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Ch. 14

Help From The Enemy

~Asami's POV~

After school I met up with Korra and we headed to my house. I didn't know when tahno was going to come, and Korra insisted that she be there when he came over. I wondered why tahno was being so helpful towards me. I still couldn't get over how wierd that was. It wasnt like him but I guess he might like me and I had to shake that thought from my mind. No matter how "nice" he was being to me I would never forgive him for what he did to me.

I got a text from him about three-thirty saying he'd be over around five. I texted back "ok". As he said, I got a knock on my door. I opened it to find him with a backpack swung over his shoulder.

"Parents home?" He asked.

"Nope, but Korra's here."

He rolled his eyes, and I scowled. Korra walked up behind me. Tahno took a step towards me to come in my house but I stopped him. He laughed.

"What? Not gonna let me in?"

"What's in the backpack?"

"Your special fix, let me in or I'm not handing it over. I want to talk."

"That wasn't part of our deal." I reached my hand out for the bag.

"Oh come on, Asami. I thought we were starting over, can't you just trust me?" He said looking at me with what I figured was his most innocent look. He said it like a normal question, and didn't sound bothered by my cold tone.

"Actually, I'm not sure we can." Korra said. Tahno seemed ignore her comment. I looked him in the eyes.

"Fine, two minutes."

I let him in and we sat down the couches in my living room. Me and Korra on one and Tahno on the other. We just stared at each other for a couple minutes. Tahno looked like he was at home on my couch, like he hadn't just insisted I let him into my house to talk.

"Can I seriously trust you? You did do this to me. How do I know you aren't just being nice to me because Ozai wants something from me?" I asked him.

"Ozai might be our creator, but he's not God, Asami. I don't live to please that old man. I just want to get to know you."

"If you want to get to "know" me, I wouldn't bother. I'm not interested in you and I have a boyfriend already."

"Hey, slow down. I never said I wanted anything like that."

I looked at him doubtfully. By now, it wasn't a secret that he was into me. I was still pretty disqusted by that fact. Tahno is definately not my type. He continued to sit on my couch, wearing the innocent look he had when we were standing at my door. I couldn't find a reason to trust him.

"You got anything else to say? It's been more than two minutes." Korra said impatiently.

"Alright," he said putting his hands up, "I'll go. But, I'm taking one for the go." He said reaching into the backpack and pulling out a blood bag." He stood up and handed the backpack over to me. "Anything else you need, let me know 'Sami. We're friends now." He called me by my nickname like we were old friends.

Tahno left then and I shut the door. The backpack had about twenty blood bags in it. I doubted they would all fit in my mini fridge, which is really small. I looked at Korra and noticed she was eyeing the backpack with an uncomfortable look.

I zipped the bag up.

"Sorry. You probably aren't used to it at all, are you?" I asked her. She half-smiled.

"Not really, but I'm good as long as I don't have to watch you drink it, now that sounds gross." She laughed. I wondered how okay she really was with all the vampire stuff she'd gotten pulled into being my best friend. I was grateful she'd stuck through this the whole way with me just like anything else.

We walked upstairs and I put the blood bags in my mini fridge, which wierdly looked bigger now. They all fit somehow. The fridge looked a bit bigger and I summed that up to my imagination,not wanting to think about someone breaking into my room or something. That was was pretty unlikely anyway, since I keep my door and windows locked when I'm not home.

The next day, the school day was luckily uneventful besides the rest of my exams. I think I did pretty good and was grateful that I could just relax now. All I had to do now was look forward to letting my brain rest due to all the work it had been though. Korra and I hung out after school as usual and we're chilling in my room.

"Hey, you got a homecoming dress yet?" Korra asked me. I hadn't even thought of that. I had plenty of dresses suitable for homecoming in my closet so I really didnt need to shop for one, but I could tell by the look on Korra's face she wanted to go dress shopping.

"Nope, completely slipped my mind."

"We'd better hit the mall soon, Homecoming is only 3 days away, on Friday! I'm gonna text Mai and TyLee and see if they got theirs, or wanna come help us pick." Korra said with a big smile on her face. I shook my head and smiled. My best friend pretty much has a split personality. She loves everything tomboy and acts tough at school and around the guys she doesnt like, and then has this girly girl side that likes shopping.

I texted Iroh, I hadn't really talked to him lately. I wondered how he was doing. (Bold - Iroh, Italics = Asami)

-Hey Iroh, how are you? I miss U. =(

-Hey, I'm doing pretty good. Miss ya too.

- Are we still up to go to Homecoming together?

I wondered if after all the wierdness, the fight I interferred with between him and Tahno mostly, and distance we'd had throughout the past few days changed that. We hadn't really talked, and I hoped he still liked me.

-Ofc we are. You okay?

- Yeah, we just haven't talked for a few days. I wondered if everything was okay between us.

-Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Don't worry. =)

- Can we hang out tomarrow? I'm going dress shopping with the girls today.

-Sure, have fun.

-I will

I smiled. At least I knew that me and Iroh were okay. I told Korra and she told me she knew we'd be okay. I asked her about her and Mako.

"I haven't seen him much either, but we are going on a date tomarrow."

"Sounds fun."

"TyLee and Mai are on their way over. Seems like neither of them got their dresses either. TyLee has a date but Mai doesn't, but TyLee is making her go anyway." I figured TyLee would have already got her dress at least, since I know she spends a lot of time at the mall, but I guess all of us had been pretty busy with school and exams.

Korra told me she was gonna go raid my kitchen for something to eat and headed downstairs. Since she was going to be downstairs for a bit, I reached under my bed and pulled out a blood bag. I've been craving it all day long, which has been happening a lot of days lately actually, and it smelled really good right now. I decided to go in my bathroom in case Korra came back up to my room, not wanting her to see because of what she'd said earlier about seeing me drink it and because I didn't want to scare her.

I picked a cup off my nightstand I'd left there last night and walked in the bathroom. I pulled the cap off the bag and poured some into the cup, like I have been doing since Ozai sent me them in the first place. I drank it and caught sight of my eyes in the mirror again, they were bright red. Instead of looking away like I usually did upon seeing what the blood did to me, I stared at myself in the mirror as I drank.

The blood always changes my eyes temporarily, which was mainly what I didnt want Korra to see. My eyes don't only turn red, the veins around them bulge out a little and my fangs show as well. I can't help but think that what I see in the mirror is what Korra probably saw the day Tahno made me transition. She looked terrified and since then I sometimes wonder if part of her really is scared of me. We have only ever talked about that day once since, when we told Mai and TyLee.

I refilled the cup till the blood bag was empty and then put it a metal trash can I always put the bags in. I've been burning them after I'm done with them to make sure nobody sees. My bathroom is connected to my room so it's easy to hide the trash can too, which I keep under my sink behind a bunch of stuff. I use air freshener every time I burn a bag as well. I really don't want my parents to find out, so I've been hiding my evidence. I always lock my door and windows when I leave as well, in case anyone comes in when I'm not here.

I burned the bag and poured some water on it so I could stick it back under my sink. I walked downstairs and found that Mai and TyLee were at my house already so we all headed outside to my car. The mall is on the other side of the city so it takes about twenty minutes to get there from my house.

TyLee chattered all our ears off by the time we got there about what color dresses we should all get. Also, she told us about how she was going to homecoming with a cute boy named Haru. She was really excited about it. We finally arrived to the mall and went to a few stores. I had forgotten how fun dress shopping could be.

The four of us finally all found a dress. TyLee, as predicted since she loves pink, picked a pink dress. Korra found a blue one, Mai a dark green one and a red one for me.I was really excited for friday, and so was the rest of our group, with good reason.

I dropped Korra off at her house and Mai and TyLee took off when we got back to mine. It was already 8:00 by the time we were done at the mall, and about 8:30 now. I texted Iroh.

-Hey, had a lot of fun. Home now.

-That's great. I have a surprise for you tomarrow.

-Any hints? ;)

-Just that you'll love it. I'm gonna head to bed, night. See you tomarrow.

-Night

I changed into my pajamas and crawled in bed. I wondered what kind of surprise Iroh had for me.