wow this is my longest ever. i'm not %100 about it as i find it feels a bit rushed. also i'm now accepting prompts. i'm kinda running out of ideas :s. enjoy and r&r.

"Hello Lin. How was work?" asked Tenzin as Lin walked up the pathway of the Bei Fong home.

"Hey," she reached up to place a kiss on Tenzin's lips. She let out a soft moan relaxing into his touch "work was… tiring and hectic."

"Do you want to talk about?"

"Not really. I just want to go inside and sleep on the couch. How was your day?" she asked moving to open the door.

"Can I steal your answer?" asked Tenzin letting out a soft laugh.

"That bad huh?" they moved inside towards the couch, both plopping down with a sigh of relaxation.

"You try spending three hours listening to the councilman of the northern water tribe talking. Like. This. And then your secretary double booking your meetings."

"That's nothing. My mother made me read all her reports to her which took three hours and then told me to 'handle it' while she went out to lunch, and on top of that I had to lead a rag tag team of rookies on a raid. One of the rookies panicked causing him to loose control of his cables causing it to cut my arm. It's the second scar I received this week."

"I give up, you win."

"No Su."

"Please mother, I really like him and have been waiting for him to ask me out for the past year!"

"I said no!"

"What if Lin was there?" Su looked up at her mother hands clasped in a begging gesture.

"Fine but you have to get Lin to agree, if she says no, then that's the last I want to hear of it."

"YES!"

"Will you two keep it down? Some of us had a long day at work and would love it if you let them sleep." Said Lin looking over at them from her spot on Tenzin's chest.

"Pfffft what was so long about it? I had three hours of paper work to do!"

"Yeah which you palmed off to me. Thanks for that by the way."

"Oh, right, well I'm going to go take a nap. I have to go back to work in a couple of hours." Toph said walking off with no intentions of looking back.

"Ugh she is so infuriating," said Lin collapsing back onto Tenzins chest causing him to let out a small oomph.

"Hey Lin?"

"What do you want Su?"

"You know how you love me?"

"Love is a strong word."

Su let out a sigh "Well, I have this date with this guy at Kwong's Cuisine and mum said I can't go unless you come with and so I was wanting to know if you would, please, I'll even pay."

"I'll go but you have to ask Tenzin"

Hearing this Tenzin opened his eyes, "it's fine with me. What time is he going to be here?"

"In an hour! Thank you so much Tenzin! I'm going to go get ready."

"What did we just agree to?" asked Lin starting to regret their idea.

"SU! Hurry up! You've been in the bathroom for forty-five minutes." There was no response "Su I'm coming in." without a moments hesitation she opened the door to find Su trying to apply makeup. She let out a sigh realising Su's struggle "Su, would you like some help?"

Su let out a defeated sigh, "yes please."

Lin motioned for her younger sister to take a seat. "While I've got you're here, can I ask what has you all worked up? Surely this guy isn't that impressive."

"He's the captain of the bending team and rarely asks anyone out, let alone someone a year bellow him. It makes me feel special"

"How old is he?" From the contact she had with her sister, she could tell what she was saying was true. Though there is still more behind the reasons she agreed to go out with him.

"He's sixteen, only a year and a month older than I am."

Letting the small age gap slide, she finished Su's makeup just in time for the doorbell to ring. "Spirits! He's here!"

"Su relax. Go answer the door while I get my car keys."

"Okay I can do this." She made her way towards the front door, noticing Tenzin smiling at her from his position from the couch, a small sign that he wishes her luck. "Hi Kydo, you look, handsome tonight"

"Yeah right back at you," Kydo said with a laid back tone, "you ready to go?"

"Yes we all are" Lin had appearing behind Su, keys in one hand, Tenzins hand in the other.

"Oh, I didn't know this was a double date. The names Kydo and you two are?"

"I'm Lin and this is Tenzin."

"And this is not a double date" Su tried to make this clear to all people present.

Both couples were seated at their own tables, away from each other in the restaurant as not to be interrupted by the other. Su and Kydo were eating their meals, with little to no conversation happening between them. Unsure of what to do Su looked over to where Lin and Tenzin were seated, noticing they were emerged in their own conversation, she tried to start one up with her date "So how is your meal?"

Kydo let out a grunt of satisfaction. "So what's your sister's deal?"

"What do you mean?"

"She's always looking pissed or angry, like she's set to attack at any moment."

"Yeah, she's been like that since she became a cop."

"Huh, well I've finished and looks like you have to. I say we catch one of those new movers and see if we can ditch the downers."

Su swallowed hard, "yeah okay."

"Looks like we're leaving Tez." Lin downed the rest of her drink and made her way over to Su. "You forgetting our deal Su?"

"What? Oh yeah." Su opened her money pouch to only discover a few yuans. She pulled Lin down to her level, "um, Lin can you loan me a few yuans? I'll pay you back, I promise." Asked Su in a whisper.

"Fine, but I want interest."

"What are we doing now Su?" asked Lin with a yawn.

"We are going to see a mover," replied Su walking arm in arm with Kydo towards the theatre.

"Sounds like fun. Go find some seats while I get the tickets"

Su hurried off with Kydo in tow. "Do you want me to wait for you?" asked Tenzin unsure of what to do next.

"No but do you mind finding us some seats near the back."

Lin entered the theatre and found her seat next to Tenzin at the back, with Su and her date a few rows in front of them. "What are we doing after this? I don't think I can keep my eyes open much longer and it's only nine."

"Whether the brat wants to or not, we are going home as soon as this is over. And I have tomorrow off if you want to stay the night." Said Lin annoyance in her voice.

"Wow, an invitation, that's a first." Lin was about retort but was hushed by the other patrons around her.

They were twenty minutes into the mover, when Lin noticed that she couldn't find Su in the audience. She took off her shoes allowing her to feel every movement around her. She located Su just outside the theatre moving towards an alley. "Tenzin I'm going to grab Su. I'll meet you at the car in five minutes."

Lin made her way outside the theatre, sensing her sister's heart beat faster, panic began to set in. She felt Kydo advance towards, Su pushing her up against a wall violently. Lin ran towards the two, finding Kydo's hand pushing Su's dress up past her thighs, a knife at his side. "Kydo stop! I don't want to do this! Let me go!" Su tried to force him away, tears falling down her face.

Lin saw red. She tackled Kydo to the ground, letting out a flurry of punches "DON'T YOU EVER TOUCH MY LITTLE SISTER! YOU BASTARD!" Punch after punch came down on Kydo's face. Bone, breaking against bone, could be heard. She didn't let up when he lost conscious.

Tenzin came around the corner, to find Su watching her older Sister beat the man to death. He crouched down, placing a hand on Su's shoulder. "Su look at me. Don't watch, just look at me." He moved her around so she faced the wall. It did nothing to silence the sounds going on behind them.

Sirens could be heard in the distance. A bright light shone down from above. Lin stopped in her actions looking up to see her mother approaching from her cable. An expression she had never witnessed before appeared on her mother's face, as her feet touched the ground. She placed a hand on Lin's shoulder "Lin," her daughter didn't move "Lin you need to get off him."

Lin reluctantly got off of Kydo's lifeless body. Fists bloodied and broken. She swayed on her feet, collapsing to her knees. "Lin what's wrong?" Lin let out a groan. Her mother kneeled next to her feeling, around for any damage. Her hands landed on Lin's side, feeling a jaggered knife sticking out. Blood now covered her hands "Lin stay with me! THAT'S AN ORDER CAPTAIN! TENZIN CALL YOUR BISON, TAKE SU TO AIR TEMPLE ISLAND!" Tenzin wasted no time pulling the whistle from his pocket.

Toph turned her attention back to her daughter, feeling her collapse against her shoulder. "Dammit!" She flung Lin over her back, ordering the air ship to drop a line and get moving. She hauled Lin into the opening of the hull. "Lin, hold on for a minute longer, we're nearly there and then Katara can fix you."

It was the most agonising sixty seconds of the Chief's life. "Chief! We're over the drop zone."

"You're dismissed." And with that she let her self drop, slowing down her momentum in the last few metres.

She burst into the family's living room. Finding all members present. "Toph! What happened?!" Asked Katara, moving to Lin's body in Toph's arms.

"Help her!"

Katara led her friend to the nearest healing room. Toph placed her on the large bed as Katara got to work, removing the knife. "Now, tell me what happened." She said, trying to remain calm and collective.

"We got a call saying a girl was getting sexually assaulted. We arrived on the scene to find Lin sitting on the attackers chest."

"Did the attacker survive?" Katara was met with silence, "anything else I should know?"

Toph let out a sigh, "Tenzin and Su witnessed it."

"Ho- how bad wa- was it?"

"From what I could feel, the attackers face is completely unrecognisable. It looked as though it were done with a rock." Toph fell into a nearby chair.

"Are you telling me she didn't use earthbending?" Toph replied with a nod.

"Her fist's are busted from the ferocity." Toph muttered.

A few moments passed when there was a knock at the door. "Come in Su."

The door slid open to reveal a tear streaked Su. She stood in the doorway, not taking her eyes off of her motionless sister. Toph walked over to her youngest daughter, coaxing her into the room. Su let out a sob, hugging her mother tightly "I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry."

"You have nothing, to apologise for."

"Yes, I do. If I had listened to you, then Lin wouldn't we lying in that bed and she wouldn't have to have killed Kydo."

Toph conceded in Su's words but she would not let her daughter think it was her fault, "you listen to me Su, it was not your fault, it was Kydo's. Don't you ever think it was your fault. Now I want you to go get some sleep, it's late and you've had a long night." Su opened the door to find Tenzin, hand poised to knock. They shared a look before Su hurried away.

Tenzin took a seat next to Lin, carefully placing his large hand over Lin's smaller one. "How is she?" He asked to no one in particular.

"She'll be fine, just a small scar and her hands will be sore for a few days." His mother answered, placing the healing water in a tub. "I've done all I can."

A few silent minutes passed, when Lin opened her eyes to find three people looking down at her. She let out a groan, "this is usually how my nightmares start."

"Well, her humour isn't broke." Joked Toph, "how do you feel kiddo?"

"Numb." Katara was at her side prodding Lin's body with water, eliciting a grimace from her. "How is Su?" She asked tiredly.

Tenzin and Toph 'looked' at each other. Tenzin deciding to be the one to answer, "she's… traumatised. We have never seen you like that, frankly it scared me to." He knew he was being blunt but Lin would know if he was downplaying his answer.

Lin looked away in shame "I'm sorry. When I saw him… attacking, Su, like that I saw red. I knew what I was doing but I couldn't stop, even when I felt his heart beat stop, I couldn't let up, I was so angry. And you know the worst bit?" She let out a sigh, "I don't feel sorry for him. If I had to do it again, I would." She looked at her loved ones faces. Their expression? Shock. Unsure of what to say to the woman lying before them.

Toph broke the silence, putting on her commanding tone, "in light of recent events you're suspended from duty for two weeks until this matter is resolved," Toph lowered her voice, "during which I ask that you talk to someone."

"Yes chief."

"I'm going to bed." Katara turned to Lin, "I'll check on you in the morning."

"Wait up." Toph bent down at the waist, kissing Lin on her forehead. "Thank you for saving Su." She left the room with Katara.

"Well, I guess I should leave."

A hand caught Tenzin's sleeve. "Please, stay with me." More of a request than a question.

Tenzin looked down at her, giving a small smile "sure." He took off his shirt then turned off the light, settling down next to her. He placed a light hand on her waist, mindful of her injuries.

Su stood outside the room her sister currently occupied. It was three in the morning and she was unable to sleep. Cracking open the door, she slid inside, careful not to wake the rooms occupants.

She walked up to the side Lin was sleeping on. Pulling back the blanket, she crawled in, relishing in the warmth it provided.

"Su? Are you all right? What are you doing here?" Lin asked groggily.

Su turned to face her, "I'm fine, I jus- I just couldn't sleep."

Lin let out a sigh "I know you don't want to talk about it, but when I was helping you in the bathroom, I could sense you didn't tell me everything. So why did you want do go out with him?"

"I was hoping, that it might turn into what you and Tenzin have."

"What we have?" Lin asked in disbelief

"Well, yeah. You two have something people would kill for." Su realised what she had said. "Sorry. But the way you two are holding each other right now, is something people would be jealous of. The way you converse and can sit in silence without feeling awkward is something I wanted."

Lin let out a sigh. "Su, Tenzin and I have our problems just like any other couple. We argue when I drink too much or if we have a bad day at work."

"Sorry."

"I need to apologise as well. I'm sorry for what you had to witness. When I first started as a cop, everyday I hoped you wouldn't see such violence. What made it worse, was that you had to see me end someone's life with my bare hands."

"Yeah." A minute passed before Su spoke. "Can I sleep here?"

Lin looked over her shoulder to see Tenzin still asleep. "Sure. Turn around."

Su complied. Feeling Lin wrap a strong, comforting arm around her slim waist. She felt at peace as the two Bei Fongs fell asleep.