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AN: Hello lovely readers I'm sorry its taken me so long to post this chapter. Don't worry I've not abandoned this story I've just been super busy training (seriously I train at my gym for up to 5 hours a day my coach says I should get a fight with in a year) and im ridiculously swamped with reading as I enter my final quarter before starting my teaching certificate but anyway I wrote a nice long chapter for you all as an apology and will try to post the next one once my mid terms are over. In the meantime read and review reviews make me that much more inspired to write.
Ch. 9 The start of a new journey
The ship was about a day out of dock from the port of republic city just as the sun began to set. It had been a long journey. Korra sat the cabin she shared with lin studying the map and going over the battle plan. It had to go right they would only have one shot at this. A knock sounded on the door the hatch opened and person stepped in. "Mom?" said Korra "What are you doing here is something wrong."
"Um no….No I was hoping we could talk." "Oh….um….yea sure." "So" said Senna looking at Korra before launching herself at the girl grabbing her tightly in a hug as she cries. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." face smashed against her mother's chest korra feel the air leave her lungs "Mom! Mom! You're crushing me." "Oh….yes….right sorry" Senna says letting her go
"It's alright just a little warning next time yea?" "Right. But truly Korra I am so sorry. I got so caught up in who I thought you were meant to be that I neglected to see who you are and in that time I missed so much." "Yea" said Korra softly look at the furs hanging on the wall avoiding her mother's eyes.
Senna places her hand on Korra's shoulder and their eyes meet. "I know I cannot go back and fix the mistakes I have made. You're a grown woman and you don't need a mom anymore. But maybe you'd be willing to let me be apart of your future?" As she says this tears fall gently down her face "Mom" Korra whispers bring her hand up to wipe away the tears. "To have you just want to be my mom that's all i've ever wanted I will never be too old to need you in my life."
"Thank you" Senna whispers. The two sit in silence as Senna takes in the woman sitting across from her. With her partially shaved head and strong muscular arms she bares little resemblance to the chubby little girl who used to run around their igloo righting invisible bad guys but as she looks closely in her daughter's eyes she can see traces of that little girl buried.
The sound of the metal hatch opening broke the silence Lin walked in with a pot of tea and some cups on a tray. "Little penguin I've brought you some…. Oh…" says lin setting down the tray. "Is this a bad time?" "No" said senna getting to her feet "I was just leaving" "You dont - " Lin began only to be cut off by senna "I know. But Korra and I have finished talking. You guys deserve some alone time together."
As she goes before she makes it to the door she turns to lin and wraps her in a hug. Startling the woman who fights her cop instincts to shove her off her and into the wall. "Thank you." says Senna " Thank you for taking care of my little girl." "You're….You're um welcome?" As senna walked down the hall Lin turned to Korra and said "What just happened." Korra looking a bit dazed replied "My mom...she...she, apologized."
Walking over to where Korra was sitting lin pulls the still smaller women onto her lap and runs her hand up and down her back just as her mother used to do for her when she had a bad day. The two sat in silence for a while before Korra spoke "I'm scared Lin." "I know little penguin." said Lin softly "Everything's changing so quickly. I'm finally happy, I have you, I stood up for myself and my mom actually wants to be apart of my life and I can't even enjoy it because. At any minute tomorrow I could be killed." Korra rambles for the first time true fear seeping into her voice.
"Shhhhhh little penguin don't worry yourself so." "But" said Korra softly "What if I'm not strong enough what if I lose." " You're not strong enough" said Lin simply causing Korra to look at her with wide eyes having expected lin to instead tell her that she is strong and capable and now as a fully recognized avatar she would destroy Amon.
"You are not strong enough." Lin repeated "but together we are. This burden it isn't one you have to carry alone. I will be right there beside you every step of the way because you are my future." Korra looks at lin with understanding growing in her eyes and places her lips softly against hers.
The kiss is loving and reassuring she feels their connection in her very soul and knows that what lin says is true. The kiss grows deeper. As the feeling in the room shifts.
Standing up Korra pulls lin to her feet and lays her on the bed before straddling her waist and pulling her in for another kiss this one more heated than the last. They kiss a little bit longer till Korra pull away and looked at lin laid out beneath her. Her long hair free from its bun and spread like a waterfall over the pillow. Her black bra (a clothing item popular amongst the women of the city.) Peaking out beneath her thin white tank top. Her warm legs wrapped around Korra's waist holding her in the closed guard position. black shorts riding up milky white thighs.
Gazing down at her lover's dark jade eyes Korra places a gentle kiss to her forehead and says "we should stop while we still can. I want our first time to be special. You deserve make love not some quick fuck on a battleship right before we go to war." Lin rakes her eyes up and down Korra's body. Taking in the tensed muscles beneath her navy blue tank top and tan thighs clenched tightly through her black knee length shorts.
Running her hand along the armband tattoo on her lover's left bicep she bites her lip coyly and says with a smirk I don't know little penguin that kind of setting seems to be right up our alley. With a growl Korra shifts her right leg back and sitting up straight breaks loose from lin's hold. Before climbing off the bed and blowing out the candles in the room.
Climbing back behind her Korra pulls Lin flush against her tangling her bandaged wrapped feet with lin's perpetually cold ones. Her lover shifts in her arms till the are facing one another and Korra places one last kiss on her forehead and whispers. "You deserve everything this world has to offer. You are the moon of my life."
A soft smile makes its way across lin's face as tears gather in her eyes no one had ever held her like this or spoke to her this way before not even tenzin after she'd given him her virginity. In a way making love to Korra would be like making love first time all over again because this time she knew that her love is true. Returning the gentle kiss to her waterbenders full soft lips she whispers. "My sun and stars, I promise I will give the same to you." And just as her eyes close she hears Korra sleepily reply "You already have."
In the morning Senna comes to take the two women some breakfast while the congee is still hot. Opening the door she sees Korra holding lin tightly in her arms their legs tangled together and Lins head resting in the crook of Korra's neck. Closing the door as gently as she can so as not to wake the sleep pair she makes her way back to the kitchen.
Yes she thinks. She has missed out on so much of Korra's life, but she would be present for this new journey; and counted herself lucky to be able to witness her daughter fall in love.
So what do you think? little steamy there for bit huh?! That will come later until then review review review. The button is right there~!~!~! Next time the battle with Amon begins!
