Prompt: Vulnerable


It's times like this, when the two of them are bent over engineering plans and she's pointing out just what a particular part does on her (father's) airplanes, that she feels the most vulnerable.

It feels like she's sharing a secret, one nobody bothered to learn before. She'd always been a little different in her interests, preferring speed and the wind in her hair to giggling about boys and gossiping about friends. Asami never bothered to hide who she was, but she never connected to someone like this. An easy give and take that felt as natural as breathing.

Then something would happen - Bolin would tumble in with some incredible story or Mako and Korra would come in to brief the General on something, their pinkies enterlocked and reminding Asami that vulnerable moments are the ones she needs to avoid.