Chapter Three – Reaching Out

"What do you mean you're not sure its Mako's baby! Of course it is!?" Asami had a look of horror on her face, Korra tried not to give eye contact, she could feel the tears welling up in her eyes already.

"No Asami..." She paused. She was thinking on how she could say this, how she could tell Asami that it might be that captain of the Wolf bat's child and not Mako's. How would Asami react if she told her that she had a one night stand with Tahno and is pregnant with his child?

Korra swallowed nervously. And opened her mouth to release a squeaky tone that sounded like

"mif mah be taco.."

"What was that Korra?" Asami said.

"It… Might be…Tahno's…" She finally said.

Asami's eyes widened with disbelief. Korra knew that Asami was going to ask a whole bunch of complicated questions. It was going to get very uncomfortable.

"TAHNO'S?! KORRA HOW?! I THOUGHT YOU AND MAKO WERE OKAY HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!"

Asami was practically shaking Korra back and forth, tears were actually starting to form in Asami's eyes, she looked really devastated in this news. If she was reacting this badly about it how was Mako going to take it?

"Asami please don't hate me! I didn't mean for this to happen! Please listen to me! I don't know what to do?! I came to you for advice! I need you help Asami! Please! I need you!" She reached out to Asami's arm in desperate need, tears started to fall from Korra's eyes,

she paused for a while and then she looked up and sobbed

"Please Asami… What do I do...?"

She looked down at Korra's hand that rested on her shoulder; she knew her friend needed her help and reassurance.

"Have you had lunch yet?" She asked

"Uh.. No not yet, I haven't even had breakfast." The young Avatar looked confused. Asami looked at her and gave a quick smile.

"Well that's not good for you or the baby. Let go out for lunch, just the two of us, my treat, and you can tell me everything and I'll try to help you out as much as I can."

"But what about your children? Who's going to look after them while we are out?" Korra said.

"Iroh has a week off, he's home looking after them today anyway, he loves the time he spends with them, he doesn't normally get to that much. Ill just go get ready and tell him I'm going out with you."

"Thank you Asami."

Korra sat across the small café table from Asami, twiddling her thumbs under the table. She had just told Asami everything. And now she was waiting for her to say something.

There was silence for a good 3 minutes.

Asami reached down to pick up her glass of water and took a sip whilst closing her eyes. Once she was finished she placed the glass carefully down on the table and gulped her water down really loudly.

Finally she said something.

"Wow."

"Yeah...wow..." She immediately stopped twiddling with her thumbs and was about to say something when Asami Interrupted suddenly.

"So who was better?"

Shock was all over Korra's face right now, as if Asami just asked that?! Korra's face began to turn red. She let out a nervous laugh.

"Um what?! Why would you ask something like that? I can't choose who was better? I mean they're both really good, I mean Ahh oh my god. Why are you asking me this?" Still in shock she quickly chugged down her water to avoid answering the question.

"Alright then," Asami began. "Well, how was Tahno then? Was he any good?"

Asami would just not quit. Korra couldn't tell wether Asami was just trying to make some fun out of this situation, or she really wanted the pervy details. Either way this was getting very uncomfortable.

"Well he was good." Korra said nervously.

"How good?" Asami smirked.

"Very." Korra smiled as her face turned even more red from the embarrassment of telling her best friend her bedroom secrets. Korra then decided to turn this whole conversation around and take the focus off of herself.

"So how's Iroh in the bedroom Asami?" she gave a slight giggle.

"Hey that's not fair! Were talking about your sex life not mine!" she folded her arms and pouted with her beautiful red lips.

"He must be pretty good; after all you DID get pregnant with twins." She winked at her.

Asami then became flushed, and pink with sudden embarrassment.

"Hey! Stop turning this around! Where talking about you!"

Korra was still smiling at the red Asami. Then she finally admitted.

"He's veerrrry good."

They both burst out in to sudden laughter.

Asami was trying to make Korra's situation a little less depressing, and try and make her feel at least a bit un-ashamed. But now it was time to get serious.

"So what are you going to do? Are you going to tell them?"

"Of course I'm going to tell them…Just when I don't know? How will I even begin to explain to Mako what happened?"

"Well, make sure he's at least sitting down first. It's going to be very hard news to him."

"What if I tell Mako I'm pregnant... and leave it at that?"

Asami's mouth dropped at this. She became a little furious at what Korra just said.

"NO! You can't do that to him! You have to tell him that it might be Tahno's! you can't just pretend your whole life that the kids His son or daughter?! And what if it is Tahno's baby?! You can't keep him away from seeing the kid! He has all the right in the world to see his child! Why would you even suggest living a lie your entire life?! And especially to Mako! Your boyfriend who loves and wants to spend the rest of his life with you!"

"Because it will break his heart if I tell him!" Korra snapped.

Asami's expression fell. She just came to a realization.

"You're afraid of going through this alone... Aren't you Korra...?"

No reply. No eye contact. Asami hit the nail on the head with that one.

"Korra you won't be doing this alone, you have your parents, Tenzin and his family, and you have me! And who knows maybe Mako will understand and help too!"

"I'm not even so sure that I'm going to keep it any way." She said in anger.

Asami looked horrified at what she just heard, she held out her hand to Korra's

"You don't mean that do you? You want to keep it..."

"I'm not so sure..."

"Korra you have heaps of people to help you get through this! You will make a great Mother!"

"How Asami?! How will I make a great mother when I can't even make the responsible decision to have protected sex?! I'm so stupid! Why did I do this?" She put her head in her hands shaking her head from side to side.

"Korra, everything will be okay!" Asami said in a reassuring voice. Korra looked back up to her , her emotions were going wild right now, all she wanted was an easy way to deal with this, but it looks like that there wasn't going to be an easy way.

Not now. Not ever. This was something that she knew she had to deal with and she knew that she had to tell Mako first.