A/N: This is a collection of drabbles/mini fics written as requests for my Lin Beifong RP blog on tumblr, url hardboiledbeifong.

When Lin was very young, she didn't see much of her Uncle Aang and Aunt Katara. Her mother traveled a lot, and only made it back to Republic City about once or twice a year. When they did visit, she usually ended up playing with Tenzin. They were around the same age, and the older kids didn't want anything to do with the "babies", at least that didn't involve talking one of them into doing something stupid and dangerous (which would, naturally, invoke Katara's wrath).

Their favorite game was one they made up involving kicking a ball off of things. Lin couldn't actually remember what they called it. They would kick a ball off of walls and posts and sometimes siblings and see how far it bounced back. There might have been a point system, or maybe the winner was decided based on who won the argument. The game got more interesting as their bending started emerging, since Lin could make her own walls and Tenzin stopped needing to bounce the ball off of anything to send it flying.

One time, the adults all decided to go out somewhere to eat, and Kya wanted to spend time with her friends, leaving Bumi in charge of Tenzin and Lin (something he would never be allowed to do again). When the two noticed that their babysitter was asleep on the couch and they had no one to entertain them, they went outside to play.

The game went alright for about ten minutes. Then Tenzin angled his airbending wrong, and accidentally hit Lin in the face.

"Hey!" She had shrieked, "you did that on purpose!"

"Did not!" Tenzin had said, "It was an accident! I was aiming for the ball!"

"Nuh-uh! You were aiming for me!"

"No, I was no-hey!" Lin's earthbending sent him flying back about ten feet, only to catch himself on the air on the way down. "LiiiIIIN!" He whined, "That's not fair! I didn't mean to hit you!"

"Yes you did!" another earthbending kick.

"No, I did not!" another blast of air.

Twenty minutes later, the adults came back to the island to find Tenzin trapped in a cocoon of earth, and Lin on the roof.

And an entire wall missing.

And Bumi was still asleep on the couch.

Lin would never forget the shade of red her Uncle Aang's face turned, or how her ears rang after ten minutes of Katara's shrieking.

Her mother, of course, only laughed.