Tenzin is visiting the air temples, yet again trying to enter the spirit world. Meanwhile Lin finds out she's pregnant.
When Tenzin comes back and meets Lin again, the bump is pretty much the first thing he sees. The messenger hawk certainly didn't reach him according to his reaction. (And they haven't installed phones/radios in the air temples yet.)
Thanks for this prompt! 😊 Here’s a short post that hopefully does it justice. Hope you like it. And as always, let me know what you think.
Lin/Tenzin, pre-canon AU, a short two-shot (is that the right term for it?), T, wip
Homecoming
Tenzin dropped his bag unceremoniously at the doorstep.
Travelling from one temple to the other in the past months was such a taxing thing to do.
To think he used to look forward to it when he was younger.
Oh, what he would do to slap his younger self upside the head to tell him to enjoy his time in Republic City and Air Temple Island and not dream of travels. It was neither as glamorous nor as fulfilling as he thought it to be.
He grunted as he toed off his sandals and patted himself off the dust he accumulated on himself (he had after all sent Oogi back to the island when he got down).
The nomad part of being an airbender never did sit well with him. He thought it was highly likely because of his matrilineal heritage. Folks from the Southern Water Tribe may go on voyages across the sea that may take them far. However, they would always (always) find themselves back to their families, moored at their home.
And here he was now, at what he had been truly considering as his home.
While it was already in the middle of the night and the last ferry trip to Air Temple Island has left, Tenzin had no qualms with dealing with his parents tomorrow morning instead (he also conveniently forgot his glider on Oogi’s saddle). There was someone he wanted to meet up first before facing his parents (especially his father’s impending disappointment).
There had been news of a storm near the Western Air Temple when he had been there, so he had not had the chance to send a letter ahead to inform anyone of his homecoming.
He gripped the canvas bag he had tighter; hopefully, the fruits that he brought home would be enough to appease his unscheduled arrival.
Lin clearly imbibed the Beifong etiquette that was ingrained by her grandparents. She would have insisted that a note would not have been remiss so she could have prepared for him.
When he alighted the sky bison, there were lights on that he saw at the windows of the house. So at least he knew that Lin was home and not toiling at the station, headquarters or worse, at a stakeout.
Which was why he found it odd that Lin had yet to confront him – the earthbender was well attuned with her seismic sense and if the rattling of his keys earlier did not signal her, she would have felt his presence in the house.
Worried now, he hurried passed the study, the dining room and the kitchen (which were all in the dark anyway) and headed to the bedroom. Light was peeking through the gaps of the door and he slowly pushed the door open.
And he stared.
Lin was in bed asleep.
A quick glance at the clock revealed that it while it was well into the night, it was too early for Lin’s bedtime. She probably did not plan to sleep either if the sheets of paper and several folders beside her on the bed were any indication. She also had a tray of food and drink at the bedside table, which was out of character for her. Tenzin could not count how many times Lin had reiterated that eating in bed is a no-no. That’s why there was a dining room and that’s why this is called bedroom.
But no – it was not Lin's change of heart about bedroom rules or apparent slacking off work to catch some zzz’s that had the airbender staring.
It was the undeniably large bump at the earthbender's belly that could only mean that he had placed a baby in it.
(Well not quite literally placing a baby in there but he did help in creating said new life, you know.)
In surprise, he dropped the canvas bag of fruits with a loud thunk on the ground.
The metalbender was suddenly awoken by the sound. A metal chain shot out at him and only his quick reflexes and years of training with Lin did Tenzin manage to evade it (and in turn stop it from hitting his arm) by dropping on the ground and rolling to the side of the bed.
Looking up he saw Lin blinking herself awake, one arm manipulating the metal and another protectively covering her stomach.
He called out her name and her answering glare made him scramble to pick up his peace offering.
Lin now folded both arms on her stomach, still scowling at him.
“You have some nerve showing up here after months of silence.”
Ah shit.
(Unknown to most, it was Tenzin who actually cursed a lot and Lin was the one who mostly kept to using politeness as a shield. Being brothers with Bumi naturally gave the airbender access to words that could have only been part of a sailor’s colorful vocabulary.)
“Now, sweetie –.”
“Don’t you sweetie me.” The displeasure was almost another presence in the room. “Did you honestly think I would welcome you with open arms after…” She trailed off and gestured somewhat wildly to her body, which he looked at on appreciatively.
“Wasn’t you welcoming me with more than just open arms led to, well, that?”
The earthbender’s only reply was chucking a folder at his head.
To be continued.
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Note: this will be two posts at most. I intend for it to be light without much of a serious plot so let’s see. Is it interesting enough? What do you think?
What do you think about Kanto being a part of the Dai Li for a short period of time before going to the metalbending academy / joining the RCPD? What if he trained with (for becoming part of) the Dai Li while the Gaang were in the earth kingdom? (No idea if that already came up in some way and I just missed the post. I think there was also already a fanfiction with Dai Li Kanto meeting Lin iirc...)
Hey there, fellow Kantoph fan! Thanks for the ask, and good questions. Let’s see if I can answer lol.
That would be pretty interesting if he did! That would mean he learned another form of earthbending martial art, making him pretty versatile. It might be hard for him to leave the Dai Li, so not sure if once Republic City is made that he’d leave the Dai Li easily.
And if he was with them when the Gaang was in Ba Sing Se, that would be pretty cool too! Really depends on when the Dai Li train their recruits. If they start when they trainees are teens, then it would make sense.
I’ve talked about this one fic a lot where Kanto is part of the Terra Triad in Republic City, and that’s an interesting twist.
But yeah if he was with the Dai Li, I would just wonder how that would affect his personality/values later in life, but that could have potential for additional character growth, so that sounds kind of cool!
I think (and hope) that answers your question…. Thanks again for the ask! Hope you have a great day :)
Flirting under fire and married to the job - Geunyuno
Ooooh, I really like this one. It’s really hard to imagine cause both ideas conflict with each other. Let’s see.I’d make this a dramatic one shot. Geuntae would be a special crimes detective and Yunho is a seemingly normal tea shop owner, but in reality she’s the daughter of one of the heads of the two gangs that Geuntae and his group are trying to crack down on. Yunho and Geuntae have been quietly dating for about two years, but the past six months, Geuntae’s been so immersed in work, he’s barely seen Yunho at all.
Geuntae would walk in to take down the gangs and find Yunho there. She’s been taken captive because she failed in an assassination attempt on the other gang’s leader. Geuntae asks why she’s there as there’s a dramatic fight and running around and him dragging her around to try and find the key to her handcuffs.
Yunho would yell at him, telling him if he hadn’t been so busy all the damn time then maybe he’d know. They would get into an argument over how Geuntae has been so distant and how he should just marry a detective or something and stay away from Yunho.
When he finally gets Yunho out of her cuffs, instead of listening to him telling her to get out, she pulls out a small dart gun from within her clothes to fight. She tells him she’s not fighting to help him, it’s her duty - which he would have known and he could have prevented had he been around.
Then as they continue to argue and fight during the shootout raid, their insults and angry comments slowly turn to flirting and they’re laughing and shooting people out. When they finally leave the building, Geuntae laments over the fact that he’ll probably have to arrest her before his superior reveals that Yunho was an inside undercover agent and had Geuntae stayed around her he would have figured that out.
I’d put in a couple of lighthearted shenanigans and then Geuntae would follow Yunho dutifully back to her tea shop so they can talk things through.
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Or Yogi from Karneval
Hogwarts House: I’ve been told by my close friends that I’m most likely a Ravenclaw, even though a part of me feels like I’d be a Hufflepuff, so I don’t really know.
This was considerably harder to think up. I’d make Daikoku the common florist and Kofuku is a money squandering heiress.
In order to make sure Kofuku learns the value of things and also to make sure she doesn’t marry some person eager to use her money, her parents arrange for her to marry Daikoku, who’s grandfather works for Kofuku’s parent’s company. Daikoku agrees for his grandfather’s sake, Kofuku wants none of it until she meets Daikoku and realizes how good looking he is. Daikoku thinks she’s cute of course.
However, the path to actual love is a hard one, they have to come to know each other and learn each other’s faults and the like. They get into arguments about Kofuku’s laxness and Daikoku’s stinginess. They have issues come up, like Daikoku having to learn what it’s like to marry the heiress of a big time company and Kofuku having to learn what it is to be humble and live by Daikoku’s side.
One of the main but not as obvious things I would put in is the fact that Daikoku gives her a lot of flowers and it takes her a while to figure out, he gives her flowers with meaning and she starts to learn flower meaning to understand what he’s trying to convey.
I’d put in a couple of cliched and dramatic events too.
Knowing myself, I’d probably have Kofuku renounce her heiress status in the end to live with Daikoku and sell flowers.
