Asami let out a soft groan as she let go of her pen. Her hand absolutely couldn't take any more paperwork tonight. Massaging it with her other hand, she got up from her chair and headed out of her office. As she headed back to her bedroom, she heard a faint, rhythmic grunting coming from behind the door. Apparently she wasn't the only one who couldn't quit working until it was too late.
Asami pushed the door open slowly, smiling as she saw her girlfriend - and new resident at the Sato Estate - engaged in airbending practice in front of the window. "I hope I'm not disturbing anything, Korra," she said.
Korra let her arms relax upon hearing a voice from the doorway. "No, not at all. Just practicing some forms before bed. I normally do this outside at the Temple, but since I'm not there anymore..." She bent down to pick her towel up off of the floor, wiping some beads of sweat off of her face. As she looked over at Asami, the Avatar noticed her massaging her hand. "Are you still working on those? I thought you were done by now."
"There's always more to do," Asami said with a half-hearted grin. "Even when I'm done one batch, more work is always around the corner. I just wish it didn't have to be paperwork so much of the time." Asami eyed Korra for a moment, wondering if the Avatar realized that she was in Asami's bedroom late at night right now. It was hard to say with Korra. Shaking her head and letting out a sigh, Asami headed toward her dresser and began to disrobe and change into her nightclothes. Even though they hadn't been intimate yet, she didn't really have anything to hide from Korra. "Though I suppose on the scale of what we've gone through," she said, continuing her train of thought, "I should consider myself lucky that paperwork is currently my biggest nemesis."
Korra found herself staring at Asami's wrist as her girlfriend spoke. She wanted to help take the pain away, but she wasn't sure if it was appropriate just yet. Once she realized what Asami was beginning to do, she was suddenly quite sure it wasn't appropriate just now. She immediately turned around, putting all her effort into gazing out the window while cooling off her now-blushing face. "Y-yea... I'm sure you'll get through it all eventually," she said, trying not to think about what was going on behind her.
Asami peered back at Korra over her shoulder, chuckling a bit at her girlfriend's sudden shyness. What exactly, Asami wondered, did Korra expect to be going on here as the night went on? Ah, but Korra probably hadn't thought that far ahead.
Once Asami was finished changing, she said, "You can turn around now, Korra." Asami stretched out her arms briefly, wincing a bit from the pain in her wrist. Hopefully it would be better in the morning.
"Huh? O-oh! Right!" Korra whirled around, grinning sheepishly at Asami. She had tried a few deep breaths to calm herself, though her pounding heart would have none of it. The Avatar chuckled. "I kinda, er, forgot that this is... your room. That I'm in. Right. Yea." Despite how flustered she'd gotten herself, she did make a mental note that Asami was still cradling her wrist. Yeah, she'd have to do something about that.
"Right," Asami said. She didn't suspect she'd get a much more intelligent answer from Korra if she asked why Korra was in her room right now, so she didn't bother. "Well, you're welcome to stay the night if you wish, Korra," she said, smiling at her girlfriend. "My bed's more than big enough for two."
It had been a subconscious thing that had brought Korra here. Lately she'd been spending quite a bit of her free time in Asami's room, sometimes even forgetting she was there and not her own room. Why her room had to be further down the hall and not here was beyond Korra. Something about the swimming pool and waterbending practice and… she wasn't really listening at the time.
But now her girlfriend had offered for her to stay here instead of walking all the way down the hall (that ridiculously long, long hall). Not thinking twice, Korra said, "That sounds good. But there's something I need to do first." Approaching the engineer, Korra grasped the older woman's hand with both of her own. She bent some water out of the canteen on her hip, applying it to Asami's wrist. She focused on it for a moment, infusing it with energy to help restore Asami's worn-out muscles. "I know you have a lot of work to do, but I think this should help."
Although it hadn't occurred to her to ask for any help, Asami certainly wasn't going to protest as Korra used her waterbending to soothe the pain in her wrist. She smiled and looked into her girlfriend's eyes. "Thank you, Korra," she said. After Korra finished with her healing and returned the water to her canteen, Asami took her girlfriend's hand in hers. She brought it slowly up to her lips and placed a gentle kiss on the back of it.
Happy to see Asami like this, Korra gazed tenderly at her, an expression she had never even shared with Mako all those years ago. "Anything for you, Asami." Her embarrassment from earlier faded away, Asami's kiss soothing all her worries in a way no waterbending ever could. With her hand still in Asami's, Korra leaned forward, placing a soft, gentle kiss on Asami's lips.