Okay, so it's femslash week on tumblr at the moment and this is my day one contribution. the prompt was quote. i got my quote on the internet. 'i don't trust words, i trust actions' Anyway, read, review and enjoy
Lin Beifong has always been a woman of action. When she was younger, she and her sister would fight using their bending. Lin could have easily diffused the situation by using her words but she always worried that they wouldn't sound right coming out.
She hated situations where she had to use words. She worried that she came of too stoic or too harsh. Case in point, last week she had to tell a man his wife was found in a ditch with stab wounds. An obvious homicide. Yet when she was talking to the late woman's husband in an effort to comfort him, he called her cold. It hurt the metalbender deep down to the point that she has never tried to notify a victim's loved one of their passing again.
It wasn't like she didn't try. She put on the face that said she cared, even though inside she didn't. She tried to sound empathetic but it came off harsh and distant.
And now here she was, walking home in the rain after rescuing a child from a burning building, only to have the child kick and scream at her to get away from them. She was hurting and all she wanted to do was sit on her couch, drink a cold one and talk to her roommate about her day like they had done on so many occasions.
She entered the apartment to hear the shower running, indicating that her roommate was in the shower and would most likely be finished soon. So grabbing a six-pack of beer, the officer settled herself on the couch and began drinking. She slowly allowed her body to relax as she listened to the rain pelt against the window. She hadn't realised her roommate was out of the shower until she felt her sit herself on the couch next to her. "Bad day?"
"You could say that. How was your day?"
The waterbender reached for one of the beers before stretching herself along the couch and propping her feet up on Lin's thighs. "I tried to help Tenzin on the island but he wanted everything done his way, so I decided to water smack him into the ocean and then came back here. So what happened?"
Lin finished her beer and reached for another, deciding to metalbend the cap off so she could imbed it into the wall with a ferocious speed that made Kya flinch. "I made a child cry today. After I spent five minutes in a burning building looking for him."
"Are you sure he wasn't crying from the fire?"
"Positive. You wanna know how I know?" Rhetorical. "The kid began to punch me in the chest, not even caring that he was punching metal, and then started calling me every name in the dictionary. Some words a six year old shouldn't have even known." She chugged down the bottle of beer in one go and reached for another. "Am I really that bad at connecting with others?"
Kya placed her beer on the coffee table and sat up. She took one of Lin's hands in her own to get her attention. "You're not bad at connecting with others. You just have a different way of showing your emotions and you can't help that."
"I wish I could."
The waterbender cocked her head to the side, not quite understanding what her roommate was talking about. "Would you care to elaborate?"
"There's this girl," Lin let out a sigh, not really sure why she was telling Kya about this, "I really like her, have for years, and I have no idea how to tell her. Every time I think of the words, I don't trust them to do what I feel on the inside, justice. This girl is amazing and I want to show her just how amazing she is."
"I don't trust words, I trust actions."
"Excuse me?"
"It's a quote dad told me he adopted when he finally kissed mum. That day he couldn't trust his words so he trusted his actions, you should do the same."
Lin put down her unopened beer and faced Kya, she slowly raised her hands and placed them on either side of the waterbender's face, relishing the warmth they provided. Green eyes darted between glorious blue ones and luscious brown lips. Not feeling Kya pull away, she gradually leaned in until their lips connected. She let her hands travel down the older woman's face to settle on her waist as she pushed her to lie down on the couch.
For the first time in a long time, Lin allowed her actions to speak as she settled herself between Kya's long brown legs, not even concerning herself that she was causing the woman's skirt to ride up quite high. In the midst of a heated battle of tongues, Lin cursed herself for not having a larger lung capacity that clearly the waterbender had. "I wanted to do that since you moved in."
"I don't blame you," Kya said between pants, "that was amazing. Thank you. You know, it's getting late and the heater isn't working in my room."
She needn't say anymore as Lin picked her up and carried the waterbender back to her room, where they wouldn't emerge until tomorrow.