The amount of headcanons I have about these two is insane. I decided to create this story to basically have a place to share the idea's I don't think are developed enough to warrant a stand alone story.
If you've read my other stories, this chapter are the events referenced in 15 of Through the Headlines. (I didn't want to post it in Reading the Headlines because they didn't actually read any articles about themselves here). A few of you asked to see the actual scene, so here you go.
(For any new readers there is a time line on my profile for the chronological order of my stories, if you want to read it in order.)
"Is she here?" Korra asked one of the guards as she entered the warehouse. He simply pointed upwards and Korra nodded. She took the steps two at a time and used an air jump to scale the top six. She walked down a narrow metal cat walk overlooking the lower part of the warehouse, opening the first door she came to.
"You know you can't repair the city on an empty stomach," Korra said.
Asami didn't even look up from the stack of papers in front of her, "I ate already,"
"Was the sun in the east? Because I'm almost sure the last time you ate was at breakfast? Especially since you didn't show up to our lunch date,"
"What?" Asami looked up, blinking in confusion. Then she groaned and dropped her head in her hands, "Korra I'm sorry. I didn't mean too,"
Kora smiled gently, "It's alright, you can make up to me now," She placed the take out boxes on Asami's desk, "I got dinner,"
"Just give me a minute,"
"No, you'll eat now, or you may not eat at all,"
Asami sighed fondly, "Alright," She put the papers down and held her hand for the food. Korra happily handed it to her, before sitting in the empty chair facing the desk.
"What'd you get?"
"The dumplings from that little stall you like,"
Asami smiled when she opened the take out box and saw it was indeed her favorite dumplings. "Thank you,"
Korra shrugged, "It's not like I'd let you starve,"
"I'm sorry I missed lunch. I don't know how I let it slip my mind,"
Korra waved a dismissive hand, "Its fine. I'm sure I'll forget a lot of important dates in the future so it wouldn't be fair if I held one time against you,"
Asami chuckled lightly, "You're planning to forget important dates. Off to great start there Ms. Avatar,"
"Correction," She mumbled around a mouth half full of food, "I'm not planning on forgetting. I intend to do everything humanly possible so I won't forget, but since I'm me I'll forget any way." Korra flashed her crooked grin.
Asami laughed, smiling at her adorable girlfriend.
"What so important that you're missing meals?" Korra asked.
"The plans for the next new section came to me this morning. The faster I give them my approval the faster the work can get started,"
"Are you almost done?"
"Afraid not," Asami smiled sadly, "I'll be here a few hours again,"
"That's okay, I'll wait for you,"
"You don't have to do that,"
"Its fine," She changed to the topic of conversation to the events of her day not giving Asami a chance to argue back. Asami finished her meal first and returned to her papers. Korra finished the rest of the meal in silence to allow Asami to work.
When she popped her last dumpling into her mouth she threw the empty box towards the waste bin in the corner of the office. It bounce off the edge and on to the floor. Grumbling she got up and placed it in the bin by hand. Asami smiled, letting out an amused breath.
Korra dropped onto a sofa Asami had in her office, stretching out on the cushions.
"You really don't have to stay, go home, sleep,"
"Asami, I'll leave when you leave, that's that,"
"But-."
"You could be doing work instead of trying to make me leave,"
"Won't you be bored?"
"I sit through those meetings Raiko insist on having, nothing can be worst that,"
Asami laughed because she had to sit through those meetings as well and she to agree with her statements.
"Alright I'll try to hurry up,"
Asami returned to her work and wasn't sure how much time had passed before she heard a gentle drone. Looking up she saw Korra's eyes were closed and one hand was hanging over the side of the couch.
"Korra?" She called softly, "Sweetie?" No response. She moved next to her and confirmed that the avatar had fallen asleep. Smiling fondly she shrugged off her jacket placing it over Korra's torso like a makeshift blanket. She returned to her work and managed to finish in about two hours.
She moved back to Korra's side, sitting on the edge of the sofa. Gently she brushed away some hair from Korra's face, leaning to press a kiss to her temple. The avatar's eyes flickered.
"…'Sami…" her voice was thick with sleep.
"Shh, I didn't mean to wake you, go back to sleep,"
"Are you finished?"
She nodded. Korra held her arms opened, shifting over on the sofa. Asami lay down next to her wrapping her hands around Korra's waist. Korra kissed her lightly, whispering "I love you," against her lips.
"I love you," She whispered back sighing when Korra's lips ghosted over her jaw. She nipped at the point where her jaw met her neck, making Asami draw a sharp breath. She curled her fingers in Korra's hair, tugging gently. Korra responded with a low moan that sent hot chills tingling down Asami's spine.
And her lips where on Asami's again. The engineer pushed Korra on to her back, shifting on top of her. She looked down at her, her hair creating a curtain around them. She smiled leaning down but Korra put a hand on her shoulder stopping her.
Asami's lips parted to ask what was wrong but Korra held a finger to her lips. Asami didn't say anything and heard a distant metallic clang.
"Did you hear that?" Korra asked.
Asami nodded.
"Are those the guards?" Korra asked sitting up.
Asami got off the couch walking towards the door. Korra followed close behind. Asami opened the door to her office, stepping out to the catwalk that looked out on the rest of the warehouse. At this time there were only service light on, so it'd be bright enough for the guards to see where they were going, but not enough for Korra and Asami to see far into the warehouse. But they could just make out shapes moving the distance.
"That looks like more than three men, there are only three guards working tonight," Asami said. She moved towards the wall were a main switch that operated the lights. Flipping it light flooded the room and they could see several men below, carrying items towards the back of two trucks.
"They're taking your stuff!" Korra leapt from the catwalk landing with a blast of air. Asami darted back into her office grabbing her glove from her desk. She sprinted down the stairs, leaping over the railing once she was close enough to the ground.
The men had been momentarily surprised by the lights. But the quickly recovered.
"Shit! It's Sato and Avatar," One cried. He looked to the others, "What do we do?"
"Run! The truck go!" They dropped anything they were holding and darted to one of the trucks they'd been loading. Four guys jumped into the back and another two ran for the front. The last guy ran to the wall, hitting the button that operated the gate. It started to rise.
Some of the men in the back of the truck started to throw flames at them. Asami ducked behind another truck. Korra blocked their attacks with her hands.
"No you don't!" Korra sent an air blast at the one climbing into the driver's seat. She knocked him from the side of the truck, but couldn't stop the other guy from getting in on the passenger's side. He move behind the wheel starting the truck. He revved forward, crashing through the partly open gateway, taking off some of the metal from the bottom of garage door.
The guy who'd opened the gate ran after the truck. His buddies leaned out, trying to grab his hands. But Asami got to him first, tackling him from behind and taking him down with the glove. Korra ran after the truck, firing rocks at it. Two of the guys in the back of the truck made an earth wall to cover their escape.
"Get the car!" Korra yelled but Asami was already running for her sato-mobile. Korra slammed her foot down taking the wall down. Asami stopped next to her with the car and Korra leapt in.
The benders in the back of the truck threw rocks and fireballs when they saw them coming after them. Korra stood up deflecting the attacks. One of the earthbenders tore up the road, forcing Asami to swerve. Korra lost her balance, almost falling out the car, but Asami grabbed her shirt.
"That's it," Korra jumped over the windshield landing on the hood of the car. Asami drove closer to the truck and Korra used earthbending to lift wall in front the truck. Its tires screamed as the driver hit the brakes, swerving to avoid hitting it. Korra bended a section of the road under the truck causing it to tilt over.
Asami turned sharply to stop. "Nicely done," She said.
Korra grinned and jumped off the hood walking towards the over turned truck. She checked the men who'd been the back. They were banged up and unconscious, but all alive. She was about to check on the drive but the door flew up and he jumped out of the truck. He fell to the ground in a heap. He struggled to get to his feet and two pair of feet stopped in front of him. Looking up he saw Korra and Asami frowning down at him. He back away quickly, managing to get his feet under him. He tried to run but Korra only sigh slamming the earth with her heel. The earth below the man moved up sending him flying. He landed with a dull thud and didn't move.
"Sorry about your truck," Korra said.
"It can be fixed," Asami said, "Can you deal with these guys? I'll go back to warehouse and call Beifong,"
Korra nodded.
Twenty minutes later there was a police barricade around the warehouse, several cops inspecting the area, and a crowd of people looking on from the other side of the barricade. Korra grumbled when she emerged from the warehouse and saw camera flashes going off.
"Looks like we're going to be front page news," She said to Asami. She placed Asami's jacket, which she had gone inside for, around Asami's shoulders, offering protection from the cold night air.
"Are you okay?" Mako appeared jogging towards them.
"Hey, I didn't know you were on duty tonight," Asami said.
"First late shift since I got back. And it looks like I couldn't have picked a better night,"
"Nice job tearing up the streets kid," Lin said.
"How else was I supposed to stop them?"
"At least you didn't destroy any shops this time. We're going need statements from both of you,"
"Do we have to go through all of that?" Korra groaned, "We stopped them, nothing was stolen,"
"Sorry, we need it for the record," Mako said.
"It was supposed to be an easy job! They won't supposed to be here!" One of the men yelled out as he was being pushed into the back a police cruiser.
"Why were you two here so late?" Lin asked.
"I was finishing up some work,"
"So then why were you here?" Mako asked Korra.
"I can't keep my girlfriend company?"
Lin arched an eyebrow and Mako smirked, "At one in the morning?"
"Stop with those looks. Nothing happened,"
"Hey we're all adults here," Mako said holding up his hands, "Its fine if you-"
"Nothing happened," Korra repeated.
"Then why are you blushing so much?"
"Shut up Mako,"
Nardragon~ until the next page.
