"Good Morning" Asami said to her face-down sleeping wife, still on the couch. Korra groaned and reflexibly stretched her hand out to the side, where Asami had placed the tea cup. "I gotta head up to work now"
"Already?" the words were muffled by the couch.
"It's almost seven" Asami protested as Korra slowly straightened herself up and started seeping at her tea.
"Crap, I guess you are right" she looked up at the engineer, already in her Future Industries getup. "I hardly see you anymore" she said with a pout, combing her hair with her free hand, fingers meeting the braid, suddenly remembering she was still in yesterday's clothes.
"I know" Asami bent down to Korra's level "But we have that trip to the Earth Kingdom coming up, we might get a little breather then" she kissed Korra's hair "I need to trim these down for you" she added, looping around her finger the loose strand of hair framing Korra's face. Her wife didn't acknowledge the comment.
"Yeah, we might" she responded, trapping Asami's arm, tugging her towards the couch. Instead, Asami pulled Korra up, getting her to her feet, tea spilling slightly over the edges of the cup. "Can I see you today?" Korra said as she waterbended the liquid into her mouth before it hit the floor. "I can come by at lunch" she gulped the tea.
"Won't the mobs burn down the city?" Asami answered mockingly.
"Let them try" Korra wrapped an arm around Asami's waist and gave her a peck on the corner of the mouth "Gonna take a shower now" she freed Asami from the embrace and climbed the stairs two steps at a time.
"Bring food!" Asami screamed as Korra disappeared upstairs.
She sighed, looking around, stopping at the blueprint laying on the coffee table. There was nothing she rather do than stay home working on it, but there were a bunch of papers needing her signature and conferences needing her presence. So, she rolled the big sheet of paper and tucked it under her arm, maybe she could work on it sometime during the day.
But she couldn't, she knew she wouldn't have the time, but that was her way of working sometimes. Having the blueprint near her desk at all times was a way of keeping her head on the project while doing other boring tasks. It may also have been a little distracting.
Asami had been staring at the rolled-up blueprint for a while, ink dropping on the document she was supposed to be reading.
"What are you working on?" Korra came behind her on the desk, resting a hand on her shoulder. Asami jumped on her chair, further messing up the document in front of her.
"Spirits, Korra, you scared me" she said, grabbing her chest in surprise.
"I knocked" Korra said with a grin "You told me to come in" her laugh made the room airer.
"Oh, right, sorry" Asami laughed it off as well.
"It's big, isn't it?" they were now both looking at the rolled-up blueprint.
"It could be"
"Want to talk about it? You seem more freaked out about it than usual" she could tell Korra was trying to make light of the subject, but Asami noticed the worried tone to her voice.
Did she want to talk about it, though? There was no getting this project out of her mind anytime soon, but realistically she hadn't even passed it on to the bioengineers of Future Industries yet, so far it was just an idea. An intriguing idea. But no more viable than the full body scanner that wrecked everyone's brains last semester, and ended up being a dead end. Maybe she needed to keep Korra to herself, a safe haven from her own over analytical mind.
"It's not a fully realized idea yet" she stood up and grabbed the bag with food from Korra's hand "Now, what did you bring me?" she started setting some papers aside so they could eat on the desk.
"Actually, do you have your satomovile with you?" Korra asked, walking towards the door.
"What do you have in mind?" Asami raised an eyebrow
"Maybe we could go lunch with the airbenders"
"Oh no, that's a mistake I plan on making only once, we'll both end up choking on jook while fighting a bunch of spirits"
"No, not to the portal, to the island" Korra had a sweet grin to her face "Opal is back from Zaofu"
"With little Rinzen?" now the grin had spread to Asami's face.
"With little Rinzen" Korra laughed "We better hurry before your lunch break is over"
"Oh, who cares, I'm the CEO, I can be late" she said, the bag of food on one hand and Korra's arm on the other.
"Do I have to lure you with babies every time I need you out of your office?" Korra said while being dragged out the door.
"That's an idea" An idea maybe less viable than the one in the blueprint.
"You are working yourself off your hinges, woman" but Korra felt the longing as well.
