Prologue

His relationship with the Chief of Police had been short, useless, and only for a temporary pleasure. He had used her and she had complied, most unwittingly. It was the perfect heist, as it had been the girl's first intimate relationship… The game plan had changed though, when she had gotten pregnant.

Jin felt adrenaline rush through his body as he sprinted to turn the final corner. The house he was looking for stood at the end, standing high and proud above every other residence in the neighborhood. It was the house of Toph Beifong, Chief Police of Republic City's metalbenders. She was also the girl he had rendered pregnant.

He reached the house within five minutes, having stopped at a small vendor to buy a cheap, but nonetheless pretty, rose. Had the man known that Toph wasn't one for meaningless pleasantries and stupid gifts, he would have invested more wisely in a suit of armor. But since that wasn't the case, he knocked on the ebony door and awaited for an answer.

And that answer was a bruised rib. From the concrete stairs, rose a pillar which knocked him off of the Beifong house's porch and onto the dirty ground. The door opened only a second later.

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Toph Beifong's lip curled into a snarl as her feet laid eyes on Jin for the first time in four months. She had sensed it had been him at the door of course, but now, she could really see him, the pathetic low-life who had knocked her up without any consideration to how it would changed her life. The pathetic low-life who has used her, defiled her, and then dumped her, just because he had received a better offer. The pathetic low-life who would now pay, pay for ever messing with Toph Beifong.

"You've got ten seconds to explain what you're doing here before I make your life miserable." she snarled, her milky eyes focused on the man on the ground.

Jin remained silent as he shook with fear. Toph laughed mockingly. "I bet you were expecting me to be some crying, sniveling idiot who would listen to anything you said. Guess again."

"T-toph, I never meant to hurt you… I've c-come to ask for your f-forgiveness and t-to tell y-you something." The man stammered, pulling himself into a standing position. Toph was of half of the mind to knock him back down again.

"Save your lies for some other girl. Oh wait, you already did that. Remember?" Toph said scathingly before brushing a loose strand of her ebony hair out of her face. She wanted to appear as intimidating and in control as possible, not crazy and to the brink of exhaustion.

"I s-see that the baby is growing well." Jin said, attempting to change the subject. His eyes were now focused on the rounded figure Toph's abdomen was now cutting. It was outlined more prominently by her form fitting metalbending armor, something she pained to notice.

"Oh look, your ten seconds are up. Hold on tight! It's gonna be a rough ride."

"NO! WAIT!"

Toph paused. Her foot was almost touching the ground ready to earthbend Jin's sorry butt out of her neighborhood.

"What is it now Jin? Just tell me what you came here for. I've got a night shift tonight and I can't afford to be late."

"Fine, I'll cut to the chase. My family is known for their hereditary brain t-tumors… They've been in there for as long as we've known. My mother had it, my brother and sister had it, and there's the possibility our baby could have it. I just wanted to let you know…"

That was it. That was the final straw.

"SHUT UP YOU LYING PIECE OF FILTH. She's not our baby. She's mine. And I think the only reason you came here today was to see what else you could get out of me. But you know what, I've grown smarter and I'm not going to let you get anything else from me or my baby!"

"No Toph! That's no-"

Jin never got the chance to finish his sentence. Another rock pillar emerged from the ground, hitting him and sending him on his way to the Yue Bay.

Toph smirked and listened to his increasingly distant, but continuous screams for a moment before going inside to finish getting ready… She couldn't help but worrying though, if Jin's words had been true.

A/N: Was it just me or did Toph seem not-canon? I may just be fretting, but still, let me know!

Jin means gold, metal, money in the Chinese language.