LNYE Fic: Maiden Voyage, for such_heights

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Title: Maiden Voyage
By: attackfish
For: such_heights
Rating: G
Spoilers: First season of Legend of Korra
Characters/Pairings: Lin, Tenzin, sort of pre Tenzin/Lin
Size: 250 words
Content Notes: None
Other Notes: None
Summary: They're ten years old, and they're really not supposed to go to the rock garden by themselves, even when Lin isn't grounded.


Maiden Voyage

He hovered outside her window like an oversized mosquito-flea, and Lin shoved open the shutter. "What?"

Tenzin gave her a small, nervous smile. "Good evening to you too, Lin."

"Your sister got me grounded. I'm still grounded. I'm not in the mood."

"I have never gotten you grounded." He shot her a conspiratorial look. "How long has it been since your feet touched the earth, Lin?"

"Get to the point." She folded her arms. It had been almost a week, and he knew it, and it made her want to punch him.

He sat up straighter on Oogie's back. "I think that some time communing with your element would do you a world of spiritual good. Say at that big rock garden southeast of town?"

Lin hid a smile. "You trying to get me grounded too?"

He looked down. "It's just Dad said Oogie's grown up enough to carry a passenger now, and I wanted the first person I took to be you."

Lin glanced back at the wooden floor of her room, up on the second floor, where her mother wouldn't come unless she had to. Thrusting her feet out the window, she slid out and onto Oogie's back. "Let's get out of here before somebody sees us."

He flicked the reigns. "If you thought you deserved to be grounded, would you have come with me?"

Lin shrugged. "If you thought I deserved to be grounded, would you have asked me to come?"

"I forgot about you being grounded."

Comments

[kaberett]

Awwwwwwwwwww. :-)

(I love Lin! I love Lin so much. This is what I wanted as a bedtime treat - thank you <3)

[attackfish]

Thank you! They were ridiculously fun to write.

[lizbee]

This is lovely! I especially adore that, in being grounded, Lin is actually being kept off the ground.

[attackfish]

Thank you! Toph has a certain sense of irony in punishing her daughter.

[diet_poison]

Adorable <3

[attackfish]

Thank you!

[somariel]

This is adorable.

[attackfish]

Thank you!

[troisroyaumes]

Aww, this was adorable!

[attackfish]

Thank you! I seem to be getting that a lot.

[such_heights]

eeeee, oh this is so completely charming. Thank you so much! I love the easy back and forth that they have, and how they're completely themselves even when they're a lot younger. Wonderful! <333

[attackfish]

You're welcome! They were so much fun to write with their seriousness, and the way they're seriously going off to have a good time.

[cosmic_llin]

Oh, this is so cute! And I love the idea that Toph won't go upstairs.

[attackfish]

Toph is like "why did I buy a house with two storeys again? Why?"