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Asami stepped out of the longest meeting of her life. She managed to wait until she rounded a corner in the hallway before releasing the sigh she'd been holding in for half an hour and let her shoulders slump. She'd only really slotted the meeting for forty-five minutes, but she hadn't known that the President would bring his financial advisers, a city planner, and an architect for it. It was just supposed to be for a new park proposal and to draw up a few basic ideas!
She dug in her purse for her phone and was surprised to see that Korra hadn't texted her. She usually snuck peeks during meetings, and would have loved to as this one had dragged on, but refrained since she was dealing with one of the only people who had direct authority over her in the situation. Korra always loved to blow her phone up with random thoughts or flirting, especially when she knew Asami had a meeting.
Pulling up her app, she quickly typed out a text to Korra to see what was up. "Hey sweetie, I'm finally out of my meeting. How's your day going?"
She made it to her car before a buzz signaled Korra's response. She was usually quicker than that. Must be busy. "Oh you know, just pinned by full auto fire behind an earth wall. How are you?"
Asami blinked at the text and put her hand to her chin. She was supposed to be helping Mako work on his car, the engine had been acting up. She'd been so excited to show off what she'd been learning from helping Asami on her fleet, and with the mechanical mastermind tied up for the day, Mako had grudgingly accepted her help.
Her mind immediately jumped to the only logical conclusion that connected the two, knowing that Korra was still new at this and Mako was Mako and they were both firebenders. One hell of a car fire. FULL AUTO FIRE even. But then why was Korra texting her about it? Surely she was joking. Maybe they went to the gym and were sparring or something. She typed back, "This is one of those occasions where I can't tell if you're being serious or not. But I hope not. You okay?"
The response came quicker this time. "So serious, but totally okay."
Asami relaxed. Okay, they probably did go sparring then. She smiled and shook her head, then texted back, " As long as you're okay. Have fun, I'll see you at home " before shifting into gear and racing home. It was nice to blow off some steam after that hell of a meeting.
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Asami heard the front door swing open about an hour later. She smiled into her book and called down the hallway. "Hey babe! Did you have a good time with Mako? You won't believe what I thought when you texted me like that." She sped up to try to finish the page before Korra met her in the lounge.
"Yeah, I guess. Something like that, anyway. What did you think?" Korra called back as she approached.
She laughed as she put her book down. "I thought you'd somehow set the car on fire and you two were--"
Korra was standing in the doorway covered in a mixture of grease, oil, and soot, her clothing and hair singed, with at least two burns on her arms. Asami got up and rushed around the couch to her. "Yeah. It was kind of my fault, so I told him we'd buy him a new one." She grinned sheepishly.
Asami stopped in the middle of trying to check on Korra's burns. "Wait, what?"
"I told you! Full auto fire. Whole car went up, right there in the garage! It was actually pretty cool."
Asami wanted to ask several questions, but was still stuck on her first one. "What?"
"Yeah! I thought I had it, so I told Mako to fire it up and see, and I guess one of the tool things we were using fell down in there and caught on a belt and it snapped and then the engine was on fire. Mako jumped out and I tried to bend the fire down, but the grease spread it and it just kind of WHOOSHED into the cab and yeah!" Hand gestures embellished her story.
Asami blinked and shook her head. "Are you kidding me? You just, what? Texted me back? In the middle of trying to not get burned to death after you set Mako's car on fire in his one-car garage?"
"Yeah, pretty much. Once I earthbent us a wall, we were fine. Just trying to figure out what to do about it, I totally had time to text you back." Asami slapped a hand to her forehead. " I airbent a vacuum to kill the fire after that, but the whole car was already trashed. Had to take my glider home since he couldn't give me a ride anymore."
Head already in one hand, Asami just started laughing. "How well do I have to know you two to have called that right?"
"I said auto fire!"
"Your unsupervised mechanic privileges have been revoked."