7 fake relationship au
Korra paced the dock impatiently as she waited for Mako to show up. The ferry was leaving in twenty minutes and he was still not here. Korra knew that what she asked for was a lot, but he agreed to do it so why wasn't he here yet. Ten more minutes passed before he finally showed up, two large suitcases in his hands.
"What the hell Mako!" Korra was ready to strangle him, and she would have if she didn't desperately need his help.
"Sorry! The chief called me in for an emergency. Korra I can't go with you, the triads messed up big time and we need all hands on deck, I'm sorry," as sincere as he sounded Korra was about to go all "avatar state" on his ass.
"But don't worry I brought back up," he said as he pointed his thumb over his shoulder.
Korra looked behind him to see Asami getting a suitcase out from the trunk of her car.
"Asami?" Korra felt, and probably looked very confused. "She's going to pretend instead of you?"
"Yes, you see it all worked out," he said in a cheery voice.
"Hey Korra," Asami seemed very energetic and giddy as she jogged over to them. "Or should I call you babe?" Her goofy grin spread ear to ear as she put her arm around Korra and gave her a big, sloppy smooch on her cheek.
"You seem a bit too happy to be doing this," said Korra as she wiped her cheek with the back of her hand, "you can at least wait until we get to my parents' house."
"But this will be so much fun! We can snuggle, and be all cute together and no one will even know it's all pretend!"
Korra was starting to doubt her plan would work since Asami seemed way more invested than she did and they weren't even there yet. Her parents radioed her, inviting her to a family dinner. All her relatives would be there from both sides and she didn't know which was worse, the depressing lineage from her father's side, or her mom's extremely jolly, loud, numerous cousins. But if there was anything she hated more than the clash of the two families, it was the fact that every time they got together they would gang up on her and interrogate her about her love life. Well this time she had a plan: bring Mako over, have him pretend to be her boyfriend, and peacefully resume her life. Except Mako, that jerk, decided that protecting the innocents was more important and now she was stuck with Asami, who seemed a bit too happy to fill his shoes.
The ferry blew it's horn signaling five minutes till departure, and Korra sighed in defeat. "Fine, but I know you're doing this because you know they'll embarrass me and tell stories about when I was young, and stuff."
"Of course Korra, I wouldn't miss out on that for anything in the world," her grin getting wider.
"You guys need to go, it's about to leave." Mako picked up their luggage and carried it over to the baggage cart. As he went back he hugged them both, once again apologized to Korra about not being able to go, and told Asami that she had to retell all the stories about Korra when they got back, which she said she was going to do anyway.
The girls boarded the ferry, Asami clinging to Korra's arm.
"Oh boy," said Korra as they set out on their wonderful adventure.