Ok, I wont deny it. I'm a horible person for making you guys wait six months. And I apologize prooooooooooofuely.

Normally, Korra wasn't a morning person. Okay, that was a bit of an understatement; usually she was near homicidal when she had to be up with less than five hours of sleep. But this particular morning the teen had a smile tugging at her lips and a bounce in her step as she made her way to the lower levels of the temple. She was too excited to feel the lack of sleep especially since she was up all night waiting for it to be morning. Most Saturday mornings Korra was dead to the world but Lin had promised her the entire day and she planned on taking advantage of every hour.

'Finally a whole day together, no other people, no interruptions, just the two of us. She thought and then mumbled to herself,"No cock-blockingbest friends or …twat-swattingbest friends?… Whatever."

Thanks to the longer days of summer, the sun was fairly high in the sky, even though it was only around seven thirty in the morning. That being said, Korra was surprised when she heard her name called from a room she passed. Frowning, she walked backwards until she peeked into the room. It was early, even for the air bending monks, but it wasn't just the usual early bird suspects nursing mugs of what Korra assumed to be coffee.

Sitting in one of the many rooms meant for guest was Tenzin, Pema, Bumi (who looked like he would much rather be in bed) and Kya. Spotting the white haired water bender, a surprised smile broke across Korra's face.

"Kya ?" The younger water bender asked. With all her thoughts on Lin, Korra hardly noticed the absence of Bumi's sister. "If you were aiming for fashionably late…. Well, you're late."

"Only by an hour or twelve." She sniffed, dismissively. Out of the three siblings, Korra preferred Kya's company the most. Tenzin was too serious and was always trying to get her to meditate, Bumi was a wild card, but a visit from Kya usually meant she would learn an awesome, new water bending move. And of course another rematch. There were only a handful of water benders that Korra has faced and not been able to defeat and Kya was one of them. The teen has been trying to change that.

"Where are you going so early?" Pema asked curiously seeing the teen already dressed.

Korra shrugged and said the first thing that came to mind. "Asami's. I'm late actually so… bye." She would've stayed to have a proper conversation, but they'd be there when she got back.

The young water bender resumed her exit, relieved that she wasn't called back. The walk to Lin's apartment seemed to take forever between having to wait for the ferry and traffic. Korra was more than happy when she finally found herself in front of the Chief of Polices door.

Biting her lip, she raised her hand and knocked, having no idea why she still had butterflies whenever she found herself around the master earth bender. Sooner than expected, the door opened and standing in front of her, looking completely ready for the day, despite the early hour, was Lin Beifong.

A toothy grin stretched across Korra's lips as she met Lin's eyes and it only grew larger when the metal bender own lips pulled into a smirk, the smile more alight in her green eyes than on her mouth.

Lin leaned back to allow the teen inside and Korra twirled around as soon as the door closed to face her girlfriend.

"Hi." Azure eyes gazed up at Lin through dark lashes. She wanted to tell the older woman that she missed her but it felt kind of silly seeing how she saw the older woman just last night.

"Hey." Lin stepped forward and placed her hands on the younger ones waist. "I didn't believe you would actually get here so early." There was a teasing tone to her voice as she dropped her palms to Korra's hips and pulled until their noses were brushing against each other.

"Yeah, well… I don't wake this early for just anyone." She said breathless from the promise of cool breath on her lips.

"Lucky me." Lin whispered before pressing her lips to Korras. The water bender hands found themselves on the back of Lin's neck, one griping soft dark hair as she pulled the older woman closer. Lin relished the warm yielding lips against hers before swiping her tongue and pushed into the youth's wet carven. Lin's grip tightened, bunching up Korra's shirt. To answer her, Korra gave a quiet moan of approval and a stroke of her Lin won the fight for dominance, the metal bender had the strong urge to push Korra against the wall and finish what they started last night.

Feeling her lover draw back Korra quickly snagged Lin's bottom lip between her teeth, intent on holding it hostage. But Lin pulled back until she had her appendage back. She licked her sore lip and smirked down at a smiling, mischievously eyed Korra.

"What?" She murmured.

Lin had to chuckle as she reached up and grabbed tanned wrist. She idly wondered what it was about Korra that made it so easy to get lost in lust. She couldn't remember being like this with anyone else, at least not for a long, long time and was starting to think something was wrong with her.

'I'm far too old to be so turned on after just a kiss.' She mused to herself.

Still holding the teen's wrists captive, Lin said. "Surely we're capable of eating breakfast before jumping each other bones."

The water tribe teen grinned at her. "I say we eat each other for breakfast."

Lin rolled her eyes and tried not to laugh. "You know how I feel about cannibalism. Come on, I know you're hungry. You're always hungry." She pulled Korra into another kiss, making sure to keep it chaste, before Korra could tell her it wasn't funny to confuse the two very different things.

She hummed instead and said, "Not for food. But if you insist."

Lin let go of one hand and entwined her fingers with the other one before leading Korra to the kitchen.

"What did you tell them you were up so early for?" Lin wondered.

"Said I was going to Asami's. Oh this looks good." She said happily when she saw all the food the table. Most of them were dishes she had before but some she didn't recognize. She shot Lin a sly glance. "And you weren't expecting me so early, right."

The older woman guided the water bender down to sit beside her. "I had some faith. Here, you told me once that you've never had traditionally homemade earth kingdom food." Lin picked up something that had Korra's curiosity and held it for the teen to eat. Never taking her eyes off Lin's Korra took a bite. Korra hummed at all the different flavors.

"What is that?" the teen demanded.

"Pau." Lin answered, amused and then added as an afterthought. "It's actually a favorite of mine."

"It's delicious." Korra reached for more. "And I've had homemade earth kingdom food since I told you that." She was actually surprised the earth bender remembered. "But Bolin's mom isn't nearly as good a cook as you are."

"Thank you." Lin said, uncomfortable from the praise. She changed the subject for their breakfast conversation. "Since you were so adamant that we have all day together, what would you like to do?"

Korra shrugged and flashed her a grin. "Whatever you want to do, it's your day off; we can just … hang out. Or have sex all day. Whichever. "

Lin looked at her. "You'll grow bored of me by noon."

The teen shook her head and laughed. "No, I'll annoy the hell out of you and you'll kick me out by ten."

Lin smiled the smile that played more on her eyes than her lips. She raised her hand to Korra's face, the pad of her thumb rubbing the apple of the youth's cheek bone. "Unlikely." She murmured.

After breakfast they cleared the table and Korra insisted on helping Lin clean the dishes.

"Fine. Just … no water bending tricks."

"I would never." Korra said with wide innocent eyes.

Afterwards, Korra told Lin she was too full to do anything but digest so they found themselves lying on Lin's rather spacious and comfortable couch.

"I didn't even know you had a T.V." the water bender smirked as Lin gave her the remote.

"Everyone has a T.V." Lin said. Korra didn't have to see the older woman to know she rolled her eyes. She rolled on to her back so she could look up into the green eyes she loved so much.

"But you're not like everyone."

Those too deep, too sincere, too blue eyes had Lin swallowed thickly. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. You are such a silver tongue." She leaned down and dropped a light kiss on the teen's lips.

After fifteen minutes of constant channel changing, Lin's patience was up and she warned, "If you don't pick something soon, I'm taking the remote from you."

"Ok, Ok." Korra assured her. When she finally did settle on something, Lin sighed but didn't say anything, promising herself that she simply wouldn't give the teen the remote again. Instead, the older woman took her arm that was around Korra's waist and brought her hand up to play with a lock of dark hair that wasn't in the pony tail. She wasn't going to lay there and watch cartoons so she was going to have to entertain herself some way.

Eventually, Lin pulled the band holding the hair off all together. She pressed her nose into the thick wavy tresses and inhaled. Lin smiled when she heard Korra sigh, and started to run her fingers through the dark brown hair. She had always thought the water tribe girl had really nice hair. Lin remembered always hating when those kinds of thoughts crossed her mind because it was always followed by thoughts of guilt for thinking about an underage girl. She still wasn't entirely sure how she felt but Korra was making it easy to forget that.

Korra pick the kid's station, partially because it would've messed with Lin, but it didn't seem to bother the other woman and now Korra couldn't even focus on the cartoons. Occasionally, Lin's fingers would brush the back of her neck and she would completely go blank.

Suddenly, Lin broke the comfortable silence. "Can I ask you a question?" She started lightly running her hand across the teen's collar cones and shoulder.

Korra turned on to her back again to look up at her girlfriend. "Of course."

"Do you promise to answer it truthfully?" Lin asked with a cocked eyebrow.

"I wouldn't lie to you." Korra said earnestly, with a brow furrowed.

"I meant will you give me a straight answer, no dodging or changing the subject or any of the things you're notoriously famous for when it comes to serious things." The older woman corrected with both eyebrows raised this time, as if daring the youth to deny her tendencies.

"Um… Alright." She was too curious as to what Lin wanted to know.

Nodding, Lin asked, "Why do you hate the idea of being the Avatar so much?"

Korra let out the most dramatic groan and looked up at the ceiling.

"I wish I could go a day without someone asking me about that." She grumbled.

An amused smile pulled at Lin's lips because the reaction didn't surprise her at all.

"You promised." Lin reminded her when Korra still didn't say anything.

The water bender sighed and said, "I did." She groaned again, much more subtly. "Alright, I don't even know where to begin, there so many reasons." She mumbled.

"Well, what's the biggest reason?"

"That I'm not the Avatar."

"You sound so sure."

Korra chuckled, "Lin." She said as if her girlfriend was being ridiculous. "Of course I'm sure. I'm almost eighteen; the only thing I've ever been able to bend is water. How would I not know by now?"

Lin gave a one should shrug. "It's happened before."

Korra rolled her eyes. "Like once every ten generations, if that. And even then they usually know that they're the Avatar they just decide to delay their announcing and training."

"That wasn't always the case." Lin smirked at Korra's flustered state.

"Lin, could you imagine me being the Avatar? I broke into your house for a dare. I would be the world's worst Avatar in recorded history."

Lin let out an unbidden laugh. "I can see your point there, though I disagree about being the worst Avatar ever. But that wouldn't stop you from being the Avatar. Have you ever tried bending anything other than water?"

"Of course, just like every other water bender my age. Trust me Lin the Avatar is somewhere with the White Lotus training." And then after a moment added, "And probably has the most controlling parents that have delayed his Announcing all the way until his eighteenth birthday."

Lin hummed as she traced random patterns on the olive toned skin of Korra's arm. She was most likely right, Lin thought. It was the theory that everyone shared after all. But she still asked, "What would you do, if the White Lotus shows up on your birthday?" She looked into Korra's blue eyes, trying to catch everything that they might tell her. But Korra looked away, back at the T.V. It was completely new cartoon on. The teen didn't say anything for moment. She hated the idea more than anything else.

"I don't know." She shrugged, looking at the ceiling now. "But I wouldn't go with them."

"Really?" Lin asked surprised from the finality in Korra's tone.

"I wouldn't." Korra repeated meeting Lin's gaze. "Another reason to absolutely hate the idea of being the Avatar: the responsibility. I would literally be in charge of everyone's well-being. And that's not even including the Spirit World."

Lin wanted talk more about Korra's intent on possibly doing the unspeakable but she let the younger one continue.

"And I would be famous." The water tribe teen made a face as if she said shewould rather be cleaning toilets for the rest of her life. "Everyone would want to know everything about me. It's hard to believe there was a time when some people, most people, didn't even know what the Avatar looked like. But my face would be all over the world." Korra chewed her lip for a moment before looking at Lin and saying, "Plus, I'm really tired of everyone saying I'm the Avatar. It's irritating as hell." She pouted slightly, remembering Bumi and the council members.

Lin smirked. "Maybe they wouldn't if you weren't such a hot shot probender." She said poking the teen in the ribs.

Korra laughed and swatted the older woman's hand away. "Can we talk about something else now?"

"No."

"Why?" Korra frowned. "I was straight forward." She complained.

Lin looked down at her for a moment, contemplating whether to push or not. "I want the real reason why it bothers you so much."

"I just gave you like ten reasons, Lin." Korra said getting frustrated.

"I don't want a reason, I want the reason."

Korra huffed angrily and glared at the ceiling. Lin saw her jaw clench and unclench. Korra turned to get off the couch but Lin quickly wrapped an arm around the teen and tucked her back, snug against her chest. Korra didn't struggle against the hold but didn't embrace it either. Lin sighed; obviously she should not have pushed it.

"You don't have answer." She said after a minute of listening to a corny theme song. "I'm sorry." Lin felt Korra relax against her and sigh before turning around so there eyes could meet.

"I was going to tell you." The teen mumbled before dropping her gaze. They laid there for a while, Lin rubbing circles in Korra's back until finally,

"I hate the thought of my parents lying to me my entire life. They wouldn't do that…. but I wouldn't be able to stand it if they did."

Lin frowned in understanding and then murmured, "That would be a horrible thing find out."

Korra hummed in agreement as she ran her palm up and down Lin's bare arm. After a minute of listening to high pitched dialogue Lin said with some mirth, "Good thing you don't have to worry about that."

The teen made a noise between a scoff and a chuckle before placing a wet kiss on the pale skin of Lin's neck.

"Although…" Korra started with the mischievous tone Lin was used to. "It would be nice to be able to bend all the elements." She placed her hand on the older woman chest. "I'd finally be able to get you out of that uniform." She said grinning up into jade eyes.

"And here I thought you liked my uniform."

"I do." Korra assured her before leaning up and pressing a kiss to Lin's lips before pulling back and saying. "I think it's only fair if I get to ask you a question now."

"Only fair." Lin agreed.

"Are you going to give me an honest and straight forward answer?" She said with mirth and an eyebrow cocked, like the older woman had done to her before.

The idea was actually very unsettling to Lin and she had a hard time nodding the affirmative. But Korra was right; it was only fair, after making the teen answer her question.

"Alright." Korra said sounding thoughtful as she shifted until she was on top of her lover. Lin's hands automatically found the water benders hips as the younger one straddled her. But she didn't say anything she just looked down at Lin with a contemplative stare until finally Lin couldn't take it anymore.

"What do you want to know?" She asked, her anxiety growing to near unbearable levels.

"Everything." The teen said boldly. "So, choosing just one question is hard." She traced a finger over the scars on Lin's cheek. Lin tensed slightly, she wasn't sure she was ready to tell that story, not yet. But as usual Korra surprised her.

"Have you ever been in love?"

Lin blinked up at her and then opened her mouth to say something but then closed it. This is the first time Korra thinks she finally caught the older woman off guard.

"I… yes. Once." Lin finally managed.

"Only once?" Korra murmured.

The chief of police licked her lip, considering her next words. "Once, yes. Another time I thought it could be love … but it wasn't."

"Why? I mean …how did you know?" Korra bit her lip.

Lin ran her hands up Korra's sides. "How did I know I was in love? Or how did I know I wasn't in love?"

"Both." She shrugged, feeling apprehensive. She was doubtful that Lin would answer but she really wanted her to.

The earth bender breathed in deeply and then let out a long breath. "Well …" She trailed off and dropped her head back as she looked up at the ceiling. Lin continued to run her hands up and down as she tried to think an answer. As she contemplated, she found herself in thoughts and memories from long ago. Thoughts, memories, and all the feelings she still didn't want to remember. But she said she would answer and she would.

Lin sat up, so she was eye level with Korra. "I think everyone would explain it differently. But when I … was in love … as opposed to when I thought I was but wasn't really, I was content. With everything." She frowned, words seeming especially elusive. "Not just content, but the kind of content where you…" She sighed and then chuckled a little. "It's hard to describe but… I remember feeling as if I would never need or want anything else … as long as I had that person."

"That person?" Korra questioned with a raised eyebrow and a teasing glint in her eyes. "You're not going to tell me this person's name?"

Lin hummed and kissed the hollow of Korra's throat. "Does their name really matter?"

"Yes." Korra murmured but didn't push. She leaned her head back to give the older woman more room. Despite Lin's lacking description Korra felt like she did indeed understand what the older woman was trying to say.

"What about when you weren't in love?"

Lin paused for a moment before deciding that was something she would really rather not discuss. So, she continued pressing soft kisses along Korra's sensitive pulse. "Sometimes," she started between kisses. "When you want something bad enough …you can trick yourself in to believing all sorts of things." By now she was lightly running the tip of her tongue along the outer shell of Korra's ear. The teenpressed her fingers into clothed shoulders as her breath ran away from her.

Lin shifted and rose, pushing Korra backwards until she was lying down with the earth bender on top of her. Lin didn't stop leaning forward until their lips pressed together, successfully stopping the conversation. Korra slipped her hands underneath the Lin's shirt to run up the smooth pale skin as their lips moved together.

"You know," Korra started when Lin moved her hands between them to slide underneath Korra's shirt. "Last night I forgot to t-tell y…you…" Her voice caught as pale hands moved up her stomach and then under her bra to palm the soft, twin mounds. Korra's back arched and all coherent thought left her.

"Tell me what?" The older woman asked coolly as she kneaded with her hands.

"U-um…" She stuttered before forcing herself to open her eyes (when had she closed them?) and meet Lin's darkened eyes. "To …tell you what else I think about… when I'm around you."

The metal bender chuckled, a throaty sound that spoke more of lust and need than amusement: a sound that went straight to Korra's already throbbing center.

"I can only imagine." She whispered dryly as she pinched and roll the tips of stiff nipples. The water tribe girl groaned softly and her grip tightened until her nails were digging into pale skin.

Lin kissed her, a simple brush against her lips that soon escalated until she was kissing her as if her life depended on it. Soon Korra was lost in the taste and warmth of the woman above her. All thoughts about Avatar's and past lovers were completely forgotten as the need built rapidly between them. When Korra was about to demand that clothes be shed, when suddenly Lin pulled back entirely. Korra's hands slipped from Lin's back as the older woman shifted off the couch and stood.

The water benders disapproval and confusion was written all over her face, to which the older woman only smirked at. Lin grabbed the teen's hands and pulled her up against her.

"Come on." She said with their foreheads touching. "We're going to need more room."

So you guys finaly got some answers. I promise its not going to take half a year for another chapter. I would like to say i was i've been spending my time saving the world, curing cancer and inventing space travel but really this long ass delay resulted from school, life and mostly writters block. Ironicaly what broke my writers block was the need to write some major fluffy smut but this happened instead xD all well, next chapter.

Lots and lots of thanks and kudos to GTFOMyLand for betaing like a boss.

i have a tumblr that i intend to use for linorra goodness extremely soon 'Lycan20'

Till next time my awesome beautiful readers