Couples Therapy
Korra and Asami go to relationship counseling.
Chapter 1.
"I'll be sleeping and it'll wake me up." Her hands worked to express the disgust she was feeling. "This pungent smell that a woman of her stature shouldn't be capable of making."
Asami shuddered with memories from the night before.
"I keep a spray bottle on my nightstand, Lavender-sea salt. And now, whenever I smell Lavender, or sea salt my body tenses up."
She winced. If she smacked her tongue against the crown of her mouth, the smell turned into a taste.
Korra gave the doctor her most winning smile; the one that never failed to get her out of trouble.
"Did you know it was considered the earliest form of air-bending. The ancient alcoytes even held competitions for it." She snickered. "So in a way, I'm preserving a culture."
Asami shot her a glare which caused the Avatar to add a snort to her obnoxious laugh.
She rolled her eyes. "The only culture your preserving is the one in your pants. The day you shit yourself, is the day I'm going to-"
She was cut off by Korra.
"...You know what's harder than bringing balance to the world? Dealing with Asami Sato's mood swings. Her spirit is a ball of negative energy."
Doctor Lynn jotted down a note into a manilla folder.
"Try staying away from describtives like, ball of negative energy."
Dr. Lynn Beifong, was Lin and Suyin's cousin. She operated out of Republic City, and was one of the most recommended professionals in her field. She had dealt with high profile clients ranging from President Raiko and Buttercup, Tenzin and Pema, and when they were still together Tenzin and Lin.
She finished writing her note and looked upward. "Asami what would you like from Korra?"
In Asami's mind there were many things she wanted, no, need from Korra. It baffled her, two sessions in, and Korra was still joking around. She scooped back a handful of onyx hair. This therapy shit, was not helping anything.
"She could start by excusing herself, and perhaps lower her dairy intake."
Korra opened her mouth to protest, but Dr. Lynn stopped her.
"You need to let Asami speak. This is her time."
Asami turned to address Korra, who was trying and failing to keep it together.
"I'd like it if she stopped laughing every time she did it. It's not funny. It's a disgusting foul thing, and I wished you understood that."
Dr. Lynn turned to ask Korra if she was hearing her.
Korra lifted herself partially off the hot seat.
"Alright, I'll eating less dairy. And try to laugh less." A wicked grin crossed over her face.
She tilted to the side. "But until then, here's one more for the road."
In one foul move, she destroyed the PH balance of the room.
"OH MY GOD!" Asami jumped out of her chair.
They decided to continue the rest of their session in the unoccupied waiting room.
Dr. Lynn asked Korra if there was anything about Asami, she wished she would change.
"She spends way too much." Korra said cooly.
Asami's mouth dropped open.
She blinked, then blinked again. Part of her was sure that she had mis-heard Korra's comment.
"I own a multi-billion dollar company."
The doctor urged her to elaborate, which in Asami's opinion was stupid. Everybody in the world knew she owned a big ass company.
"When I spend money it improves the economy. It's called the trickle down effect. I buy expensive things and it trickles down into society benefitting everyone from companies to employees..."
Korra began speaking over her as she explained the political science of the, "Trickle Effect."
"We can't have a single conversation about "us" without bringing the economy into it."
She used imaginary quotation marks to stress her point. "It's like I'm dating the economy."
"Korra loves to think I'm cheating on her with work." Asami joked.
Dr. Lynn face remained neutral. "It's good that you're verbalizing your frustrations with each other."
Asami took advantage of the opening to express one of her biggest grievances.
She pointed to Korra's chest area.
"She never wears a bra."
Korra looked down at her chest. She wasn't wearing a bra.
"And that's a problem for exactly, who?"
"When we have council meetings, it's hard to take you serious when your shotgunning everyone with your pebbles."
Korra huffed. "Excuse me! I've told you to call them what they are, Nipples!"
It drove her crazy when Asami gave her nicknames.
"Objectifying body-parts is not conducive to syerngy in a relationship." Dr. Lynn said making more notes in her folder.
Asami tactfully swallowed the urge to say that Korra's Nipples reminded her of the "Pebble Beach" on Ember Island.
She folded her arms across her chest with finality. Korra and her bra-less antics, would not win the day. Asami decided it was time to go for the therapy K.O. by busting out her juiciest material.
"Korra bought a Cabbage Corp motorcycle without telling me."
Dr. Lynn urged her to continue.
"It hurts my feelings when my girlfriend goes behind my back to buy from my competitors."
Korra sucked in her breath.
She was totally going to lose empathy points on this one. Buying a motorcycle had not been a friviolous endeavor; it was neither safe or practical to rely on Naga as her primary source of transportation. After a fair amount of research, Korra found that Cabbage Corp was doing good things with motorcycles. However, she would be sleeping on the couch tonight if she admitted any of this to Asami..
She dropped her head, avoiding Asami's jarring glare.
"I'm sorry." Her voice softened. "I just wanted to own something that doesn't have the Sato Logo on it."
Dr Lynn nodded her understanding. "I think it's good that your keeping your dichconomy."
Korra looked cautiously at Asami who was straining to keep her cool.
"She keeps trying to get matching Future Industry tattoos."
Asami was quick to argue that she thought it would be a romantic gesture.
"I think I'd like to keep some of my dichonomy." Korra rebuted.
The Doctor nodded her approval.
Asami rubbed the stress out of her eyes, she could see Korra mentallly committing the word Dichonomy to her vocabulary. This was going to come back to haunt her in the forseeable future.
"Honey, I fill your bank account every month with money. Money that you used to purchase that piece of Cabbage crap. So although you where the purchaser of, "said vehicle," I was the one who actually paid for it. YOU MADE ME BUY A CABBAGE CAR! It's so embarrassing, I'm the joke of the year.
"That's another thing she's way too sensitive about public opinion."
Asami clenched her jaw, willing herself to keep it positive.
"You forget my love." She reached out to give Korra a friendly shoulder punch. "My father was a terrorist who built a cache of weapons to destroy this city. I apologize for being overly concerned about my image. But it's taken a long time for the public to not fucking hate me."
Dr. Lynn held up her hand stopping her from saying more, negatives.
"Asami perhaps if you were to check-in with Korra, then she wouldn't resort to extreme action to get your attention. And Korra, it's clear that appearances are important to Asami, your going to have to communicate your needs before taking drastic action. Now girls I would like to end the day with you saying something that you like about each other.
Asami sighed.
She would go first. She always went first. That was another grivance in the pile of grivances they would have to cover another day.
"I like it when you water bend my hair dry. Before you came along, I had to wake up really early to wash my hair. It took up a part of my morning, I didn't know I was losing. Your water bending has inspired me to come up with a device that will dry a woman's hair electronically. It's these small nuances of having you in my life that I appreciate, but never tell you. Thank you for water bending my hair."
She paused, then added.
"Thank you for all the times you've re-heated my coffee at work. I never finish it, and it gets cold. Then I don't want to finish it, but you walk into my office and re-warm it. It allows me to have an afternoon pick-me-up, that I didn't realize I was lacking. Due to this convenience, I'm in the process of developing a machine that will warm up people's food. It's still in the very early stages, but it will most likely make billions if not trillions. Even people in the North Pole like warm food. So thank you Korra."
Asami finished, looking at Korra who was generally touched.
Korra mouthed, "Thank You," back at her. Signifying, it's the small things that make a big difference.
"Asami I appreciate being able to help you with my bending abilities, although I do resent that you are thinking of profitting while I'm sharing my glorious gifts with you. But I suppose we'll have to save that issue for another day."
"Korra please keep it positive." Dr. Lynn chided.
"Asami you use the toliet, and come back with ways to change the world."
Asami nodded it was true. She did do that.
"An automatic flushing system for public restrooms will conserve water usage. In the long run we'll have less to import from the Earth Kingdom."
"See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You're smart. Plus your like the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. When we go to fancy events, I always look around the room for anyone hotter than you. And do you know what? There's no one better looking than you. Suyin in her hey-day may have come close. She's still super hot despite having a bunch of kids. Asami, I think you could realistically have six kids and still be hot. I'm not an inventor, but if I had to start a business, I'd make a calendar with you dressed in skimpy lingerie and sell it. Asami your amazing hair, those eyes, that banging rack, your ass. If I were a man it would be hard...not being hard. Like, all the time."
"Thank you?" Asami said both tentatively and completely charmed.
Dr. Lynn closed her manilla folder.
"Well it looks like our time is up for the day. Same time next week?"