Lin is soooooooo OOC, but i honestly don't care. read review and enjoy.
Item: babysitting (again)
Pairing: Kyalin
Prompt by: TheGreatUniter
Kyalin – babysitting
"Kya, are you sure you and Lin can handle them?"
"Of course Su, Junior and Kuvira are twelve, Huan is ten and Opal is extremely quiet and mature for her age. The only two we really need to worry about is Wing and Wei." Kya gestured her head to the kitchen doorway, where Lin was currently doing chin-ups with two six year olds hanging from each leg.
"Go and enjoy your night Su, we promise not to burn down your house. Boys, drop." The twins let go of her legs and ran off to their bedroom, allowing Lin to take a seat in the lounge room. "What I can't promise, is having them in bed on time."
"Thanks Lin, Baatar and I really need this night. We haven't had a night to ourselves in years."
"No problem, just make sure there won't be another Beifong in nine months. You can barely handle six kids, I don't know how you will be able to handle seven."
Su let out a soft laugh before standing up and giving them both a hug. "I have to go meet Baatar at the restaurant, they have been fed and bathed, they have an hour of free time before going to bed, but Junior and Kuvira are allowed another hour. I don't know why I'm telling you this because I know you will completely ignore me."
"Don't worry, we know what to do. You have a good night."
They waited a few minutes after Su left to make sure she wasn't coming back, before jumping to their feet. "Alright Kya, you grab the snacks, I'll grab the kids, blankets, and torch and then it is scary story night."
"You can be such a child, I love it." She gave Lin a quick kiss before moving into the kitchen.
Lin moved into the hall containing all the kids' bedroom, and cleared her throat before talking. "Beifong children! Grab your blankets and pillows and head to the lounge room!"
"Aunt Lin?"
"Yes Junior?"
"Can Kuvira join us?"
Lin looked at the girl who was hiding behind her nephew and gave her a smile. "That depends, do you know how to build a fort?"
"Yes ma'am."
"You can join us as long as you call me Lin."
The little girl smiled as she and Junior ran back into his bedroom to gather his blanket and pillows, before sprinting into the lounge room where everyone was trying to construct a fort, with the help of pillars created with earthbending.
"Aunt Lin! I can make pillars too." Just as Wei was about to raise his arms, Lin quickly stopped him.
"Not inside kiddo, I'm still amazed your parents missed the last time you decided to earthbend inside." She pointed to the ceiling here a dint was embedded in the plaster.
The fort was quickly finished and the children rushed inside. Lin waited outside for Kya and grinned when she saw her girlfriend carrying four bowls filled with chips, chocolate, popcorn and various lollies. "Wow, nice fort."
"Thank you. Bending has its advantages in situations like this." She took two bowls from Kya and crawled on her knees into the fort, where they put the food in the middle of the circle. "Alright, we all know the rules. All food goes in the mouth, no food fights, and because this is Kuvira's first time, she gets to tell the story."
Baatar passed the torch to Kuvira and gave her an encouraging smile. "Umm, does it have to be scary?"
"It would be nice but it's not mandatory."
"Okay, I think I have one. I read about this one in a book. It was a warm, dark night in a small town of the Fire Nation, and four young travellers were sitting around a campfire telling scary stories, when the youngest of their group said she could hear screaming coming from the mountain. She and her friends decided to investigate but when they made it to the base of the mountain, they couldn't move. Their bodies were being controlled."
Huan hugged his pillow close to his chest as he held a piece of chocolate between his fingers. "Was it a spirit?"
"No, it was a waterbender. She managed to control people with the water in their bodies."
"What happened to the kids?"
"No body knows. Some say they escaped, others say she twisted their bodies as they screamed until they died."
Kya and Lin gave each other a look as Wei and Wing climbed into their laps, hugging their aunts tightly. "That was a very scary story Kuvira." The young girl gave the Chief of Police a smile of gratitude at the comment. "Opal, would you like to tell a story?"
"Umm, okay. It's not really scary though." She took the torch from Kuvira and held it tightly due to her nerves. "Umm, there once was a princess named Lin." The children giggled at imagining their tough as nails aunt in a pink dress with a gold crown on her head. "The King was really mean and wanted her to get married so he invited everyone in the whole kingdom to a party. All the boys surrounded princes Lin but she didn't like them. She was talking to a prince but was interrupted when princess Kya asked for a dance. The two princesses danced all night and then they kissed. The king wasn't happy about it so he banished them from the kingdom, but they didn't mind because they had each other."
Kya turned to look at Lin and gave her a smug grin at seeing her blush. "You okay there Chief?"
"Yeah, just dandy. Alright, my turn to tell a story." Lin flicked her wrist at the torch and it flew into her hand. "This is taken from my day at work yesterday. I was running across the rooftops of Republic City, using my cables to propel myself faster when I heard a loud alarm. I looked over the ledge to see three men with black masks over their faces, robbing a bank. They jumped in their car and began to drive away so I had no choice but to chase them. I jumped off the building and swung towards them. I landed in front of their car and with my metalbending, and lifted the car into the air. They screamed like little girls when I dropped the car. It knocked them all out."
Lin laughed at the memory, missing the slightly terrified looks of the children before her who were currently scared of the woman's bending abilities and how she found people loosing consciousness funny. "Lin, honey, that was a nice story, give the torch to someone else."
The night continued smoothly as stories were told and large amounts of junk food were consumed until one by one everyone began to fall asleep.
"Su dear, they aren't in their beds!" Baatar ran back and forth between his children's bedrooms, hoping that by some miracle they would appear.
"Baatar, calm down and come in here."
Baatar didn't exactly calm down as he ran into the lounge room frantically. "Where are they?"
"Relax." She pointed to a make shift fort, made from numerous blankets, indicating they were in there. With one quick motion, Su pulled off the top blanket to reveal her children cuddled up to their aunts, everyone still asleep. "Well, I bet at least half of them will have a stomach ache when they wake up."
"How do you know that?"
She pointed to four nearly empty bowls of junk food. "One of those will definitely be Lin. She was never good at handling large amounts of sugar."
To back her up, Lin opened her eyes and groaned. "Su? I don't feel too good."
"I'll get you a bucket." All she received was a moan in return.
