A/N Hi everyone. This is my first korrasami fic. I am working on a larger fic with this pairing but wanted to post something because I haven't in so long. I used to write twilight but found myself dwindling on that and really enjoying some of these avatar based fics. Is there anyone else who has jumped fandom? Let me know in reviews. Just realised while writing this author note how much I do miss posting and interacting with readers and writers on this site. This is just a short little ficlet that might be extended and its inspired by the song of the same name.

I Work Nights and You Work Days.

"I go home just to see your face, to see that its not changed." – To Kill A King

It happened slowly…When someone smiles at you and you smile back its something that happens its nothing special…but her smile. It was one of those small things that you don't even realise you miss till its gone.

The first time it happened it was quick. It all happened in the blink of an eye. I was tired it was 6am and I just finished a shift. I looked like hell and smelt even worse and I remember thinking 'wow'. I had the key in the door when I heard the door next to mine open and my eyes moved instinctively and there she was shuffling out folder and coffee in hand. She locked her door and did that thing where you jiggle the handle then she noticed me standing there like an idiot and she smiled.

Then everyday after that it was the same I got home and there she was sometimes just leaving or we would just pass in the hall. It was like the rest of the world hadn't woken up and there we were. I started to notice little things

And I would guess where she was headed off to because I was too afraid to ask.

Sometimes she wore heels and they would click as she walked I could even hear them even after I closed the door. Her hair always looked like she just woke up but her make up was perfect so I knew she had spent some time on it. She always double-checked she locked the door and would pause before putting the keys in her bag and then touches the pocket where she put them which made me think she had a tendency to lose things.

As sad as it seemed I enjoyed our little routine after a week I thought I should say something. I had the chance on a Wednesday when it was really badly raining and I was soaked and she stopped and looked at me with weary eyes. I was sure my eyes looked just as weary probably with red rings around them. I could have said 'hey take an umbrella' or 'man it's really coming down out there' but instead I opened the door and slunk away. I only worked up the courage that next week it was a fluke just as I got to my door she dropped her keys and a folder of paper, which went everywhere. She dropped to her knees muttering something angrily piling the papers back up she totally missed the keys. I picked them up gently noticing the silver 'A' key ring and as she walked away I yelled, "Hey you forgot your keys." She turned running a hand through her already wild hair a tired smile on her lips. I walked them to her and she grasped her hand around them our fingers brushed and she said one word, 'thanks' after that it started the phase of good mornings and mornings. Always with her signature smile slightly lopsided always pulling up more on the left but it was cute. She was cute that was the perfect word for her.

One morning I brought home some doughnuts from the diner and I offered her one and as she smiled the smile that dazzles me into a trace like state. I managed to say, 'I don't even know your name.' to which she replied 'Asami' with a wink as she walked away. It made me blush the way she looked at me but not as bad as the morning when she asked, 'what was that song you were singing yesterday?' I had no idea she could hear me in my apartment and I knew I couldn't sing so instantly my cheeks turned scarlet and I stuttered the name of the song but the smile she gave me beamed and made me forget about how embarrassed I was. It was worth it for that smile.

Which was why I was now standing in the hall holding the keys in the lock again looking like an idiot for what had to be five minutes now. At least I had come full circle. Maybe she left early or changed shift or maybe she is sick or has a day off. Every possible scenario ran through my head as I ever so slowly opened the door and let it fall close. Waiting for the sound of clicking heels but none were found. I frowned realising I had missed her smile.

Her life passed me by in morning glimpses and the more I thought I knew her the more I realised I knew nothing. We lived in the same place in different times only overlapping for a minute. Then why was that minute so important to me?

Fours days passed and as I got to my door again usual tired framed hunched trying to fish keys from my pocket I heard the familiar shake of the dead bolt that sent a shock to my heart. I stopped looking for my keys watching her like nothing had ever stopped she hugged a folder and coffee while trying to close the door with the other hand.

"Hey Asami long time no see." I smiled. It didn't even take a second, she smiled that blinding smile and I knew.

"Yeah I was stuck in with the flu but I'm all better now."

"I'm glad your feeling better."

"Me too," She smirked slightly patting the keys in her pocket.

"I missed you." The words slipped out before I could even think it was just in my head and came barrelling out. I froze for a second but she didn't seem frightened.

"Why would you miss me?"

My brained seemed to run at a million miles an hour placing every answer that could save me in order but the simplest was the truth, "I just like seeing that you are still you…that you haven't changed. Reminds me that I'm home."

Her lips pulled back into a completely new smile I hadn't seen before and I like to think that it was a smile just for me.

"I think I missed you too."

A/N Thanks for reading.