A/N: These past few days have been absolute crap for writing. It's not that I didn't have time, it's just asjfdkl;sdk how do I words?!

So since I've been getting WAY behind on these, this one counts as two.

Rated: T

Day 14 & 15 - Winter & Wind

The problem with the South Pole was that it was always winter. And cold. And snowing. And if it ever managed not to be snowing, the savage winds kicked up snow with enough power to sandblast peoples' faces right off. Or so Bolin had told Korra on the trip back to the training compound after a day visiting her parents.

The ride atop Naga was uncomfortable. Bolin squeezed his eyes shut as he was slammed in the face by sleet and below freezing winds. There were a surprising number of things Bolin was comfortable with, so it was always very distressing on the rare occasion that he was thrust out of his comfort zone. "K-Korra! Are we g-gonna die?!" he cried, shivering in his green, fur-lined parka as the menacing clouds of a blizzard passed over them, transforming the barren landscape into a dangerous, white nothing.

"Of course not!" Korra exclaimed. She let out a Whoa, Naga! and hopped down from Naga's back as the animal slowed to a stop. As she walked a few paces away, Korra said, "But we can't go any farther in this weather. We'll have to make a shelter for the night."

"What?!" Bolin shrieked, and Korra gave a sigh when he started to panic. "B-but how?! With what? There's nothing here!"

He tended to be pretty clueless when he got like that.

Korra laughed. "Bo," she said. "We're surrounded by snow. We'll make an igloo. Er…I'll make an igloo." She threw her arms up over her head, seizing the water around her, and entombed herself in a dome of snow. A second later, she bent a tunnel and crawled out. "See? No big deal."

"Wow… you can igloobend…" Bolin said breathlessly as Korra retrieved items from Naga's saddlebag and transported them inside the makeshift shelter.

"Bolin!" she called, her voice muffled from within the snow hut. "You should come inside!"

Bolin patted Naga's hindquarters, assuming she'd be alright for the night – she was a polar bear dog after all – and began crawling through the small entrance into the ice shelter Korra had made. She stood in the middle of her construction, wielding a small flame in the palm of her hand to illuminate the space.

"So… what do you think?"

Bolin smiled at the smirk she was wearing and gave a good look around the spherical edifice, nodding his approval. The inside was nearly ten feet in diameter, and he could even stand upright the closer he got to the middle. "Pretty good. It's a lot nicer in here without all that wind."

"That's kinda the point, Bo."

"But… where do we sleep? Isn't the ground sorta… frozen?"

Korra pointed at the items she'd taken from Naga's saddle bag. "There's two sleeping bags and some food and stuff. I thought we were going to make it back before dark, but the weather around here can change at a second's notice, so it's always a good idea to have supplies with you just in case."

"You're pretty smart," he said as he started unpacking the camping equipment and began laying out the sleeping bags as Korra set to work building a fire.

Korra shrugged her shoulders. "You live out here, you need to know how to survive." She pulled off her mittens and brought the fire pit to life with a controlled wave of her hand.

"Won't that melt the igloo?"

"Naw," Korra said with a shake of her head. "It'll get warmer, but whatever ice that melts will just freeze over again. We'll be alright as long as it's a small fire."

Once the fire was going strong, Korra held out her hand for him. He let her warm fingers slide between his and allowed himself to be led closer to the fire. "You're like a snowman," she giggled as she brushed at the frost stuck to his eyelashes, eyebrows, and facial hair. Still cupping his face, she leaned in to kiss him.

"Hey… Korra…?" he mumbled against her lips.

"Mmhm?"

"You ever…" he started, pulling back slightly from her lips to speak, and Korra continued to lay kisses on his chin and cheeks. "You ever made love in an igloo?"

Korra laughed breathily, as she tugged the hood of his parka down and curled her fingers in his dark, shoulder length hair. "I believe that is a no, sir."

"That's perfect! Cause I just had the greatest idea! Though, it might get sorta nippy without more blankets…"

Korra giggled, maneuvering him towards the sleeping bags. "You know these can zip together, right?"

"How convenient! Since I'm really cold, and I'm afraid I might be getting hypothermia. I'll need to share your body heat to survive." Bolin smiled roguishly at her, wiggling his bushy eyebrows suggestively.

"Well then, Mr. Freeze," she laughed, slipping out of her parka and into the combined sleeping bag. "Let me warm you up."

He promptly undressed, joining her under the blankets. And as their moans mixed with the howling winter wind, Bolin figured it didn't hurt to step outside of his comfort zone once in a while.