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Lin passed the door for the fiftieth time carrying a box. She rolled her eyes at her sister.

"Are you going to continue leaning against the door frame or are you actually going to help me?"

Suyin had her eyes closed, yet was still frowning. "I didn't offer to help at all."

The oldest of the two nudged her when she walked back through. "Then at least stop being an obstacle. Get out of the way if you aren't going to do anything."

The fifteen year old crossed her arms and walked to the living room. Her body dropped onto the couch. The person next to her just snored.

Lin entered the room with yet another box. When she spotted her mother in slumber, she dropped the heavy box on purpose. Toph jolted up and kicked a pillar of earth through the ground destroying the coffee table in two. Suyin rolled her eyes and looked out the window.

"What? What? What's going on?"

The seventeen year old in the room put her hands on her hips. "I swear to Oma, you guys really want me out of here, don't you? Don't even bother to help me."

The chief of police rubbed the rest of the sleep from her eyes. "Give me a break, Lin. I worked a graveyard shift."

"I know that, Mom. I was there. You don't see me struggling."

"That's cause you aren't old like I am."

"Mom, you're like fifty something. Suck it up."

Toph intended to put her feet on the table but was met with disappointment as her heels fell to the ground. She yelped. "Ahh! Splinter!"

The oldest of the Beifong sister's raised her hands and returned to getting her belongings out of her room. On the other side of the couch, Su was scowling at her mother. What she didn't expect was Toph to kick her in the stomach with her stabbed foot.

"What the hell, Mom!?"

"Get it out." Toph kept pushing her foot into her daughter's abdomen. "This is equivalent to you getting your eyes getting stabbed out. Relieve me from this misery."

Suyin quickly searched her mother's foot and didn't hesitate to violently pull the sliver of wood from her foot. The teenager pushed her mother's limb away from her. "There. Stop complaining."

"Thanks, dear." The chief of police let the sarcasm seep out of her response.

Lin once again walked in and set one final box atop the others. "Everything is out. You could do whatever you want with that room."

"I'm thinking a steam room. For those tough missions. What do you think?"

Her oldest daughter payed no attention to the nonsense. "Tenzin should be coming soon to help me move this stuff to my apartment. I'll go make dinner."

Toph laughed. "Last family dinner? Is that what this is gonna be?"

Lin yelled from the kitchen. "No. I just know you aren't going to cook. Plus pout master over there doesn't seem in the mood to do it herself."

Suyin growled. "I could have cooked."

"Yeah, I could really feel your motivation." The sound of the stove being turned on overlapped the reply.

"I'm not useless, you know. I can take care of myself."

A sign of recognition crossed their mother's face. "Is this what Katara and I sounded like?"

Lin popped her head into the room. "Su, it's great and all that you believe in yourself and all that, but we all know you wouldn't be alive if it were just Mom raising you."

Their mother's disapproval was overlooked. Su focused more on the fight between her sister. "You telling me what to do every second of the day doesn't mean you're any better at being a parent than Mom."

Once again, they ignored their mother. "Alright then. I guess you must be lucky that I'm leaving now. But I'm only leaving this house, Su. I'm still going to be out there." Lin walked back to what she was cooking, but continued to talk. "You should be glad. Having someone looking out for you is a luxory."

"Looking out for me?" Suyin laughed sarcastically. "More like spying and stalking on me."

"Alright, that's enough. You two are acting like morons."

The two sisters frowned respectively to themselves.

Toph cleared her throat and placed her hands on her knees. "What was the very first rule I gave you guys when you were kids?"

"Don't get caught."

Her mother made a noise indicating Su's answer was wrong. "Nope."

"Don't destroy the house." Lin yelled though the walls.

"No!" The current chief of police crossed her arm frustrated. Running on zero hours of sleep wasn't helping. "I told both of you that the only rule in this house was to look out for each other. I don't give a rat's ass if half the city is destroyed or the world is ending, as long as you guys are watching each other's backs that's all I ask for. I know we aren't one of those tight knit families that does everything together for obvious reasons-"

"Who's fault is that..." The Beifong girls said in sync.

"ANYWAYS, point is, we watch out for each other. You got that?"

She was met with silence.

"Got that?"

The doorbell rang and Suyin got up quickly to escape their current conversation. She was met with her sister's boyfriend. The master airbender towered over her and looked at her with a warm expression. "Hello, Suyin." His eyes fell upon the mess in the room. "Is that the table?"

"Don't ask. Lin's stuff is right there." She pointed at the hoard of boxes blocking part of the hallway.

"Mind helping me?"

The younger Beifong took a couple of seconds to think about the offer. She breathed in deeply and exhaled. "Fine."

From the kitchen, Lin yelled. "Really? When he asks, you're gonna do it?"

Suyin was already grabbing boxes and walking out the door. Tenzin patted her on the head and followed her action. He greeted Toph as well. "Hello, Aunt Toph. My mother asks why you keep ignoring her calls."

"It's called work. You do it. Lin does it. She does it occasionally at the hospital. Doesn't take a brainiac to figure that out." Toph got up and began helping as well. Lin responded angrily again, but her fury was ignored. Tenzin and Toph walked out the door. "I'll call her to stop her nagging."

The eighteen year old chuckled. "It's not nagging. It's just she wants to catch up."

Suyin jumped from Oogi and grabbed the boxes in bot Toph and Tenzin's hands. She wordlessly, began climbing up the bison's tail. Tenzin watched her while Toph crossed her arms.

"How's Su taking it? Lin moving out?"

The chief of police sighed. "I've noticed she's gotten more irritable as the day came closer. The two are fighting every minute rather than every hour."

Tenzin put a hand on his aunt's shoulder. "When Bumi and Kya moved out of the house, my parents were a mess." The memory played back in his mind. "Mom would put stuff away that had already been packed up so that they would keep packing. Dad was blubbering like a baby."

"Yeah, well that's your family, kid." Her face remained expressionless. "Around here we don't show feelings. It hinders our abilities."

"That doesn't sound very healthy."

"Just believe in the system, Twinkle Toes Jr." The master earthbender decided she would get more boxes. She didn't leave Tenzin without some final words. "It's what I've been trying to do since they were born."

Suyin ran as fast as she could. It didn't help that the alley way was getting smaller and smaller. She looked back and found the shadows still chasing after her.

"Get back here, bitch!"

She tripped but pushed herself up and ran. Her eyes spotted the wall approaching. Suyin had to think of something fast.

"The boss don't like traitors! You're dead!"

Faster and faster she ran. Her right hand held the sack that jingled with gems and jewels. Just a little further.

"You can't run forever!"

Su didn't hear the threat as she had already fallen into a hole she had opened in the ground. She fell hard onto the sewer floors. Her ankle gave out, but she pushed herself to close the hole above her. She was left in darkness, lying in a pool of dirty water.

Her eyes closed and she clenched her fist. The bag she had been carrying earlier had half of its contents out. The young Beifong stayed like that for awhile. After about ten minutes, Suyin made her journey home with a limp and the sack under her arm.

She expected someone to call her from the other room, but the house was dark when she entered. Su just scoffed. Of course there wasn't anyone home anymore.

Opposite to what people would think, her room was actually very neat. However, her exhaustion got the better of her and Suyin just threw the bag on her desk and locked her bedroom door. She wanted to sleep, but her mind was not ready. So instead, she stared up at the ceiling.

It was quiet at 3:21 in the morning. And it stayed that way until the front door opened at 5. Her eyes were still stuck on the ceiling and she listened to her mother make her way to her own bedroom.

At 7:30, Su finally felt the drowsiness. Ironically, this was when she should be getting up for school. She tossed that thought aside. She turned to her right and whispered something before falling asleep.

"What have I gotten myself into?"

Alright! This is the start of the last arc of this story. This chapter is fairly short, but think of it as a little prequel till we get to the serious stuff. Are you guys ready? Haha thanks for reading you guys!