TRIGGER WARNING: CHAPTER CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT! If you're not okay with adult themes, sexual content, some blood, implied killing OR Beifongs with feelings turn back now. (Please don't report me.) THIS IS JUST A STORY! If you just want to skip the bad stuff, and still know what happens in this chapter, Lin sacrifices something for Su, and after, Su just acts ungrateful and well, like Su. IT WILL BE THE ONLY EXPLICIT CHAPTER. (Again, please don't report me because I think this is MA now, and not M. :((((()
Flashback:
Lin - 19, Suyin - 13
The afternoon was bright but cool as Fall set in. Lin was an official cop. Had been for a year now but still volunteered at the Academy three days a week to help others who shared the same dream that she had, to protect the good people of Republic City. When she got home, she found Su on the phone. She couldn't get angry at the girl for being home since it was already seven in the evening, but something still didn't seem right.
"Yeah, I'll make the reservation for Kuang's Cuisine... yes I'll pay. I owe you guys for what you did last week... no I won't pay thaaaat way..." Suyin laughed. "You guys are so funny!... I gueeeessssss we can hit the bar afterwards... No, my mom won't care... no, my sister has a night shift tonight and won't return until morning so I should be free... great!... I'll see you then..."
"Really Su? Now your wasting mom's money so a bunch of low-lives can have a taste of luxury at Kwang's Cuisine?" Lin asked.
"They're my friends and you have no right to call them that!"
"I'll call them what I want. Why are you going to Kuang's?" Lin demanded.
"It's just a date! It's no big deal!"
"No big deal?"
"You were dating Baldy since you were six. Why can't I date Kim Jeong when I'm thirteen?"
"That— that wasn't even dating! Mom just had Katara babysit me so she could give you more attention. Tenzin and I just happened to like each other!"
"Well I just HAPPEN to like this guy! I am going to Kuang's and YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" Suyin yelled storming off to her room. Lin went to hers slamming the door in frustration. She called the station.
"Hey Mom, I need to cancel my shift tonight. I— I'm not feeling good and I think—"
"Why are you telling me about it kid? You do what you need to do. You could have just called your shift coordinator. You don't need to alert the Chief of Police— I don't care when you work, just that you work eventually,"
Lin sighed. "I know mom, I just wanted to hear your voice before tonight? I think something bad is going to happen to Su. She's meeting some 'friends' at Kuang's Cuisine and I- I don't like the friends she keeps. I don't think she understands that they can— that they can and probably will hurt her— she won't listen to me—"
"Eh. Su's a big girl. She can take after herself. I mean, I ran away from my parents at twelve and look at me. I survived,"
"Survived yeah, but at what cost."
"What are you saying?"
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let out that last comment. Just— Mom, I really think she shouldn't go out tonight,"
"Well you're not Su's Mom. I am and I say let her go out. She can take care of herself now,"
"But mom!"
"How about this, if it will help you sleep tonight and if it will get you off my case, go with her and keep you safe from whatever threat you think is there, you can take the night off to do that," Toph suggested.
"Fine. I'll do that. Thanks, Mom," for not caring, for not loving. Thanks for nothing. Lin thought to herself as she hung up the phone. She paused and felt Suyin standing in the doorway.
"You called mom?" she almost sounded afraid.
"Yeah and aren't you a lucky little shit. She said for me to let you go," Lin growled.
"Ha! I NEW IT!" Suyin cackled. "See ya later, Linny!" she called darting out the door without a care in the world.
Present Day
The ground cracked beneath each step Lin took as she approached her sister.
"I think Lin's mad about something!" Bolin whispered to Korra as Suyin turned to see the source of the destruction.
"Su, it's time we talked," Lin said breaking the ground beneath her as she came to face her little sister.
"After thirty years, you're finally ready to talk?" Suyin asked angrily.
"When we were in Mom's office that day, you could've taken responsibility for what you did. But instead, you stayed quiet and let Mom throw her whole career away."
"Mom didn't throw her career away. She retired the next year. She was a hero."
"You think she wanted to retire? She was so guilt-ridden about how she handled that case that she didn't feel worthy of her badge."
"Look, I admit that I was not a perfect kid and I've made some mistakes in the past but-"
"Ha! You made some mistakes?"
"Lin, Mom and I already talked about this years ago and worked things out. If you had gotten together with us like we'd asked, you would know that I'm a different person now. I've been a different person for a long time!"
"You think that just because you live in a big, fancy house, and have a chef who cooks you fancy food, that you're a different person? Maybe you could fool everyone else, but you can't fool me. I see right through you. You're still the same; harboring criminals, lying to everyone's face and doing whatever it takes to get what you want. You have no regard for other people's time, energy, or feelings. You're just the same naive, selfish, ungrateful THING you were twenty-nine years ago!"
Flashback:
Lin - 19, Suyin - 13
You're not going ANYWHERE tonight. Lin decided watching Su leave. Not alone, at least.
Lin wasn't allowed to wear her full police uniform when not on duty but she could wear her cables and carry her badge and ID. She pulled on a dark grey overcoat coat and her black police pants. And set out only minutes after Suyin and made her way to Kuang's. She waited outside with a perfectly steady heartbeat, bending out the vibrations it caused in the earth so Suyin wouldn't be able to see her there with her own feat. She listened with one ear on the wall to their boring ass conversation about the menu and then a rather revealing conversation about their histories.
The boy's father died when he was young as did Suyin's and Lin's for that matter.
His father's brother married his mother stole the money and abandoned them shortly after. His mother committed suicide leaving him on the streets to fend for himself.
"And look at me now? Having dinner at one of the finest places in the city with one of the finest ladies in the City? I've come a long way," the young man said.
Suyin giggled.
Lin gagged in the alleyway. Su's only thirteen! She's HARDLY a lady.
"So why do you do it?" the young man asked Suyin. "Why do you join us on these raids?"
"Eh, I felt like I had to do something for my mother to notice me. Father's gone. Mother's working herself into oblivion. It's like it hurts her to see us. I just want to show her I can do something-"
"And that something isn't joining the police like your sister-"
"Well you've seen my sister. Mother doesn't give two shits about her either! How would following in her footsteps be a good thing?"
"I understand your frustration,"
Lin could feel the man's hand moving towards Su's.
"I can give you that attention you crave."
"I don't just crave anyone's attention. I crave my mother's,"
"Don't worry. We can fill in for you mother. Trust me, we'll make you feel like a baby again when we get to the bar," the young man said with a smirk.
Something about the man's tone made Lin's stomach curl. Everything seemed wrong about him; his affiliation with the Terra Triad, his age, and his interest in Lin's thirteen-year-old little sister.
Present Day
Suyin's face contorted with anger as she listened. "You know what, Lin? YOU'RE the one who hasn't changed. You're still a bitter loner who only cares about her own image and her name. All you wanted was honor and glory yet you call me selfish simply for living my own life! You're the one who's stubborn and unyielding. No wonder Tenzin ended things with you years ago!" Suyin yelled.
If Lin were a firebender, she would have roasted Suyin alive. There was no doubt about it. Lin slammed her foot down lifting a sharp rock and punched it towards her sister who smashed it with her wrist.
"So this is how it's going to be huh?" Suyin asked creating a ripple in the earth to knock Lin's feet out from under her before landing a hit to the gut with a meteor from the other direction.
With a grunt, Lin rolled backwards, over her head and onto her feet again. She bent a set of uniform stairs towards her little sister who blocked it with a metal panel that she then sent towards Lin.
The elder earthbender did a layup over the panel and then punched another four panels out of the way effortlessly. She sent an assortment of rocks varying in size at the younger who weaved between them with ease and returned with a boulder.
Lin did a back flip to avoid it. Just as she landed, Suyin slapped a metal strip onto Lin's wrist and ankle and flipped her over and sent her flying through the air into a wall.
"Should we do something?" Korra asked.
"You don't have siblings. Fighting is all a part of the healing process.
"Go Mom!" Wing yelled pumping his fist in the air.
Lin recovered and landed nearby Huan's statue.
You want metal? I'll show you metal!
Lin tore the rivets out of the piece and bent them like bullies towards Suyin who blocked them with a panel of extremely high density metal she tore off the retaining wall of a terrace in the garden and wrapped around herself. She snapped the panel back and threw Lin into the staircase to the pagoda where her family stood watching.
Just a small irregularity in the stair step jammed into the back of Lin's leg, striking a hypersensitive nerve.
She cried out.
Flashback:
Lin - 19, Suyin - 13
As soon as Lin reached the wall of the bar, she heard her sister screaming.
"No! Don't!" Suyin yelled trying to run out of the bar as soon as she entered it.
"Come on, it won't hurt for long. Just in the beginning. It will be fun!" the young man with the Terra Triad said catching Suyin's wrists.
"Let me go! LET GO!" Suyin yelled balling her hands into fists, bending the cuffs on her forearm into a long blade that would have nearly severed the man's hand off if he hadn't moved in time.
"Seon-juk!" the Terra Triad Member called.
Suyin screamed in pain but didn't move after that. She couldn't.
Lin slammed her foot into the ground. The floor made of a thick wood, but she could still make out some vibrations. They have a bloodbender, Lin realized.
"Don't hurt her!" Lin yelled revealing herself, running into lair of predators, just waiting to strike, disguised as a bar. Out of the bottom of her field of vision Lin saw Suyin quivering on the ground under the control of a bloodbender.
"Any why not?" the young man who went in the date with Suyin asked approaching Lin curiously.
"She's young and stupid and... She doesn't know what she is doing-" Lin said standing up a little taller, lifting her chin to expose her neck. Suyin's eyes widened in shock as she watched her sister.
"And you do?" the man asked with a lustful smirk tucking a lock of hair behind Lin's ear.
"Please- just let her go," Lin begged in a whisper.
"And what are YOU willing to give us in exchange for her safety? You're her sister, right?" the young man asked.
Lin closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Damn the thick wood. "Anything," Lin said quietly. The triad members glanced at each other. "Very well."
In a fraction of a second, Lin was bloodbent to her knees, Suyin thrown to the other side of the room and a wooden cage was dropped from the ceiling over the thirteen-year-old.
"Hey!" Suyin shrieked.
"We'll save you for later," a member of the Terra Triad said metalbending her cuffs off while the bloodbender kept his grip on her.
Another metalbending member of the Terra Triad ripped all of the metal from Lin's body. Old police issue cables, four concealed knives, one concealed dagger, a sword, a meteor bracelet, a jade necklace in her shirt, and a golden anklet. Suyin's date examined Lin, her clothes in shreds after the metal was bent right through and carried to the other room.
"You're actually rather pretty. It's such a shame your body is hidden in that awful armor all day," Suyin's date said tearing Lin's shirt off by the collar as she winced.
"Lin!" Suyin called shaking the bars of her wooden cage.
"Shut up!" a triad member said banging his fist on Suyin's cage.
Lin was forced onto her back by the bloodbender as one of the Terra Triad members moved to remove her black police uniform trousers revealing a pair of pale, smooth, beautifully toned legs.
"Lin-don't do it!" Suyin shrieked from her wooden cage.
Lin shot her head over at her little sister as they got closer. Through gritted teeth and in a whisper only Suyin heard, Lin said, "For the millionth time in our lives, shut up, Su."
"Cry for us Beifong," Suyin's date said as another young man said as he entered the young cop. Lin merely flinched. "Not even a single tear?!" he spat in her face as she winced and closed her eyes.
"Lin-I'm sorry." Suyin cried watching helplessly from the cage. Her knuckles turned white from gripping the wooden bars so tightly.
Lin said nothing as the man pulled out curiously and glanced at his member.
"Is this your first time?" he asked the elder Beifong.
Lin shook her head "No."
Suyin swore she could could feel the irregularity in her sister's heartbeat through the wood. Either the wood had earth or metal in it, or her sister was really frightened. One thing Suyin could tell for sure, Lin was lying.
"Then it must be a second time-" the man said with a smile. "I can tell by the way her body reacts." the man said pressing down on her pelvis with a rough, callused hand as he pushed into her again. "And the fact that she's still bleeding," he said filling her to the hilt with a sick grin.
Lin cried out from the internal burn, but wouldn't let a single tear fall.
The man pulled his leather belt out of the loops of his own pants that were down at his knees and raised it up above his head before bringing it down on Lin's stomach with a sickening crack.
"Stop it! Please!" Suyin screamed, begged, pleaded.
"Nah- we appreciate her spirit to protect you. And we enjoy breaking that spirit-" he said turning Lin onto her stomach, whipping her again before ramming into her ass.
The brave big sister screamed then as Suyin looked away.
"Why are you doing this?" Lin asked with shaking arms and tears pouring from both brilliant green eyes.
"Why not?" the man replied pausing the movement to listen to the young metalbender.
Lin whimpered.
"Tell me, Lin Beifong, do you think there is a chance your mother will kill herself if neither of her daughters never return tonight?" the man asked.
"She will tear up the city to find us and destroy you!"
"How do you know? Think about it. She would have nothing left to live for if you and Suyin were dead. You can't really believe she cares about the city. She just thinks that if the City were safe, you'd be safe to be free. But she's just as stupid as little Suyi here," the man said.
Lin groped her surroundings for any metal remaining in the room. She found it. Sweet sweet metal. It was just a zipper, but it would do. The next time her rapist tried to turn her over, she managed to move a knee through the blood bending. The zipper flew off of his own trousers, ripping the seams there, morphed into a spear and flew through the bottom of the man's jaw, expanding and tearing up the inside of his head just behind the face before reemerging out his forehead. Blood splashed on her face as he fell. "No bending!" Suyin's date yelled kicking her in the side. She crumpled into under the impact feeling a broken rib."Seon-juk!" he called.
"And as a punishment for this pesky leg that we know didn't MEAN to bend," said bending water from the water skin into an icy blade as his comrades sprawled her out again. The bloodbender bit his lip in concentration as he stabbed the ice knife into the side of Lin's thigh and pulled it down towards her knee cutting deep through skin and muscle to ensure Lin wouldn't be walking out of that place that evening.
The entire earthen foundation beneath the wooden building began to shake as Lin was forced to endure the pain. Her leg spasming from the trauma. The severed nerves numbed the area of the wound but but the remaining nerves flooded her brain with enough pain for a lifetime. Lin cried while thirteen-year-old Suyin watched in disbelief, tears falling from her own eyes.
They ignored the now violent shaking of the building as they moved her to rape her again. The next rapist was bigger than the first. Lin resisted, clenching her muscles involuntarily, hurting the man and herself in the process. He slapped her ass and accepted the icy blade from the bloodbender to stab her in the back of the leg this time. The earth beneath the thick wooden floors began to crack and shift enough to split the oak that separated the Beifong girls from their element. Lin squeezed her eyes shut as the pounding continued, and willed the pain to end. Just END!
In a blinding moment, jagged stalagmites and spears tore up through the wood cleanly impaling every single in the room one at a time. He's laughing? Dead? He's watching? Dead. He's drinking? Dead. Lin killed every one of their captors, and with exquisite precision, broke the chains that held the wooden cage down over her sister.
"Lin!" Suyin threw the cage off and ran over to her big sister tearing up the black police uniform pants to wrap the gaping wounds in her sister's leg. "We need to get you to Katara!"
"Too far-"
"The hospital-"
"No one can know-"
"You need a healer!"
"We have salves at home!"
"Lin, you're hurt! This isn't just a scratch you can walk away from and be just fine!"
"Watch me-" Lin said struggling to stand again before falling.
"Lin! Will you ever stop being so stubborn?"
"WILL YOU EVER LISTEN TO ME?!" Lin yelled. "You're the one who was stupid enough to go on a blind date with a fucking Terra Triad in the first place! You've DONE ENOUGH!-"
Suyin sat back and wiped her nose with her now blood covered hands. "He was my friend! I didn't know his friends would do this. I viewed him like family!"
"But he is NOT family, Suyin, and he can never be. YOU'RE A BEIFONG! No matter what, YOU CANNOT ESCAPE IT! You will be USED and you will be ABUSED for your fortune and your name. You're just a trophy to the other gangs! So wake up, Su! Life ISN'T a game! You were just an asset to them who could beg the chief of police, her own mother, for mercy on their behalf!" Lin shouted back.
Suyin whimpered. Lin was right and they both knew it. Suyin helped Lin out the door in silence, leaving behind the bloody mess in that broken shell of a building.
A/N The "episode" still isn't over. but the explicit stuff is. Still left is Lin sleeping for 16 hours, Kalenutsco and convo with Opal, and official reconciliation with Suyin.