Title: Frustration
Author: YukiVampyra
Fandom: The Legend of Korra
Pairing: Korra/Lin Beifong
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
It was frustrating enough trying to airbend.
And as much as Tenzin tried to reassure her by reminding her that Aang had trouble with earthbending because of the opposites in personality, it didn't help soothe her frustration. She didn't understand why she couldn't even produce the tiniest breeze. She was the avatar! What good was an avatar with only three elements?
What was more frustrating was that the more she stared and seethed at the newspaper she was supposed to be practicing on, the more confusing the roiling thing in the pit of her stomach became. It wasn't just that she wanted to live up to Aang's legacy, the legacy of all of her past lives, but that face staring back at her in black and white made her try to be even better.
Korra put her hands on her hips and just watched like the picture of Chief Beifong would just start moving at any second, telling her what a horrible excuse of an avatar she was and how irresponsible she was, bagging up criminals and destroying property. A flush crawled up her throat and stuck there as she remembered being in interrogation, handcuffed and completely at the woman's mercy.
It had been terrifying and confusing and…it had been exhilarating and, if Korra were honest, it had been hot. She pushed her hands forward again, brow furrowing in consternation as the paper refused to even flutter like the sensation in her belly was.
When she had seen Mako, she'd thought that all of the feelings she'd been shoving under a rock since she'd hit her teenage years had gone away and she would be like her mother and Katara and Pema and just be normal. One less thing about her to be judged and scrutenised like she was an insect. Instead, here she was in the middle of training thinking about the chief of police and how weirdly erotic it had been being completely at her mercy.
With one last movement, Korra ignited the newsprint and sent it crumbling into ash, turning around to Naga and saying with the utmost amount of cheerful sarcasm she could muster,
"Maybe I'm just not cut out to be an airbender, huh Naga?" Or as normal as she could strive for while being the reincarnation of heroes.