Past-Linzin fluff.

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"Katara - "

"Shhhh!" Whipping around, Katara held a finger to her lips. Obediently, Aang shushed and tiptoed closer to her. She was half-hiding behind a stout post of the verandah where it overlooked a grove of trees.

Tucked against her back, Aang whispered, "Why do I need to shh?"

"That's why," she answered, pointing. Aang followed it until the line ran into a hammock strung between a pair of nearby trees. Due to the way the ground sloped downwards from the verandah, he and Katara could just see into the hammock.

Aang beamed. Two people occupied the hammock - one in yellow and orange with arrow tattoos and the other in a green tunic and leggings, her dark hair loose. Lin lay tucked under Tenzin's left arm; she appeared to be asleep. Balancing a book on a raised knee, Tenzin used his right hand to turn the pages while his left stroked Lin's side.

"Aww...How long have they been like that?" he murmured.

"Since lunch, I think," Katara replied. "Tenzin told me Lin has barely been home in the past week except to grab a fresh set of clothes and that she's been sleeping at the station. You know Toph ordered that crackdown on the Triads."

"Poor Lin. No wonder she's exhausted."

"No wonder," agreed Katara. She snuggled into her husband as he wrapped his arms around her. "It's hard to believe they're all grown up with jobs and their own place in the city."

"I know, but in some ways, they haven't really changed...remember how we used to find them curled up together during naptime - regardless of if they started out on separate mats or in different rooms?"

"They were adorable - are adorable, I mean."

...

Keeping her eyes closed, Lin asked softly, "Your parents are cooing at us, aren't they?"

"They are," Tenzin replied. Lin made a disgruntled sound and attempted to burrow deeper into him. Tenzin smiled; her actions would only be interpreted as cute by his parents. And by himself.

Shifting a bit, he started stroking her hair. Lin hummed and unconsciously pressed her head into his touch.

"Go back to sleep, love, you've earned the rest." Resuming reading, he continued his caresses even after Lin had drifted back off to sleep. He ignored his parents as he was far too comfortable and contented to mind their 'cooing.'

Author's Note: I have a Googledoc cluttered with one-shots focused on Lin and Tenzin. So I created this place to put them. Some are past-Linzin, some are AU, and some are set in present LoK timeline.