Alright, this is where the timeline I mentioned above the first chapter comes in again: I'm placing this right after Tenzin and Raiko come to visit Zaofu. It'll make sense when you read it.

Day 6: Broken

Kuvira was a bit puzzled, because for the first time, Su had asked her if they could meet in Kuvira's apartment. That had never happened in the six months they had been together, so she was a little nervous.

Her nerves weren't exactly calmed down when she saw the look on Suyin's face when she stepped in. "Su, what's going on?" she asked, walking up to her to take her hands.

"It's bad," she said, and upon closer inspection, Kuvira saw that she had been crying recently. "I mean really, really bad."

"Hey, whatever it is, it's nothing that we can't deal with together, okay?" Kuvira tried pressing a kiss on Su's cheek, but she stopped her.

"No," she said, turning away.

"Su..." Kuvira tried again, this time gently cupping her cheek in her hand, but it was slapped away.

"No!" Suyin yelled, definitively stopping her. "Baatar knows!"

This blindsided her. "He what?" she asked in surprise.

"Baatar knows about us," Su repeated. "He had been suspecting me for a while, and then last night he saw us leaving the guesthouse together. We had a huge fight and he's threatening to out us."

Kuvira staggered back and sat down on the first thing she could on, which was the armrest of a chair. "But you said... you said your marriage was practically over!"

Suyin sighed. "It is, but he's still my husband, the father of my children. He really had me backed into a corner when he asked me what the children would think if they were to find out. They'd be devastated. So he told me to break things off with you, or he'd tell them first. I don't see a way out here." The tears were building in her eyes again, and her voice was wavering.

"We can run," Kuvira offered up. "You've been running all your life, what's one more time? Make it better for ourselves. Go to Republic City or Ba Sing Se, start a new life."

But Su shook her head. "Zaofu is my home, I can't leave it. I can't leave my children."

This time around, it was Kuvira who could feel the tears starting to roll down her cheeks. "But you can leave me?" she asked, her voice dripping with disbelief.

"I don't want to!" Su yelled. "I really don't, but I don't see how we can keep going. Don't make me choose between you and my children. I can't do that," she said, practically crying.

"Can't or can't do it in front of me because I won't like the choice you make?" Kuvira asked, the bitterness starting to seep through her voice. Suyin stayed silent, because she knew that was exactly it. "I knew it. I'll always be in second place to you." Kuvira could see how much her words stung, but that was the idea. "You should go." Kuvira's voice was completely even, not a hint of emotion in there. If she'd show it, there would be no telling what would happen.

"Kuvira..." Su tried, tears now coming hard and fast.

"GO!" She lost it. The earthen thing nearest to her was a vase, that she hurled at Suyin. Her aim was sloppy and it wasn't even close to hitting her, but it did shatter on the wall, leaving it about just as broken as Kuvira's heart.

Su wasted no more time, turned around, and left.

Kuvira practically fell down in a corner, tucked her knees up to her chest, and cried.

Suyin hadn't even gotten into the bed with Baatar. She couldn't bring herself to do it. All she kept thinking about was just how badly she had betrayed the woman she loved. The hurt in her eyes was undescribable. They were already under a bit of pressure from Raiko and Tenzin's request, but this would only make the whole situation they were in exponentially worse.

She glanced over to the bed, where her husband was sleeping. She'd never expected this from him, but it had been inevitable. Deep down, she knew it would come to this. Come to think of it, they had even been lucky it hadn't leaked. This way, Kuvira would get to keep her job and Suyin her family.

But that hardly made it any easier to swallow that they were broken now, and nothing could bring them back.