A/N: The last chapter! :o (It's about time…)

We Can Handle It

Chapter 3

Kya and Lin had ended up sleeping in their own bed that night. However Rohan had woken up and Kya had insisted he lay with them and then one by one the kids ended up in the bed as well.

To Kya's surprise she woke up before Lin. Lin laid sprawled out with Rohan's legs propped up on Lin's stomach. Kya raised her brow noticing that the other children weren't there. She stepped out of the bedroom and down the stairs, the faint smell of food in the air.

She followed the aroma into the kitchen where she found the children. Jinora was cooking as the Ikki passed Meelo the tableware.

"Are you making eggs?" asked Kya. Jinora spun around, pouting at her aunt.

"You weren't supposed to wake up until we finished."

"Now the surprise is ruined!"Meelo exclaimed dramatically.

"The surprise isn't ruined," said Kya. "I've just been surprised earlier than when I was supposed to," she said cheerfully, kissing Meelo on the cheek.

"We can still surprise Lin. And Rohan loves eggs so he'll be happy," Ikki reminded them.

"Don't do anything, Aunt Kya," Meelo said as he grabbed her hand and took her to the table to sit down. "We got everything under control!" Kya did as he said, sitting idly as they continued to get ready for breakfast. She watched as Jinora made eggs, Ikki set the table and Meelo got everyone juice.

Lin walked into the kitchen with Rohan in her arms. She looked exhausted as Rohan squished her cheeks together and laughed. "What's going on in here?"

"The kids made breakfast," said Kya.

"Really? No one has used this kitchen to make food for weeks."

"Maybe you should let us stay here more often so we can make you breakfast," said Meelo with a sly grin. Lin smiled as she patted his head, taking a seat next to Kya.

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Ikki helped Jinora give everyone a helping of eggs while Meelo threw down some toast for everyone. They all settled down and dug in to their food.

"You know, I'm surprised the kids were able to sleep with all that snoring," Kya said then glanced at Lin.

"Oh please! You snore like an air bison," replied Lin. Kya scrunched up her nose which Lin laughed.

"Keep it up and I'll send you back to the Air Temple with the children to Tenzin."

"You wouldn't do that, you'd miss me too much," Lin looked up to Kya with a smirk.

"If you do there are tons of hiding spots and we can play all day!" said Meelo.

"Next time we're at the Air Temple, both of us will play hide and seek," Lin said before she glanced at Kya.

"We could even get Bumi to play. He's really good though and knows some of the best spots so maybe we'll play a couple rounds without him," said Ikki.

"Sounds like fun," Kya smiled before talking another bite.

"Can we call you, Aunt Lin?" Meelo said with smile.

"What?" Lin looked at the kids. That was quite the topic change.

"Can we?" asked Ikki.

"You and Kya have been together for quite a long time now, plus we already consider you as family. We might as well be allowed to call you Aunt Lin." Jinora said. She looked up to Lin, smiling sweetly.

"What do you say?" Kya asked with a grin.

"I don't see why not," Lin said as she shrugged lightly. The kids looked absolutely delighted by the idea. Meelo grinning ear from ear as he stuffed his mouth.

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Lin handed Kya the dishes to put them in the sink.

"You know they're going to tell everybody that you're their aunt? Especially Meelo. I have the slightest suspicion that they'll use it as an excuse to get out of trouble too," said Kya.

"Meelo will probably go around telling people I'll arrest them if they do something stupid," Lin smirked as she finished off her drink.

"Knowing him, he most certainly would. Ikki would too."

"Next thing you know, they'll ask when we're getting married." Lin said as she sat down.

"We are married," said Kya as she sat on Lin's lap, draping her arms around Lin's shoulders.

"Having a ceremony with one of your hippy friends being the officiant doesn't really make the wedding official."

"I will have you know he is a Shaman Of Love."

"He gave himself that title," Lin let out a snort.

"Legally or not you're stuck with me and my family," Kya chimed as she moved closer to Lin.

"The kids do seem rather fond of me," Lin said with a nod.

"I'm rather fond of you too," Kya said as she bowed her head closer to Lin's.

"Only fond?" asked Lin. Kya leaned in smiling, bringing her fingers to Lin's face, bringing her face close to hers.

"I love you," she said sweetly before kissing Lin. Lin wrapped her arms around the waterbender, pulling her as close as she could, deepening the kiss.

"Aunt Lin! Aunt Kya! Quit being all gross and come play with us!" Lin rolled her eyes as Kya started to laugh.

"You heard the little man," Kya said, jumping off of Lin's lap. Lin mumbled to herself as she stood up, wrapping her arm around Kya as she followed the two of them into the other room.

Ikki, Rohan, and Jinora sat drawing. Of course Meelo wanted them to join in so Kya and Lin sat with the children to join them.

"Kya, what even is that?" Lin asked.

"It's a turtle duck!" she said defensively.

"I'm starting to think you got your Uncle Sokka's art ability."

"And what's that suppose to mean?! Uncle Sokka was a great artist."

"Of course you would say that." Lin rolled her eyes. She expected nothing less.

"Your mom complimented his art all the time," said Kya.

"She's blind!"

"Okay then what did you draw," Lin showed of her drawing, perhaps a little too happy with her own work. She drew a comical picture of Tenzin's head exploding.

"Really?" Kya asked with a raised brow.

"That looks just like dad!" Meelo laughed.

"What are you drawing, Ikki?" Kya asked, leaning closer to her niece.

"I drew you and Kya," Ikki said happily as she presented the picture to them. Ikki had drawn Kya carrying Lin bridal style. "It's a picture of Kya saving you."

"I don't know if that could happen."

"What? You don't think I could save you?" asked Kya. Lin rolled her eyes again.

"Not that! You being able to carry me."

"Are you kidding! Look at these babies!" Kya flexed her muscles showing Lin. "I am a force to be with reckoned with." The kids laughed at their aunt. Lin bit her bottom lip trying not to laugh even though Kya was being incredibly cute.

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The day seemed to go by in a blur like it sometimes does at the end of a good weekend and playing outside was not an option, with the rain and poor weather. Kya decided to take a nap with Rohan, leaving Lin with rest of the kids. With a quick peck on Lin's cheek Kya left.

Lin stretched out her legs propping them on table and putting her hands behind her head. She let out a breath, sinking into the comfortable chair.

"Hey, Lin?"

"Hmm?" Lin hummed, looking to Jinora who was folding a few pieces of parchment into animals.

"Did you always want to be a cop?"

"I don't think I wanted to be a cop, just sorta fell into it and stuck to it. Plus I'm pretty good at it if I do say so myself."

"You're the best ever," said Meelo has he continued to draw.

"Lin can I play with your hair?" asked Ikki.

"Knock yourself out," she said. Ikki jumped up excitedly as Lin moved her arms and shifted slightly so Ikki could get to her hair.

"This actually feels pretty relaxing," said Lin.

"Jinora use to let me play with her hair but now her hair always has to look perfect." Jinora shot Ikki a glare. "I didn't say it was because of Kai!" Ikki said in defense. Jinora left it at that, her gaze returned to her book. "It probably is though," Ikki said under her breathe making Lin smile.

"Su use to play with my hair," Lin said, thinking of her better memories as a child.

"Really?" questioned Ikki.

"Mmhmm," Lin hummed. "When she was really little, she said she liked how fluffy it was," said Lin with a soft laugh as she thought about her and Su as kids. She took a moment to thank the spirits she never had kids. She liked kids, sure. But to have her own… No thanks.

"Lin," Ikki said a little hesitantly. "How did you know you liked Kya?"

"What do you mean?" Lin raised a brow wonder what she meant.

"How did you know you liked liked her?" she asked. Lin felt that this was more than just a random question but she didn't want to look too much into it.

"Well," Lin said a bit softly, trying to think when it did hit her that she liked Kya. "I guess I always found her beautiful…erm well kind… Kya had always been someone I looked up too, I guess I fell in love with her along the way" Lin shook her head, she was just spluttering words. "I didn't really realize it until I actually thought about it…" Lin sighed in frustration; Ikki really should've asked Kya about this… "Sometimes you like someone and you continue to spend time with them and it hits you that you may like them more than you thought, something like that," she said, a bit annoyed with herself. She wasn't sure how to explain such things from the top of her head.

"I think I like the way you explained it," Ikki said with a giggle.

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Kya and Rohan finished their nap, Kya entered the sitting room, the radio softly playing music.

Lin stretched out her arms for Rohan and Kya appreciatively handed him over. Kya sat down next to Lin and draped one of her arms around Lin shoulders.

"I'm surprised you're parents haven't arrived yet."

"Well it might be Oogi. Sometimes he eats too much and his stomach gets upset and he's a hassle to get moving so maybe that's why they're late," explained Jinora.

"Well since they're running late, how about a story!" Ikki said with a wide smile as she moved away from her drawings.

"What kind of story?" asked Kya.

"Tell us a story about when you were younger!" Jinora said with bright eyes as she took Rohan from Lin and sad down on the floor next to them.

"Why?" asked Lin, as if that was worst suggestion for a story.

"Because we want to know!" Meelo said excitedly as he moved next to Lin. "Tell us something funny!"

"You can always tell them about how we got arrested by your mother for that dare," Kya said. Lin's face turned red thinking about the past. She furiously shook her head.

"No, definitely not."

"Tell us about the first time you arrested someone!" said Ikki.

"Tell us about your first date with Aunt Kya!" Jinora said excitedly.

"Tell us about the first time you arrested Aunt Kya!" shouted Meelo.

"Well you're in luck! Because the first time she tried to arrest me actually led to our first actual date!" Kya said with a smile making Lin look a bit nervous.

"Tell us that story!" Ikki and Meelo said in unison as they move closer to Jinora, ready for a story.

"A little after I left Republic City and Lin became Chief of Police, I came back to visit the Island."

"I didn't know she was back of course because she just arrived."

"I was actually on my way to visit Lin. I always did enjoy teasing her from time to time so I was on my way to do so."

"However I wasn't at the Station. I was passing by, patrolling the area when I saw a little old woman and another woman hiding in the allyway. I didn't recognize it was Kya, passing along all these different spices. Which I thought was pretty suspicious. I thought she was selling illegal substance when she was actually helping a woman buy spices. If you want to know more about illegal substances I'll leave that for your parents to explain." Lin said with a smile. She'd let Tenzin give them that talk. "Turns out the woman had asked Kya to buy them because she wasn't on the best terms with the seller so she asked Kya to do it for her."

"She ended up cuffing me without even realizing who I was, afraid that I was going to run for it."

"When I realized it was your aunt and the little woman explained everything to me I felt horrible. I of course apologized to Kya for trying to arresting her, though Kya never made things easy for me..."

"I told her I'd only forgive her if she took me out the next day," Kya said with a smirk.

"I thought she was joking at first but she came into the Station the next day refusing to leave unless I agreed to take her out."

"So she came back to the island later that evening and she brought me flowers," Kya said with a loving smile.

"Yeah, I got her flowers because I figured she wanted a real date, the flowers went with it. Which picking flowers was awful because the woman who was selling the flowers kept asking what Kya's favorites were, and what the occasion was and apparently there wasn't a specific type of bouquet to give to someone you tried to arrest and then go on a date with.

"There is now," Kya chuckled. She turned back to the kids and continued. "So we went out to a nice noodle shop, the whole time Lin was a mess because she wasn't exactly sure what our date was. Luckily for her, I tell the best jokes!"

"They're actually so terrible that they're somewhat decent," Lin confessed earning a raised brow from Kya.

"After we finished, I persuaded her to take a walk with me before going home. We had a fun time catching up, talking about this and that, things that were developing in the city and some of my travels. " For a moment Kya drifted away in thought thinking about it, smiling to herself before looking back at Lin. "It was a good time. My personal favorite was when she took me home. I kissed her on the cheek and she turned red in the face. Quite adorable actually," Kya said with a smirk.

"That was then. I very easily blushed," she defended.

"I could make you blush now, if I wanted to." Lin rolled her eyes.

Kya smiled cupping her cheeks and kissing her face in between kisses she'd softly say sweet things about her. Lin's cheeks started to flush until Lin started to pull away.

"Kya, that's enough!" Lin said.

"I love it when you get like that," Kya said sweetly. The kids laughed as Lin tried to further herself from Kya. The waterbender finally stopped, moving away from Lin revealing her brightly color cheeks. "I still got it," Kya said with a grin.

"I've never seen you so red!" Ikki laughed.

"Not even when you're mad!" Jinora said. Lin fixed her white tank top and brushed her hair back with her head held up high.

"Alright, alright, you proved your point. But just know I'll get you back for that."

"I'm sure you will," Kya said with a mischievous smirk.

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The day seemed to go by faster than usual. They say time goes flys when you're having fun and though Lin would probably not admit it, she was having a lot of fun with the kids. Of course it's not easy being strict, tough, Lin Beifong, chief of the police, all the time.

Lin sat down to read some of her book; Meelo sat by her trying to read along but had fallen asleep. Kya was humming to herself as she braided Ikki's hair and Jinora held Rohan while he slept flipping through a book she had borrowed from Lin's collection. It wasn't long before they heard a knock at the door. Kya quickly finished Ikki's braid and kissed Ikki's forehead before going for the door.

"Sorry we're late," said Tenzin.

Lin laid her book down and picked up Meelo who mumbled something before falling back asleep.

Kya took Rohan from Jinora so she could get her stuff together and so Kya could kiss Rohan on the cheek before he left.

Lin entered the main hall, seeing Tenzin and Pema by the door.

"So I take it you had fun?" Pema asked as she took Rohan from Kya.

"I don't know how you do it, Pema. They're a handful." Lin said as she lightly hugged Meelo.

"You got that right," Pema said with a smile. "Perhaps tomorrow you can join us for dinner?" Pema asked.

Lin handed Meelo over to Tenzin. Meelo reached out his hand for Lin. "But I don't wanna go," he mumbled, instantly falling back asleep. A small smile appeared on Lin's lips. Tenzin chuckled softly as he situated his son in his arms.

"We can repay you for being so late," said Tenzin.

"Yeah, and then you can braid my hair again," Ikki said as she hugged her Kya.

"We'd love to." Kya said happily. Lin smiled as Ikki gave her a hug as well.

"I'll be finished with your book by tomorrow night so you can have it back then," Jinora said as she gave Lin a hug.

"Sounds like a plan," Lin said returning the hug.

"Thanks again," said Tenzin taking the bags that Jinora handed him.

"We'll tell you all about our trip tomorrow at dinner and you can tell us all that happened here," Pema said with a grin.

Lin watched them leave. Lin closed the door, sighing with content. She migt admit that she had fun with the kids but thank the spirits she didn't have any of her own. She was exhausted.

"Well it appears that we're all alone." Kya's lips twisting into a playful grin.

"Time for a nap," Lin said softly. Kya moved closer to Lin, a sparkle in her eye, easily getting Lin's attention.

"I was thinking the both of us could take a nice, long bath." Kya said. Lin's expression changed almost immediately as she dashed up the stairs.

"The last one there is a lily-liver!" She yelled out.

"You cheater! You got a head start!"

A/N: I hope you had fun reading the fic! :D Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for reading! ^^

B/N: This fict has been so much fun to beta and read! I hope you all appreciate how funny this sweetie bean is!