Chapter 3

The Calm before the Strom

"So that's what you're doing!" Ilah shook her head. "You had me worried for a hot minute. I thought you were doing something really bad but that? That's not even immoral let alone dangerous or illegal."

Kor sighed. "I know but it's still kind of bad since in the day I'm usually helping Queen Wu not destroy her own country while transferring power. Working there at nights? Kind of tarnishes the mantel of Avatar a bit. "

"I don't care about that." Ilah took his hand. "Sweetie, I know you're trying to do everything right but you're going to burn out if you keep this up."

Kor nodded. "I know, I know, don't worry last night was the last night I have to work there." He gave a weary smile. "I promise, I have all I need."

"Good, I'm still buying lunch though."

Kor frowned. "But I can-"

Ilah held up a hand. "Don't worry about it. You can make it up to me by cooking tonight."

Kor chuckled. "I always cook."

Ilah smirked. "Yeah because I can't cook."

Kor's smile broadened. "Yeah you burn ice, my fire goddess."

Ilah laughed. "Yeah but hey I can make a mean cup of tea."

"So mean it fights back!" Kor joked before taking a sip of his coffee. "So I'm guessing our next stop is the food market and then your place?"

Ilah nodded. "Yeah works for me." Her smile became mischievous. "Maybe when we get home I can unplug the phone so we won't be bothered by the outside world."

Kor leaned over and kissed her. "I love the way you think."

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Bolin pinched the bridge of his nose. "No I didn't meet a 'drag queen' version of me…well I did but that was last week. No, I honest to spirits met a woman who is me from another dimension."

Bolin had spent the last fifteen minutes on a pay phone trying to explain to Lin what he had learned; it wasn't going well. He had tried to call Asami first but forgot the number so he changed tactics to calling Lin. He groaned and tried again.
"Ok so, look I met an other dimension me and Opal and they are the opposite gender as us…. are you there? You are? Good now-you just met male you? Oh good. I don't think that's nice to say about him. Oh, you were describing not…. his boyfriend looks kind of like Kya?" Bolin gave a small laugh. "Well that's great and all but uh Lin I'm on a payphone and running out of coins so why don't I head over there and we can try to figure out what to do."

.o.

Mira didn't notice anything wrong at first when she went work. There were police officers everywhere and paper work to do but as she started to work on her own stack she noticed little things that didn't make sense. There were too many people wondering around, Chief Li seemed to get locked out of his office why too often, and then he showed up. A tall sharp featured man dressed like a detective with a scarred hand just like hers. He leaned on her desk with both hands.

"What are you doing at my desk?" He asked irritably.

Mira blinked. "What? You're desk? This is my desk..." She furrowed her brow. "Detective and I will not take any attitude from you. I don't put up with the avatar's attitude and I most certainly won't take it from you."

"Well I wouldn't be giving you any but you're at my desk so can you please leave and go back to which ever one you came from."

Mira glared at the man. "This is my desk!" She grabbed her nameplate. "See is says Mirko. what? It said Mira a few hours ago. Who the Yuak is Mirko?"

"I think that's the name of a rather odd ship Varick designed and scrapped a few months ago." The man put his hands in his pockets. "Well I guess this isn't either of our desks which is odd. I'm Mako by the way." He held out his hand.

"Mira." She shook it. "So new question where did our desks go? And who is our jolly prankster?"

"Absolutely no one Detective Mira." Chief Li said walking up. "Which is possibly very unfortunate."

A gray haired woman baring the same scars as Li walked up. "Good you two have met. Mako, meet your female self. "

Mira held up the nameplate in her and. "Odd ship indeed."

"No time for jokes." Li scolded. "Mira I need you to call Sami and get him up to speed and then try to track down Kor. Check the usual places."

The woman looked at Mako. "Same for you call Asami and track down Korra this is something she needs to know about."

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The phone rang in the Sato manor and Korra answered the phone. "Sato Manor Korra speaking how may I help you?"

"What broke?" Mako asked over the line. "What spirit thing got broke and massed up the world?"

"Uh, come again?"

.o.

Mira hung up the phone in exhaustion. She looked over at the Li who was waiting patently. "I can't find him Chief. Kor's not at home or in the usual places and if he is. He's not picking up. I even called Ilah's place and didn't get an answer."

Li sighed. "Well let's call it a day for now. It's late and the sky isn't falling so there isn't a reason to panic just yet. Tomorrow we can check the usual places in person before we start making it a big deal."

Mira sighed. "Yeah I guess you're right." She grabbed her bag. "Night Chief!"

"Good night kid."

.o.

The woman felt weak as she dialed the phone. She wanted to puke but she couldn't. She needed to call the police. The phone rang a few times and then a perky sounded woman answered.

~Republic City Police how may I help you?~

The woman gulped. "Hi, yes this is Mi'tem and I think my boyfriend's just been murdered." She looked over at the blood stained bed where just a few hours ago General Iroh had been sleeping; his arms protectively wrapped around her. There was no body but there was so much blood.

A/N: Sorry for those who were confused about the chapter being there and not there. I poste the chapter then while in the shower (one of the best places to think) I realized I needed to add this part at the end. So sorry about the false alarm and comment if you feel so compelled.