prompt: soulmate au where they each suffer the other's injuries even before they meet (eg. like if korra broke her arm during training and halfway across the world asami's arm broke spontaneously as well) Also i love your writing so much, stay awesome <
(brUH this has so much potential I can’t even handle it oh my god, like can you imagine all the times Korra’s gotten hurt and Asami feels everything and it just kills them both because Korra feels so guilty but Asami doesn’t care about feeling pain and whatnot because as long as Korra’s safe it’s all alright. And then Korra gets poisoned and even though Asami can feel every little thing that Korra goes through she doesn’t let it get to her, because making sure Korra gets better is the only thing that matters and goshimgonnamakemyselfcry)
(Anyway here’s the prompt enjoy)
It’s her parents who notice the bruises first, the purple
spots dotting her arms and legs begin popping up seemingly overnight.
Hiroshi worries and worries, while Yasuko tends to her
daughter and dresses the occasional scratch that appears along with them.
Asami doesn’t know exactly what’s going on, but she thinks
it might have something to do with the blue-eyed girl she talks to in her
dreams.
`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“`
Korra is the one to notice when she starts feeling odd, most
of the scratches and bruises she has are from training and playing with Naga.
However, it isn’t until she starts noticing tiny
crescent-shaped nail marks in the palm of her hand that she realizes they weren’t
there a few seconds ago.
She shows them to Katara first, and the old lady smiles
gently at her and simply responds that her better-half seems to have long
nails.
The small Avatar doesn’t understand exactly what that means,
but when she notices some of the White Lotus guards have green eyes, her heart
beats wildly as her mind struggles to connect the pieces and understand why
they seem so familiar.
`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gradually the bruises start to appear less and less, and
Asami realizes whoever is on the other end of this link must have discovered
some type of healing power.
The heiress turns nine when the big injuries start popping
up, maybe once every couple of months she’d wake up with a large purple bruise
running down the length of her ribs. Sometimes her lungs burn as if she’d just
run ten miles through a snow-storm.
It isn’t until she cries out in pain while she helped her
father put together the furniture set for her bed, does she realize just how clumsy
and injury prone her future soul-mate actually is.
Hiroshi lifts his daughter into his arms as she cries and
cradles her arm; three hours later the doctor comes tells them her arm has been
broken in five different places.
Asami takes the news in stride, picking out a light red
material for her cast.
She could almost swear she felt something poking at her mind, and foreign guilt flooded into her thoughts.
That’s when she realizes the thoughts were not her own.
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Korra watches Katara wrap the cast around her arm with
guilty eyes, knowing that she probably shouldn’t have been climbing the compound
walls in the first place.
Her emotions are going haywire, coupled with the fact that
she knew she hadn’t been the only one hurt by this.
Korra may not have met her soul-mate yet, but she could
almost sense the pure anguish vibrating
through the foreign bond, the pain and tears that clouded her eyes were not all
her own.
She closes her eyes and focuses on the warm feeling that
surrounds her heart, of the green eyes she sees in her dreams every now and
then, of the pretty smile that always sends her heart into tiny flutters.
I’m sorry, she
thinks; somehow Korra hopes the other receives the message, that her soul-mate
feels the guilt building inside her for putting them in this position.
A tingle buzzes against the back of her head, a gasp catches
in the young child’s throat and a girls voice probably the same age as her
floats into her mind.
It’s okay.
