"I can't believe that worked." Bolin remarked aghast at how Kai was able to switch the evidence in the trial against the Triple Threats that had tried to rape Ikki and Jinora. Kai sat next to him, grinning in pride of her handiwork. Their victory was short lived though, because soon she heard Bolin curse under his breath.

"What?" Kai asked confused at his plummet it mood.

"My brother's spotted us," he told her, "Let's go," he grabbed her by the upper arm and they were quickly off in a run.

"Get back here Bolin!" Mako's voice filled her ears in a yell that was slowly getting quieter as they continued down the street and into the crowd.

"Where are we going?!" Kai exclaimed as they got closer to the docks.

"Air Temple Island!" Bolin replied. Kai quickly dug her heels into the ground and refused to budge. The force of the abrupt, unexpected stop caused Bolin to trip over his own feet and fall onto his face.

"Ooo," Kai voiced in a flinch at the thud. "Sorry," she added.

"No one's following us, and I don't want to have to go over there unless completely necessary." Kai told him. Her stance guarded, telling Bolin not to further inquire on what she meant.

Bolin sighed, resigned to the fact that he wouldn't get an answer on why she didn't want to go over there. That's why he decided to change the subject, "What do we do now?"

"We wait until tonight, and go to the trial." She shrugged. They began to walk to the park.

X

"You seem like you've done the whole 'get-other's-out-of-bad-situations-slash-find-out-information-someone-couldn't-get-on-their-own' thing before." Bolin remarked as they approached the park. That was a trend with them, going to the park that is.

The two earthbenders had been working together all week at Kai's plan to get Bolin off the hook with the Triple Threats, and migrating to park after their work for the day was done had become a habit of those days.

"My uncle worked in the private investigation business," Kai explained, "I picked up a lot about it by helping him out. I was at his place a lot. I received my private investigator's license when I turned eighteen."

"You're kidding," Bolin's jaw dropped.

Kai smiled wryly and shook her head, "Can't say that I am, noodlebrain."

Bolin began to rub the back of his neck awkwardly, "I know you aren't supposed to ask a lady her age, but…" Bolin trailed off.

"I'm nineteen," she told him understanding what he was trying to ask.

X

After walking through the park for a while, the two earthbenders bought some food from a vender. More over…Bolin bought it, even though Kai strongly argued against it. And by strongly argued against: Kai hit him in the nose with a small rock.

The hit to Bolin's nose was hard enough to make it bleed pretty badly. As soon as the blood started to flow Bolin had started to freak out, and Kai was grudgingly trying to apologize as she tried to staunch the blood. It was this position that Lin had spotted the two in.

The former chief of police began to walk over to the two who were sitting on a bench. As she got closer she started to hear them talking to each other. "Why didn't you tell me you were an earthbender!" Bolin's voice was more nasally because of the cloth that Kao had pressed against his nose.

"I thought you knew!" Kao replied nearly screeching.

"How could I have known? It's not like I've seen you fight or anything!" Bolin added.

"I don't know!" Kao snapped angrily in reply, removing the cloth and then placing a clean spot on the cloth back onto his nose.

"OW!" Bolin exclaimed pitifully, "That hurt!"

"It wouldn't hurt if you stopped moving so much," Kao replied.

"So I'm just suppoh–"

"What in the spirits' name are you two doing?" Lin cut their argument off.

"She hit me!" Bolin exclaimed petulantly, jabbing his finger in the direction of Kao. "With a rock!" he added.

Lin raised an eyebrow at the girl who was trying to staunch the blood seeping out of the teenager's nose. There were a few moments of silence that passed, and Lin watched Bolin elbow Kao in the side before the girl got the notion to speak in her defense. "He wouldn't let me pay for my own lunch."

"Generally, Kao, that's what they're supposed to do." Lin deadpanned. The two young earthbenders' face fell into expressions of mortification, both's cheeks flaring bright cherry red.

"We're not on a date!" they exclaimed in unison, quickly jumping away from each other.

"Then what, pray tell, were you two doing?" Lin pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Well…" Bolin began awkwardly, "you see…" Bolin continued to stumble over his words until Kao rolled her eyes and explained,

"This noodlebrain got himself into major trouble with some thugs. They're still after him, so we struck up a deal and were working on keeping our side of the deal upheld."

"If you're having trouble with one of the triads you should have gone to the police." Lin snapped angrily at the girl. "Not try to buy them off."

"One," Kao began, and Lin could tell the girl was getting extremely angry. "We aren't trying to pay them off; we're doing something much more illegal than that. Two," she continued, "Do you really think that the police would be any help? Saikhan only just started attempting to even slow down the gruesome underbelly that this city has! He wasn't going to do a damn thing about it."

Lin sneered down at the girl, "Watch your tongue with me, young lady." She snapped. Lin watched a falter flicker across the girl's face before it morphed into a sneer.

"Whatever," she grumbled. She turned to Bolin – whose nose had finally stopped bleeding – "Come on, Bolin," she grabbed him by the forearm, "We need to get to that trial." The two young earthbenders then walked off.

Lin watched the two start heading in the direction of the police station, their conversation still audible. "What was that about?" Bolin asked.

"It's complicated," Kao muttered. Lin raised an eyebrow in confusion at the girl's response. Lin made a note to herself to figure out what the young female earthbender had meant. There was obviously something that linked Lin to some part of her past, and Lin was going to find out what it was.

X

"Is that one of your officers, Chief?" the waterbending member of the United Republic Council asked in reference to the picture of the metalbender officer that was schmoozing a waitress from The Shōjo as she hung on his arm.

"What? Uh…I can explain!" Saikhan tripped over his words trying to defend himself.

"I believe this is explanation enough." Tenzin spoke, "You are obviously unfit to handle the job of Chief of Police."

"In regards to the trial of Aiguo Lee, Geming Fudo, and Lee Mickerson, you are dismissed." The firbending councilwoman spoke.

"Somebody contact Lin Bei Fong!" The eartbending councilman ordered, "We need our Chief of Police back."

Oh shit, Kai thought to herself as her eyes grew wide. She was not expecting that sort of reaction. Yeah, she had been trying to get rid of Saikhan but she wasn't expecting them to try and bring back Bei Fong. "Saikhan," Tenzin spoke, "We expect your uniform and the appropriate paperwork required on your part filled out and turned in within the week." Saikhan sneered at the floor, but nodded.

A/N: So...I'm not sure how the impeeching of a Chief of Police would go down, but this is a fanfiction so...if you could suspend your disbelief for a few moments to over look that. That would be awesome ;)

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