Sorry it's been so long. Reviews feed my soul.
Embers.
Korra was known to get homesick every once in a while. To the point that she begged Tenzin to teach her how to commandeer a flying bison because travel to the South Pole was faster. And he had given in when she mentioned he hadn't seen Katara in a long time, and he should come with and visit her.
She had also asked her girlfriend Asami to come.
She asked Asami just for the company on the long journey. Tenzin and the kids were great... But Korra was much less likely to strangle somebody with someone more level headed than the kids and less monk-like than Tenzin around.
And, you know, she and Asami would be staying together in the same room in the compound. Alone. All night. While Tenzin and the air bending rascals would be with Katara.
In fact, that had been Korra's selling point when she asked Asami to join her.
So after they'd arrived at the South Pole and they'd gotten past the warm greetings, food, and gone to their separate ends of the city, Asami and Korra found themselves huddled around a dying fire.
The shared warmth was addictive, and Korra still marveled at how her chest could be warm and her fingertips could be ice cold. She'd forgotten what that felt like in Republic City.
And the raven haired girl leaning against her definitely helped.
Korra gently took hold of Asami's chin and tilted her face up to kiss her sweetly. Asami kissed her back with great fervor, pulling the avatar down. They soon became lost in their actions, until someone burst through the curtained doorway.
"Hey Korra I brought some leftover- what are you guys doing?!" Jinora stared at them wide-eyed.
The two sprang apart.
"Jinora we were just-"
"AH!" Korra was cut off by a scream. She turned to see Asami's clothes on fire.
Korra quickly bent snow from outside onto Asami to put the fire out, creating a hole in the wall in the process. Suddenly Asami was a living snow-woman, and all you could see of her was her eyes. Smoke came off of the snow in thin ribbons, and the fire died with a hiss.
Asami shook the snow off of her. Her coat and the shirt underneath had been burned through to reveal nasty burns on her back. She reached around to feel them and winced.
"Are you alright?" Korra asked.
Asami shook her head. "Besides the burns I'm alright."
"Come on," Korra said. "Let's get you patched up." And Asami nodded.
"I'm uh... I'm gonna go," Jinora muttered before dashing off. Neither of the girls heard her.
Korra had Asami sit down. She bent up the snow, heating it until it was water and applied it to Asami's back. A blue glow filled the room, and Korra kept at it until the burns were nothing but angry pink marks.
"Thanks," Asami said. "Stupid of me huh? We get caught and I fling myself into the fire."
Korra was quiet for a moment. "You scared me," she finally said.
"I'm sorry," Asami whispered.
Korra enveloped Asami in a hug, and they stayed that way until long after the dying embers of the forgotten fire had ceased to glow.
(And the next morning, Korra threatened that if Jinora told a soul, she'd set all her books on fire. Needless to say, the airbender kept her lips zipped).