A/N: Hi there! This is the first chapter of my new story "Something New". I'll try to keep this as close to Book 4 as possible, so the story and the series fit together. This is quite a long chapter, but not all of the future chapters will be as long as this one. I already have a few chapters, so the next update might be here soon. ;)

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I'd really like to know what you think of this. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

Even though Korra, Mako, Bolin, and Asami met each other 7 years ago, they never grew apart, not even the three years when they were separated had changed anything, and when they finally saw each other again their bond only grew stronger from there on.

Asami was still running Future Industries. After Varrich had helped Asami to get back on top, people soon trusted her and Future Industries again. They found out that even though she was Hiroshi's daughter the two of them had different personalities, so that was no longer a problem, and hadn't been for a very long time. As time passed, and because of the success, Asami even had to expand.

Bolin had moved back to Republic City after the incident with Kuvira. He tried to get a good job, but he found out that it was a bit harder than he had expected. Having an apartment and bills to pay for, he couldn't just get any job, but even if he had to get two jobs he was determined to make a living and not depend on anyone. Bolin had thought about getting a job at Future Industries because it interested him, but asking Asami wasn't easy for the young earthbender, he swallowed his pride and one day knocked on the door of Asami's office and asked if there was a possibility for him to get a job. The owner had smiled and arraigned everything. Bolin was actually very happy to be there, and couldn't imagine working anywhere else, and knowing the boss sometimes had its advantages.

After being a bodyguard for Wu, Mako was giving his job back personally by President Raiko, who had realized that it would be a shame to send him to Ba Sing Se, and miss out on his skills in Republic City.

So Mako was still a detective at police headquarters, and Beifong liked to have him there. He always did his job properly, he never left a case open if there was a possibility it could get closed, if there was the slightest lead he followed it till the end. And he was leading his own squad, but that was for the bigger cases, and when the entire police force was needed.

Korra had her Avatar duties; she traveled around the world every now and then, sometimes with the rest of team avatar and other times alone, but the truth was that after the six months spent completely alone while traveling and trying to find herself, she enjoyed company whenever she needed to leave the City. She and the president began to get along after the incident with the Red Lotus and the one with Kuvira; he was more willing to listen to her and vice versa.

Mako and Korra was together again, they decided that they couldn't live without each other. Being friends wasn't good enough; they loved each other too much to watch one another be with someone else. Yes they fought and sometimes quite a lot, but a relationship without fights wouldn't be a real relationship, you can't always agree with one another. Sometimes, Korra got angry because of some very stupid things, and quite often she realized that she was wrong then she would apologize. However, it wasn't that bad, the three years had changed her quite a lot. Mako and Korra made it work. Both of them realized that talking about things was an important thing for a relationship, and Mako got better at talking about his feelings. After they had been together for about a year, and knowing each other for five and a half years, Mako pulled himself together and proposed to Korra.

He was down on one knee and presenting her a ring as he said "You are the only woman I have ever loved, and the only one I'll ever love. I can't live without you, and I won't even try because you are my life. You're the Avatar and I'm an Idiot, but I really love you and I think we were meant for each other. Korra I love you more than life itself, will you do me the honor and become my wife?" His speech had brought tears of happiness to her eyes, and she hugged him tightly around the neck as she gave him her answer.

About 6 months later Mako and Korra got married. They wanted it to be a small ceremony and a small party with friends and family, but people all around the world got very excited when they heard that the avatar was getting married, so the small wedding ended up being quite big. The wedding ceremony took place in front of city hall with a lot of people watching; friends, family, citizens of Republic City and the Water Tribes, and also a lot of curious people they'd never seen before. The party took place at the Sato mansion, but only for guests with invitations. Mako and Korra brought all the nations together at their wedding through traditions. Water Tribe traditions because Korra came from the Water Tribe, Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom traditions because of Mako, and Bolin for that matter, but also Air Nation traditions because they wanted to honor the new found Air nomads, and it fit perfectly for them to do it since Korra was the avatar, the master of all four elements.

They'd now been married for 18 months, and life for them couldn't be happier.

A Friday afternoon, team avatar was gathered at Mako's and Korra's apartment. At least once a month the four of them ate dinner together, and they took turns so it wouldn't always be at one place. It was an excuse for visiting each other and having a great time together, but most importantly they had done it to be sure that they spent time together.

The four young adults were talking and having fun, Bolin had been at Air temple island earlier that day and told the others about Rohan who tried to have a burping contest with a baby sky bison, but the bison flew away because it got scared. Bolin could barely get the words out of his mouth because he was laughing so hard, and Korra laughed along with him, not because of what he said, but because his laughter was so contagious. Korra dried off a few tears that had escaped her eyes as the room got silent.

Asami cleared her throat "Have you thought about what today is?"

The others were confused. "No." Said Mako and looked at his wife to see if she knew, but she just shook her head. Just like Mako, she had no idea what the black haired woman was talking about.

"Exactly 7 years ago, we became team avatar." Asami said with a smile.

"No..!" Korra exclaimed with a huge smile.

"Yes." Asami turned her head to look at Korra.

"I've never really thought about that." Bolin said and still seemed a bit confused as he stroked his fake beard.

"Neither had I, but it crossed my mind the other day, so I checked it out and, well, here we are 7 years later."

"So that's why you wanted us to have dinner together today. Huh?." Mako said with half a smile and a raised brow, he did know her quite well after all.

"Of course! But I didn't want to say anything before today." Asami said with a smirk.

"Speaking of dinner. I'm just gonna check on it." Korra said and got up from the couch with flawless movements.

"Do you need help with anything?" Mako asked and looked up at her.

She placed a hand on his shoulder "No, there wouldn't be anything for you to do." Korra winked at him and went into the kitchen. There was a pot on the stove, Korra lifted the lid and grabbed a spoon to stir in it. The four of them were having water tribe food, and in the pot was a soup that took hours to make because it needed to simmer for a very long time to taste right. Once the soup was done, and tasted right, the only thing it needed would be noodles, then it would have to be brought to a boil, and then it was done. But the soup was far from finished, and when she tasted it Korra decided that it would need at least another hour of simmering.

Korra put the spoon down and put the lid on the pot again. She suddenly felt dizzy and had to grab the edge of the kitchen counter to prevent from falling. The room was spinning, so Korra squeezed her eyes shut hoping that it would stop, but then it felt like her head was spinning, so it didn't help much. She could hear the others in the living room talking and laughing. She waited for two minutes and tried to focus on the conversation in the living room, but it didn't help the dizziness didn't disappear, and Korra really needed to sit down, but the closest chair was the dining room chair in the living room, so she decides that she needed some help.

"M-Mako?" She called out weakly, but he couldn't hear her, so she tried again. "Mako!" This time her voice was louder and sounded determined. She heard him say "I'll be right back." Before she heard his footsteps in the hallway, they were getting louder, telling her that he was getting closer to the kitchen, and closer to her.

When Mako entered the kitchen he saw his wife standing by the stove with her head bent, her knuckles were white because of her firm grip on the kitchen counter. He rushed towards her and brought a hand to her waist.

"Sweetie what's wrong?" He asked. She could hear the concern in his voice, but she didn't dare to open her eyes and turn her head to see if his eyes matched his voice, besides she was quite certain they were shining with worry.

"I'm really dizzy. I need to sit down." She replied with a calm voice and took a deep breath.

"Alright I'll help you." He pulled her in the direction of the living room, one of his hands was still on her waist, and the other one settled on her arm to support her. She opened her eyes to see where they were walking. They were taking it slowly, one step at a time, but suddenly she was about to lose her balance "Don't worry, I've got you." Mako said gently as he walked his wife into the living room.

Asami and Bolin looked up when the two entered the room, the green eyed woman got up. "What's wrong?" She asked concerned.

Mako pulled a chair out for Korra to sit on, and helped her take a seat. The Avatar placed an elbow on the table and rested her head on her hand. "Just a dizzy spell, I'll be fine in a moment." She breathed.

"Are you sure?" Asami asked as she took a seat next to Korra.

The younger woman took a deep breath and nodded slowly. Mako walked back into the kitchen, he didn't know if Korra had checked on the soup, so he took the spoon and stirred in it. He looked to the side and saw a bowl with a tea towel over it, and wondered about it. "Honey what's in the bowl?"

From the living room Korra heard her husband's question "I'm making some bread my mom used to make, it's great with the soup. Just let it stay in the bowl, it's too soon to make it right now." She replied.

"Alright." Mako said and decided not to touch it. He then remembered something and turned off the stove; he filled a glass with water and brought it to Korra, who was still holding her head in her hand.

He kneeled in from of her "Here," he said softly. She replied with a 'thanks' as she took the glass and brought it to her lips, when it was half empty she put it on the table.

"How are you feeling now?"

"Better. Thanks." She replied with half a smile.

"You're welcome," he smiled back at her, but his expression soon got serious "You were dizzy this morning as well, so I'm going to take you to the doctor." He told her.

"Mako nothing's wrong with me it was just a little dizzy spell, I'm fine." She said, but her voice didn't sound as determined and convincing as she wanted it to.

"Nevertheless I'm taking you to the doctor." Even though he didn't say it, she could hear it in his voice; it was the end of the discussion.

Korra sighed as Mako stood up and went into the hallway to put on his shoes; he came back into the living room with Korra's shoes, so she could put them on. Once she had them on, she rose from her seat slowly to prevent getting dizzier.

Asami grabbed Korra's arm to support her "We'll take my car." She said.

Mako looked at Asami for a moment and then nodded, it was probably better than taking Naga.

As they sat in the car on the way to the doctor, Korra rested her head on Mako's shoulder with her eyes closed. She wasn't dizzy anymore, but she was comfortable. She didn't understand why Mako absolutely wanted to take her to the doctor, nothing was wrong with her! But she had no energy to argue, so she just decided to do as he said. To be honest she was a bit curious about why she was dizzy, and it wasn't the first time, but it wasn't something that couldn't wait.

Korra felt the car stop, and she opened her eyes to see that they had arrived at a clinic. She sat up straight then placed her hand on the car and jumped out of it.

"Korra be careful!" Mako said and got out of the car himself.

Korra rolled her eyes "Mako, I'm fine. I'm not dizzy anymore."

Bolin got out of the car as well and stood next to Korra "Well, we're here now, let's get this over with." He gave the avatar a smile and led the way inside.

There were only a few people in the waiting room; a man with his arm in a sling, a mother with her child, and an older woman with her husband and they were holding hands. Korra looked at the older couple. Even though the young avatar knew that old age was a part of life, she couldn't help, but be afraid of it. Not because of herself, she knew she still had a lot of years before it would happen to her, but because of Katara. She loved Katara like she was her grandmother, and she didn't want to lose her. Even the avatar couldn't prevent death.

Korra felt depressed at the thought, and decided to focus on something else. She looked at the secretary and thought of something. "Mako, I need an appointment to get checked by the doctor."

The firebender looked at his wife and gave her a small smile "Let me take care of that."

He walked up to the front desk slowly. He approached the secretary and cleared his throat. "Excuse me," he said and the middle-aged woman looked up at him with a bored expression "I'm from Republic City Police, and I'm here because we need to get the avatar examined." Her eyes turned from his to the woman by the door and then back at him. "Is it possible for you to get her an appointment today? Or do I need to take her to another doctor?" Mako asked and the secretary's eyes widened a bit.

She didn't want to send them away since it sounded like it was a police matter. She looked in the book that was in front of her and decided "I can squeeze her in since another appointment got canceled." She smiled at Mako and was ready with a pen to give Korra the appointment.

"That's great." He smiled back at her.

"Alright. If you'll take a seat, one of the doctors will be here soon."

"Thank you," Mako said then turned around and walked towards the others. "Everything's fine we just need to wait for the doctor." He said with a smile.

They sat down and just waited, Asami grabbed a magazine from a table and started to read it, Bolin decided to look over her shoulder.

Korra rested her head on her husband's shoulder once again, this time because she was bored. She just wanted to get home as soon as possible.

Mako looked at the mother with her child, and couldn't help himself, but smile. The kid reminded him so much of Bolin with his green eyes and black hair. He remembered the day Bolin found out he was an earthbender; he was 7 years old and was playing with some kids in the park, and suddenly the earth bended at his will, Mako hadn't felt so much happiness since before their parents were killed.

It brought tears to Mako's eyes, but he fought them back. He rested his head against Korra's and watched the mother walk into the doctor's office while she held the kids hand, after the doctor had told her to go with him.

They waited for 35 minutes as they watched people walk in and out of the clinic.

"Avatar Korra." A doctor said and looked at her.

"Finally." She half-whispered and got up from her chair then walked towards the doctor. They shook hands and walked into his office.

As they sat down at the desk the doctor asked what was wrong. Korra told him about her dizzy spells that day, and then admitted that it wasn't the first time, but the last one was the worst. He asked if there had been anything else, and when she thought about it she remembered that she had been nauseous and she had been more tired than usual. The doctor looked at her with slightly lifted eyebrows and told her to lie down, so he could examine her. She had to take some of her clothes off, and she did without saying a word.

The doctor didn't say much as he examined Korra, and there wasn't anything for her to do, so she looked around in the office. The room wasn't huge but it wasn't small either, there were posters of the human body both inside and out which reminded her of when Katara taught her healing. There were two windows, and the avatar was glad that all she saw were the curtains, so no one could see her.

When the doctor told Korra he was done examine her, he turned around and walked towards a sink to wash his hands, and the avatar put her clothes back on.

"I already know what you're going to say doctor." She said.

"Oh really?" He replied as he rubbed soap onto his hands.

"Yeah, you're going to say that nothing's wrong with me, but my husband insisted, and I didn't have the energy to argue with him." She didn't say that she actually was a bit curious herself.

"Well avatar Korra. I have a lot of patients who think they know what's wrong with them, but the problem is that they're wrong more often than not." He grabbed a towel to dry off his hands and turned around to look at her.

"So? There IS something wrong with me?" She asked a bit worried.

The doctor smiled at her and asked her to sit down again.

In the waiting room the rest of team avatar had waited for 25 minutes. Mako was restless and couldn't sit still in his seat; he just wanted to know if his wife was okay, or if something was wrong. He watched another minute pass by and sighed. 'Dear spirits! How much longer do we have to wait?!' He thought to himself.

Only a few minutes later Korra came back with a wide smile on her face, and the doctor walked behind her with something in his hands. Mako, Bolin, and Asami stood up and walked a bit closer.

"You need to take one of these once a day for the next six weeks." He said and handed her a bottle of pills.

"Thank you so much doctor!" Korra said happily and shook his hand.

"You're welcome Avatar Korra. If there's anything I can do for you just call me."

"I will, thanks." She said and turned around towards the others.

"Well?" Mako asked a bit worried.

Korra smiled widely at him "Nothing's wrong."

"If nothing's wrong then why do you have a bottle of pills?" Bolin asked and pointed at the bottle in her hands.

"Vitamins." She replied and walked towards the door. The three were left a bit confused, and just looked at each other for a second before Asami shrugged and walked after Korra, and the boys followed.

In the car on their way home Asami asked why Korra needed vitamins if nothing was wrong, she just answered that the human body always could use extra vitamins. They were still not convinced, but didn't say anything. Asami thought that it would be better to talk about it when they got back to Mako's and Korra's apartment. And as soon as they were in the apartment and the front door was closed the questions started again.

"Why do you need the vitamins?"

"Why did it take so long if nothing's wrong?"

"What did the doctor say?"

But Korra didn't really reply she just went into the kitchen to check on the soup, but found out that the stove was turned off, so she turned it back on again.

"Dinner's going to be late because someone turned off the stove." Korra said as she entered the living room.

Mako was standing near the door frame "We know and that's alright, but," he looked at his wife with worried eyes "Why have you been dizzy if nothing's wrong?"

Korra looked at him with a soft smile and took a few steps forward and then placed a hand on his chest "Nothing is wrong," but the concern didn't leave Mako's eyes.

"Nothing nine months won't cure." She then said.

Mako's eyes widened. He then looked down at her and then returned his eyes to hers. "Are you sure?"

"Yes," she said and her eyes were sparkling "The doctor found out. That's why I need the vitamins; it's to help the baby." Her smile widened when the word baby passed her lips.

"How far along are you?" Mako asked. A smile slowly crept onto his lips.

"Only nine weeks." Korra answered. Her smile never faded.

"So we have about six months to get the nursery ready? And buy everything? And tell your parents, and our family, and-and Tenzin and his family?"

"Yes, but Mako relax we have time." Korra said with a chuckle.

Bolin sat on the couch beside Asami and tried to find out what all of it meant when suddenly "Oh. Dear. Spirits.. I'm going to be an uncle!" He said and jumped off the couch and smiled widely.

"Yes you are Bolin." Mako answered his brother as he hugged Korra around the waist and kissed her forehead.

Bolin walked over to his brother and sister-in-law, and hugged both of them "This is amazing! Congratulations!"

"Thank you Bolin." Korra said with a chuckle and hugged him back with one arm.

From the couch Asami watched the family she would never get. She didn't have a brother or a sister, so she would never have a sister-in-law, or a brother-in-law. She would never be an aunt, or anything else but a friend and daughter to the loving parents she didn't really have anymore. Maybe one day she'd be a wife and a mother, but that wouldn't happen in the near future, since no one had proposed to her. But she had team avatar, and they were as close to being her family as possible, they'd always be there for her just like a family always would.

Asami smiled at the sight before her, the sight of a family that soon would grow. She got up from the couch and walked towards them, her smile widened at the happiness in the room that was so contagious. She touched Korra's arm "Congratulations you two." The older of the two women said.

The avatar smiled at her friend and gave her a hug "Thank you."

They broke the hug and looked at each other. "Do you wanna lie down?" Asami asked with a soft voice.

"No, no I'm fine." The avatar answered with a wave of her hand.

"Oh no, you've had a stressful day and then been dizzy, just lie down." Mako insisted as he pushed her gently towards the couch.

"I'm fine.. And what about dinner?" She protested. Mako pushed her down onto the couch gently and then helped her lie down, even though she didn't need any help.

"Don't worry about that, I'll make it." Mako said and smiled at his wife.

"But you don't know how to make the bread." She protested once again, but to no avail.

"Then tell me what to do, and then I'll be able to make it."

The young woman sighed and told him exactly what to do; she had to admit that it felt great to lie down.

Even though dinner was late it was worth waiting for. Mako did a great job finishing what Korra had started, and the bread was just right. They had an amazing night and celebrated Korra's recently discovered pregnancy and that they had been team avatar for 7 years.