Kyalin and their kids

Pouty Faces And Puppy Dog Eyes

As Lin walks up the dock of Air Temple Island she hears fighting and is instantly on high alert. She exchanges a look with Kya before nodding and silently moving over to the sound. Lin instantly recognises the sound of her niece, Opal air bending. Her pace quickens as she rushes toward the young girl, the sounds of her air hitting rocks becoming increasingly loud.

Just as they are about to round the corner Lin hears the most confusing sound. Opal, laughing? Lin's eyebrows furrow and she looks towards Kya the same confused looks on both of their faces.

"No fair Bolin, you can't just kiss me every time I'm about to win!"

Lin's face softens at the glee in Opal's voice and looks back towards Kya again before holding her two thumbs up.

"Aunt Lin! It's so good to see you again!" Opal shouts running to engulf the older woman in a hug.

Kya fully expects Lin to stiffen or step back but her eyes widened when Lin picks up Opal, spinning her around as they hug. Bolin has the same shocked expression on his face as he looks between the two Beifong women and Kya.

"If you tell anyone about this I'll kill you kid." Lin shoots daggers with her eyes in Bolins direction as he straightens him back and nods so fast Kya thinks his head might fall off.

"Oh come on Lin leave the poor kid alone," Kya says as she starts to walk towards the dining hall, dragging Lin along behind her.

"Did Kya drag you along again?" Bumi asks walking up to the group.

"I did no such thing!" Kya says acting as if that isn't exactly what happened. Bumi isn't the only one that has noticed Kya can get Lin to do just about anything. The others haven't read much into it assuming that Lin has simply softened in her old age. Hell, she's even hugging her niece now! Ever since Lin patched things up with Suyin and her mother she seems to have a certain soft spot for her family, including Kya and the rest of them.

"Mom!" Kya exclaims running towards her mother and engulfing her in a bone-crushing hug. Katara happily returns the hug, running her hand through her daughters ever long silver locks.

Lin notices small differences in the older woman since the last time she was her. The two years that Katara has been living at the South Pole without Kya must have taken a toll on the woman. The wrinkles along her face have grown deeper, the bags under her eyes greyer and her back more hunched than ever. Despite the woman aging she still has the same warm glow to her and heart remains full of love.

"Lin, it's been so long," Katara says looking towards her and reaching a hand out to affectionately touch her shoulder.

"Too long." Lin reply's feeling the guilt swirling in her chest.

She has always thought of Katara as a second mother and Katara had always treated her like a second daughter. Since Kya left the southern water tribe she had been living with Lin, in a very Kya fashion, she showed up at Lin's door in the middle of the night and asked if she would stay the night. Lin chuckles at the memory, she's never been able to say no to Kya, not even as a young girl. So when she showed up at her door she wasn't about to start saying no to the woman now. Eventually, Kya moved in and they slowly became best friends once more.

"Dinner is ready!" Bumi shouts breaking the woman from her thoughts.

"How does my sister manage to drag you along to every one of these stupid dinners Lin?" Bumi asks eyebrow wiggling with a knowing look plaster across his face.

"Bumi!" Kya shouts water whipping him over the back of the head. "Besides this dinner isn't stupid it's the first time moms been here in years."

Bumi rolls his eyes taking a seat next to Jinora, who smiles up at him, trying not to laugh.

"So that's why dads scared of Aunt Kya." She laughs putting the pieces together.

"I am not!" Tenzin's voice booms as he enters the room in a huff. The room erupts in laughter as he groans taking his seat.

"Sure you're not." Bumi laughs. As Katara looks toward Tenzin she sees his face growing redder and redder as the laughter continues.

Kya creeps up behind Tenzin and water bends a ball of water above his head before dropping it soaking his clothes.

"KYA!" Tenzin squeals, covering his face in his robe.

Kya just giggles and whispers to Jinora.
"He's totally still scared of me." Before taking a seat between Jinora and Lin.

Everyone slowing sits down, Tenzin coming in last after having to change. Pema laughs at her husband and hands him their youngest son, Rohan, who happily bounces in his father's lap.

The dinner goes smoothly with everyone settled in a comfortable conversation. Pema and Tenzin announce they are going to put with children to sleep and the eldest three whine and protest, voicing their disagreement.

"I wanna stay up with Aunt Kya!" Ikki shouts grabbing onto kya's arm.

"Me too!" Meelo screams air bending himself into her lap.

"Dad please, we all wanna spend time with everyone." Jinora, ever the diplomat speaks up looking towards her father.

"Come on Tenzin, it's just one night." Kya rolls her eyes at her brother. "Plus moms in town for the first time in ages, let them spend time with her." Kya holds all the children close to her and they all pull pouty faces and puppy dog eyes.

Tenzin mumbles something under his breath before waving them off and taking Rohan to put him to bed.

"At least you're still on my side." Tenzin coo's at his youngest.

"Not for long I'll turn him too!" Kya shouts as he looks back at her before slamming the door.

Kya celebrates with the children and Bumi fist bumps them all.

Lin looks at them all with pride in her eyes. She hasn't seen her sister or mother in what feels like ages but in reality, it has only been about a year. They came to visit Opal frequently but as she's grown they've stopped coming as often, probably by Opal's request. However, Lin's still misses them, not that she'd ever admit it. She looks over at Opal smiling as she sees her engaged in a conversation with Bolin and Katara. Opal says something as then looks over to Lin briefly before returning to the conversation. Lin wonders what they could be talking about but quickly shrugs it off. Probably something about our family. She thinks and she takes a sip of her water.