One Night:

"Marry me"

"Mako... I-"

"Korra, why not?"

"I'm just not ready."

"When will you be ready Korra!" Mako shouted.

Korra stared shocked at Mako. They had discussed marriage many times and yet Korra always had the same answer. But Mako had never lashed out like this before.

"Mako.. I.."

"I can't keep doing this Korra."

"Mako don't." Korra said firmly.

"No! I love you Korra and I want to spend the rest of my life with you!"

"You will Mako. But the world, I don't know how to be an Avatar and a wife."

"The world may need you Korra, but I need you too. The world can share. I love you."

Korra stood silent.

"There have been married avatars before Korra. I don't know why you're doing this." Mako said.

"I'm scared."

Mako looked shocked. "Of what?"

"I don't know…" Korra said rubbing her arm and looking away. "I'm afraid I won't make you happy. If I do something wrong now, it'll be easy for you to just leave. But if were married –

"Korra. You make me the happiest I've ever been in my life! Ever since my parents died I've been making sure Bolin would have everything he needs to be happy. Then I met you. You make me happy, Korra. I'd never leave you because I never want to stop feeling the way you make me feel. I'd never leave you because you're my family now and I never want to lose my family again."

"Mako." Korra breathed. He'd never said those things to her before. She was touched. She wanted to hold Mako and never let go. "Yes" she whispered.

"What?" Mako looked up.

"Yes" Korra said a little louder "Yes I'll marry you Mako!" She jumped into his arms as he lifted her up and spun her around. They were wrapped in their own little world where the only thing holding them down was each other and not gravity. They spent that night together full of love and compassion, excited and celebrating their future.


Ok, so in case you didn't catch it, this is supposed to be the night that Mako and Korra conceive the baby. I wanted that implied, but I feel like it came across to cheesy. I also feel that in my story "Together", I was making Korra too scared of everything all the time. Korra is confident and I was starting to feel like I was writing her way out of character. So in hopes to fix that problem, I deleted this chapter. I pictured this scene happening on the balcony of the pro bending arena, overlooking Yue Bay, at night time. But I had a hard time setting it up that way. I like stories that start off with a conversation. So starting this chapter with the conversation left me nowhere to put the setting, and I felt that if I didn't get the setting across, it took away from the story. I also feel like the argument was kind of cheesy. I don't know, I just didn't really care for this chapter. This was originally the first chapter to "Together". But I ended up feeling it wasn't necessary to the plot. So yeah… let me know what you think! Thanks for reading.