Zufo and hugs
The airship arrives in Zofu at almost 7am with most of its occupants still sleeping. The sounds of the ship docking shocked Lin awake, snapping into a sitting position. After quickly inspecting the room and using her seismic sense she sees they are simply docking.
At that realisation another wave of fear takes Lin. The picture of Suyin standing there smugly as she sees Lin exit the ship no doubt with Kya behind her has plagued Lin all night. She knows Su means well but ever since they were children she’s wanted to know everything about Lin’s life, granted up until now there was nothing in her life that would excite the younger metal bender.
After everyone had claimed their rooms to sleep in Bumi came up to find the two women talking on the deck of the airship. He had told them there was only two rooms left, one for him and one for them, meaning they would have to share. They simply shrugged it off not caring as they had been living together in a one bedroom apartment for almost 2 and a half years now.
Neither of them bothered to turn around and talk to the air bender but had they, they would have seen a shit eating grin plastered across his face. In reality the airship has several rooms remaining, not including the rooms for the staff that also could have been used but Bumi wasn’t about to tell them that.
Ever since the day Kya confused her feelings for Lin Bumi had been relentless trying to set them up, even recruiting Izumi to help. While he didn’t exactly tell Izumi about Kya’s crush on Lin he simply hinted that would work well together and Izumi agreed as she had too been trying to set them up. She’s been trying since they where in high school and she first saw the way they looked at each other. At first it was more subtle but as time went on the looks grew more intense and so did Izumi’s attempts to push them together.
Izumi and Bumi has spoken about it several times but unknown to their of the women they planned to make their move while on the trip. Izumi had said that she would bet her fire bending that Suyin wanted the best for her sister and for Lin, the best was Kya. They planned to pull Su aside and form a plan together.
“Lin?” Kya said sleep making her voice increasingly raspy.
Lin had trouble focusing on anything but the rasp in the water benders voice on a normal day but today, she might just explode right there. She notices Kya staring at her and simply looks over to her, not trusting her own mouth to speak.
“Are we in Zufo?” Kya asks just not noticing the absence of the mechanical hum of the airship.
The metal bender simply nodded in response as she tried to regain her self.
“Oh my spirits, Lin! We’re in Zufo! I can’t wait to see everything! And everyone! It’s been far too long since I’ve spoken to Suyin.” Kya jumps out of bed excitedly, stealing the covers from Lin in the proses.
Lin cringes at the cold and the mention of her sister. Before she can say anything Kya is jumping over to Lin’s aside of the bed pulling her out and running into the bathroom to get ready for the no doubt long day ahead of them.
Lin picks out her clothes for the day and turns to see Kya walking out of the bathroom her wet hair slung over her shoulder, making her look like an Ancient Greek Goddess. She can’t think straight* as Kya emerges walking toward Lin whose jaw is almost touching the floor. Kya looks up seeing the earth benders reaction and slightly blushes before recovering with one of her signature sassy remarks.
“Your turn.” Kya says as she moves past Lin. “Don’t forget your pick up your jaw before you head in.” She smirks before bumping her hip into Lin’s and giggling.
Lin stands there socked as a red blush creeps up her face. She tries to come up with something but knows Kya will only return it with another sassy remark. The metal bender turns to see Kya humming and the older woman throws her a wink before Turing back to fold her clothes. Lin silently shakes her head and walks into the bathroom.
Once everyone is ready to go they decide that Lin should go out to greet her sister first before surprising her with the rest of them. They open the door for Lin to walk out as they all stay silent and out of sight.
“Su? Suyin! It’s Lin.” She shouts searching for her sister. Just as she shrugs and turns to re enter the air ship she hears a door swing open and slam shut.
“LIN!” Lin turns around fear running through her as she sees her little sister running towards her at full speed.
She brasses herself for the eventual bone crushing hug she know will follow. Sure enough Su wraps her in a quite literal bone crushing hug. Lin stiffens before patting her sister on the back lightly, earning a laugh from the younger woman as she leans up and kisses her sister on the cheek. Lin makes a face of disgust before Su lightly punches her arm.
“Come on Linnie admit that you love me! Hug your little sister!” Su whines looking up at Lin with that annoying smile, which Lin recognises to be the smile of someone who is about to get what they want.
“Fine, I love you.” Line says quietly and she gently wraps her arms around her sister.
“Sorry, what was that? Couldn’t quite hear you.” Su smirks looking up at Lin once more.
“I said I hate you.” Lin grumbles, the snarl that typically adorns her face returning as quick as it left.
Su shrugs knowing it’s the best she’s going to get. Despite their estrangement Su still acts as if her sister had been a sort of her life since birth. Lin appreciates her sister and the fact that they have such a strong bond but sometimes she wishes they were still in the period of time that she simply ignored her existence. Lin sees a small frown form on her sisters face and quickly remembers the reason she came.
“I’ve got a surprise for you Su!” She says a bit too excitedly, earning a look of confusion from Su.
Before Su can asks she looks up to see Kya’s head peaking out from the door, aww-ing at the love between the two sisters. Lin turns and sees what- or rather who- Su is looking at.
“Oh my spirts, Lin! You and Kya and finally dating!!! Congratulations! Everyone always said you where a boring stick in the mud- okay that might have been me but now I take it back. Ah I’m so proud of you!” Su exclaims wrapping her sister in yet another hug and bringing Kya down to hug her too.
Kya simply giggles at the accusation, it’s not like the thought hadn’t crossed her mind. She had a feeling Su would suspect their was something more between them, in fact for years now Kya thought Su might have known about her crush on the older Beifong.
Lin on the other hand turns a shade of bright red that neither Kya nor Su had ever seen before. The two shared a look before giggling more at the metal bender.
“No, Su. We’re not dating. I just came to surprise you for your fiftieth!” Kya laughs still half hugging the woman.
“I take back my take back, your still a stick in the mud!” Suyin says a disappointed look covering her face.
Before the look can settle Kya speaks up. “Actually I’m not the whole surprise, just the best part of the surprise!