AN: I feel like I should have an explanation for this… But I don't.
Prompt:
"I know how to swim! I'm not an idiot, you know."
Asami regretted inviting Korra to go swimming.
"That is the worst back stroke I've ever seen." Korra commented, her legs dangling over the edge of the pool. Her hair was drying quickly, steam rising from her skin. She nursed a plate of dumplings, her mouth full of them as she began to speak. "You've got terrible form. You'd never survive in the South Pole. Or the North, for that matter."
Asami tried to reign in a seething reply. She wasn't so successful. "At least I'm not the one who can't survive mid-morning traffic in an empty parking lot." Asami hoisted herself out of the water next to Korra, her arms folded over her chest. She'd recently been teaching Korra to drive.
It wasn't going well.
"There are a lot of buttons, okay!" Korra protested, slipping into the water and sneaking another dumpling between her lips. "Maybe I should teach you how to swim. Wouldn't want you drowning when the ice caps melt."
Asami huffed, wringing out her hair. She could have asked Korra to dry it for her but that would have required her to ask for Korra's help. She wasn't in the mood. "I know how to swim, Korra. I'm not an idiot."
Korra stretched out on her back, floating effortlessly and beautifully on the water. Asami wasn't sure if it was because she was from the water tribe, a water bender, or the Avatar. Probably all three. "Clearly they have a very loose definition of swimming here in the city." Korra mused idly, her arms pin wheeling slowly. She drifted away.
"Or maybe you just have ridiculously high standards." Asami spat, glaring at the empty plate of dumplings.
Korra made a face and stood, making her way back over to Asami with surprising speed. "Not likely." She stood in front of the elder girl, bobbing in the water. "Come on, get back in the water. Lesson time."
"I don't need you to teach me how to swim. I had exorbitantly paid teachers for that." She smirked, raising a challenging brow at the Avatar.
Korra's brow quirked. She stepped closer, rising a little so their eyes were level. "Well, I could teach you other things." The mischief in her voice was tangible. Asami didn't have a free moment to think before their lips were moving together, slowly and certainly like the lap of the water against the sides of the pool.
Asami, being sufficiently distracted, wasn't quite prepared when Korra pulled her very abruptly into the pool, burying her immaculate head beneath the surface.
When Asami's head broke the water, strands of hair strewn down her face, she was glaring. Korra was laughing. She made a face like she was sorry.
She wasn't.