"I'm so glad that we were able to do this." Iroh smiled into Asami's eyes as they sat in the park. "It's been much too long since the last time we saw one another." He leaned back against the tree. His arm rested against his waist.
Asami nodded. "Much too long." She tilted her head. "You haven't been back to Republic City in over a year."
"Way to long." Iroh agreed. "Way to long." He shrugged. "I got to busy in the fire nation that I honesty never even had a chance to leave the nation unitl now." He sighed deeply. "I have missed you Asami."
Asami's eyes softened. "I have missed you to Iroh. I miss your letters." She sighed. "I knew that you were too busy to answer my letters so I didn't worry that you were upset with me."
"You are a very patient and understanding person 'Sami." Iroh spoke in a soft knowing voice. "If someone that you truly care about doesn't return your letters you patient wait until they ready to contact you once more."
Asami grew tight. Her eyes slanted as she looked into Iroh's open ones. Her hands clenched in her lap.
"I mean that in a good way." Iroh calmly spoke. "You trust people Asami. That's a very special gift that I'm so happy that you have never lost." He stopped speaking as he waited for the younger woman across from him to take in his true words into her soul.
"He's right 'Sami." Korra's soft voice spoke to the side of them.
Asami tore her eyes from Iroh's to look up into her beloved's ones. She was still distant.
Korra knelt down beside Asami. She reached out to gently trace Asami's right cheekbone. "In the three years that I was gone … you sent me letters every other day … and I just sent you one short one in turn." She sighed; "You understood. You never once stopped writing me."
"I didn't send any of the letters that I desperately wanted too." Asami whispered as a tear rolled down her right cheek. Her hands unclenched in her lap.
"I read between the lines." Korra admitted. "I felt you in every single word that you had written in the letters 'Sami. I felt you." She moved forward so her forehead could rest against Asami's. "My love just grew that much deeper and stronger."
Asami's body relaxed as she leaned into her beloved.
