Hey guys thanks for the reviews! I love the feed back! For the person who pointed out that there were 5 children instead of four, good eye! I'm possibly planning on explaining that in a future chapter. Thanks again -Kaycee


After a few more friendly exchanges of conversation, we decide to go home and get ready for The BeiFong Honorary Dance.

Being the stiff, abrasive, hard-ass I am the one thing I cannot stand is dancing. The only day I ever dance is today and that's only to show that I have no disrespect for my mother and even then I only hover over the dance floor instead of actually dancing. The last time I actually 'danced' was when I had graduated from the academy and Tenzin threw a party for me.


"May I have this dance?" A tall bald man asks from behind me. I smirk, "Well, I don't know what my boyfriend would do if he saw me with you..." He rolls his eyes, "Lin, I think Tenzin would be ok with his dad dancing with his girlfriend." I shrug, "Well, you know how jealous he can get, but what could one dance hurt?" The airbender chuckles and takes the new officer to the dancefloor.

"I'm so proud of you Lin, watching you grow into this strong, beautiful independant woman has been a blessing to me and the rest of us." He says while swaying with her to the music. "Don't start crying on me, I already had to comfort Sokka and get him out of his hysterical fit." Aang chuckles briefly then goes back to his serious face, "Tenzin is a lucky man."

I look over to Tenzin who's sitting on the edge of a table while Bumi's getting chewed out by Ursa for god knows what reason. The avatar looks at the table as well and laughs while rolling his eyes at the young couple. "Obviously not as lucky as Bumi..." Aangs laughs get louder, now swaying faster to the rhythm of the music. Trying to catch up, I look down at my feet to see the foot placements I need have in comparison to Aang's.

Out of nowhere I'm let go of and taken back to the tables. "Now, I think your boyfriends waiting for you, hope he's not too jealous..." I laugh while Aang walks over to Katara and offers her to dance. While I start in Tenzin's direction.

The young airbenders face lights up as he sees me approach, "Thank spirits! I thought I was going to have to sit here forever! What did my father speak to you about?" I shrug and simply respond, "He just told me how proud he was of me and how lucky my you to have someone like me." Tenzin nods, "Well, my father has always been one to state the obvious. Now, can we please get away from Ursa before she blows?" He leans down and kissed my temple before grabbing my hand and leading me towards the balcony.

"Why? You don't like seeing Ursa show her Azula side, I thought you rather enjoyed it!" I sarcastically remark while rolling my eyes. "As much as I love seeing Ursa in one of her fits, I'd much rather be around my officer girlfriend on her special night." I blush, looking out at the night sky to hide my rosy cheeks.

"Don't bother I saw it." I blush harder and turn to face him. "Tenzin, now that everything;s changing, I...I want to make sure that we'll stay together, because I mean I'm gonna be at work most of the time and you have a race to continue and-" Before I could finish he wraps his arms around me, dips me and says, "Baby, you're my forever girl." and kisses me.


I roll my eyes at the thought, both in irony and how much of a goof Tenzin used to be. How all his fun natured, sarcastic side has disappeared once Pema came into the picture. Personally, I saw it coming from the start, well... my mother did first, but I saw what she was saying, "That girl has no sense of humor, she's going to suck twinkletoes jr. dry before the second date." Everyone knew she was right, even then.

Pema never had much of a sense of humor and if she did she was pretty damn good at hiding it. I'm surprised that Jinora, Ikki and Meelo had as much life and spirit as they did. I see a lot of the old Tenzin in those kids and it secretly warms my heart to see those kids when they're playing like Kaya, Bumi, Ursa, Tenzin and I used to.


"you cheated!" A ten year old Ursa screams at Bumi. "Did not! Uncle Sokka says non benders are allowed to have physical contact with their opponents!" He sticks his tongue out at the princess as she scolds at him. "So?! That's against the rules in the game!" The non bender pouted, "Well then how am supposed to play?! This is a benders game!" Ursa crosses her arms, "Well then I guess you can't play!"

"Aww come on guys! We don't have to play war! We can play something else!" Tenzin suggests. "Like what?" his sister replies. I finally chime in and say, "How about hundred year war?!" All of them like the idea and get into their positions. Tenzin and Ursa in front playing Aang and Fire Lord Ozai. Bumi and Kaya were against Lin, who used flaming rocks to make it seem like she was firebending. Since there were no more firebenders in the group, they couldn't do Agni Kai.

Bumi looks around until finally raising his wooden sword and shouting, "Attack!"

In an instant Ursa firebends at Tenzin's feet which is deflected by him airbending himself up. "Nice try Fire Lord Ozai, but no one can defeat an airbender!" He spins frantically, making a tornado and knocking Ursa down.

From a distance Bumi screams, " Ursa's out! Tenzin wins!" Ursa pouts in defeat and storms off to watch the rest of the game.

Kaya and Bumi were having trouble taking two steps forward before Lin shot then back 4 feet. It was a losing battle on the siblings side and everyone knew it, but still they pressed on for what seemed as though hours.

"Come on kids dinner!" Katara shouts from the doorway, "Wash up before you eat, you all look filthy!" She announced before walking back inside the house where our parents were. From inside you can hear my mom argue with Katara over that fact that there's no need for me to wash myself, I'm an earthbender and it might come in handy. Rolling my eyes I call a tie and run over to Tenzin to congratulate him on winning so fast.

Ursa only huffed while mumbling, "just watch, next time I'll get you even if I have to go all Azula on you!"

We all started laughing, including Ursa and walked over to the washroom to get ready for dinner.


I inwardly smile at the memory and look over at the clock, "6:30! I'm almost late!" I run out the door, down the stairs and into the streets, yelling for a taxi. When one arrives i hop in and instruct him to take me to city hall immediately. Spirits, if only I had been more focused instead in daydreaming! I rub my temples and try to calm down. We'll be there soon and maybe I won't miss the ceremony. "Here you are miss." The driver announces.