things left unsaid

[electric_lady]

WHO: Asami & Hei
WHAT: Hei's return throws Asami's world into chaos.

[Days pass, and Mako's words still echo in her thoughts: Li’s alive. With every echo, Asami wishes that hearts were as simple as machines.

She's happy for Korra. Korra and Li — Hei, though Asami's the only one of their group to know that — have been together for almost as long as Asami's known them. And she likes Hei. She'd been suspicious of him once, when that dorky facade of his started slipping, but his devotion to Korra had been unquestionable. Asami appreciated that about him, even envied it a little. She's never inspired that kind of loyalty in anyone, not even her own father. So she's happy for her friend. Truly.

She's also heartbroken, a fact which is as surprising as Hei being alive. His return means the end of the sweet, secret relationship between her and Korra. Not a romantic one — they're friends who share intimacies. But Asami hadn't realized just how much she's come to depend on those intimacies until now.

She wishes Korra would call. They need to talk about what's going to happen between them, what's going on with Hei, whether she's going to tell him. She refuses to let this relationship end like the one with Mako; she needs clarity. At the same time, she understands why it would slip Korra's mind. Of course she's preoccupied with Hei's return. That kind of shock would knock the ground out from under anyone's feet.

When she ends up on Korra's front porch, it's not because she intended to be there. Asami had overseen the loading of some new products at the dock, and instead of going home, her footsteps took her to Korra's place. Korra and Hei's place.

Taking a deep breath, she knocks.]

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[anatural]

[She's not entirely sure when she comes either — it feels like one endless wave of pleasure, his touch spiking her back up every time she thinks she's finally coming down. Her voice gets scratchy; her limbs start melting into jelly, and yet her insides continue to ripple and she feels like she's drowning.]

[mortemscintilla]

[ The sight -- the feel of her -- makes his head ring like a perfectly struck bell, the last of his control sliding away in one long shudder of madness. His hips go into their irresistible stutter-snap, his vision thinning at the edges as Korra's wet sex stretches wide over him, throbs in a frenzied rhythm, clamping down to trap his pounding cock, as if it is a rough bludgeon that will ride her blind and stupid. And god, yeah, he wants that sometimes, isn't the first time he can imagine her rolling over and goading her way to delicious punishment, a gorgeous dirtysweet bitch belly-down in heat and panting for it, squirming and desperate like the way she is now, overcome with the heat of her spasms, her climax seeming to render her perfectly without will, her arms and legs flopping helplessly around him. ]

[ He rides higher and harder, filling her, pinioning her, and a moment later one perfect, splitting hit ignites a spark inside him, and he is coming, a sharp, clench-jawed series of shudders, his come jetting like milky venom into the pillowy, fluttering geography of her sex. ]

[anatural]

[Korra wouldn't readily admit it, but she's come to love raw sex. She keeps meaning to get condoms while she's out, but she always manages to forget because she doesn't want to go back to that fake plastic feel, not after days of fucking with absolutely nothing between them. She loves feeling his come shoot inside her. Loves especially how they don't have to hurry to pull out so the condom can be discarded, and she can feel him gradually grow soft inside her. (She and Asami would fall asleep sometimes, Asami's strap-on still buried inside of Korra. They'd doze, fuck, doze again, fuck again ad nauseam without ever really separating.)]

[mortemscintilla]

Fuck...

[ Panting, Hei buries his face in the damply tangled heap of Korra's hair. Takes deep snuffing breaths, loving the way she feels, half melted across him, her sex giving off the occasional belated ripplet around his cock. The water has gone cold, and the sun has slipped away, leaving dying pink streaks in a star-salted sky. He'd like to sprawl there a little longer, letting their sweat cool and their breathing synch up. Outdoors Zen and evening pre-supper afterglow. ]

[ Except mosquitoes are beginning to helicopter around his ears, giving off a maddening whine. One draws so close that he is sure it will fly straight into the canal and then into his brain to suck the blood out of the grey matter. When it lands on the hard little hump above his eardrum Hei pinches it between his fingers; the bastard crumples with a satisfying feel, like softest metal. The satisfaction is short-lived, Dark, sparse clouds of bugs are surfacing everywhere, whining, buzzing. It's disconcertingly like being back in South America. ]

[ With an irritable noise, Hei bats them off. Nudges Korra away, letting their bodies disengage wetly under the waterline. Climbing out on legs that should not be trembling from exertion -- big bad Contractor, here -- Hei shakes himself, like a wolf caught in the rain, drops of water shimmying around his body, then evaporating with hissing puffs as he lets a hot charge flow across his skin. ]

[ Scrubbing one hand through his hair, he offers the other to Korra, blinking with a sated slowness, ]

Come on.

[ Before they end up with more bug-bites than hickeys. ]

[anatural]

[Korra takes his hand, and once she's out of the water, uses a little airbending to both dry herself off and temporarily banish the horde of insects.]

I love you. [Once upon a time, she would've been afraid to say it so openly, for no particular reason. Not anymore.]

[mortemscintilla]

[ Hei, zipping up his pants with efficient quickness, glancing around for his belt, blinks at the words. They are, to him, even now, both a precious gift -- and a terrifying chaos. It is never easy for him to say he loves her, not since that time, in bed after he'd dropped back into this world. He seldom says it directly; more often making himself understood by more oblique means. Korra, on the other hand, seems to have no qualms telling him, straight out. But then her talk is often full of giggly, bawdy commentary and snarky nicknames for him. He still can't bring himself to call her anything but her name. Kiddo, once in a blue moon, but never without an edge of facetiousness to it, even now. Sometimes, in the depths of passion, Korra, breathed in both a prayer and an endearment. But nothing else. ]

[ Still, he's graduated past the stage of amateur hinkiness. Enough that there's only a beat, before his blank, see-no-mush, hear-no-mush, speak-no-mush expression erodes, leaving a soft-eyed wistfulness behind. Affection wells in him. Scooping up his belt, then his shirt, he doesn't put it on. Sidles closer instead, draping it around her like a wrinkled, badly-fitting dress. ]

[ Stooping, he kisses her nose. Smoothes the messy licks of hair from her eyes, which are almost periwinkle in the gloaming, twinkly as stars. ]

Let's get you inside. Before the blood-suckers descend en masse.

[ It's I love you too. In so many unromantic words. ]