Chapter 1 - Aftermath

Korra reached out towards Asami's hand, even as she did all she could think was of how insane this all was,

"Asami Sato, the beautiful, successful, rich, amazing genius, how could I even begin to compare to her" she thought "I'm reading too much into this, she doesn't feel the same, how can she? Just look at her, she's the most perfect girl in the world and I'm just... wait what?"

Korra quickly glanced down, she squinted, hardly believing her eyes. Asami's hand on hers, she felt a smile begin to form as she looked back up. Her gaze was met and as they continued walking towards the spirit portal Korra found herself unable to avert it, no matter how she tried, she was completely captivated. As they reached the portal the two of them turned to face one another and they both knew, they reached out in unison to grasp each others hands. They stared into each others eyes; Asami enamoured by the deep blue hypnotizing pools that were Korra's eyes and Korra in turn completely infatuated by hers.

The portal let off 3 small pulses that travelled up the length of the beam into the sky, the two figures faded out and then seconds later into view in the purple spirit meadow where Korra had been just hours before; it seemed strange to her that in the same place she had been talking down Kuvira she was now with Asami, the flowers rippled slightly as a slight breeze passed over them, letting off tiny sparkling powder as they swayed,

"Korra! It's beautiful!" she exclaimed letting go of the avatars hands and turning to face the expansive ocean of violet that surrounded them.

"It's not the only thing" Korra muttered under her breath

"Huh? Did you say something?"

"Oh uhm.. I said it sure is" Korra said nervously, quickly forcing a smile and scratching the back of her head as Asami continued to look around in wonder and venture out into the sea of flowers. She could feel her stomach turning,

"Why is it so hard to tell her? Ugh I can vanquish Vaatu but I can't tell a girl I like her, even though she probably feels the same." Korra thought to herself, pulling at her hair, "What's wrong with me!"

A grey cloud began to cast over the meadow as the sun shone brighter. The change in heat was instant. Off in the distance Korra could see the rain begin to fall,

"Korra get a hold of yourself, you're the avatar, remember, how you feel changes the spirit world" Korra reminded herself.

Asami turned to look at her, she smiled and let out a small laugh, "Come on, we can't stay here forever, lets go explore" She said reaching out and taking hold of Korra's hand, pulling her playfully away from the portal into the meadow, "Come on!"

"Okay, okay" Korra giggled, "let's go", she looked at Asami as she dragged her further and further into the meadow, it made her feel more nervous, she could feel the butterfly spirits fluttering in her stomach, everything she did was perfect, she was perfect, why was she so perfect? This is impossible.

The two of them walked around for hours, Asami basking in the pure wonder of the spirit world and Korra realising more and more with each passing second the depth of her love for her. Eventually they came to a small creek with, what seemed to be, a miniature Banyan grove tree slightly up hill from the edge.

"Maybe we should stop here, for tonight that is, uhm..." Korra said scratching her head, "or we can carry on walking you know, whateve.." Korra trailed off, unable to finish her sentence. The grey clouds began to swirl around again.

"Here's perfect" Asami said confidently " I love it" smiling at her. Korra beamed a huge smile as the clouds dissipated. They began setting up their camp, by the time they'd finished it was beginning to go dark, the sunset visible on the horizon, it had been a long day. They sat watching the sunset, the spirit world sky painted shades of purple, blue, orange and thousands of other colours, Asami took a deep breath in,

"It's breathtaking, I've never seen anything like this in the physical world, I never imagined the spirit world could be so beautiful"

"Yeah, everything's so beautiful here" Korra agreed, looking over at Asami, smiling gleefully, her mind felt fuzzy, "I wish I could tell her how I felt, I should have said, yeah, it is beautiful, just like you, dammit Korra, this is just like what happened with Mako, you're so scared to say anything you're going to lose her. I just hope it's not exactly like with Mako." They watched the sun go down together until they were almost in complete darkness. The two of them agreed to go to sleep, they were both exhausted after everything that had happened,

"We'll carry on exploring tomorrow, Oh, maybe we'll meet some cute spirits" Asami said, "do you think..." she continued to talk but it was all just noise to Korra, she started to feel numb and all her senses began to fade; she was intoxicated, completely helpless to stop, she just stared. Eventually Asami stopped talking, with Korra non the wiser they both led down and closed their eyes.

"Korra?" Asami whispered.

"Yeah? What is it?"

"It's really cold in the spirit world at night"

"I can make a fire... you know, if you want?"

"No, no, it's ok" Asami sighed as she grinned ear to ear "I was thinking maybe I could come and sleep next to you? So you can help me keep warm." Korra's eyes burst open,

"Yeah... uhm, sure, please..." Korra stuttered "if.. if you want" Asami unzipped her sleeping bag and Korra looked over; she stood there wearing nothing but a baggy shirt and some underwear, Korra's eyes widened as she examined the image of perfection presented before her,

"Is this ok? Or do you want me to put some more clothes on first?"

"No!" Korra yelled, instantly clasping her hand over her mouth and turning over to look away, she let out a little whimper and squeezed her eyes shut, "Spirits! I'm so stupid, why did I do that? dammit Korra. Ugh I'm such an idiot" she thought to herself. "o-okay, you're fine like that, how ever you're most comfortable" she murmured, sinking deeper into her sleeping bag, the butterflies returning.

She felt the cover being taken off from her, she turned over and opened her eyes, seeing Asami lowering herself into her sleeping bag. she sat and began to slide deeper in, she zipped up the side and led next to each other, just gazing into one another's eyes, Korra watched as Asami's red lip's pursed, "I feel so safe with you" she whispered tenderly, giving a big smile and closing her eyes, Korra stared at her for a second before turning over and closing her eyes too,

"Goodnight Asami", her breath was taken as she felt an arm come over her, Korra backed slowly closer to Asami as she grabbed a hold of her hand, she felt a warm breath on the back of her ear,

"Goodnight Korra".