Chapter Title: Monsterous Beast
Pairings/Characters: Cuteness between Korra and Tenzin and Pema's fourth child
Word Count: 264
Setting: Whenever Pema has her child. Because its bound to happen eventually.
She was never going to have children. No way. At all. Unless she wanted to give over precious sleep. Every night. Every night.
I mean, she slept ten rooms down from the beast and she was still woken up at odd hours in the night. She honestly didn't understand how Tenzin and Pema had had three…monsters already.
It was the middle of the night when the baby woke her up. Again. After she-didn't-know-how-long of its constant wailing, she decided that Pema and Tenzin were either passed out from exhaustion and unable to get up, or they had decided to try a new tactic in getting the baby to stop crying: ignoring it.
After rolling around in her bed trying to ignore the shrieks, Kora decided that if she wanted even a sliver of peace she would have to go (shudder) stop the baby herself.
Easier said than done.
After rocking it, burping it, glaring at it, making funny faces at it, and threatening to burn it to a crisp, the baby was still crying.
She picked it up again, crooning at it, rocking it, when finally (finally!) the beast stopped crying. And then, it looked up at her with almond eyes and gurgled.
It gurgled.
After all that wailing. It gurgled!
Still, it was rather cute. Maybe she wouldn't mind the monster if it gurgled a bit more and cried a bit less.
Gently, she put the sleeping baby into its cradle and silently crept away, praying that the next time the baby cried, its own parents would get up and deal with it.