A/N: Sorry - not too much humour in this one. Just fluff.


It was the last day of their vacation, and Korra and Asami were spending their last few hours in a pastel purple meadow, just in front of the spirit portal back to Republic City. Asami was sitting with her legs stretched out, her back leaned against a tree, while Korra was resting her head in Asami's lap. They had been silent for the last little while, lost in their own thoughts, before Korra looked up at Asami and asked softly, "so... how do you want to tell people?"

Asami considered this as she idly played with a lock of Korra's hair. "I'm not sure we should tell anyone yet; I think you're supposed to wait a few months, until the riskiest period for miscarriage is over, you know, to avoid potentially awkward future conversations. At least, that's what one of my employees told me when she was expecting."

Korra smiled softly. That wasn't what she had been trying to get at, but she could understand why Asami had automatically went there right away. Taking one of Asami's hands, the one that was playing with her bangs, Korra gave it a gentle kiss on a knuckle. "Actually, I meant about us. I totally agree; we shouldn't mention the baby yet, but how do you want to tell people about, you know, us. Being together?"

It still seemed stupidly incredible to Korra how quickly everything had happened. They'd just been on the cusp of romance when they'd started their vacation to the spirit world a scant 10 days ago, and at the time, as she had stood at the spirit portal holding Asami's hands and gazing quietly into Asami's eyes, Korra hadn't even realized what that fluttering sensation in the pit of her stomach had meant; how her feelings for Asami had progressed past the arena of friendship.

And now, a little more than a week later, they found themselves talking about their future child together. Korra had once heard some folks in her tribe joke about how same-gendered relationships seemed to progress in polar-dog years, that is, at 7 times the speed of opposite-gendered relationships – but this was a little ridiculous even by those standards.

'But then again,' something amused in the back of Korra's mind said to her languidly, 'that's just how the math works out when the day you give your virginity to one another also turns out to be the day you catch the attention of a trigger-happy, baby-slinging, wanna-be stork.'

Asami's eyes had crinkled happily at the corners at Korra's casually sweet gesture. They now blinked in surprise as she took in Korra's words before the smile on her face turned slightly embarrassed and she looked away from Korra sheepishly. "Um, well, I'm not sure if people don't already know about us..."

Korra's eyes widened as she felt more than just a little bit shocked at this confession (well, not nearly as shocked as when she had discovered that she was going to be a mommy, but, hey, few of life's discoveries could ever possibly top that). "What? Who could know? I mean, we didn't even know about us until halfway into this vacation!"

Asami gave Korra a weak smile. "Well... Mako might have a clue for one."

"W-What?!" Korra sat upright and gave Asami a look of alarm. Of all people - Mako? Really? "Oh, wow, how did that happen?"

"Korra, Mako was the one who helped me figure out what it was I was feeling for you before I could even admit it to myself in the first place! Do you remember when you first came back to Republic City? And we kinda had that little fight at the sushi restaurant over my father? And Mako asked what was going on between us?"

A light-bulb threatened to flicker on over Korra's head as she nodded. She remembered that conversation. At the time, she hadn't quite figured out what it was, but there had definitely been a certain something about that conversation that had tweaked at Korra's heart, and had told her that something - she wasn't sure exactly what - but something was up between her and Asami.

"Well, apparently, Prince Wu of all people noticed how we were acting and told Mako over a boxing match the next day that he thought it was really big of him that he was so chill with the fact that his ex-girlfriends were into each other. That night, Mako asked if he could come over and talk to me about it so... we did."

How it was possible that Korra's eyes could get any bigger at that point was a complete mystery. "Oh, wow." Korra murmured. "Just... wow." Korra looked away from Asami for a second, down at her own hands as she absorbed this. Though she knew it was indelicate to ask, Korra couldn't help herself.

"How... how did that conversation go?"

Asami's smile continued to be on the embarrassed side. "It went... well, all things considered, it actually went really, really well. I mean, at first, I tried to deny it, and I told him he was crazy, but even as I was saying it to him, both of us knew that I was lying, and he just... he just gave me a hug and told me that he loved us both and would always support us no matter what. And he actually said to me, 'don't let her get away from *both* of us.'" Then Asami's smile grew fond as she remembered that night. "He was pretty damn amazing, actually."

As Asami told Korra the story, Korra couldn't help but suddenly feel a lump come into her throat.

Suddenly, her first love's comments to her during Varrick and Zhu Li's wedding came back to her, and Korra could almost hear Mako's words in the back of her head, the heartfelt but also bittersweet quality about his voice suddenly making complete and utter sense in a way it never had in her heart:

You don't need to say anything. I want you to know, I'll follow you into battle no matter how crazy things get. I've got your back. And I always will.

Korra swallowed back that lump of emotion in her throat, even as she gave Asami a weak smile, her insides all a twist:

As much as Mako had been telling her how he loved her, he had also been giving her his blessing to be with someone else.

'Oh... oh Mako. How do I... how do I ever even begin to *thank* you?'

And the small smile that Asami gave her back told Korra that Asami was feeling the exact same way.

They shared another hug.

They were silent for a while after that, before Korra eventually found her voice again and said softly, "well, if Mako's the only one who knows, then everyone else probably still doesn't. He's not the kind of guy who would go around spreading the news."

Asami nodded in agreement. "Yeah, you're right. It's not Mako I'm worried about so much as Prince Wu. Hopefully he didn't get a chance to be a little birdy in too many people's ears before he went back to Ba Sing Se."

Korra laughed. "Well, we can hope." There was a short lull in the conversation before Korra finally said, "I guess we can just... play it by ear? And let folks know as it comes up naturally?"

Asami nodded. "That sounds good to me."

"Alright then." Korra paused. "But there's one person I think we should probably talk to right away. About the baby, I mean. I think we should go see Kya sooner rather than later, so she can, you know, check up on you. She's a healer, so we can trust her to be discrete."

"That's probably a good idea." Asami gave Korra an amused look. "And I gotta admit, some of what King Enma and Botan and Bob were saying still doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I keep trying to figure out what the equivalent of a 'receptacle' is in terms of human physiology, and I'm drawing a blank. But can we go see her the day after? I've got a bunch of stuff to get to at the office tomorrow."

Korra wrinkled her nose. "Do we have to start thinking about work already?"

Asami laughed. "Hey, someone's gotta bring the bacon home if we want to give the baby a good future! And being the Avatar isn't exactly a paying gig."

Korra scoffed in affront. "Hey! Raising kids isn't all about money you know!"

"I know, silly." Asami gave Korra a quick kiss on the lips to sooth back her indignity. "What I do might provide people with a means to carve out a life in this world, but what you do makes this world a place worth carving a life out in."

"Damn straight!" Korra retorted, though the crooked smile on her face let Asami know that her words were in jest.

And then it was time to go back to the real world, and they got up, holding hands as they approached the spirit portal.

Just before they entered it, Korra turned to Asami and said, softly, "but in all seriousness, are you sure you don't want me to move in to help take care of you right away? I mean, pregnancy is supposed to be pretty tough..."

Asami smiled. "I'm not whale-sized yet, Korra. I'll be fine. And the next few months are gonna be ridiculously busy with the reconstruction of the city and dealing with the consequences in the Earth Kingdom - I mean, the Independent States of the Earth Republic. I think you'd better stay on Air Temple Island with Tenzin for now. Even if you did move in with me, we probably won't be seeing very much of each other for the next little while anyway."

"That's where you're wrong," Korra murmured and pulled Asami against her as they entered into the portal, capturing the taller woman's mouth in a kiss. "I will always make time for you, Asami. Always."

It probably wasn't the best idea to sneak that last smooch in just before they hit the spirit portal, because they were still kissing each other when they arrived back in Republic City to an unexpectedly waiting audience.

When Korra ended her kiss with Asami, she found five pairs of boggled eyes staring up at the two of them stupidly.

Mako, Bolin, Jinora, Ikki and Meelo had been waiting for them on the other side of the spirit portal at Republic City.