Asha had spent most of her time in Zaufo being entertained by her new cousins and half sister. Mom, Aunt Su and Tenzin, it was still weird to think of him as dad, had naturally spent most of their time together. The older adults spend much of today catching up on the last 30 years. She hadn't minded after being interrorgated by Su during lunch. Opal, her twin brothers and Jinora had spent much of the morning sparring and working on airbending. Korra and Kai had eventually joined them as well. Wei and Wing had been fun to spar against. She was used to fighting earth bender at home but most weren't as good as the twins. She still held her own against the boys. Jinora and Opal had helped her with some more forms. It turned out that mom had learned a lot growing up with Tenzin, apparently she had half of the basics pretty much down and it hadn't been hard to learn the rest. It wasn't until dinner when she saw her parents again. Wei and Wing were telling Su and them what they had been up to all day and how she had beaten Kai.

"I'm surprised you remembered so much." Tenzin was saying to Lin.

Who raised an unimpressed eyebrow. "Muscle memory airhead, didn't lose that." She said dryly.

"Still for her to be able to beat Kai…" Tenzin said.

Su held back a snicker seeing Lin narrow her eyes at him. "Hey, I've only been teaching bending for 15 years and I was always better bender than you. Beside she's my kid."

"Our kid and clearly not all your memory has returned." Tenzin shot back Asha thought she could see his lips twitch up though.

Su didn't hold back the snicker this time and it drew Mom's attention. "Hey! I can still kick both of your asses all day long. It doesn't matter how many times I get blown up." Lin says jabbing at both of them.

"Well, try not to get blown up again for my sanity please." Tenzin told her. It was fascinating for her to watch her parents interact. Mom seemed more at ease with Tenzin today, more at ease than with most people she had seen her Mom interact with despite not seeing each other for 20 years. But with Su there was more of her normal guard up, she didn't really know why that was, neither had Opal. Both knew that right now was probably not the time to ask after all the sisters hadn't seen each other in 30 years.

After dinner Tenzin stole her away from everyone else. "Do you mind if we talk?" He asked gently. Asha nodded, they walked into the back garden.

"I'll bet you got some questions for me, you can ask me whatever you like." Tenzin started.

Asha nodded again. She had always had a million things she would like to ask her dad if she ever met him. She had even made a secret list when she was a little kid, but now her mind was blank. "Um," she starts, trying to think fast. "What, what was it like before, you know, mom lost her memory?" She asks him.

Tenzin paused for a moment. "What do you mean? Like what as she like as a person or…" he trailed off.

"Yeah anything from your life before really." Asha shrugged.

"Well, I've known Lin as long as I can remember. So where do you want to start?" Tenzin smiled at her. They talked for a long while about her mom, her childhood and where she was from, it was something she had always wondered. Tenzin knew all of that though and was more than willing to tell her about growing up with her and their parents and everything else. Asha thought much of what Tenzin told her about the Lin he knew was almost entirely in line with her mom. Still it was good to hear about her past and her father's. It was better than much of the scenarios she had imagined growing up, it was also tragic. Childhood sweethearts that had been torn apart for 20 years only to find themselves living completely new lives.

"Are you happy, you know about me?" Asha asked awkwardly after a lull in the conversation.

Tenzin turned to face her completely and took a hold of her shoulders lightly but firmly. "Yes, Asha. I'm thrilled to find out about you, I'm sad I didn't get to be a part of your life growing up but," He paused taking a breath. "Your mother and I were trying for a baby before the explosion. You were wanted and you weren't an accident." He told her, looking her dead in the eye trying to reassure her.

Asha took a breath of her own feeling a weight she hadn't been aware was there lifting off of her. "I-, okay" she said unsure what to say but feeling better nonetheless.

Tenzin too, seemed to feel awkward. "I'm sorry all of this is such a mess." he offered, breaking the awkward silence.

Asha nodded along. "It's not your fault, you didn't know, mom didn't know. It just happened. Can't do anything but move through it now."

Tenzin smiled at her. "That's very wise of you. Look I don't know what the future holds but I want to get to know you and to teach you the rest of airbending." he told her.

"I'd like that." She smiles at him. She was beginning to like him. He was more approachable than she had first thought seeing him in the small house back home. He has seemed tall and intimidating then but now it seemed that the bread just hid his true nature well.

"If you have any questions, please ask me, or your mother, she knows almost everything about me." He told her before departing for the night.

"Wait" she called out, stopping him. She took a breath summoning her courage before plunging on. "Mom, I don't want you to hurt mom." She said. She could see his face light up in understanding. "I don't know where you guys stand but she's my mom and I'll stand by her, always." I'll protect my mother, alway, even from my own father is what she was getting at. If there was anyone who deserved a break in life it was her mother, so making sure no one hurt her now was the least she could do.

"The last thing I would dream of doing is hurting your mom ever." Tenzin told her seriously. "I- we need to work some things out, I need to prove something to her but I'd never hurt her."

Asha nodded and bid him goodnight. She liked him, she decided and she could see he had cared about her mother deeply which was good in her book. She suspected he still did, she had avoided asking about his family. Part of her was afraid of the answer there and she already knew a little from Jinora and Opal. Jinora and her had talked about their families as both had been equally in the dark about her parents relationship and Jinora had told her about her own family. She had felt the need to ask Tenzin about his wife and other three kids, mostly because she suspected he didn't have much of an answer. Hopefully it would all work itself out for the best.

Jinora watches Lin, Asha and Tenzin say goodbye to Su, each one of them being hugged by her. Jinora hadn't gotten a change to interact with Lin much in the two days they had been in Zaufo. Mostly at meals but she had talked with her when Lin had come over to her and Asha while they watched Korra try to beat Wing at power disc yesterday. Lin still seemed to be the same as in the village. Jinora liked her so far, she was strong but Jinora had been very impressed by how easily she had seemed to handle all of the changes in the last few days. Jinora was reeling over all of this; she couldn't imagine how Lin felt or even her dad. Yet Lin hadn't seemed phased by much of it, she took it all in stride and seemed to be able to handle easily both her sister and Dad's reactions about them learning she was alive. She edged closer to the pair as they threw the bags up onto Oogi's saddle.

"Well I haven't exactly told my younger children I was married before Pema." Tenzin was saying sheepishly.

"Tenzin!" Lin said, irritated with him.

"There young!" Tenzin defended himself. "I was going to one day. But ten is young." Jinora rolled her eyes at that from the otherside of Oogi, he had barely told her about Lin.

"Wait, they are how old? And you still want to- Tenzin!" Lin scolded at him

"What? It doesn't change things"

"Yes it does." Lin stresses. "We'll talk about it later," she sighs. "I'll deal with your siblings. You talk to your family." She ordered him.

"It's not like I ever expected to see you again." Tenzin argued lightly back. Jinora could hear the banter in their tones now.

"Yeah well, it is not going to be fun now." Lin said back sarcastically, throwing her bag at him as he threw it up onto Oogi's saddle. "Be happy Bumi and Kya are there when in doubt they'll cause a scene."

Jinora laughed with her father at that because it was very true. She could tell them must have had a great relationship before, to slip back into this with ease. She could also tell it was much different from her own parents' relationship. Tenzin and Lin relationship seemed to be on a higher level then just a simple husband wife that she had seen with her parents. Jinora couldn't articulate it but there was a closeness and an intimacy there that was absent in her parent's interaction even after 20 years apart. She knew that her Dad loved Lin still, she wasn't bothered by it at all. But she was beginning to get nervous about what that meant as they readied the Bison to head home. Home was where her brothers, sister and mother were all of whom didn't know about Lin and Asha. She had meant what she had told her father, she didn't really care if her dad went back to Lin. She had been thinking alot about the pictures of them when they were young. It had been clear to her that even at a young age the two loved each other. That said that would mean her Dad leaving her Mom and she didn't want her mom to get hurt and her siblings. But there was no way for them both to happen. She trusted her Dad and the cards would fall how they will but she'd support him either way.

Pema was happy, tired but happy. The kids had finally grown out of their constant bickering for the most part and didn't need her nearly as much at 14, 11 and 9. Only Rohan the youngest at only 3 still relied on her for everything. It also finally seemed like the world was calming down, no end of days crisisies, no impending wars or revolutions, just normal average everyday life kinda problems, her kind of problems. Pema could live with that, heck she was loving that, she could breath and actually had some time of her own for once. After four years of the sky nearly falling everyday she was more than happy to relax at her home with her family or at least most of her family. Jinora and Tenzin were off on some mission in the earth kingdom, still cleaning up after Kuvira's mess. Ikki and Meelo were enjoying being 'in charge' with their Uncle Bumi. Pema thought that perhaps it might be just as effective for them to be seriously in charge because Bumi had managed to get on every single one of the air acolytes' nerves in the past few days Tenzin had been gone, not that the two kids helped much. Throwing pies and causing general mayhem was up both their alley despite Ikki's claims that she had grown out of it. Oh well, Tenzin had told her, he'd only be a few days at most, he should be back any day now.

Despite his air nomad heritage, he was a homebody at heart, never the wanderer his siblings were. He loved being in his city and with his family. He seemed to be as happy as Pema could remember him being lately. His relationship with his sibling has improved greatly over the past few years and them and Su were now around more. The air nation had been brought back and he had trained the avatar. It wasn't just that though, he had never been closer with the kids and her as well. For so long, she had been well aware of his first wife, he would suddenly become moody and often go off on his own, but recently that had been happening less and less. She knew he had started to move on for Lin years ago but it didn't seem like until the last four years that he had actually fully succeeded in moving on. Pema was happy for him, he deserved to be happy after all it had been 20 years since her passing.

Still her husband could always throw her for a loop like when his mother and sister had arrived this morning unexpectedly, saying Tenzin had told them it was of the utmost importance that they make the two day journey to Republic City, not that she wasn't thrilled to see them. The kids were always happy to see their aunt and grandmother but a little notice would have been nice. They had been equally surprised to find Tenzin gone and neither Bumi nor herself having any idea what this was about. She really hoped this wasn't the start of some new world saving adventure she'd have enough of those to last a lifetime. Still she enjoyed sipping on her tea as Katara and Kya regaled Ikki, Meelo and Rohan with stories of their youth.

It wasn't until it was nearly dinner time that the sky bisons were spotted. Naturally they all ran outside to great them and to see what all the fuss had been about. Pema half expected someone to be hurt or something considering the last time Katara had been called here was for Korra's injuries. But Tenzin, Jinora, Opal, Kai and Korra all looked fine as they jumped off the bison. They had, however, returned with two extra women, a young woman about Korra's age and an older woman maybe the girl's mother by the way she watched the younger woman jump off of Oogi. Tenzin seemed to say something to the older woman before she too easily jumped off the sky bison.

The woman was tall and fit with graying but still dark hair pinned back out of her face. She carried herself like a warrior as she stepped confidently towards the group, everyone else had hung back with the bisons. Pema heard Katara gasp next to her and glance over to the old master to see an expression of shock on the old woman's face. The woman had a proud and stoic bearing to her, one that made you believe she could hold up the world on her shoulders. Pema recognized the same thing in Korra, although in the teenager it was more of a facade, in this woman you believe every bit of it. She stepped forwards to Katara and dropped to one knee in front of the old woman, taking her hands in her own and squeaking them briefly. Katara had covered her mouth with her hands and her entire body was shaking. Bumi and Kya were for once in their lives speechless staring at the woman, both had gone completely white. Bumi was clutching at his sister's shoulder as if he was afraid he would keel over if he didn't. Katara reached out to touch the woman's face, Pema could see the unshed tears in her eyes. Meelo and Ikki were so confused by their grandmother's, Aunt's and Uncle's reaction that they too were silent, watching as entranced as everyone else, the two women interact. The woman looked up at a Katara nodding her head slightly as if to answer an unasked question.

Katara let loose a half controlled sob as she said. "Is it really-?" running her fingers over the woman's angular face.

Pema watched the expression on the face soften slightly as the woman enclind her head. "Yes it is me, Aunty. I'm sorry I've been away for so long." Katara didn't seem to care as she reached out and hugged the woman tightly sobbing slightly into her shoulder before she had even finished speaking.

"I'm fucking dreaming…" Pema heard Kya mutter to herself. "Fucking dreaming."

The woman stood up keeping one arm around Katara' shoulders as she did so. "Sorry to disappoint, but you're not, Ky" her voice as strong and as calm as her demeanor, but there was amusement in her tone as well, as her lips curled upward in a signature smirk that Pema knew well.

Bumi was the first to move. "Lin!" he half exclaimed, half asked as he moved forward hugging her and Kya was a step behind him. The woman laughed as she managed to avoid crushing Katara and being knocked off her feet by the two siblings. And she did it with such ease because that smirk was as good as proof that you were a member of the Beifong clan, they all shared it, Su, Opal, and the woman in front of her, the notorious Lin Beifong.