A/N: Hey everybody, I hope you like this little blurb of writing. I plan on hopefully making this a series of one-shots revolving around some of my favorite characters, Lin and Toph. Happy Reading!
Starting off the Day on a Most Unhappy Foot
Lin slowly opened her eyes and stretched her hands upwards to the ceiling, flexing her fingers as she drifted towards wakefulness. Her head lay on her pillow, wreathed in soft dark hair as she contemplated getting up. The morning was already well awake, streams of warm orange sunlight poured into her tiny bedroom through the open window.
"Ugg" she sighed to herself, wishing the sun would just go back to sleep for another hour or two. She knew her mother would be awake, and would soon come in to break any hope of falling back into a deep sleep again.
Lin knew Toph, Police Chief of Republic City, would never allow herself, or her growing daughter to sleep away the day as the city woke up around them.
I wonder if she ever used to sleep in Lin mused to herself, letting her mind drift back, trying to imagine her mother at a young age, teaching the Avatar, defeating the Fire Nation, sleeping in past eight. . .
"Lin!" Toph's voice sounded through the thin door in slight frustration. "Why aren't you up yet?"
"I'm up, I'm up" Lin groaned, pressing her forehead to the pillow and burying herself deeper into the warm sheets.
"You and I both know you aren't Lin!" her mother's voice answered unhappily.
She knew she was caught, if she didn't at least press her feet to the floor now, her mother would know, without a doubt, she was not up. The thought of sitting up rolled around her sleepy mind a few more times as she clamped her eyed shut, still dreaming of a way to drift back to sleep. She rolled herself away from the noisy door, turning to face the wall when suddenly the bed itself started to topple over, trying to pour her onto the cold floor.
"Agh!" she cried as the metal bedframe turned against her, twisting sideways as she flopped downwards uncomfortably before she could even move. She hated her mother's ability to find the most obnoxious ways to wake a perfectly sleeping person, and this was by far the most unpleasant idea yet.
She pulled herself up off the floor, untangling the sheets from her legs as she grumbled dejectedly under her breath. An irritated glare glazed over her pale green eyes as she started off the day on a most unhappy foot.
The sun rose higher into the sky, illuminating every crevice of the city.
No, sleep was no longer an option, she thought glumly to herself, dragging her feet as she opened the door to the hall.
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