"Korra," Mako growled as he pushed up his dark ray-bans.
"I caught him," Korra yelled back as she roughly hauled Juan up. Juan's pants were split open on the knees and the road had eaten some of his skin. His body flopped as Korra tossed him over his shoulder.
"You can't break and enter."
"I only broke him, and that's allowed in recovery."
"How'd you get into his apartment?" Mako asked scanning the shattered doorframe and door off its hinges.
"It was like that when I found it," Korra said. She walked past the irritated officer and snatching her cuffs slapped on them Juan's wrist.
"You are reckless."
"My record is flawless. I catch everyone, and if ya'll excuse me I have a person to drop off and a fee to collect."
"What if he'd been armed?"
"My gun's bigger. Besides, isn't that why I have you?"
"I'm not your personal body guard. I'm a police officer."
"How was I to know this wasn't the Juan you were looking for?" Korra cracked a grin.
"They have different last names."
"Small detail."
"You're gonna get hurt."
"You worried about me?"
"I'm worried I'll have to clean the mess up," Mako said trying to reattach the door so it resembled being closed.
"I'll make it up to with a cold beer after I get my money."
"Cold beer doesn't fix everything."
"It certainly helps."
Mako rolled his eyes and followed after Korra. He watched as she loaded Juan in the back of her jalopy. The door creaked shut and a piece of rust fell as flakes to the ground.
"Instead of beer, you should buy a new car."
"She's a beaut," Korra said and patted the one spot of the hood that didn't show rust. The two-tone white front didn't match the faded blue body.
"A death trap is more like it."
Korra couldn't hear his last comment as the engine coughed and sputtered but finally roared to life. She gunned it and a black cloud trailed her as she sped out of the lot.
"I could give you a ticket for your awful driving!" Mako screamed after her even though he knew she couldn't hear him.
He shook his head and got into his own car shaking his head. She was working for Tenzin Bounds, and had been a pain in his ass for the last three weeks. She had messed with two of his investigations to get her bond, and today she had called saying she found a tip on his recent case. He'd bit, and ended up having to taze the suspect. Now she was the collecting the money on him.
He looked down at the case folder in his cruiser. He was working on a string of burglaries. They were hitting up fast food joints at closing time. He smiled hoping to see her tonight at Kwong's Cuisine.
