i apologise for the length. i usually enjoy making my stories 1K+

item: A novel

Pairing: Linumi

Prompt by: SilverMidnightPrincess

"Hey Linny! You will never guess what I found." Bumi closed the door to his and Lin's large home, before plopping onto the couch.

Lin walked into the lounge room with a beer in each hand. Something that she and Bumi did each day after work. "What did you find?"

"Well I decided to let Bum-Ju choose what to do today-"

"Wait, you told me that you had airbending training." A scowl formed on Lin's face at having learnt that her boyfriend lied to her.

"I did. But I couldn't stand the meditation. Do you have any idea how boring it is?" Lin raised an eyebrow, begging for him to challenge her. "Oh, right, of course you do. Anyway, the little guy led me into this old book store and I found this." He pulled out a plain blue, hardcover book from behind his back. "Ta-da!"

"It's a book with no cover, wow." Lin said, voice dripping with the same amount of sarcasm she had picked up from Sokka as a child.

Bumi frowned at her reaction. He shoved the book into her hands, causing the beer to nearly fall out of her hand. "Spirits, watch it Bumi."

"Sorry. Just open the damn book and then you will understand why I'm so excited."

"Didn't you say something like that when you got me to sleep with you?" She placed her beer down on the coffee table before giving the book her full attention. She opened the hardened cover to reveal the title of the novel. "Mysteries and adventures of the Southern Water Tribe. I remember this book. Your mother would read it to us whenever I slept over."

Bumi put an arm around her shoulders as she fingered the book, as though it were the most delicate thing in the world. "Uh-huh. I remember begging aunt Toph to let you stay over every night, just so mum would read us the book. I think I wanted to read that book so much that your mum said she would read it to me. She didn't know I took her seriously, so I grabbed the book, pushed her onto the couch so I could sit in her lap and then opened the book to a random page."

Lin laughed at the memory. There was a photo in a photo album somewhere in their house that Aang had taken of all the children listening intently to Toph, as she proceeded to 'read' the story. "I think aunt Katara wanted to kill my mother for introducing us to the, 'evil melon lord.' I can't believe you found this. I have to say though, some of these stories were a bit dark."

Bumi nodded in agreement. "Like that one about that girl who couldn't get warm. Mum said that her gran-gran actually knew the little girl." Lin shuddered as she recalled the story. "I enjoyed the story of the wolf warrior."

Lin flicked the pages until the story came into view. Scanning the words until the story became familiar. "You really did love that story. You kept stealing Sokka's wolf helmet and chasing us with your boomerang."

"Ah yes. Good ol' boomerang. Not as nice as uncle Sokka's but still reliable. You know I lost it when I was in the United Forces. I was up against ten men with a blizzard fast approaching-" He was silenced when Lin swung her leg over to the other side of Bumi's hip so she was straddling him. She covered his lips with hers but they didn't stop moving. She paused in her actions. "So with five men left and the blizzard obscuring my view-"

"Bumi, be quiet so I can kiss you."

Bumi complied because if he didn't, she would most likely not kiss him for a week.