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Korra ([personal profile] anatural) wrote in [community profile] tampered2012-11-21 06:03 pm

biffletime

When; November 23rd
Rating; PG
Characters; Korra, Chekov, and Asami
Summary; Mako has left the City, and the girls are understandably down. It's time for a girl's night. Well, girls plus Chekov.
Log; Even a few days later, it's hard to believe Mako's left the City. Korra looks up every time she hears the door, expecting to see him. She keeps kicking herself and wishing that her last words to him hadn't been "We can't be friends anymore." It almost feels like it's her fault he's gone.


There's also the issue of Asami. Korra's never had an actual friend of the human and female variety before... She's not sure what to do. She can handle crying just fine (an endless supply of tissues and hugs -- couldn't be simpler), but she doesn't know what to do about fake smiles and poorly hidden low spirits.

That's why she asked Chekov for help, and he had given her a checklist of things to do to comfort a friend after a breakup. Korra looks down at the list in her hands.

Chocolate? Yeah.
Ice cream? Yeah.
Tissues? Got it.
Movies? Ten of them. She had grabbed a few that were considered "girly" movies, but they looked boring, so she had picked up a bunch of action films too. Korra hasn't watched a lot of tv, but in her uneducated view, explosions make everything more interesting.

She glances at the clock. Chekov should be over any moment -- he'd promised to set up the dvd player before Asami got home from work.


She really hopes this works.
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[personal profile] candothat 2012-11-22 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Chekov researched the topic of breakups and what to do in their aftermath quite extensively for Korra (relatively extensively, as the network and the internet were the main sources). He has had some experience in this field; after all, most of his friends at the Academy were girls and even girls in the space-future have boyfriend issues.

Mostly, though, he is visiting to make the DVD player work. And to deliver these daisies to Asami. It wasn't recommended by any lists he consulted but, in Russia, giving flowers to girls is very common.

He knocks on the door. Hopefully Korra actually has all of the parts of the DVD player.
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[personal profile] riches 2012-11-22 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Having spent the day away from work, Asami drove herself out of the city to sit alone for a while with Mako's scarf (all she has left of him now) wound snugly around her neck. His absence is like a hot poker in her side, unable to ignore and painful to live with because she doesn't need to to try and miss him, she just does. Immediately, painfully. Unfairly. His smile and laugh, even the furrow of his brow; the memory of his kisses makes her cry into her hands while alone on a grassy bank, backed up against the bole of a tree to mourn his loss in solitude.

As such, she's late home, unknowingly giving Chekov and Korra time to set up.
candothat: (Sarcasm)

[personal profile] candothat 2012-11-22 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Someday, Chekov hopes, he will weigh enough to make it impossible for people to just yank him about.

"Hello to you as well, Korra." He's already on the technology, daisies discarded in favor of making sure that nothing is broken. "I will, assuming this is all functional. Do you have everything?"

Everything will be set up in under a minute, Avatar-meddling notwithstanding.
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[personal profile] candothat 2012-11-23 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, it's all there. It's too easy to hook it up; the television screen lights up and shows the dvd player's default screen.

"There is that." Chekov sits back and looks to Korra. "How is Asami?"
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[personal profile] candothat 2012-11-23 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
He would take a bow, but really. It was not a feat worth clapping for. Still, it's very nice to be reassured on occasion that he can indeed do things that are somewhat valuable.

Speaking of value and uselessness.

"Ah." But hope springs eternal. "She will feel better after tonight, surely...?"