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[anatural]

[She'd awoken that morning with a loud gasp. It took her a moment to realize that what had startled her out of sleep was the beating her own heart. It was loud enough to make her head hurt.

What........how....

Immediately she thinks of Chekov. He's made trades for people's lives before, and she'd had to really talk him out of making a trade for hers. Maybe he had succumbed to heroic temptation.

She should be grateful. A part of her is. The larger part of her is angry that he would do what she had explicitly told him not to. The idea of someone making a sacrifice to save her doesn't sit right with her at all.

She grabs her device.]



[video]
[You may notice that the young Avatar looks remarkably healthy. Quite lively, even, as though somebody had made a trade to get her heart beating again.

She's not happy about it.]

Chekov, what did you do?!

[Korra's too upset for niceties such as "filters".]

Comments

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[candothat]

I didn't do it! [um] ...What is it that you think I did?

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[anatural]

You made a trade!

[SEE THAT HEALTHY GLOW OF ANGER, CHEKOV?! She's pretty sure it's your fault.]

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[candothat]

[Oh, is that all! He relaxes.]

Not lately, no. You look very good today, Korra.

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[anatural]

I'm alive.

[That's his fault, right? Right?]

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[candothat]

Good! You deserve that.

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[anatural]

[She crosses her arms.]

And you had nothing to do with it?

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[candothat]

You told me explicitly not to make such a trade.

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[anatural]

So you didn't just do it anyway?

[There goes the wind from her sails. But if Chekov didn't do it...then who?]

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[candothat]

I have sparred with you enough to know better than to do that.

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[anatural]

Then who...

[realization dawns]

Mako.

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[candothat]

Try not to yell at him too much.

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[anatural]

I don't plan on doing a lot of yelling.

[Punching is her plan. Lots of punching.]