Well, I definitely had to do a little research for this one. Ducks are weird.
Warning: This chapter contains slightly sexual content.
On a busy Monday at work, Asami decided to escape the immense pressure of her duties by spending her lunch time at Avatar Korra park. On the way there, she bought herself a serving of dumplings from one of the local street vendors. After a leisurely stroll, she found the perfect park seat overlooking the beautiful scenery of the nearby pond and made herself comfortable to dig into her delectable dumplings.
For a while, Asami reveled in the silence of the nature surrounding her, occasionally propping a piece of dumpling into her mouth. Something about this place makes her feel safe and loved, and that's probably because of the giant statue of Korra overlooking the park. She still remembers when she commissioned that statue to be built, and all the lonely nights she spent thinking about when Korra would return. More often than not, Asami would dream about that moment they'd meet each other again, how she would run up to Korra and kiss her like she was only person that would mean the world to her.
Asami snapped out of her thoughts when she noticed something move close to the edge of the pond. She stood up and walked closer to see what it was, and what she saw was truly heart-breaking. There, struggling to walk on a leg that looks badly injured was a baby turtleduck. Asami couldn't bear to leave the poor thing to its own demise, so she scooped it up and took it along with her back to her office. Once there, she made the little turtleduck a bed out of a box and paper shreds. It seemed to like his makeshift bed so much that it happily slept in it until Asami had to go home.
"Maybe Korra can do something about his leg," she thought as she carefully placed the turtleduck in his box on her passenger seat. After securing the box with the safety belt, she took extra care in driving home so as to not frighten the poor thing to death with any sudden bumps.
Asami found Korra lounging on a couch in her pajamas waiting for her at home. "What took you so long?" the Avatar asked. "Usually you make it home in about 3 minutes flat."
"I had an unexpected passenger with me in the car." she answered.
Korra rolled off of the couch to find Asami smiling nervously with the makeshift box-bed in her hands. She peered into the box with scrunched eyebrows before widening her eyes in surprise.
"Hey there, little guy!" Korra exclaimed as she picked him up. Once she had him in her hands, she noticed the turtleduck's damaged leg.
"I found him when I had lunch in Avatar Korra park." Asami explained. "I couldn't just leave him there…"
Korra smiled. "I completely understand. But hey, we can try nursing him back to health."
Asami frowned in confusion. "I thought you'd be able to heal its leg with water."
Korra explained that it's a completely different procedure when it comes to healing animals. Every animal's blood flow and cell structure differ, so it takes a practiced hand to heal a certain kind of animal. Some waterbenders go to school to become veterinarians using their healing powers. As per tradition with the Southern Watertribe, Korra only learned how to heal scratches and cuts on Polar Bear Dogs.
Asami's eyes saddened at her answer. "So what do we do now?"
"We bandage him up and take care of him." Korra said as she gave Asami a playful pat on the shoulder. "I think I know where I can find him some yummy insects to munch on."
A few minutes later, the baby turtleduck was all bandaged up and resting peacefully in its box-bed. While Korra stepped out to find the turtleduck something to eat for dinner, Asami took the opportunity to shower. When she came out of her en suite bathroom, she found Korra on all fours looking underneath the bed.
"What are you doing?" Asami laughed.
"One of the crickets I caught hopped out the box before the turtleduck could have a bite at it." Korra explained with a grunt. "If I don't find it, it'll keep us awake the entire night."
"Did he at least eat something?" Asami asked as she hung her wet towel on a nearby towel rack.
"The poor thing was starving. He couldn't gobble the other insects up fast enough."
That reminded Asami of something. "Are we even sure if it's a 'he'? What if it's a girl?"
Korra dragged herself up from the ground and went to pick up the turtleduck to determine its gender. Asami kept an eye on her in the mirror while she brushed her hair. She picked up the seemingly sleeping turtleduck and turned it over, only to visibly recoil with it in her hands.
"Oh yeah, that's definitely a boy."
"What's wrong?"
"He just peed on me."
The strong scent of the small animal's urine smacked them both squarely in their faces. Asami got up to fetch more shredded paper from her office (she didn't care if she shredded something important, she just kept chucking paper into the shredder) while Korra washed her hands. Together they cleaned the little turtleduck's box-bed, but now the turtleduck himself needed a bath.
Soon they decided to run a small amount of lukewarm water into the tub in the bathroom. As soon as they placed the turtleduck into the shallow water, he began frolicking in the water. Even though he struggled to walk, that didn't stop him from bathing himself.
"He's self cleaning." Asami smiled.
"Want to come up with a name for him?" Korra asked.
"We're not keeping him, Korra."
"Obviously, but don't you want to come up with a name for him in the meantime?"
Not a lot of names came to her mind. Shelly? Too much on the nose. What about Sheldon? Should probably stay away from anything that sounds like 'shell'. Perhaps something cute like 'ducky' or something. No matter what she thought of, it still sounded cliché.
"I can't think of anything that doesn't sound cliché." Asami confessed with an embarrassed smile. It's the kind of smile that always makes Korra's heart melt. That reminds her of the other heart-warming thing she did; build a statue of her in the middle of a park.
"How about Parker?" Korra suggested. "Y'know, since you found him in a park?"
Asami found the name pretty clever, and from there on out the baby turtleduck was dubbed 'Parker'. The two took Parker out of the tub he paddled around in and started to dry him off. It was obvious that he didn't want to leave the lukewarm waters, but it had to be done since Korra and Asami wanted to watch a mover together before heading for bed.
They took his box-bed with them to the living room and tucked him in right in front of the couch. After fiddling with the mover machine, Asami noticed that little Parker was sound asleep in his bed and happily covered his box with a towel Korra fetched from the linen cabinet in one of the nearby bathrooms.
Asami positioned herself between Korra's legs with her back pressed to her stomach. As the mover went on, Korra cocooned her girlfriend with her strong arms. About half an hour in, Korra began having devious thoughts, and decided to nibble on Asami's earlobe. It was a move that could instantly turn her on, and Korra knew it.
"What are you doing?" Asami gasped. "We're watching the mover."
"We can always watch it another night…" Korra whispered seductively into her ear before planting a kiss on her neck. Asami bit her lip as Korra's hands started to wander over her body. When those explorative hands found their way to her breasts, Asami had to brace herself by grabbing onto the mischievous Avatar's knees.
"Korra…" she moaned breathlessly. "I don't think this is the right place to be doing something like this…"
By the way Korra kept going, that fact didn't necessarily bother her that much. Asami twisted around and kissed her deeply. Korra helped her out of her shirt and threw it somewhere on the floor behind them before pulling her flush against her body. The two lovers started to get lost in each other's lips, with Asami grinding herself down onto the heat beneath her and Korra's hands roaming further down until it smoothed over the moaning engineer's plump ass.
Quack.
A sound from across the room startled the two right out of their romantic conquest.
"Did you hear that?" Korra whispered.
Quack-quack!
The couple peered around the side of the couch, and much to their horror, found Parker's box-bed tipped over with the paper shreds spilling out of it and the towel trampled upon. They scrambled off of the couch and frantically started looking for him. Asami found the light switch and started looking underneath the furniture in the room. Korra went to check around the mover-machine.
Quack.
The two pricked their heads up and looked towards the same direction. Waddling around on a crooked leg underneath the coffee table, the two found Parker looking more chipper than ever.
"We may need a bigger box." Asami stated. Korra seemed to be too distracted.
"Korra?"
Asami glanced at her before realizing that she's half naked.
"OH. Right."
That snapped Korra out of her trance. "Hmm? Oh, sorry. They're just so… Distracting."
Asami got up to put her shirt back on before finding a bigger box for Parker to sleep in. After tucking in Parker for the second time that night, the two decided to call the night quits and head to bed.
For the next few days, Asami and Korra fell into a routine in their effort to nurse Parker back to full health. Asami would take him to her office with her, look after him while working and then take him back home. As soon as she gets home, she places Parker in the tub with shallow water, cleans his box-bed and tucks him back in for the rest of the night. He managed to escape a few times, but the more it happened the better prepared she and Korra became in case it happened.
About a week and a half later, the two noticed that Parker was starting to walk normally again. It was time to take him back to the park.
The next morning, the two hauled Parker into the car for the last time. Funny enough, Korra and Asami grew quite attached to him over the short course of time, but they knew that he belonged in the pond along with his friends.
Once at Avatar Korra park, Korra offered to go and place him back in the pond.
"That's okay, I want to do it." Asami said. "I found him, so I should put him back. It just feels like the right thing to do.'
Korra smiled and gestured for her to go ahead.
The engineer approached the shallow end of the pond, and noticed a flock of turtleducks approaching her. Thinking that it's Parker's family, she inched closer to release him into the water.
At least, that was the plan.
The moment she put Parker down into the water, a giant hissing turtleduck came charging towards her. Asami yelped as she retreated out of its reach.
"NO! GO AWAY! SHOO!"
The giant turtleduck kept up with his relentless pursuit as it kept trying to take a bite out of Asami's leg. She ran away from it in the most frantic (and inelegant) way possible. Korra couldn't stop herself from laughing even if she tried. Asami managed to scramble onto a small ledge that was just out of reach for the defensive turtleduck. Once it realized that it couldn't reach her, the giant turtleduck turned around and rejoined the flock along with a happy-looking Parker.
"Is this a bad time to mention that turtleducks are extremely territorial?" Korra called, barely able to keep her laughter under control.
"SHUT UP!" Asami yelled, yet she herself joined in on the laughter.