Hey Hot Stuff
It was a normal day for Lin, she’d woken up at five, showered, gotten dressed and walked to the station. It was her morning routine, it was the same every morning… but not this morning. Once she arrived at the station she received a call that someone in the holding cell claimed to know her, the officer’s voice on the other end sniggered before saying ‘someone named Kya’. Lin didn’t know if she was excited or terrified or mad, she knew she should be mad, Kya had got herself arrested and thrown in jail for spirit’s sake but she wasn’t mad she was just so excited to see the waterbender again. She rushed down to the holding cell and when she got there she saw the most beautiful thing she’d seen in twenty years, Kya. Her hair had gone an enchanting shade of silver and her face had wrinkles, crows feet and smile lines from the happy expression permanently plastered on her face since birth. The two women smiled at each other as Lin walked up to the bars and prepared to shout at her but before she could Kya spoke, “Hey hot stuff.” Those three words and the wink that came with them melted Lins’s heart and for the first time in twenty years, she felt… happy? Once Lin sorted everything out and Kya was released they walked around the city catching up as Kya took in the city as though she hadn’t grown up there and had never seen it before although enough had changed that it was a different city. Spirit vines now grew freely through the city and spirits lived in harmony with the citizens. Although so much had changed about the city she once knew one thing reminds the same, Lin. Lin had always been there for her from her coming out to her first break up to her father dying to right now, she knew one thing would always remain the same.
Once they talked about what seemed like everything but nothing at the same time they began to head back to Lin’s apartment. “So...um am I gonna have to sleep on the lounge like a dog or a banished husband now,’ Lin laughed but there was a genuine question behind it. They hadn’t slept in the same house since high school except for the one time Lin spent the night at Kya’s college dorm but that was decades ago and neither one of them knew the protocol now. At the thought of sharing a bed with Lin Kya’s heart skipped a beat, she thought she’d gotten over her crush on the younger woman but her reaction made it clear to her that she hadn’t. Unlike Kya, Lin was unsure of what her feelings were and thought nothing of the butterflies that swirled in her stomach. “I don’t see why we can just share your bed.” Lin was shocked, she wanted to share the bed but she didn’t expect that Kya would too. At Lin's silence Kya began to noticeably doubt herself, something she did very rarely, she’d learnt how to hide her feelings over the years. She’d cultivated the image of an open book back in high school so people just assumed they knew everything they needed to know about her, little did they know all the trauma she hid from the world, more than that her big secret, being a lesbian.
But there was always one person who knew all her secrets, Izumi knew most of them but Lin knew absolutely everything about the water bender- everything but the crush the older woman had been harbouring for her-. So when Lin didn’t say anything Kya felt like dying and began to backtrack. “I mean only if you want to, if not I can just sleep on the lounge or on the floor, I’m sure you have a mattress or something, oh god I didn’t even ask if I could stay with you I- I… I’ll just find a hotel,” Kya rambled on, something Lin couldn’t recall seeing her do, not since she was eight and Kya was thirteen. “Of course you’re staying with me, and I’m absolutely fine with sharing my bed, it’ll be just like old times.”
“Wow, you’re such a softie!” Su laughed at her sister.
“Shut up or I’ll throw a boulder at your head!” Lin grumbled only half-joking.
Su raised an eyebrow at her and the two sisters erupted into a fit of laughter, this was the type of thing they would do all the time as children and it reminds Su of something else they used to do as kids, spar.
“Lin I’ve just had the best idea,” Lin’s nod let Su know she’d peeked her sister’s interest, “We should spar!” Su says just as excitedly as they used to as kids. Lin was sent back at the suggestion and instantly ran down to the part of the backyard for training.
“Last one there is a rotten turtle duck egg!” Lin shouted childishly.
“Hey, that’s no fair!” Su shouted, running after her sister bending the ground in front of her Lin tripping the woman.
Su runs in front of Lin laughing at her sister on the ground but she quickly jumps back up and bends rocks up to trap Su’s feet and jumps over her little sister with a boost from the rocks she bends from the ground. Lin is running down the stairs just seconds from the combat area when Su flings herself in front of the older woman with a metal cable she bent off a piece of armour in the hall. Lin growls at her sister before smiling as they both laugh once more.
“Oh, you’re on now!” Lin laughs as they both get into a fighting stance.