Muddled
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Political, financial, and emotional woes have plagued Asami relentlessly. With Korra recovering, and their city and Future Industries in shambles, Asami is too stressed. She needs a physical sort of outlet and Mako is all too willing to become just that.
Or: How their less-than-healthy "friends with benefits" arrangement begins, in the wake of Korra's absence.
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Two years into an unhealthy friends-with-benefits situation, with little love able to be shared, Mako feels the distance growing between himself and Asami.
He’s never been able to understand his own heart, with love and loss and grief forming a too-tangled web inside of it. But maybe he could grow to understand hers.
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Two failed attempts at a relationship. Two years of sleeping together without any relationship to define it. Two days of being in a relationship with the same person at the same time, as Asami hesitantly lets her girlfriend date Mako, too.
Asami’s feelings toward Mako have always been strained and complicated. As they deliver bouquets to the urns and graves of each others’ parents, helping each other process this grief they share in common, she considers the complexity of Mako’s heart. It’s always been too big, to its own detriment.
Relatable.
(Companion piece to “Illusion”, chapter 16.)
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For the past two months, the three of them have been navigating this arrangement carefully, with Mako and Asami learning how to share the woman they both love. It’s not without its complications, given their sordid history, but it’s a leap of faith Asami doesn’t regret.
Asami and Mako aren’t together in the same way. They’ve found comfort in each other’s bodies on occasion, leaning on each other in moments of sorrow and loneliness. There’s a camaraderie between them, an unspoken understanding that has weathered the storms, but romance has remained firmly off the table, for good reason.
And yet here they are, tangled beneath the same blanket and sharing the quiet intimacy of a bed, as though there are no lines between them at all.
(Companion piece to “Illusion”, chapter 18.)
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