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Item: Spirit World

Pairing: Kyalin

Prompt by: YOlO1882

She's alone again. Just like she was all those years ago. The only difference is that she doesn't know this world and she's scared. Spirits, she hasn't been scared in so long that she almost forgot the emotion. The waterbender looked around at her surroundings, eyes darting from side to side as a thick fog rolled in. The fog circled her legs and turned into vines, pulling her flat on her face.

Kya was screaming out in pure fear as she dug her nails into the earth, desperately hoping it would save her, until she was pulled into black water, blinding her. She tried to waterbend herself out of the dark liquid but she didn't know what was up, what was down, left, right. She was blinded by her own element and there was nothing she could do about it but open her mouth and let the black liquid enter her lungs, weighing her down.

Her body was sinking, no, it was being sucked down into a vortex and suddenly, she was falling, the ground coming at her so fast, the only thing she could do was flail her limbs as her body slammed into the earth, her protector. It was always there for her when her own element failed her, it was always there to catch her, and to make sure any attack aimed at her met resistance. It was her safety net over the years and it had failed her for the first time, yet it was all so familiar. Like a bad dream she was made to live over and over again.

The waterbender used the little strength she had left in her arms, to push herself onto her back. She was relieved to see one familiar thing, the sun, bright against the blue sky, it made her giving up all the better. She felt her heart rate begin to slow and her breathing become shallow. Her last view of the sky was blocked by someone she hadn't seen in years. "Dad?"

"Hello Kya. It's good to see you again, though I was hoping you had made it back the last time I saw you."

Kya closed her eyes, letting herself relax as she listened to her father. "Made it back? Where am I? How long have I been here?"

Aang sat next to his daughter and sighed. "You're in the spirit world. You've been here for the past week, trying to get back to the human world. But your spirit has become weaker over time. You're giving up, something you have never done before."

"Well I'm giving up for once. Just let me do it."

A frown crossed Aang's face. "Kya, you may want to give up on yourself, but what about her?"

"Her?" He had her attention now. Kya wasn't sure if he was talking about the woman she loved, after all, he passed before she could tell him about her personal decision.

"Lin. And don't try to hide it. I saw how you two came together as one, I saw how she protected you from everything in the world, how she cares for you when you're sick, how you wake up in her arms before she does, just so you can spend a few minutes appreciating what you have and believe me when I say, she does the same to you. Do you really want to take that from her?"

"No. No I don't." Reigning in all her strength, Kya forced herself to sit up and get into a lotus position, ignoring the pain radiating from her lungs. "So how do I get back?"

Aang smiled and got into his own meditation position. "It's simple, focus on what you want and follow it."

An image of her lover's face appeared in the forefront of her mind and she smiled. The butterflies in her stomach began to flutter. It was just like the first time she laid eyes on the metalbender when they were in their twenties. Love. Just as she began to feel her body fade, she heard her father say the three words she had always wanted to hear. "I love you."

Kya awoke with a gasp and bolted upright. Hands were on her shoulders in an instant and tried to push her back down into the pool of water she was currently laying in. "Kya, Kya! Relax, stop trying to fight me."

At the sound of her girlfriend's voice, Kya laid back down in the water, enjoying the coolness of it on her hot skin. "I'm, I'm back?"

"Back? What do you mean back?"

The interrogation was interrupted by Korra. "Kya, do you feel any pain?"

"No, I'm just hungry, like really hungry."

"Alright, I'll get Pema to make something for you, just relax and don't move."

The two women waited for Korra to leave before starting up the conversation again. "Lin, I don't remember much before coming back into the human world. What happened to me?"

"I'm not sure. I woke up and you, you didn't. I tried shaking you, splashing water on your face, I even slapped you and nothing worked. I called Katara and she told me to get you to a healer as soon as possible. Korra was the first person that came to mind. None of us knows what happened to you. But whatever it was, you were out of it for a week."

"The Spirit World."

"The Spirit World?"

"The Spirit World. It was an endless loop of torture. I had never seen so much darkness before. I had gotten to the point of no return when I saw my dad. He was so young." Her eyes went to Lin's and she smiled. "He knows about us. How we feel about each other. And he's okay with it. He said he loved me. That's why I think I ended up there."

Lin smiled and reached into the water to take her hand into her own, raise it to her lips and give it a kiss. "I'm glad this impromptu trip to the Spirit World gave you closure but I hope it doesn't happen again, I don't like waking up to someone that appears dead on top of me."

Kya let out a sigh and closed her eyes. "Deal."