Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Korra, nor did I steal the name of Kai from them.
It was barely even sunrise, but Lin hadn't been able to sleep for hours. Her mind was too heavy with the memories she associated with Orta Island. She had been up the last hour and a half trying to shake the terrible memories that she kept reliving, and most of them she could push away by thinking about how to best deal with more of the five teenagers' arguments on Oogi, but there was one that kept coming back to her. What made her experience there so bad:
Lin had stayed somewhere within the proximity of the Kao's, but only ever had the suggested amount of space between her and them, same went for every other officer on the security detail. She wore the same uniform as every other officer, and was even wearing the damned helmet that she hated. She supposed that his ability to find her in a crowd was what made her soften towards him in the first place, but how Dour Kao had singled her out from all of the other officers, despite all of her attempts to blend in, was beyond her.
He was able to do it, though, and that was fact. The way he went about getting her attention though, wasn't how most boys daring enough to try and ask out Chief Toph Bei Fong's daughter did it, and it damn sure wasn't even remotely close to how Tenzin had done it. No, Dour Kao went about catching her attention by asking her mother to let her be his personal body guard back on Orta Island.
Originally, she was as wholly against the idea as her mother. Then she had a fight with Tenzin over how she reacted to their break up and to seeing him with Pema later into the day that he had had his father propose the idea. So, wanting to get away from Republic City after that, she told her mother she would take the job, saying that it was so they could keep good relations with the important family, and because she needed to get away from Republic City for a while.
Although Lin didn't set foot in Republic City for a little more than a year, she had only been on Orta Island for three months. Well, three months and a day to be more accurate, but that's really irrelevant.
Lin worked as Dour's body guard, and may or may not have fell into a relationship with him after a while of spending almost every waking hour of the day with him. They were together for two months, one week, and three days before he did the unbelievable to her.
Two months, one week, and a day into their relationship he convinced her to have a drink and relax a little at one of his father's parties. He got her really talking, and laughing, and a lot more comfortable in a situation like the one they were in, and while doing so, he slowly fed her alcoholic beverage after alcoholic beverage. To put things a bit more simply, Dour Kao got Lin drunk right under her nose. And after she was well and truly smashed, Lin is ashamed to say, she doesn't remember much from the party.
She does remember the hangover the next day though. That hangover was a bitch, and she couldn't leave the apartment she had above a smoothie shop all day it was so bad. She could barely move without the need to be sick rising in her stomach, she could barely think without her head pounding, and she couldn't open her eyes without the room spinning. Yet, somehow, she managed to make it to the bathroom, hurl up the contents of her stomach, and then draw herself a steaming hot bath that she all but fell into once the tub was full.
After her shower and smoothie from down stairs, the night slowly came back to her. All except what happened after Dour shut her bedroom door. To this day Lin isn't sure if she was unconscious or if she just completely blocked the act out of her mind. She's still completely ashamed of the act she knows comes after the closing of Dour's bedroom door.
Lin approached Qing-Yuan Kao about her resignation the next morning after buying a ticket to Gao Ling in the Earth Kingdom and, while apologizing profusely for it being so sudden, she told him she would be leaving working for him and Orta Island immediately.
She confronted Dour about what happened to them after that, having told Qing-Yuan that she had wanted to tell him herself.
"Kao!" She barked out as she arrived in his room after speaking to her dad, "Did you get me drunk last night?!" She demanded.
"Yeah," he replied easily. She paused for a second at that, astounded by how forthcoming about it he was. She then sneered. "Oh, get over it, Lin."
She barked out a laugh, "I don't know what you thought this was, Kao, but whatever it is, is over."
"That's great, you're still going to have to see me every day, make sure I don't 'get in to any trouble.'" He mocked her.
"No," she smirked cruelly at him, "I don't. I already told your father I was resigning, effective immediately. I leave tonight on a boat to the Earth Kingdom." She then turned on heel and stormed out of the Kao family home, but, not without a stomp on the ground that had his room collapsing in on its self.
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Kai woke at the sunrise to Bei Fong already loading up the supplies onto Oogi. She rubbed her eyes and wiggled out of her sleeping bag. She rolled it up and walked over to the supplies. "Do you want some help?" She asked Bei Fong groggily.
The woman looked up at Kai shocked for a moment, whether it was at her offer to help or the girl being up in general, Kai didn't know. Soon, though, Chief Bei Fong nodded, and said, "Yes, thank you." And that was the only set of words exchanged between the two the entire time they loaded the supplies onto the sky bison other than Bei Fong telling her where things should go.
A/N: I teared up writing this chapter. I hated doing that to Lin, because she's such a strong character and she's my favorite character so I love her to pieces. Yet, in my defense, it's the only way I really truly saw her getting pregnant as plausible, because I feel like she's the type to be emotionally invested in a relationship to go that far with someone, otherwise, and the possibility of it being a Linzin baby isn't very plausible, because I think that Tenzin would be the type to wait until marriage to go that far with someone.
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