Wakey wakey
“I did it!” Su squeals excitedly as she runs up to Bumi and Izumi the next morning.
“They shared a room?”
“Which room?”
“Oh...uh, right..” It’s then that Su realised she never actually showed them to their room. In her defence she’s been pretty preoccupied thinking about the fact that no one told her they’re living together.
“Well I didn’t exactly show them to their room but I’m sure they found a room. And why didn’t one of you tell me they live together!”
“Dude she’s your sister you should know these things.” Bumi shrugs.
“Wait! So we don’t know if they actually spent the night in the same room?” Izumi ever the voice of reason and sass speaks up, bushing Bumi out of the way.
“Only one way to find out!” Su runs down the halls peaking into everyone’s rooms.
Normally she would never do anything like this but something about terrorising her sister - for her own good - brings her back to being a teenager again.
They all search through every room in each hallway, in a similar manner to the two women the night before.
“I found them!” Bumi jumps excitedly at his discovery.
The three of them slowly creek open the door in an attempt not to wake the sleeping women. Bumi steppes in first excitedly as the other two follow behind him, Suyin almost tripping over Izumi as she suddenly stops.
Su looks past her friend to see her sister cuddled up in bed with none other than Kya. As the trio’s eyes grow Widder with shock Bumi and Su attempt to stifle a laugh.
Izumi is the first to speak.
“Are they!?”
“I-I think .... they are?”
“Spirits they are!”
As the realisation sets in on the group they stare dumbfounded at the women. Kya’s legs were tangled amongst Lin’s as her head rested on the metal benders chest, Lin’s arms protectively wrapped around the water bender. Izumi is once again the first to collect her thoughts enough to speak but not quite enough to form a coherent sentence on her own.
“We should...”
“Take pictures!”
“Right?”
The three of them share a look, the collective stammer hanging in the air for a moment before Su moves to grab her Sato phone out of her pocket and begin taking photos. The others laugh and coo at the women before Lin begins to stir.
“Ah fuck! Lin’s always been a light sleeper!” Izumi whisper shouts grabbing Su and pulling her back.
“Shit!” Bumi jumps back, nocking the glass of water on the nightstand over in the process.
In no time Kya’s eyes snap over catching the water mid air with her bending and leaving in there, suspended in motion as she surveys the room and comes to the realisation that she’s been caught tangled up in the arms of Lin Beifong by her brother, best friend and said woman’s sister.
Before anyone else can further process the awkwardness of the situation Kya bends the water into a whip and hits Bumi over the head, carefully standing up so as to not wake the beautiful woman beside her.
“What in the name of the spirits are you three doing?! Here?! At...” Kya’s shouts trail off as she looks to the nightstand where the water had once been and see the clock. 5:03 am. What had they been doing in her room at 5:03 am?!
“We couldn’t believe it when Suyin had told us that you and Lin where sharing a room.” Izumi, ever the diplomat tried to explain.
“And that you lived together!” Su added her shock still not gone.
“Nice pull by the way.” Bumi winked holding his hand out for a first bump.
Kya raised the water once more and Bumi retracted his hand stepping back with the others.
“So you didn’t sneak in here to take photos of us?” Kya asked eyebrow raised.
The trio stood there shocked, none of them had planned what to do if they had been caught. Bumi and Su shifted nervously as Izumi tried to think of something to say.
Just as the fire lord was about to speak Lin started to groan. All their faces paled as the four of them turned to see Lin snarling at them.
“What’s going on?! Bumi! Zums? Su?!” Lin snapped looking pointedly at each one of them. “Kya...” Lin groans assuming the water bender had done something.
“That’s what I want to know!” Kya looked from Lin to the other three before sitting back on the bed.
“Look sis you know I love you...” Bumi started looking at his sister.
“Ok, they’ve got us guys, we wanted to get a photo of you two because you looked so cute, Lin I’ve never seen you so relaxed and it made me happy to see my sister so at peace.” Su reasoned, knowing that Lin wouldn’t listen to her she looked at Kya for help.
“Lin it’s not the end of the world.” Kya places a comforting hand on her knee over the covers.
“Yeah! You looked cute Linnie!” Bumi laughed as the rest of the struggles not to seeing Lin growl at them before covering her head with the covers.
Kya giggles and pulls Lin in closer causing the others to laugh more. And Lin’s cheeks to turn a darker shade of red.
Just as the group settled down Toph walked down the hall towards the room, her voice echoing through the hallways.
“Come on kids, foods getting cold!”
She turned to enter the room and was met with laughter from the trio as Kya’s face now grew just as red as Lin’s.
“Leave Lin and her sugar princess girlfriend alone! Now come on!”
The group erupted in an uproar of laughter as the walked down the hall Toph had just come from, towards the dining room.
“Mom!” Lin groaned, her body sinking further into Kya’s wishing she could disappear.
“Hey Toph!” Kya says masker her embarrassment with excitement.
“Yeah yeah, just get your loved up asses out here!” With that Toph left the room leaving the two alone.
“Sorry about that..” They both speak simultaneously before laughing at one another.
“Let’s... umm- let’s just go and get some food.” Lin says desperate to change the topic.
“Uh yeah, let’s go.” Kya says throwing the metal bender her clothes before going into the bathroom to get changed.
The three “adults” leave giggling the entire way before Su shows them to the dinning hall and leaves to go wake her husband.
“My sister, Lin Beifong, Cheif of Republic City’s Police Department, asleep with Kya, who was like a sister to me growing up, daughter of Avatar Aang and the greatest water bender alive Master Katara!” Suyin mumbled in awe as she walked down the long halls still trying to process what she’d just seen.