Chapter 1
Korra fixed her niece's hair putting it up in a ponytail. It would be her first day of kindergarten today, and both of them were excited for it.
"Okay," Korra said checking the two of them out in the mirror, "hair done. Now let's pick out some clothes," she smiled.
"I can do it by myself," Terra proclaimed hurrying over to her small closet with Korra following in a slow pursuit. She studied her clothes hard like she was considering every outfit, which seemed like a lot of brain work for a five year old. After a lot of hard thinking, Terra's face lit up. "I got it," she said full of energy as she reached into her closet pulling out a dark blue shirt, and her white overalls.
"Great," Korra smiled, "Let's get you out of your pjs," she said pinching the cloth of her nieces shoulder.
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They had just finished their breakfast of waffles and bacon while Korra led Terra through her check list for her first day of Kindergarten. She lifted Terra's miniature Water Tribe backpack off the counter. "First, coloring book," Korra listed.
"Check," Terra said looking through her bag.
"Coloring box."
"Check."
"Notebook."
"Check."
"and your snacks."
"Got it," she smiled up at Korra. "Let's go," she proclaimed pointing to the door.
"Not just yet. We can't forget Naga," Korra said reaching for the leash on the counter. She walked over into the living room where she found Naga already excited to be taken out.
"Come on, mom," Terra tried dragging her out of the house.
"Someone's excited," Korra ruffled and patted her back.
As they walked along the sidewalks of Republic City and Terra droned on and on about how Kindergarten would be, Korra couldn't help, but see her cousin in her. She knew that if Eska could've raised Terra she wouldn't be as talkative, but the resemblance between the two was obvious, tha same thin eyes, and set demeanor was already there even though she still had a lot of baby fat.
Moments like this of easy observing always made her miss both of her cousins even though they didn't talk much, family was family.
"Mom," Terra tugged her hand.
"Yeah sweetie."
"What will you get me for working so hard after school," she said slowly making sure her sentence would make sense. Korra gave a small chuckle.
"You'll find out," she said back, "Only if you don't cause trouble."
"When do I cause trouble," she sassed jokingly causeing Korra to laugh.
"Just be good, okay," they were getting closer to her school.
"I'll be the best," she said cockyly reminding Korra of herself.
Korra left Naga at the front desk because animals weren't neccasarrily allowed in the school, and she couldn't just leave her outside.
She led a jumpy Terra to her class room feeling a bit jumpy herself. She found the room, and it had a couple of children and parents already inside. She poked her head in looking for the teacher, and upon finding her she pulled Terra in and smiled.
"Hi," she greeted the older looking women extending her hand. "I'm Korra, and this is-"
"Terra," Terra exclaimed with a wide grin.
"It's great to meet you," she smiled, "I'll be your teacher Ms. Moon," she said addressing Terra.
The two women began a conversation, talking about schedualing and timing of the school while Terra seemed to just daze off. Finally when they had finished talking it was time for Korra to depart and finish her walk with Naga then head out for work.
"I'll see you later, k," Korra tightly embraced Terra. "Be good, you."
"Love you, mom."
"Love you too," she left a kiss on her cheek and headed out. "Bye Ms. Moon," she said before fully leaving the room.
"Just call me Zhu Li, and bye too you too."
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After finishing up her walk with Naga Korra filled up her bowls, and shoved her scrubs into her bag getting ready for work with Katara. She had to drive more into the city to get to the hospital, which she wasn't the best at but did good enough to get by. Driving through the city she saw the usual bill boards of people that looked too perfect and near unreal. She let out a small huff thinking about how easy those models had it just because of their pretty faces, while she was doing her best to raise and provide the best for Terra.
She drove into the hospital's parking garage and threw on her scrubs over her white t-shirt and jeans before making her way into the large complex.
"Morning Kya," she said rounding the lobby into her wing - PHYSICAL THERAPY.
"Morning Korra."
She made her way into Katara's working room where she could help with her patients until more came in for her to help. Katara and her always held long conversations while they both worked because they were practically family, and today the focus of talk was Terra.
Korra was able to express her love for her niece who was really more of a daughter to her for a while. After talking and helping on a few patients a nurse called Korra into work on another patient, one she was quiet familiar with.
"Again, Mako?" she teased walking in. "How's the shoulder?"
"It could be better," he said non-chalantly swinging his legs over the ledge of the chair.
"DId you have another stun, or did you manage to make it worse?" she asked inspecting his right shoulder.
"Just a stunn doc," he said teasing calling her doc. "How's Terra?"
"She's fine. Today was her first day of kindergarten," she said looking more closely at his shoulder. "You're shoulder's still healing steadily, but I think if you keep working you're just gonna keep irritateing it."
"You know I can't just leave the station, especially when I'm Lin's best cop out there," he rolled his shoulder.
"If you just wanna keep working, I think you should just let it really finish up healing," she said seriously. "I'm sure the cheif would understand. I mean you're only the best if you're actually able to function." It took a bit more convincing, but eventually he gave in into letting it rest.
She led him through some muscle strengthening reutines as usual before he would be released to go home. "My brother and I were gonna go to the new mover premiere, and I was just wondering if you wanna come this weekend," he said as they were finishing up.
"I'm not sure, cause I have Terra to-"
"You can bring her. It's for a family mover, and after the primere we're gonna go out for some food. It could be a treat for her first week of Kindergarten. It'll be fun," he said.
"I guess I could go for a mover and dinner this weekend," she considered. "I'm down for it, just text me the details later, cause I still have more patients besides you."
"Awesome, I'll text you later," he left.
He got closer holding her slightly letting her get in pose as well. Both of them were cold due to the lack of clothing, and the cool draft, and they prefered not to be modeling bathing suits but it was their job so they went with it, looking completely flawless.
"Awesome, Bo," the photographer complimented taking rapid shots while they changed poses.
"Perfect Asami."
The photo shoot went on like that with them changing bathing suits ever so often to get through another set of pictures. They got close during shoots all the time. It was what the media wanted, and, plus they looked pretty good together anyways, so they played it cool when it came too paparazzi and media.
After they finished their shoot both covered themselves up in their normal attire; a green t and jeans for Bolin, and a burgendy blouse and boots for Asami.
"Nice job, Bo," she said punching his arm playfully.
"You did amazing as always Sato," he said pulling on his hoodie. "Speaking about Sato, hows the integration as CEO going?"
"It's going fine, but it's still really stressful," she ran a hand through her silky hair. "My dad's helping as much as he can to make things easier for me, but it's gonna be hard either way."
"It'll be fine," he assured her, "plus this weekend can be like a relaxing gift to yourself. Meaning, you're not allowed to think one thought of the company at all while we watch the mover and hang, okay," he said with a goofy smile.
"I'm pretty lucky to know you, Bo. It's our cue," she said as they made their way out of the studio, linking arms and following the trail their body guards made through the paparazzi. The normal question rang through their ears as they made their way to the limousine.
"Are you two getting married anytime soon?"
"Are you going to break up soon?"
"What are you're plans for the future?"
They both ignored all of them like it was their profession just to ignore, and as they made it into the limo both let out a relieved sigh.
"Hard day?" Opal patted the seat next to her indicating to Bolin.
"Just the usual," he kissed her on the cheek and cuddled around her.
"How's the whole CEO thing going?" she asked Asami.
"I think it's going the best it could, but I just can't wait for this weekend. It'll be a good break from modeling and paperwork," she took her seat across the couple.
The three sat in a comfortable scilence listening to music for a while. They did this every work day, looking outside.
Bolin's phone dinged. "Who's it?" Asami asked absent mindedly still listening to music.
Before Bolin could even get a word out, Opal responded looking over at his phone, "It's just sharkbrows," she said reeling back down. "What'd he say?" she asked taking a look out her window to check the progress they made since leaving the studio.
"uh, he's just asking if he can take a friend to the premiere," he said reading the screen.
"He's quite the player isn't he," Asami said with a small smirk.
"Actually their just friends," Bolin looked up at her, "at least that's what he told me," he shrugged not looking that convinced himself.
"Well I think I should just sit by myself, while all of you guys have fun making out," she joked.
It wasn't much later that they had arrived at Bolin's and Opal's place, and both of them left. Asami couldn't help, but feel a sense of lonliness as they left the whole limo vaccant besides herself. She even had to settle with being the 5th wheel for the weekend, and she wasn't looking forward to that, not at all. Just gotta make it through the week. She thought as she could feel the stress coming on.
When she got to her estate, she didn't even bother going into the study to view more paper work for the company; instead, she went straight into the garage, where she changed into her jump suit, and went straight to tinkering.