Book 5: Family

Chapter 14

CHAPTER WARNINGS: Avatar State sex, Waterbent phallus, pregnancy sex, lactation/nursing.

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The taxi home bumped and swerved a little much for Korra's taste, but she managed not to throw up. Barely. She hugged Bolin and Mako goodnight, assured them she could put herself to bed, and staggered a little nervously into the house... and right away, when the butler wasn't there at the door to greet her, she knew something was wrong.

"Hello?" she called, moving quickly through the hall and up the stairs. There, at the top of the staircase, she saw the butler, lying prone with a dart in his neck.

"Oh Spirits..." Korra breathed. "Asami!"

She dashed down the hall as quickly as her drunken legs would carry her, burst through the door of their room, and found the tousled bed empty. Her heart seized in her chest. Asami was gone. Purely because she was out of the house, they had swooped in and taken her.

Panicking, she grabbed the private phone by the bed and dialed the police station. "BEIFONG!" she shouted the moment she heard the other line click. "Get me Chief Beifong!"

"Slow down, Korra," Lin Beifong said a few minutes later. "And I have to say, you sound a little drunk — are you sure she's been taken and isn't just out somewh-"

"No, she's been kidnapped!" Korra shouted back. "I was out drinking with Bolin and Mako, but — but I got back and the bed is empty and all the staff has been blow-darted! And... ohh, Spirits, there's a note on the bed..."

Korra fell to her knees in trepidation as she reached for the note, reading it with a trembling voice into the receiver. "'W-we will negotiate with the Avatar alone... or the c-c-consequences will be swift and severe...'" A slight sob crept into her tone. "Dammit, Beifong, get over here now! I need your help!"

The chief didn't waste any more time on the phone.

About twenty minutes later, she and a few of her most trusted officers were examining and documenting the crime scene, following procedure to the letter. Beifong was dividing her attentions between supervising and discussing the situation with the Avatar, who was now downing a cup of the strongest black tea in the Sato household.

"Much as I hate to say it, this was a pretty clean job. The note is sloppy, though; they left us a much bigger clue than they thought." Cocking her eyebrow as she handed it back to Korra with her gloved hand, she asked, "That big shaggy brute of yours around here, or back on Air Temple Island?"

"Naga's here!" exclaimed Korra. "She's upstairs!" She realized with horror that if Asami and the butler hadn't insisted on a night lock for Naga's door, she might have been able to interfere in the abduction. Of course, hindsight was always crystal clear.

Immediately, she dropped her coffee and ran back upstairs, unlocking the bolt and throwing open the door. Naga had been whining and scratching on the other side all along. "Good girl, Naga, I know you tried," she whispered, rubbing her friend's head and scratching her chin. "We gotta find Asami! Come on."

"Here she is, Chief!" Korra shouted from Naga's back as the huge animal leapt down the stairs. "Give her the note. Naga, sniff!" As Korra's trusty steed got a noseful of the kidnappers' scents, Lin nodded in satisfaction.

"We had been planning to survey the area where the radio signals mostly likely originated from and try to pinpoint their hideout. This little blunder and Naga's incredible nose will cut down on that legwork substantially — we can hit them fast and hard. Normally, we'd hold off until tomorrow night when they're not expecting it, but with the Avatar's child on the line..." Taking a moment to grip Korra's shoulder hard, she gave her an even look that conveyed both compassion and determination. "Even if I didn't like you two kids so much, it would still take precedence. Since I do, though... I want to injure a few of those jokers personally."