Hi! Sorry I'm soo soo late. I've been busy with school. This one has a family and action genre. Rated T for a cursing and violence. And this is also the longest fic I've ever written! (Really! I always end up cutting some things from my story because I feel like it's too much. Not a good habit.) And my first action! So, Enjoy!

Sokka could be Lin's father.. or stepfather, whichever you prefer.

Day 9: Parents

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender and any of its characters.

Lin sighed. She knew she would get 'sorry' as the answer. "It's okay if you're busy," she whispered.

"Those teacher-parent conference is nonsense. We all already know how well you behave, right mom?" Sokka teased. "I'm sure you're just like your mom. Yeah mom?"

"Of course!" Toph replied. "My daughter won't be making Weir phrases at school like dad. Yeah dad?"

"Too bad. Because daddy is more fun!"

"Mommy!"

"Daddy!"

Lin laughed. "Mom! Dad! Stop it! You're funny." She laughed harder. "You're so weird."

"What?" They both asked and grabbed their daughter's arm, pulling her into a no-escape tickle fight.

"Stop!" Lin laughed, breathless. She grabbed both her parents' arms and kicked the floor, squirming her way out of their grasps only yo be pulled back in by the two war heroes. "Okay! Okay! I give up!" Lin screamed.

"Haha!" Sokka and Toph cheered and high fived.

"I'll go get tea for three of us. After that you're going to be okay, Lin?"

"Got it dad," Lin nodded.

Sokka came back with a tray and they all drank from their cups. Lin felt the warmth of the tea down to her stomach. It was her favorit activity with her parents. It made her feel warm, it made her feel loved.

"Are you still upset that we're not going to be there tomorrow?" Toph asked.

"No," Lin answered. "I don't care what they say. I have the best parents in the world." She smiled.

Toph hugged her daughter, "I'll try to come but don't count on it, kiddo."

"Me too," Sokka continued. "Sorry."

"It's okay," Lin said, yawning.

"Go to bed now, sweets," Sokka said.

"Sweets, kiddo, badgermole.." Lin mutterred. "Goodnight mom and dad . You always care for me. You don't have to shout it out to everybody," Lin kissed them goodnight and staggered in her bedroom.

"It's nice to hear that I didn't turn out like my parents," Toph finally said.

Sokka smiled and reached across to Toph. "We won't. Don't frown like that anymore, okay beautiful?"

"Whaat?" Toph asked, trying to say it monotonously. Years married yet she still felt heat rising up to her face.

"The most beautiful, lovely wife also the most awesome earthbending legend not to mention t-"

"Okay. I'm awesome. I get that," Toph couldn't help but smile.

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The corridor of the police force was buzzing with busy officers and police. The chief of the police force was seen yelling at the phone, giving commands to her force who was currently chasing bank criminals.

"There were two waterbenders and two firebenders. The fifth guy drives. They're wearing masks with blue and red stripes under their eyes."

"Got it! Team A and B go after them. Team C stay an search for the trace of the Black Phantom. I want to know if they're involved in this case. Back up units are on their way. Keep me informed!"

Suddenly her personal telephone rang. She had a telephone that didn't belong to the police force. One of the other two was to speed-dial people in her office and the other was the chief's number to call people outside. No one knew this personal number except her family. And that would be Sokka and Lin. Lin. Toph grabbed the telephone. "Lin, I'm sorry I couldn't go t-"

"Moommmm I-,"

"Lin!"

"If you want your daughter back, you're going to meet me at the abandoned warehouse in the guang road with 5million yuans in cash." a man's voice took over.

Toph was baffled. "Just who do you thi-"

"-and missus rich girl,"he chuckled ,"don't call the police. Or the girl's dead," the stranger said and hung up the phone.

"What!?" Toph screeched ,"I AM the fucking police! Hey!". She threw the telephone handle in frustration. "Rich!?"

She quickly rang her assistant. "I want to find my replacement today for the bank robbery now. And write a memo for Councilman Sokka : Badgermole's kidnapped, old warehouse guang road. That's it," she said as soon as her assistant walked in her room. "I have to go now," Toph ran outside the room.

"Chief Toph! Your daughter. Was that your daughter?" Lena, her assistant, asked. "Do you need the police force?" she asked again, worried.

"No thanks," Toph replied.

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Lin woke up feeling dizzy. She was knocked out again after she untied herself and grabbed the telephone to tell her mom she was okay. She soon realized her hands and feet were tied, now in chain. The sun shining through the windows was bright enough for her to see. There were three men in the old, smelly house. Two of them were tall and buff and were standing guard near the door. The other one was pacing near her. He was the guy who kidnapped her.

She remembered walking to her house when she saw a man trying to mob an old lady. The man wasn't very tall but he looked strong. He had his hair in ponytails. A lot of ponytails. She earthbended at the man causing him to flinch back. The lady soon snatched her purse back and escaped. The man scorned and walked towards her. She remembered running away but the man was faster and grabbed her hand. He soon became interested in her necklace which had a flying boar symbol on it. "Could this be? "he mused, his eyes grew big.

"This is a flying boar, a symbol for the Beifong family. My mom says Beifongs are the strong and tough," Lin said proudly.

"Of course you are with all the money you have," the man snickered. "My lucky day," he heard him say before she felt a jab on her ribs and fainted.

Sitting there tied, Lin's mind wandered again to her friends who teased her. She also didn't like being pitied by their parents. They acted as if her parents care a lot more about the city than their own daughter! They acted as if they knew her! She knew her parents loved her and she also got every attention she needed! She knew her parents would take the blame for her being kidnapped. "I must escape! I should have learned metalbending!" She thought.

"You're waking up, little girl? Not looking so tough are you?" the ponytail man laughed as he saw Lin shaking her limbs vigorously.

"Let me go!" she demanded.

"No way," the man said as he lit his smoke. "Your mother is going to be here soon. I'll get my money and you'll go home. Now sit quietly and play nice or I'll knock you out again!" he yelled.

"My mom will come and she'll beat you up. No one is a match for her!"

"Hahahha!" the man laughed and put the cigarette back onto his mouth. "Haven't you seen a lot?"

"Hey! Who are you?"

There was soon a fight between the two men and some newcomers. "Mom!" Lin shouted but she soon realized that they weren't her mom or the police force. They were firebenders and waterbenders. And they were all in masks.

The ponytailed man ran to the men. The two buff guys were now fighting with waterbenders and firebenders. "Liang! Long! Stop the fight!" he commanded . "Give me the money and the girl is free. Shao! Get your ass of there and guard the girl!" A man soon came out from the dark stairs and stood guard next to Lin. He was skinny and he had crooked nose. Lin shrinked. There were 9 men in the room and she was all tied up.

"What girl?" the masked firebender asked.

"That girl!" the ponytailed man pointed at Lin. "Give me the money or she's dead!"

All the masked people laughed.

"So what?" a woman's voice was heard, her mask was colored blue under her eyes. Lin recognized her as the waterbender.

"Quit fooling with me! The Beifongs hired you didn't they?"

"Keep it somewhere save," a red-masked man pointed to the big sacks they carried and his teammates disappeared in the dark. He then turned to the ponytailed man and said," I'll give you 3 minutes to get out of this place or I'll kill you all. I don't need anyone to use this place to pay ransom." He scoffed. "Petty thieves."

Another man walked up to Lin. "So you're the infamous little Beifong,"he said, tilting her head. "I didn't know there was a Beifong descendant in this place. Though it is expected to have one in this big, dangerous city. Isn't it a lovely place to stay, eh?" he observed her necklace dangling from her neck. Lin could smell mint from that man and she could see his bright amber eyes. His eyes moved to her feet and he gasped. "You fools!" he suddenly shouted. " most the beifongs family resides in the town previously named Gaoling." he took a deep breath," Get out of here now! Wouldn't you be so stupid for kidnapping the chief of police's d-"

Bam!

The front door was broken into pieces. Through the crack of the wall a woman was seen standing in an earth-bending fighting stance. Her metal armor shining under the hot sun.

"She's a police," Long stated, matter-of-factly.

"The chief of police," the masked man corrected.

"Mom!" Lin shouted.

"How did you know?" the ponytail man gasped.

"Please, a scruffy haired Beifong girl wearing a plain necklace and dirty shoes?"

"Lin!" her mom ran to her but Shao quickly grabbed her while the rest of the men and woman made a semi-circle in front of her.

"Crap! I swear I'll kill this ponytail idiot after I'm finished with this," a masked man sweared, bending water to cover his hands up to his shoulder.

"Let's get the thing and flee," his teammate said.

"Yeah? How?" the woman waterbender asked, unimpressed.

Toph stomped her feet in the ground, sending some men to the air. She sent rock gloves to the others. The firebenders in the air used the advantage to shoot fire at toph.

"Above you mom!"

Toph ducked and made and earth tent. As soon as the men touched the ground she bursted out and bended her metal cord, tying them. The waterbender who broke free from the rock glove soon bended water at toph, freezing her cable supply. Toph does a stance and the earth opened, burying the waterbender in the crack. Sensing someone behind her, she shifted her position and stomped her feet causing a tall wall of earth to rise and trapped the man on the ceiling.

"Stop fighting!"Shao yelled beside Lin, his voice hoarse.

Toph bended the chain that was binding her daughter, freeing her. Lin ran to her mom, but she was stopped by a waterbender woman. She earthbended at her, causing her mask to fall off. The woman strangled lin with her elbow. "We're taking her as a hostage. Guys, let's leave this place."

"You're wearing mask!" toph pointed. "Water and firebenders, huh? Wouldn't you be the team in Jin Qian bank? What do you call yourself? toph chuckled. "Water vapor?" She tapped her feet on the ground, trying to get a good 'look' at them. There were two people left standing. A skinnny man beside Lin and the waterbender. She shook internally for miscalculating the time she released her daughter. She didn't sense the woman waterbender broke off from her rock glove. Sensing the firebenders trying to break free from her metal, she clenched her fists, binding them tighter.

"Magma." She sighed, "Just our luck, these stupid child kidnapper decided to s-"

"Chief!" a group of police in metal armors positioned themselves around their chief, ready to attack.

"We're impressed, chief. You tracked the team magma before we did," one of the officers said.

"It's supposed to be five people in masks though," another officer continued, glancing around to find an extra four people and a little girl. The officers saw her necklace and glanced at each other, making 'Chief's daughter' movement with their lips.

"I still have the girl, chief," the woman said calmly. "Release my friends now and stay away."

"Don't take her. Take me instead," Toph said, dropping her cable supply and her armor.

"Chief, this team is responsible for a lot of crime and has escaped from us more than five times. If they escape again this time the republic council would have t-"

"Who cares about it? I would rather give up this position than to see my daughter hurt." She bended the benders free. Some officers opened their mouths but dared not protested.

"That man over there is our friend too," the woman pointed. A police officer grunted and released him.

"Mom!"Lin bended and kicked the woman hard, trying to break free from her grasp. She made a movement with her other arms and froze at her head. "Oops," she teased and melt the ice. The astonished Lin let out a yelp before she fainted.

"Lin!" toph yelled, running forward but was soon chi-blocked by the man that was lastly released. "What did you do to her?"

"She's only asleep, jeez. Let's go!"

Just as they were about to leave, the windows broke and smoke filled the room. The man who was carrying Toph was knocked on his head by a boomerang. The other police officers felt their vibration and soon bind the criminals.

After the smoke faded, the Magma Team was already in the police car. Sokka had carried Toph and Lin away from the hectic fighting place. She was now sitting on the floor leaning against the wall with Lin on her lap.

"She's going to be fine. That waterbender just made her faint for awhile," sokka explained, stroking Lin's hair.

"Rats! What is this all about? Those petty thieves ran with our money!" toph heard a man yelled in frustration.

"Ha! No! Those men and the money are already in the police station!" sokka exclaimed.

Toph who was beginning to regain her senses lifted her eyebrow at her husband.

Sokka laughed to himself," Have I ever mentioned that I'm a fan of secret basements and secrets? Yeah, I know a lot of places like that in this city. I even helped the sketch! There's one not far under this place. When I found out the nasty kidnappers were here I figured out they would keep our daughter in there so I told your officers to ambush that place but we found sacks of money instead. We quickly threw gas bombs at this place when we heard your voice. Your officers, they listened to me, earthbended me to the secret entrance up there and boomerang guy was in action!" he said, swelling with pride.

"Cool!" Lin said.

"Lin!" both her parents hugged her tight.

"Are you okay?"

"What a mess you've caused us today!"

"I'm so happy!" Lin shrieked, hugging her parents tight. "I knew you would come to save me. I knew you loved me more than your job," she sobbed.

"What? Were you doubting us this whole time?" Toph asked.

"I knew you loved me but my friends keep telling me I don't get it. I don't get it."

"You'll get it that parents would move the earth just for their children. We would do anything for you," Sokka said.

"I love you, badgermole, more than anything." toph patted her daughter's head.

"Except dad!" Sokka chimed. "Because we're equal!"

Toph landed a playful punch on Sokka's chest and three of them laughed.

Thank you for reading! Sorry for the wait. I'll be a little off schedule from now on but I'll try to catch up. Again, I won't be doing all the prompts but I do have some planned already so keep following! Bye for now!

-MG