How does it feel

How does it feel 38

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Back in the Spirit World

Sokka watches Asami intently as the young woman gets up from her seat wiping her eyes. The water tribe warrior takes a deep breath not moving right away.

Asami sniffles. "We should probably head out if we're going to reach the next marker before daybreak."

He rests his forearms on his thighs raising his eyebrows. "Soooo, you're okay with your wife sleeping with someone else?"

The young CEO furrows her brow. "What? How do you know about that?" Asami says knowing that all of her conversations with Korra and Mizu had been in her mind. There was no way he could have heard it.

Sokka smirks as he gets to his feet. "Oh don't worry, I don't have any super powers or anything. Hei-Bai just talks in his sleep." Asami sighs lowering her eyes not realizing how heavy this situation was on her mind. It was bad if she was talking in her sleep. Sokka stands in front of her placing his hand on her shoulder. "Hey, it's none of my business, but if it were me, I'd tell my wife the truth about how I felt."

The heiress shakes her head. "Sokka it's not that simple alright." She takes in a heavy breath and they begin cleaning up their camp site. "I'm not okay with it. It's just that the other woman is me, I mean…well… more like a part of me. She and I are becoming one person. It's important that Korra get to know her because by doing so she's getting to know a part of me too."

Sokka kicks some dirt over the fire they'd made. "Yeah but you don't really believe that."

"Huh, don't believe what?" She asks.

"If you believed that she was you, then you wouldn't have a problem with her being with your wife." He says as he picks up a pile of sticks looking up at Asami.

"But I do believe it."

"Be honest with yourself. You two might be 'becoming' one person, but that hasn't happened yet. So to you, she's not you. She's someone else."

The raven-haired woman lowers her eyes releasing an apprehensive breath. He'd just hit the nail on the head. Even though she and Mizu had almost completely merged, the heiress still saw her as a different person, but that wasn't the only issue.

Asami walks out to a large tree and leans against it while Sokka finishes cleaning up the area. "You're right okay, but that doesn't change the fact that this needs to happen."

"Why does it need to happen?" He asks.

Asami lowers her head. "Because of Mizu."

The water tribesman raises his eyesbrows. "So what's so special about her, that she gets a free pass to sleep with your wife and you have to stand by and take it?"

The pale-skinned beauty blinks a few times as feelings of guilt and sympathy rise within her. She hated how plainly Sokka was stating the situation. She turns to face him. "You don't understand alright. This needs to happen. She and I are going to be together for eternity. She needs to know that Korra and I accept her." Asami says taking in a pained breath. "You don't know what she's been through, but I do. She's never really had a chance to live but now she can. Right now she has her own body, and mind, and heart, and feelings. She's got it for two short weeks. That's nothing compared with eternity. It'd be cruel of me to deny her that." The heiress looks up into his eyes. "Wouldn't it?"