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"Mum!" No reply. Jinora and Ikki shared a look. They walked to the end of the bed where their mother's feet poked out into the open. They began tickling her feet, eliciting a groan from her. "Mum, you have to get up."

"Why? I have nothing important planned for the day, so why do I have to get up?" She asked, sitting up to lean against her headboard.

Jinora tugged on her mother's hand. "You volunteered at our school today."

"What!? I don't remember signing up for anything at your school." Ikki looked away, a sheepish grin on her face. Lin let out a sigh, taking note of the expression on her youngest daughter's face. "What did you do?"

"Well, I asked you if I could take your armour in to show and tell and you said you would if you volunteered and I thought because you're going to be home for the next five months, that you wouldn't mind volunteering." Finished Ikki, taking in a deep breath of air.

"you have a lot of nerve, you know that?" stated Lin, moving to get up from the bed, which she found difficult due to her seven month pregnant stomach.

Ikki looked down, tears swelling in her eyes. "Sorry."

Seeing her daughter upset, caused a pang in her chest. She pulled her daughters in for a hug "I'm not angry at you Ikki, I just wish you had told me earlier. That goes for you to Jinora. Go get ready for school, I'll be out in a minute."

The girls smiled up at their mother. "Thank you!" They both shouted, bounding down the hall, dodging acolytes as they went.

"Lin?" Came a voice from the door of the bedroom.

"Hey Kya."

Kya ventured further into the room, smirking as she leaned against the doorframe. "Do you need a hand?"

"No" Lin tried to stand under her own power but failed to do so, due to the dip in the bed her extra weight made. She gave up "I might need a hand."

Kya let out a small giggle. "You know, there is nothing wrong with asking for help." She received a grunt in return. "So what did you do to make the girls so happy." Asked Kya, moving to help Lin stand.

"I agreed to volunteer at their school and bring my armour in to show and tell for Ikki." She answered, putting on a dress that accommodated her large stomach.

"Sounds like fun. Can I tag along?"

"Fine." Lin went to pick up her chest plate, only to have Kya stop her in her tracks.

"What do you think you're doing?" She asked, folding her arms across her chest.

"I'm picking up my suit. Why?"

"I told you that you couldn't do any heavy lifting." Kya picked up the armour for her, letting out a grunt in the process. "Why is this so heavy? I've seen you and aunt Toph pick it up like it was nothing."

"Without metalbending, the armour can weigh up to ten kilos. With metalbending it only weighs… nothing." She flexed her hand in the direction of the metal, causing it to move towards her. She took it in her hands, giving Kya a smug smirk.

"If you weren't pregnant, I'd tackle you."

"Blame your brother for that one." She replied walking out the door "Ikki, Jinora! Let's go!" Ikki was the first to arrive, jumping in her spot in excitement. "Where is your sister?"

"I'm right here."

The two adults looked up to see Jinora dragging her backpack along the ground. "Let me help you honey." Kya picked up the bag for her niece. "Are you taking the library with you?" She joked.

"It's only ten books."

"Right, only ten."

"Mum, we need to go now or we'll miss the ferry." Ikki pointed out, pulling on her mothers moss green dress.

Kya and Lin walked into the school grounds as Ikki and Jinora ran off in the direction of their friends. "Wow! I can't believe how much this place has changed. What made you want to send them here?" Kya questioned, taking in her surroundings

"It was a good school, even if the people weren't."

"Remember when Bumi broke a window with a boomerang?"

"Oh yeah." Lin pointed at a window on the second floor. "I think it was that one."

Kya began laughing loud and hard.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin queried, unsure of the sudden outburst of laughter.

"I was just remembering how a friend and I, stole the boys clothes from the locker room when they were swimming and hid them in the girls locker room."

"You were an evil bit-" Lin was interrupted when she felt something tap her on the arm. She looked down to see a small boy staring up at her in awe. "Can I help you?"

"Lee!" A woman ran up to the child, panting heavily. "How many times have I told you not to run off like that?"

"But mum, look."

The woman followed the young boys hand to find it pointing at Lin. "Chief Beifong! I'm uh, really sorry about my son. You see, Lee is a really big fan of yours and wants to become an officer like you."

Lin looked down at the boy, taking in his appearance. "Is that so? Well, Lee, what type of bender are you?"

"I'm a- I'm umm- I'm a firebender."

"Wow, a firebender! We don't get many of those in the force but let me tell you something, if you really want to be an officer on my team, you have to practise really hard. Can you do that?" Lee nodded furiously. "Good. Now go play with your friends."

"Thank you Chief Beifong. I'm Hotoku. My son is in Ikki's class with miss Wu." Lin was about to reply when the school bell rang. "Well I guess I'll see you inside. Ikki has been talking about you volunteering all week."

"Naw, hear that Lin? Your little girl has been talking about you all week."

"Shut it Kya."

Jinora ran up to her mother, pulling her to the direction of her classroom. "You're with me for the first half of the day and then after recess you and Aunt Kya can switch."

"Okay, okay. Jinora, I can't walk as fast as I used to."

She quickly let go of her mother's hand. "Sorry."

"It's okay. You go sit down and I'm going to see where I can out my armour." Lin walked up to who she suspected the teacher was. "Ms. Hala?"

The teacher turned around from the black bored, glasses perched on her nose. "Oh yes. Chief Beifong, thank you for volunteering today." She caught sight of the armour in the pregnant woman's hands. "Would you like me to put that away for you?" Lin didn't get the chance to reply. "Wow this is really heavy. I'll put it in this closet for you. Take a seat on Jinora's table and we can get the day started."

"Uh, thanks." She took a seat next to her daughter, clearly uncomfortable in the tiny seats meant for smaller humans.

"Now class, today's first activity is to write a story of your choice and when you finish, our volunteers will proof read them. You have an hour, go."

Lin looked at the back of the room, to find two volunteers talking at the tea making station. "Hey mum?"

"Hmm? Yes Jinora?"

"Did I spell inconspicuous right?"

Lin looked over at her daughter's work, nodding her approval. "Good work. I'll be right back." She walked over to the tea station, making herself a cup of the warm goodness.

"You're Chief Beifong, right?" Asked a plump woman, hair going down do her buttocks.

"Yes, I am. And you are?"

"I'm Yama, Zatla's my daughter." She gestured to the woman of her right. "And this is Ying, Wang's mother."

Lin stretched her arm out, shaking each of the women's hands "Nice to meet you both." Maybe this volunteering thing won't be so bad after all.

When the recess bell rang, Lin stormed outside with a scowl on her face and armour in hand. She spotted Kya on the other side of the school grounds, wearing an identical scowl to her own. "I just spent two hours listening to stupid people and their opinions to how I should raise my kids. Not how all kids should be raised, just mine in particular. So why are you scowling?"

"A kid got to second base with me during hand painting time. I just spent the last twenty minutes in the bathroom washing off the green paint. We were never this bad."

"Of course not. Aunt Katara would torture us and my mother would have watched and laughed if we did anything like that."

"The closest we got to that, was when Tenzin left a hickey on your neck when you were fifteen. He got the sex talk from dad, a lesson about responsibility from my mother and aunt Toph made sure to make him feel as uncomfortable as possible about sex. And you got off scot-free."

Lin laughed at the memory. "Tenzin wouldn't touch me for a month. Or look at me for that matter." The bell signalling recess was over sounded throughout the school grounds. "Off to the torture dungeons we go."

Ikki ran up to her mother with the use of airbending. "Ikki, you shouldn't be airbending on the school grounds."

"Sorry aunt Kya. I'm just really excited. I'm first on the list for show and tell when we get inside."

"I'm coming Ikki." She turned her attention back to Kya. "I'll see you at the school's gates at the end of the day." Lin followed Ikki into the classroom, to find all the children congregating on the floor in front of the teacher.

"Now class it's that time of the day where five of your fellow classmates, have something very special to share. Ikki Beifong, do you have something to share?"

"Yes miss Wu." Lin took this as her que to walk to the front of the class, where she placed her armour on a nearby table. "This is my mother's armour. It is very special because it is the only one that is black because she is the Chief of police. It can only be taken on and off with metalbending and it has cables on the back that are also controlled by metalbending. Any questions?"

Hands instantly flew into the air. Ikki pointed at a random classmate. "What happens if the bender is hurt and they, um, need to get it off but no metalbenders are around?"

Ikki looked at her mother, clearly not knowing the answer. Lin stepped forward. "The armour has a discrete locking mechanism, that only myself and a few medical staff know how to activate it."

"Why?"

"Well the armour is there to protect us. We wouldn't want them to know how to unlock it."

Why?"

"Have you ever killed anyone?"

"Have you ever broken someone's arm?"

"Have you ever cut someone in half with the cables?"

Sensing Lin's growing distress over barrage of questions, miss Wu intervened. "That's enough questions. Please thank Ikki and Chief Beifong for sharing with us."

Lin walked over to the school's gates where Kya waited with Jinora. "So how was your day?"

"Turns out the kid in Ikki's class had an older brother."

"Think of it this way, it's the most action you've had in a few months."

Kya began walking towards the docks, as Jinora and Ikki ran a few metres ahead of them. "So how was show and tell?"

Lin let out a groan. "Those kids were more interested in learning if I killed someone or if it was possible to kill someone with the cables. When did kids become so interested in death?"

"You know what cheers me up?"

"What?"

Kya began smiling at the idea. "Rainbow ice cream!"

Jinora and Ikki rejoiced at their aunt's outburst. "Fine. But you better eat dinner!"