joined in. "Councilman Tarrlok called just a few moments ago and said that you really need to be in the meeting. Chief Beifong is already there."
She suddenly stood up and said, "I'm going." 'Sweet! Now I'm going to make Tarrlok look like a fool and in Tenzin's expense! Hah!' she thought happily to herself.
"Councilman Tenzin," Tarrlok smirked. "You're late." She saw herself/Tenzin's look of surprise as she took the seat beside him/her body.
"How the hell did you steal my body?" she hissed at Tenzin.
"Lin, now's not the time to talk about this," her voice hissed back at her. "Just lay low at this meeting. I'll tell you what you need to say."
"I believe there's no need for that," Lin replied in Tenzin's voice.
The meeting bored the hell out of Lin and as Tarrlok smirked in her direction, or rather, in Tenzin's direction, she raised Tenzin's right hand. "What exactly is the purpose of this meeting, Tarrlok? To settle on new laws or to show off?"
She saw Tenzin in her body glare at her. "I'm sorry, Councilman? I was just telling the panel of the progress of the law that I passed—
"I think a more helpful law would be to cut your hair," Lin interrupted. "You clearly confuse me with your she-male looks."
"I think that was uncalled for Councilman," Tarrlok said, anger flashed in his eyes. "As I was saying before Councilman Tenzin's rude interruption, giving the non-benders a curfew lessens—
"It only makes them feel inferior," she cut him off again. "Look, all you need to do is to go to their area, show them some good lovin' and they'll surely come to their sense and not think of any rebellion. It's simple, really. You have three ponytails and not even one of them makes sense, Tarrlok. Better cut them off." She looked at her body/Tenzin and mouthed, 'You better agree.'
"I agree with Chie-Councilman Tenzin," she heard her voice say. "We should consider benders and non-benders equal in the face of law. Tarrlok, if you still pursue this curfew, they will be forced to rebel."
"See?" Lin said. "Even the beautiful Lin Beifong said it." She loved her position now. She gets to mock Tarrlok at Tenzin's expense and at the same time make fun of Tenzin.
"Anyone in favor of abolishing Tarrlok's mediocre law, show hands," she said to the panel. The other council members nodded in agreement and raised their hands. "Good, now I think our meeting's adjourned?"
"Yes, Councilman," the Earth Kingdom councilman said.
"Perfect," she said. "Chief Beifong, a word?"
"Tenzin, what the hell happened last night?" she snapped at herself looking just as confused as she it in the deserted hallway just outside Tenzin's office.
"Lin, we need to fix this but before that, why didn't you tell me about Yan?"
"You met her?" she asked.
"Yes," Tenzin answered. "When I woke up this morning, she was cooking breakfast."
Lin looked at him and was about to say something when a plump old woman came to them and said, "Hello Beifong-slash-Tenzin. I see you're enjoying your wish?"
"What do you want?" Lin asked. "And how did you know about…us?"
"I should know," the old lady said as-a-matter-of-factly. "After all I switched you." She smiled and spun around as she turned into a mischievous-looking girl. "I'm Kulit, by the way, the Spirit of Mischief."
A/N: So that's chapter one of Switched. I hoped you enjoyed it. Review your thoughts.
Until the next chapter,
-Peachy :D
HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS!